Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-24
The saddle on the other Iorse.

The Saddle on the Other Horse.
Editors Inteiligencer: e.s.
When military commander in order t.
stop the progress of mntiny and disatfec
ton, forbids the circulation, in his district
of the New York World, the Cincinnati
Enquirer, tbe Columbus Statesman or Other
Icuprous sheets of the same species, then
| u howl is raised sufficient TO rend the
! wclkin; then the Government is denouuc
ed as horrid despotisu, because it does
not tamely yield its throat to the knife ol
| southern traitors and their northern allies
| Formerly it was not so. For years and
years and long extended days, petty south
ern officials, rude and nntulered, were au
tborizsd TO rife the Unired States mails
| and hunt out aud burn Methodist AdUocates,
| PreSbyteriGn Records, baptist ReSiSters a nd
other enlightened and patriotic sheets,
which were carrying South a little of th e
mild and benevolent spirit of nineteenth b
century civilization. The pretext was, a
fear that those papers would corrupt the
minds of the slaves. II was mere pre-.
( tense, not one in fifty thousand of the
slaves could read u word, The exclusion
bad reference to a different Facei to those
children of adversely and hardship, whom
their sordid aud seifish but most arrogant
and imperious mastnrs call mean whites" :"
their domiueering masters call % white
trash" and with wnem they scorn to main
| tain the slightest social intercourse. The
motives and the consequences of this abuse
OF the United States mails are now writ
ten in blood all over the land. The nat
ural and healthy iutercoure between the
two sections being entirely cut off, the
| Southern nabobs and their Northern al
lies had'sa fait Opportunity TO zfil the
minds of Southern men with the most
horrible, the most Htrocioas celpmmes of
ltheir Northern neighbors, Fables as base
less as those of Baron MunchauseT were
greedily believed because no coutradiG-
ton was permitted. No explanation of
Northern sentiment, not even an apology
for that sentiment, was allowed to reach
the Southern masses, hence the whites of
the South are seen fighting with furious
fanatacism in the lewd and atrocious quar-
| rel of haughty masters, who in. Scripture
phrase "Woud not let them with the dogs
of their fnck.p If any body of people on
this continent has an Interest in opposition
| to the success of the national. arms, IL is
not the non-slaveholding whites of the
South. The national success would give
those down-trOdden men a chance to cast
anew those lots of life which have hitherto
| been so adverse to them. 1t would give
I
race for wealth, for honor and prosperity,
and on equal terms with the naughty lords
\ oft scourge and the chain. Yet those
unhappy men are fighting against neigh
bors who never did or wi he'd them any
| harm, against the nation, against the gen.
il eral interests of humanity, against their
\ own interest, and against the beet hopes
of their posterily, with frantic fury, worthy
1 of u better cause. Aud this because they
4 were left to the exclusive teaching of un-
| scrupuluus men, who regard every crime,
whether of force or fraud, as emtnentiy
laudable if it rivets the chains or extends
the area of slavery. aust Tf
But while these Systematic aud long
| continued attacks were made upon the
freedom of the Press; while men of the
most extensive Knowledge and the most
| enuobling virtues were practically forbid
| den to- submit one printed page !their
II fellow ciIizens on subjects alike interest
1 ing to patriotism and humanity. those
4 partizan leaders, whose bowls now reud
the Heavens, when an attempt is made TO
prevent the Decentralization and dtsorgan.
iEation ofa brigade or division in the face
ofthe enemy, had not word or note oil
remonstrGuce! Ia scripture phrase,
"thpyl were like dumb dogs that could not
bark" Cause why, "Qh these things
| were II
language of an eminent CopPerhead,
who lives less than twenty miles
from Wheeling, zpJeff. Davis is-gop8 oar
side.H Oh, consistency thou art'a jewel u
One more observation by way ofaPpendix,
When Iipht aud knowledge had made some
progress IN the Buckeye State, when the
principles of political economy begau'to be
understood, some fewiot our stumpers were
hold enough to contend, in the very face
and eyes of Robert NJ T. Hunter, that tue
capitalist ought not to own tbs iAborer' anG
even hinted that the Southern despot woa'o
consult his own true interest by emanclp"'
ting his, ,Sonduep. Thea these same party
leaders cried out, ,At.9o to Virginia., go te
The, South. n If they see fit TO emaucIPAte
We snail rejoice. They have q righttoAcl
upon the subject, we have uORe. u 1op need
not trouble us" Yet when West Virgins
and Missouri began TO strive in earntss tc
Il throw off the incubus of slavery, these sam'
men moved Heaven. earth AMI hell IN op'
nosition to them. Witness the torrents oi
toni abuse, of aodiOus slauder, that wer'
4 poured upon the, heads OF the friends o
Itreedom and the u nion. .in West Virginia
Reader, is il. possible for any set OF men z
II give more unmistakeable evidence oil tn'
utter absence of allrmOral principle, than TN
partizan leaders, whose conduct IimpuRn
The masses are always honest, often de
I ceiyed. Fellow. ciuzens, we have grea
moraIdutS 20 perform towards>ihese men
l. At our perm, at the peril of our posseri'y
nf every principle dear TO patriotism ant
humanity. We must meet these men AM
: defeat tbrm stthe polls >, s...Lisl,, ..
:, Suppose that NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. minio
: ot slavery and ldespotism, that now lark
= in Canaca. should be elected Governor Q
: Ohio, the enemies OF ptogress, the friend
i of aristocracy aud tyranuy 10 Europe an
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