Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-04

made powerful speech at Cbamplain, il
the Slate of New York, in which he 1eiabo.
Fately and elOquently. .shOWedup the record
'ofthose who are working to overthrow tn,
government. He e-suoted Mr.. Spratt, tn,
noted South Caroliae secessiouist, in t6,
following passage: a u III.
HE assumed that there was no man In
the South who deserved the name of states.
man who would pretend that secession wa,
caused by any aggression of the North up.
on the rights Of the Sonth1-that sit was
still less the result of any act of oppression
ON the part of the United States govern
ment-that the reason was because of the
difference in the Organization of society
North and SOuth-'itiwas because, in the
non slayeholding States, from the ver:y facI
| mat every man was a freeman, the North
| VAS naturally democratic'-'every man be-
Ing freeman, the result was that the la.
boring class'in the non -slaveholding States
/ had the power! of government, and lit re-
4 lures but little argument to prove, when
tnat tnpgaat was the case, government, instead OF
nelng IN the head, was in the heels of So
clety. MIR. Spratt further assumed that
'nolgreater truth was ever uttered than that
futtered by Mr.. Seward, when he said there
was an irrepressible conflict between the
two systems of society.'''5 ,aHa SOS .
On the Sd of May, 1861, NJ. R. H. Gar
nett, of Virginia, wrote letter to william
81, Prescott, of South Carolina, which was
captured not long ago among other papers
on BarnwelI's Island by General Hunter
IN 1.-THE says: r-
81 must acknowledge, my dear sir, that
look to the future with almost as much an
prehensiou as hope. You will object TO-
the term democrat. Democracy, in its
original philosophical sense, is, indeed, in
compatible with slayeIyand the whole sys-
tenn of Southern society"
Col. Hamilton quotes from a speech
madein the Vicksburg Secession Conven-
ton of 1859: ss.
: while our population has advanced,
there has been no proportionate advance
ment IN slaves. The widening West has
made demand of slaves upon the older
StGtes-the older States have been COM
peAed to yield to such cxaction. With
every transportation there was hireling
labor ready TO supply its place with hire
ing labor came the form and spirit of
democracy. it made its way across the
border it overspread the states of Deln-
ware and Maryland-itt extended in the
states of Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia
1T entered into southern cities-it eli
ded into. schools and pulpits-it cropt
about the halls oflegislation and so il is.
that we are not alone in tile contest with
the North, which bears the banner Of
democracy, but with the democracy itself,
within the states, the cities and inseituG
tions ofthe South The speaker assumed
that. if this democracy could not be
got rid of, - the, separation, from the
North would merely adjourn the contest
that, as this southern democracy crap
pies slavery in its homes. and on its
hearthstones, was like the Thracian horse
that bore its rider from the field
and that, escaping enemies abroad,
1t would be forced to wage a. still more
deadly contest withits enemies at home, ;"
Here is another testimony of the same
sort: Haei 9si i'
sin an essay written by j. Quitman
Moore, of Mississippi, and published In the
Charlston Mercury, and republished in.
De Bo'c's RerieIO in 1861, the author. in
revilemcnt of the democratic principle.
says;
,SsssSSThose pestilent and7pernicious do
mas-"the greatest good of the greatest
number"-"thO majority shall 5rulo''-G
are, in their practical application, the
frightGul source of disorders never to ,he
quieted-philosophies the most false. and
passions the most wild, destructive and
ungoyernable. In America saws this
author, by reason of the operation Of can
ses wholly oxtraneous to the considern-
tions of the government and society. the
republican experiment has been prolonged
beyond recorded precedent: but, painful
as the reflection must be TO- all such
as subscribed to the Utopian philosophy.
and have IN abiding faith in the capacitv
OF man for enlightenened self rule. it,must
be confessed that the experiment of the
democratic republic has failed.' The au-.
thor concludes, that the institution of nm
hereditary Senate and sExecntiyeF lis, the
political form best suited to the genius
and most expressive Of tho ideas of the
iSouth.'" fsg ,ts.s.r
Invoice Of Hospital stores ReceIvcd
school DIstriot, Ohio County, Va.
Lqciuda Craig Secretary. Mrs. Alexan.t
,ders n Conn, President. IL d,' is{sa . :;
Address West Alexander,' Pa. giTalrA
42 half gallon cans f fruit, 81 wound
cushions, package OF liut. i'19f =li'R'
Invoice Of tte sHospitqL Stores received. from
the lRest Union Soldier's lid Society.
w. J.: Alexander, President, Dallas Post
Office, Marshall county, Va. 80 =
blankets, 4 quilts, sheet, 4 bundles of
rags bundles of lint, sack of hops, /
halt. gallon of dried cherries, 81 pair of
woolen socks. sstsai 81 ,..lg
LnuOice Of Hospital Stores Reeeived from The
E Lddtes, Atd Society Of PlymoWth, Ohio,
through Mrs. ID. Peek, December Eth.