Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-06
| tbey at last be brought under common

producing class OF our own blood in the
| South, the effect of giving political rights
to four millions OF tle African race in thai
region on the welfaie of the nation should
be scanned. The history of the WORLD
shows that the admission of new people
ltouany control over a Government, so
strongly discriminaed from those who eB
tablished II us to HI incapable Of amalga
nation with them, necessarily leads tC
fatal convulsions. The merely suspected
design to affect this in the South has beer
used, we see, TO start it up in armed rebel.
lion. What has bnen the effect in othel
nations? The Incorporation OF the He.
brews in vast multitude in Spain, whose
peculiar institutions forbade amalgamatiou
with Spaniards, Kept the monarchy in
| throes from centuty to century until the
strong scePtre Of Ferdinand and Isabella
made almost sacrifice of a nation oI
Israelites in their bloody expulsion. =
The Moors met with the same fate there
and in every other couutry where in
congruous races have met, Que proves
conqueror and disfranchises the other
What does the story of the Indies, East and
West, tell? Their peculiar races, peculiar
blood, habits and social life, would never
mix with any other the Mahommedan
conquered race; mutual adherence kept
them apart and reduced the masses of the
native population to mere tributaries. The
English couquerors have brought their
experiment to the same result. The An
glo.Saxon experiment on this continent
has obIiterated the tibes of the Atlantic
side of the Allegheny, and bids fair to
drive all within the tropics or destroy
them. The attempt Of the MormOns to set
themselves within our States, distinguish
ed by IL peculiar institution separating
them by an insuperable bar from the mass
es, ended in the death of their Prophet and
the expulsion of his disciples beyond the
pale of civilization; and this beginning tells
their future. 1t was found iucoDgruous
with free institutions to have a people
banded together and controlled by a single
despotic will to turn the scale of our eley-
tions, and abuse the machinery of the free
of a State to subserve the OBJ.
jects of the chief of the sect, who always
had revelation for tle election when by
it he could WELD thE balance of power
between parties in tkt Legislature. Is it
possible that the Free States of the Union
would tolerate a controlling power in the
South, derived from the command of the
votes OF the emancipdted blacks to elect
their President, oil the casting votes in
From the isolations stamped
upon them by their caste, the freed negroes
must league together and submit them
selves to some potent party for safety
In this condition the masters OF the hire
ling freed blacks of the South would en-
Joy the pre- eminence which the masters of
the slaves have so long enjoyed in the
councils OF the nation, with the additional
! Il. D. IarsLFEs
being counted against the whites of the
North, instead of three. .ffths.
The leaders of the rebel States know
we'll how to employ the black element,
retained as slaves or hireling la
bor, to subordinate the poor white man to
their purposes. Unscrupulous and adroit
they have already shown them
selves in using il to establish military
despotism over the South. Ifvanquished by
the freed States, and compelled to ackuowl
edge the freedom of those emancipated by
the war, having still control of the legisla-
ton of their States, and possession of the
soil and capital and military authority left
in their hands by war, they can easily
bring the homeless, helpless negroes. turn
ed loose by the Federal power among them,
into perfect subserviency. Should the
peace guarantee the freed meu citizenship
and equality with the white race, the oil
garchy will draw them to their side, and
combine them for self protection against
the hostile class of laboring whites, aud to
use their newIy-Hcquired political iutiu-
ence to increase the strength in the coun-
ellis of the nation, and especially over the
South. The negroes will be kept in sub
mission to whatever terms may be imposed,
feeling that the withdrawal of the protec-
ton of the rich aud powerful would expose
them to destruction by the incensed class
to their assumption of political equality
and their reduction OF wages by competi-
tion.
Against these dangerous tendencies and
other mischiefs, which have always proved
fatal to Governments admitting such hos
tile elements into their composition, the
plan developed in the speech of the Post
affords n solution. We
careful consideration of
views on which we have made this COM
ment, because we believe they are derived
from asource to whom the country has its
destiny committed in this great struggle.
we believe nothing but the segregation Of
the slaves freed by the war in the rebel
States can save their section from ever
recurring cOmmotion-that the shield of
the Federal Government IS necessary to
protect the African race from extirpation
that employing them for a limited peri
cd on public works such as opening ship
channel from the Mississippi through the
Iberville River along the gulf coast and
the canals now connecting the
bays opening on the Atlantic, they will be
from the dangerous attitude
they must hold, thrown as paupers
among an exasperated people, while they
render services to the country ito COM
pensate it for the expense of preparing
them for independence in new home
which it must provide for them.
The Border States will dispose of Sla,
good time. 1t is probable that the exam
pie now presented by Missouri, that OF
emancipation made easy by sloping its
1uoy tbrnurb opnrenticeshin nf a feu