Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-25
a Free Labor Press ut VIcksburg.

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Had any one declared, on the inaugura-
ton of Mr.. Lincoln, that in less than two
years and half anti-slavery journals
would be printed and supported in Tennes-
see, South Carolina and Louisiana, he
would have been pronounced stark mad by
nine out of every ten of our people. Yet
to-day such, journals are published in all
those states, aud already marked change
in public sentiment is apparent as the re-
suit. No paper in the country is doing
more for the cause of freedom than the
Nashville Union, which daily publishes to
the world sentiments counted honorable
the world over, but which two years ago
would have sent the writer to q dungeon.
But the march of free labor sentiment
has not stopped here. Even in Mississippi,
the home of JEFF. Davis, an anti.slavery
journal is at once to be issued. Mr.. F.
Montgomery, formerly editor of the Vicks-
burg Wing, but for year past an exile
from his home, has issued prospectus for
weekly paper to be published in that
place under the name of the Yicksburg
Union, aud having the following objects:
lst To show to the South the wonder
full and miraculous effects produced thro'-
out the North by the great moving cause
of all their material grandeur and great
ness-free labor. While the South has
remained almost stationary, and her mex
haustable resources are comparatively un-
touched, the North, with sterile soil and |
rigorous climate, has by means of free la
bor, come to blossom like the rose.' The |
difference between the wealth, power and |
resources of the two sections is perfectly |
amazing .apd never was shown more clearly |
While the horrors of war have been carried
to every household in the South, extend
ing to women and innocent children, and
envelopiug all in one common gloom and
ruin, the North presents the singular anom-
ally of carrying on q war of stuPendous
proportions and incalculable expense with
out in the least crippling the resources of
the people, or depriviug them of a solitary
source of comfort and enjoyment. In fact
the North never was SO prosperous, and
its Inhabitants were never so comfortable
and contented as now. While all this is
trneSof the North, it is pertinent for the
South, enjoying as she does unequalIed |
soil, climate aud productions, to inquire |
into the cause of the astonishing difference
in the resources of the two sections. The |
Union will endeavor to show to the South |
the cause of the contrast and its cure.
"2d. In the future adjustment of the |
difficulties at present existing, the Onion |
will endeavor, by rejecting the Union sem
timent of the South, to take prominent
and active part.
.'3d. The Union will endeavor, by fur |
nishing accurate and reliable information,
hVy III n a
the preiudices which southern delnagogues
have for so many years persistently en-
deavored to stir up in the southern mind
against the North, hoping, that when the
two sections come TO know each other bet
ter, each may learn to love the other more. |
18th. While the Union will scrupulously |
avoid all counsels of fanaticism, it will,
nevertheless, advocate in the most solemn |
and earnest manner the entire and iRlmedl- |
ate extinction Of the cause Of all the present
troubles, and the curse Of the SoEth-AfrteaH
slavery.
Thus, in the very place where the first
gun was fred by the slavehoId ders against
the federal flag in the spring of 1861, in
less tha p three years thereafter free press,
devoted to the interests of free labor, is
and win undoubtedly be main
tanned. Mr.. Montgomery started on Sat
urday last for yicksburg, to complete his
arrangements for the immediate issue OF
the Union.
charleston In Her Time OF Trouble.
From the Savannah Republican, July a'
To one who moves about among the
good people of this famous city, 1t cannot
be disguised that feeling OF commingleo
doubt and apprehension, in some cases
amounting to hopelessness, has taken pos
tnre With many forebodings of evil. And
vet. in spite of all, they are calm, dignih-
ed self possessed and resolute. There IS
no panic here, nor the prospect of one
y. ~ go -nE Cen Baan.-