Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-04
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Fnarrlages Notices OF FuneralsS and announcements
OF sermons, 80 cents each. nonE1l-'69
stThe southern Monarchy. 80
Prem the New York Post.
This is the phrase with which the Allan.
ia Intelligeneer heads on editorial article
discussing thepOliticaI future of "ths Con.
federacy,"
ait is by no means uncommon 20 hear
men say [remarks the Intelligeneer, 4 well
after all, the English Government is the
best Government on earth.N Others say
there is a movement on foot to establish,
during this revolution, a Southern Mon
archy; that officers in high position are
working to bring about this very end
So far, then, the slave lordshaye already
got. "It begins to be said,''-whep will ii
begin totbe done2 Evidently they are try
ing to prepare the public mind in the cotton
States for the sta6lishment of an absolute
monarchy, or some kind of despotism.-
Nor does the proposal fall altogether upon
dull ears, for the Southern Journalist re-
mOnstrates with the adherents of the new
faith:
ait is really astonishing that any native
American should sigh after the flesh pots
of Egypr-should prefer monarchy to the
glorious form of government which among
ourselves, as States, we have already es-
tablished. Perhaps most or all of this
class of men would prefer the English form
of government, provided they could be
kings or lords, or wearHthe badge of nobil-
ity themselves; but divest them of all such
hope, and they would still cling to repub-
licauism."
Apparently he has not been offered a
patent of nobility under his expectant
Majesty Davis the First; for-he complains
that affairs are managed in such way
as to lead to the belief that most of our
leading men have an understanding
amongst themselves, aud that they are
man@uvering for despottsm of some
sort"
"The Exemption law" be adds, (which
provides that if man has twenty slaves
he need not enter the service of his coun-
try, but stay at home and make more
money than he ever made before, while his
poor neighbor, whose family is dependent
upon his own exertions for their daily
bread, must be forced into service-ihis,
they persist, points TO a slaveocracy or
atistocracy."
Nor are other reasons lacking for be-
lief that if the rebel leaders could only de-
stroy the Union and humble the free States,
they would quickly take measures to es-
tablish such despotism over the five
millions of nou-slaveholding whites as
they now exercise over the three aud a
half millions of blacks. Already, in those
journals which are the peculiar organs of
the slave-Iords-De Bot0's Reviep aud the
Southern Literary Mssssnger-articles are
printed whose only purpose is to bridge
the way to more and more stringent and
despotic forms of government, In an arti-
Gle on Claw and Liberty printed in De
BolO's Rsuis,0 for August of last year, after
some ofthe customary filings at liberty and
democracy, the writer remarks that
"Our rulers, State and Confederate, Le-
gislative and executive. have of late, show q
themselves admirable pathologIsts, and
seeing that the nation was sirk of toe
much liberty, have dosed it well with law,
which is the negative and corrective OF ex-
cess of liberty.
"In Richmond, where we reside, the de-
clsration of martial law has banished pan,
ic, reassured the people, and given feel.
ing of safety and security to all our citi.
zens. Liberty of speech and liberty of the
press are sufficiently restricted by a strin-
gent public opinion, which no man 6arel
tamper with. If they were not thus re-
strained, the public authorities would read
lily stepin aud punish and incarcernIe any
one who, by indiscreet talk and indiscree
writing, jeoparded the public safety. Yol
meet at every corner of the street armed
men5who preserve order, keep the peace
aud turn over to summary punishment thl
criminal aud disorderly. Prices are regu,
lated by law, extortioners punished, ant
the making or vending of liquor strictly
prohibited.
''This is not liberty, but the reverse o
it, yet none but the corrupt and crimina
object TO it. The right to cheat and swim
die your neighbor is suspended for tn
present, and itmay be that hereafter, whel
n peace ia restored, we may discover tina
this free trade principle is not indispensa
BILE TO the well being of society"
He goes on to express his contempt 70
written constitutions as antiquated an
useless contriTances:
"a nation trammelled with a written con
stituuon is like man with his hands man
acIed. It's capacity for action is crampe
and diminished.
'tThe Confederate Constitution u a mere III
throtOa oIer to the trhGke. No intelliger
man who voted Eor3it deemed 1t would b
! permanent; but only considered 1t tempo
rary expedient, q giviag tgGy, foT tle tinle,
popular Prejudiess, a bridge or passWay be
Ity1a aap T1ohOrra cy Al nd anarchy end .,r.ar,
alive republieanism.
''NG people can be we'll ruled by. a gov
erumeut of limited poWers-6y a constitI
tional government"
The Richmond Library Ae'selger handl,
the same topic in its January number, bl