Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-31


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~ rs EdmcatIon OF None Eject! r,
Although the records of past ages supply
us'with manifold. examples lot.human gnilt
and folly, weare mostly inclined to ascribe
these to 'thetwant of education among the
masses, or the criminal ambition of Kings:
We admit with hesitation or reluctance the
suspicion that similar deviations from rea-
son o. virtue may occuriin edqeated com
munities underpgovernments controlled by
the people. Thus, when oqy present rc.
bellion startled the civilized world, we
looked around for special causes, and
found them in a vicious system of society,
which proclaimed aloud its love for hu-
man an freedom, and yet held in. abjeet bond. !.
age an unhappy race of beings, whose off.
spring also, to remotest generations, was
subject to the same enslavement. AS a
r. 4~ D.. a J.. - ~
consequences, we urged, the whites bechme
either tyrants or brutes-tbe wealthy.
Shareholder naturally becoming cruel and
arrogant from the exercise of uncontrolled
power over his human chattels, and the
lower clasa of poor whites corrupted and
imbruted by the spectacle of such degrada-
tion and suffering as were continually be-
fore their eyes. When we added also the
impossibiity, in such communities, ofraia- ;
ing labor to respectable level, we saw
that'these inferior whites must NECESSARILY
remain ignorant and depressed, fitting in-
struments for artful demagogpes audambi-
tious so1dters.- They were aroused to ac-
tiou. aud led to slaughter, ,Ewhen the south!
ern conspiratorse endea Yored toaabFert ibis
glorious republic, and establish Ia slave
empire on it's ruins. si}tA5 sapsaoi
This process of reasoning is undoubtedly
true as regards the chief cause which gave
impulse and strength to. the Southern re.
bellion. Slavery fomented and iplauned
the huge wickedness, and at the same time
degraded the poor white men who were
destined as the rude instruments to work
out the toilsome and dangerous task But
1T WAS not SO. easy to- imagine how such
consummate stupidity and lurpitude,could.
ind lmltators or advocates here in the
North, where for a whole generation COM
mon schools have been abandoned. q and
general education been extensively diffus-
ed. It does, indeed, at frst view appear
ipcomprehensible, and even calculated 10.
produce skepticismt regarding the efficacy
of education. But when we cameito scrn-
tinize the question, the problem has its
easy solution - Therefaresfn IN all communi..
ties persons of morbid or distorted views,
whose disposition or temper inclines them
to oppose whatever is Virtuous, true or
noble; and when they see n; generous up-
rising ofthe people IN. behalfof freedom or
humauity,l- these .1nAconteutS are prone
fTom the very love of contradiction or on.
pugnauon, to set themselves lin array
against it. They dissent, they .growi.
they suarl. If it be n war SO righteous
that even the Peace Society is forced to
give it Q tacit sanction, these .malignuuts
advocate, peace on any terms. II the ma.
ton be iu repose, with no need of any hos-
tile action towards other nations, then the
Troublesome pests we speak of snufrithe,
b0ttle afar off, aud insist on instant agEres.
sion. Mexico has perchance done us nor
tai wrong in not yielding Texas TO our
Shareholders, nd.tberefore we would sac
| ritce lite and treasHres with deperute pro.
fusion in the endeavor to right ourselves
An interruptions trader has. settled in
Paraguay aud brought fictitious claims
against that feeble government which we
should redress by means OF a costlysexpe-
dition,, and the depression, of, our chdractef
iu the eyes of SouthsAmerica. We should
even seize Cuba from Spain, under the
poor pretence tbAtiits possession is essen.
tial to our safety or defence The swa1.
dogs would saddle US, or:sucH, a nefarious
acquisition of more slave territory, with a
debt of one or two hundred millions; and
risk a war besides with greater Powers
than Spain. i5e
Such are the men who now pretend TO
superior humanity, aud who protest against
harmiug our gentle southern brethern.-
And Jet, oyerfioWing as they are with4t ten
der susceptibilities, they expend them ali
in one direction. Rebels may hang shoot,
mntilate, scourge, starye, or imprison in
loathsome dungeons any number of Ioyal
citizens or Union soldiers, and these ten
der hearted symp pathizers are deaf or blind
to each atrocious act but let them bearof
a guerrilla punished for assassinat70n, or
some secession woman arrested as spy or
/ q smnRgler, and piteons is the wall OF la
lmentation t.Wo uuto; ye, hypocrites;P.
1 is an adjuration that may be wen studied
by this generation of Vipers. 1hsirsnaky
lpropensities have recently become so man.
iifest and prominent, that they have by
general assent received the appropriate
designation of tscopp y term which.
4 from editorial courtesy, We forbore toinss
Until the maliRnRnts accepted it themselves
sithefrl party designation. .ss,