Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-18
ReconstructIon.

Tue New YORK World (copperhsad) ha
been for some days calling 90 the New
York T'tibuns, as the leading paper of it
class in the country, to come ont and de
fiue its ideas of reconstruction. The IEi
6uns does SO in its last issue. The follow
ing is an extract:
ga prominent Democrat who lives anC
does business in our City, land whose
name, not for publication but for the veri.
; hcation of this statement, is at the service
Of The World was induced some years
since, to buy an estate in Eastern Virgin.
la rsputed rich in gold He employed q
foreman to develop It, hired twenty. i've OF
thirty of the Poor Whites residing upon OF
} adjacent to it to assist as laborers, and
came here to attend TO other business
Bat few weeks had elapsed when he re-
eeived dispatch from his foreman, urging
tbim to hurry back to Louisa County and
thelp the said foreman out of trouble. He
promptly obeyed, and, soon after reaching
his estate, was waited upon by three gem
tlemen, who proclaimed themselves Com
uiittee from the neighboring proprietors,
appointed to notify HIM that he must not
employ white labor on his estate, but must
hire or buy slaves. He ventured to re-
moustrate-urged that he had imported no
laborers into Virginia-that his men were
all natives of the State and fixed residents
OF the vicinage, &C., but was cut short by
the spokesman, (now the rebel Gen. Jen-
kins,) with curt reminder that they bad
not proposed to argue the point-that it
was not the policy of Virginia to encour-
age white labor where slaves were to be
had-and that they only desired to know
whether he proposed to comply with their
demand or take the consequences of refu-
sal. Here one of the white laborers-a
respectable, worthy citizel3 over fifty years
old, who happened to be present or pass-
ing-yentuted to interpose the inquiry
"But what are Ege to do to support our fam |
lilies ?"-"Don't you know enough to hold |
your tongue2" responded the cion of chiv-
airy, with such look as he might have |
bestowed on a toad who had undertaken |
to lecture him on trigonometry. Thepoor |
white was cowed into abiect silence; the |
New Yorker said that he had no choice, so |
he submitted with the best possible grace,
dismissed his white Virginians to their |
sorry huts and ragged, unsChooled children,
and proceeded to hire the negroes of his |
domineeriug neighbors as he needs must.
He was paying the whites eighty cents in
cash per day they told him they would |
gladly work for sixty than be thrown off:
but, though he wanted their work and
they wanted his money, they were all un-
der the yoke of an iron despotism, and had
to sUcCumb.
Such is the Internal. God. .defying, man
system which the white laborers
of this city are now being gUaded by Fer
naudO Wood and Horatio Seymour into
tresaSn to uphold and PerPetuats-and all /
because those reckless aspirants believe
their own chances of political aggrandize-
ment will thereby be promoted May the
lightnings Of Divine Justice blast their
fendish ambition
Now the Tribune does not desire that this
country shall now or ever be divided, but
does most anxiously, fervently labor and
strive that the whole and every part of it
shall be freed from the diabolical ''iHstitu-
ton" which robbed the poor white Virgin
ians of their right to labor, of education,
comfort and self-respect-I
and has probably ere this driven them into
the rebel armies to suffer hardships aud
risk their lives for their own deadliest foe,
the chief cause of their lifelong degrade
ton. And we undeniably cherish the hope
that this gigantic, wicked rebellion, foment
ed aud inaugurated by the slave power for
its own aggrandizement and fortifcation,
may result in it's most signal, right
eous, utter, benefcent overthrow. Yet
we do not say, and have never said,
that no Peace must be made that does not
stipulate for and secure the immediate Alb.
olition of Slavery. The fortunes of War
do not always enable the righteous party
in a great struggle to insist on every iota
of justice. But this we do say: Any peace
which attempts to restore to Slavery the
respect and power which it
enjoyed before it trushed into Rebellion and |
Civil War, will prove an illusion and
snare-will be regarded by the baffied
mortified Slave Power as but truce,
breathing spell, an opportunity for prepa-
ration in view of new struggle wherein |
to wipe out the remembrance of it's defeats, |
its losses and its humiliations; and will |
inevitably subject the sincere Unionists Of
the entire South to systematic tyranny,
abuse, outrage, robbery, manning and MUIR
der, until the last of them shall have been |
hunted Outor exterminated. Such are the |
results of a pro-sIavery ''recon-
sructiOn;" and such is the consummation
toward which Wood, Seymour, their con-
and their dupes, are now drifting |
our country. May mercifnl God yet avert |
the catastrophe