Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-28

and trinmphant deed since the commence
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The ON VindIoated.
AN ApMIRABbE 1ErTBR PROM j, ". goRsEY
a From the Phfladelphia Press.
The consistency with which the Admin.
tstratton develops its policy of emancipa.
! ton excites great qualification throuphou,
the country. Thoseewho thought Mr. Lin.
coin merely intended his proclamation as q
"bull against the comet" will,fiud the besr
proof of their folly in what they now see
Emancipation is a policy, and the whole
power. of the Goyernmentis is exerted to sus.
tain IT. the army and navy, and in the
civil ways of the Government we see the
negro protected, aud his capacities en-
i ployed. His slavery becomes freedom by
the crimes Of those who held him in slav-
liery. A great moral principle is de.
ftended, because the enemies of that prin
ciple made its defence the necessity Of
l.national self preservation. We have what
.feVery contest must have-a cause. 1t is
Liberty: AW We call 1t Union; but Union is
consolidated Liberty. It is Liberty and
Power, Truth and Justice, and Humanity
Fand Law, strengthened, digniied, embos
sed with Power. It is an Idea. Not an
Idea run wild like the French Revolution,
rtPentnge into anarchy Sthirsting for blood,
destroying valor, genius, beauty, virtue,
fatthTIike the desolAting tempe est which
carries dedth'in its van, aud brinkslife in
its train-but the ripened fruit of this pro-
gressiVe and advancing age. The negro is
not the effect; Ihe is not the cause he is
theillustration pta truth The proclama.,
ton of emancipattone eis but the proclama-
tion of truth, and those who prosecute
the negro because he is unfortunate aud
dependent, forget that they merely rail at
Flnfnfty, aud make war upon the Proyi-
dence of God by abusing his helpless crea-'
lures. They curse the waters and 5Yainly.
bid the;waVes stand still. II the President
had been terrified by these people-if the
clamors of ambitious men had stiied the
pcalm aud consistent voice of yirtue-the6,
Instead of being the leader of the Republic,
be would have become the slave aud the
victim of its enemies /; he would have been
the great coward ot.history, aud, instead of
living among the immortal namesithat the
world forever blesses, be thrown into the
fesse of history amid the ashes aud lime.
The constanc19 of the Administration
amid the noise and .enmity of audacious.
men is noble thing to see. tits leading
public opinion, and in this question of
Liberty. is the embodiment of the peoples
innermost and truest thought 1t is the
Conscience of the nation. Speak as you
VIII OF men and measures, successes aud
failures, what has been, or what might
have been, mourn, smile, scriticfse, or de
stroy, we are hothiug but the instruments
of the Providence who ordaius all things
we'll. Weschauges our opinions, but the
philosophy thatleads US comes frome above.
and we follow it. It-is profitable to study.
these changes, for then ne seee that the
most perfect philosophy is that which finds
the same simple causes moving the hearts of
men, and developing the career of nations.
The nation is but q man, with the attributes
of manhood, subject to the same impulses,
goyerned by the same laws, liable to the
same fate. Ais man perfect when he ex-
Ihtbtts honor, truth, faith, and courage A
tnaltOn is perfect when its laws are just and
licomptehe - when liberty dwells
with law, and security. accompanies
lstrepgth. The form is aq1estion of taste
We aim at the substance. Monarchy
lIsprings from the weakness of the lower
Ilclasses. 1t dazzles1 and drives them. II
controls ignorance, represses prejudice.
Ihatters ambition, and adorns power in
Hrobes of fine linen. In a monarchy the
IgoyerninR class lives by the exhaustion of
the governed.i It was so in France. The
Epeople of France accepted Liberty, but it
became fanatieism it was droYnedsin the
blood of its own revolution, andtt nation.
itself shrank from its own rule ,ot Terror
land took shelter under the imperial robes
Iot NaPoleonsI[I, lin 1851. an easy empire
1.-THE errors of France; and the errors of all
Tthe world, are examplesto to us, and we shall
Gemerge from this contest a Republic
EstroRg int o1rselves-strong against others
Iii-combtnfng a7liberty that blesses and en-
braces allG-7with the strength that can defy,
where.
see in the calm, unshrinkinR, constant
licourse Of Mr. LINCOLN the best seVi deneesof
the truth and the hop hat 4 lave 9endea.
yored to express, aDd-that now dwells iu
the breasts Of, alliiloya1 men. zHe wrote
ltLBERTY upon our-banners, and there it
will remain forever. This Rap-this blood
I-these conflicts and battles-the enmity
envy that Europe sends with calutn.
liniating breath over the needless seas
these struggles with one anolher4this
devotion that is so difficult at times 70
maIntain, ibutJ sWeetsto cherish, and pre-
Itcious among the meui0fies that we leave
to our shildren1this realization gilmore
than Spartan frmness, and more than
Roman glery--We welcome and rejoice in
these, for they immortalize the present and
gl9Fity the future. Let MS honor the lAda a
ministratton for having remained so true
tosthese principles, and; sustained by the
people, slst ns hope. that.its constanty may
continne to the end. ss5sa iassd
issa .slot TruEnithe Ny. Post.
REBEL PRECAUTIONS.
sItiS htgf6niqg 10 he k66E6lfh 4RsS6df6E
as 4 is known here, that not a few of thei
rebel leaders have been for sometime cont
yerItpg their property into money, So far Is
e was practical ableafos do 30, and placing IL
beyond heselg in London aud Pdtts This
movement Of rats who are preparing for
the time when thsyCshaH Hfleave iteit sink;
fling ship is, we hear, Awakening nnpleas4
liant iealousIes in the South. Let as help