Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-06

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Views OF a. southern Paper on the
Negro Question.
From the Baltimore American.
II is the misfortune OF eXcitable men that
when they repent of their excesses and find
the benefit Of moderation in forwarding
their better purposes, they are apt to run
into extravagances again, prompted by the
success won by moderation. The Phillips
school OF Abolitionists, in the beginning,
| were frantic for the overthrow of the Con-
stitution and separation from the Slave
States to free their cousciences and them.
selves from the responsibility of maintain
ing a Government which protected the
cursed institution. 1t was urged on them,
in vain, that this would entail bondage
forever in the section thus thrown Off
| that Calhoun and his faction desired this
that they would destroy the Constitution
because the principles of liberty bound up
and that humanity to the slaves required
those who would save them should bide
the workings of that instrument in their
! favor, aud not cast them off under despot-
I ism which would hold them forever in du-
rance. The appeal to reason and their
| professsed philanthropy was hooted down.
AT last the Republican party arose, and at
/ Pittsburg asserted the doctrines of the
I fathers, who at the foundation OF Govern
meut, relied on its compressiVe constitu-
tional powers to stihe slavery. The Re-
publicans at Pittsburg resolved to limit
slavery to a certain boundary. This mode
of extinction the PHILIPPIANS would not
assent to. This was recognized, virtually,
the constitutional federation. But the
sudden and gigantic growth which the
Republican party evinced in the first year
! of its birth, induced the ultrAs to show its
moderate doctrines, when reattirmed at the
| Chicago Convention, II little countcnauce,
and the election of Mr.. Lincoln under its
auspices induced them to condesceud to
take charge OF Repubicanism, and dictate
to the Administration. And now, when
the war waged on it by the Nullifiers 10
extend slavery has destroyed the institu-
ton, the Philippians, who would have pre-
served it by dividing the Union, claim the
credit of being the emancipatoTs, while
they yet strive to violate the Consultation,
which, if ever set aside, will lead to the re-
enslavement OF the negroes.
| Is there Il wise statesman who does not
know that if the constitutional anchor is
| once lost, and all embarked in the Govern
ment is thus committed to the storm of
revolution, amidst so many distraCting in
terests as now exist among those who have
to deal with it, that no calm could come
| but under despotic power?
What would be the effect of the negro
equality doctrine (broached by Wendell
Phillips and his followers, to add to the
troubles of the civil war now raging) on
any terms of reconciliation that might be
proposed? Are the yeomanry ofthe NOrih
willing to receive the negroes of the South
among them as equals The legislation
of the North has anticipated the suggestion
| and denounced it in advance. Would the
| non shareholders of the South embrace
them as brethren? The soldery drawn
ont by jeff. Davis from the class of non
| Shareholders. amounting TO u million. an.
swer that question. Their desperate valor
| is in resistance to the force which they
are told comes from the North to free the
negroes and reduce the whole laboring,
landless people of the Sonth to one caste
the whites and enfranchiSed blacks being
put on the same level and having au equal
share in the control of the Government.
1t is against this sVowed purpose Of
conquering for the slaves, not merely eman
cipation, but participation in the right
of suffrage aS n means OF maintaining it,
and commanding an access TO full associa-
ton with the white race in that sovereign
~ they have hitherto held, and assert the
right TO hold, exclusively aud forever over
this continent, that the shareholders
enlist under the banners of JEFF. Davis, and
pour out their blood like water. Let them
know that the Constitution of the United
States, which now gives the white race in
the South the exclusive privilege OF saying
who shall be privileged as citiZens--whO
shall and who shah not vote--is not to be
sacrificed to build up black party in the
Southern States to hold the balance of
over there for the use of their protec-
tors elsewhere, and the white laborers of
that region will see the present Controver-
sy in another light. Although iliterate,
the instincts of the non shareholders tell
them that the masters OF the slaves are in
debted to the institution for the superiori-
ty they hold over them. If they were as
sured that the power of the Free States
was exerted, not to make the slaves their
equals, politically and socially, but to bring
down the owners of slaves to an equality
with the non Shareholders, new aspect
would be given to the contest. BY remoV-
ing the slave caste from the country, which,
remaining. whether as hirelings exertiug
the white mems privileges. or as slaves
without them, would inevitably be used to
the degradation of the white laboring class