Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-01
From the New York Times. IL.
The War Against Democratic InstI

lions.
On our first page to-day we have
compiled from several sources, observa-
tions from prominent Southern writer's,
upon the nature of the struggle in which
the rebeilious Shareholders have involved
the country. Thoughtful men have seen
from the beginning, that by the result of
this war, which the naughty slave, lords
have forced upon US, would be decided the
future condition oil the working men in
America; and that, il the rebels are Victori.
Gus in the end, the laborers of the free
states will be subjected to the same yoke
which has kept the white workingmAn of
the slave states in ignorance and poverty,
and which now cruelty drives them to
battle for cause which is not their own,
and in war which is not tn eirs, but their
masters seeking. ...-
The STAKEHOLDER is the natural enemy Of
the free working man. he cannot help but
be 60. The free working man, by his sim
Pile presence, does an injury to the slave.
holder, because he is an example to the
slave of workingman receiving wages.
But every days work of the free man is q
loss to the STAKEHOLDER, who says, This
maa is paid for what my slave might have
done without pay. Thus Nj. Spratt com
planned that Ifishmen and Germans we're
exclusion of his aud other mems slaves.
Therefore we find the slave-lords hating
with so ferocious hate the "mudsills" of
the free states, and displaying a fierce de.
termination to subjugate and crush class
whose prosperity and power they consider
dangerous to themselves. s.
In the South they have carefully re-
pressed all attempts OF the poor whites to
prosper by their own labor. In the South
white mechanics starved before the war,
because the masters employed only their
own or their neighbours slaves, trained to
be wheelrights, carpenters, masons or
blacksmiths. Thus these black slaves were
made, by their masters, to take the bread
out OF the moutbs of white women and
children who happened to be poor. Such
is the necessary, inevitable antagOnism Of
the slave owner and free workmen. If the
white artisan prospers, it is at the expense
of the Shareholder. If the planter does
we'll it is at the expense of the white work
man, whom he rObs of work by setting his
slaves to do it.
Is it then surprising that the slavehold-
ers hate and are determiued to subveFt
that form of government which, where
fairly administered, as in our tree states,
secures to the workingmen of the nation
the greatest prosperity, the highest intel
ligence, and the most political power I?
Not at all. They feel that while the ma
jority rules the laws will be made to work
to the benefit of the.msjority-and that is
precisely what they cannot endure. The
slaveh olders' theory IS that the minority
should rule. On South Carolina plAnta.
tiou one man rules over hundred or two
hundred men. So in community regu-
ted by Shareholders q few men, distin-
guished by wealth, rule the remainder.
Property qualifications have always ex-
listed in South Carolina, AID but recently
it has been attempted to give the slave
owning minority in Virginia this privilege
| to rule over the toiling majority. Z ut er
Our democratic theory is that the ma
jority must rule but from every part Of
the South come up in response words OF
hatred of democratic institutions. "Des
mocracy is indeed incompatible with sla-
very" wrote the South Carolinian Trescott.
Mr.. Spratt called the poor whites of the
South, because of their adherence to the
theory of democratic government, "ene-
mics at home" "Let US seek at once to
eradicate every vestige. of radical demoe-
racy, every feature tending to make ours 2
popular government :" says a Richmond
! writer, who is quoted elsewhere. Men
are never efficient in military matters, or
in Industrial pursuits, until deprived Of
their liberty" writes George FitEhngh OF
Virginia. From every par: of the slave
states comes this testimony OF the deter
mination of the shareholders to crush out
popular liberty in America. Let the
workingmeu of this country ponder these
things, aud ask themselves if they can
safely endure and foster this enemy who
seeks their liberty. -a'3 s. 80 !,
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