Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-25

been called on to exert every degree Of
energy permitted by the uBaRes Of civilized
warfare. The essential error Of those hos.
tile demagogues, who render more ehectual
aid to JET. Davis than all his armies, con-
sists in this that they nullify the War-power
granted in the constitution by other sec
tons of that venerable instrument, instead
Of constituting all it's parts and provisions
in harmony with each other. Their artih-
ces however, had been completely success
ful with our young friend. II might abate
somewhat Of his ardor to remember that
this outrageous zeal for the liberty OF
speech and Of the press is but gourd's
growth, sprung mp like the vine Of Jonah in
the dark night Of our political troubles
In the debate in the Senate on the infam-
ous black code enacted by the bogus Leg
islature of Kansas, infiicting lingering i'm
prisonment, worse than speedy death, for
any discussion Of the slavery question dr.
tasteful 70 Border Rulians, George E. Pugh,
Of Ohio, declared that he regretted the me-
cesaity fer such legislation, "but yFhcruver
slavery exist3 as an ingtitution laws Of that
character must be adopted p Aud some
very indefenaible laws were adopted OUT
side of Kansas. In all the slaVe States
officers, often of the scAntiest knowledge
and slightest attainments were authorized
to rife the United States mails and to hunt
out and destroy every thing which their
ignorance or their prejudices ehoOsed to
pronounce dangerous or incendiary. Meth
odiSt AdVOe1teS, PreSbyteridR Records, BGp-
tist Registers, NissioHGTy HerdLds, and 9TH
or pious and useful works, inculcating the
purest morality and the most exalted be-
neVolence were remorselessly committed to
the flames. They taught doctrines in har-
mony with the advanced ideas of the nine
teenth century and were therefore, by in
ference, supposed to be adverse to slavery.
The pretence Of incendiRrism was o mere
pretext. Had it been a reality the South
ern authorities knew how to punish with
merciless severity any and every man en-
gagged in disseminating dangerous docu-
ments or explaining them to the slaves, Of
whom not one in teu thousand could read.
Thus the most enlightened and worthy
men were, without judge or jury, deprived
of the natural rights Of Communication
with their fellow citizens at the mere dis
oretion of q squire or q postmaster, whose
intellectual darkness and narrow ideas
often rendered him utterly incapable of
exercising any sound discretion. Like
all other unjust and immoral legislation,
these laws have returned to plague us with
curses on our heads. The great masses of
the South were kept almost as ignorant Of
the opinions, feelings and intentions of the
great Northern majority as the pigtails in
the middle districts of China. Otherwise
it is not at all probable that the "hre.
eaters" could have "fired their hearts for
war;" or bounded them on to shed the
blood of their natural friends and allies.
But it is an observation Of Jean Bsptiste
that Turks and Tartars will rush
with alAcrity to battle and to death for
Nka INf anA AZ
neither OF which is worth preservation.
So the "mean whites" Of the South rush
with alRcrity TO battle and to death in
conflicts with men who never injured or
wished TO injure them. And this at the
bidding of naughty NRbobs, who would
not "set them with the dogs of their flocks,"
whose parlors and draWing.rooms they
could no more enter, for any purpose Of
social intercourse, than they could for the
same purpose enter the marble halls of
the proud Duke of Somerset or pass the
Stone Lion of the Percys. This naughty
and exclusive spirit prevails not only among
the "frst families of Virginia.: not only
in that little despicable Algiers, otherwise
called South COr0lina, but in all parts of
the Southern country where the slave
holding aristocracy is sufficiently numerous
to domineer over public opinion. Their
newspapers openly and arrogantly pro-
claim that their state Of society iB "high
toned aTistoeTacy." "That capital ought
to own labor" "That the only Just and
normal relation between the capitalist aud
the labOrer is that of master and slave"
"That il is not black slavery or white sla-
very to which they are attached, but sIa-
very" o, if ever men were fighting with
frantic zeal against their own best inter-
ests, those men are the ''mean whites" Of
the South. The success of the National
arms would open wide before them the
gates of knowledge, TO riches, to honor, to
prosperity. The success of the slave aris-
tocracy will continue them and their pos
terity under that yoke of half slavery,
which has pressed upon the nscks of them
selves and their ancestors for centuries.
Yet those democratic" demAgogues who,
night and day, never weary in the work of
weakening their own national government
and strengthening that of our national en-
emies, who move heaven and earth aud
hell for the accomplishment of thir nefari-
GUS designs, necessarily cry out, "if We
conquer the South we must wage q war of
determination" "The South is united"
"They will fight US with their last man and
their latest BREATH and other trash Of
the same kind. What except barbarous
ignorance and its accompanying preju-
dlces could lnduoe tnese men 70 nght 70
extremity in the cause Of naughty lordlings
with whom they can maintain no social in
tercourse and whose ordinary language con-
cerning them is that Of scorn and contempt.
Unless human nature has sustained Q
radical change, may we not rest assured,
that as soon as little light breaks in. as
soon as the power Of the aristocracy is
broken, government will have no further
tronble with the Southern masses7 Now,
reader, mark the consistency Of these men.
They were formerly clamorous for the most
odious, the most extensive restrictions up
on the freedom Of speech and the press,
because those restrictions were necessary
for the preservation Of slavery. They are
now clamorous against far lighter and less
extensive restrictions, because they are