Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-09

anime. We whlipay our respe,ts 20 then
in due time. jr
THE New York; Forid is the most COP
peshssdish of thstoppOsi,ion press, bu.
declares strougl ~ against connecting il,
party With slavery. Gen. CAN'T, OF Ark
ausas. in his New!sYork speech. having toll,
bis Democratic Eiends that he. was SUI
Prised to End them "sittiug down ius
where he left them" before be went int,
the rebel army, and even telling him b,
must not come back into the Union with
out slavery, the World not only "sres th,
point" but feels it sharply, aud proceeds
to remopslrate gOlemuly that Gen. CAN'T
misundsrstands the Democracy; they ar,
not ia favor Of slavery, never have been
only for non inieFyentlou, aud they sticE
to. thAt..aIt, even goes farther, asqufesce.
iu the des.Faeli e slavery By the war
aud'sEys = - ~ 'Ini''''
"Fhe war-which, after the firing on
Fort Sumter, was necessary, being alike
demanded by the honor Of the government
aud the interests OF the Uuion-has not
changed the attitude oftbe Northern Dem
ocEats on the question Of Intervention, but
It has rendered the principle OF non. inter.
ference, to which the Democratic pnrty
steadily adheres. of no further advantage
TO the Ssnth as shield to their peculiar
institution. The emancipation procIama-
ton is s.illegqi intervention, and we oppose
IT. but-we areJb61nj to support the war
until the rebels lay down their arms, and
the natural tendency aud necessary conse.
quence OF the war is to shake the insu,u-
tiOn OF slavery to its foundations. So far
as its dOwutaIl is the natural result Uf the
war, the Democratic party cannot iuterpose
to save it. We never -intertereu to iU-
pair or cripple slavery, although We believ-
ed 1t wrong We certainly shull never inter.
tere to preserve H." .-,t-
Tue Boston Post goes step beyond the
World, and tries to steal the admtuistra.
tons thunder. Itis not President Lincoln,
it INSISTS but Gen. Mcclellan, who is ''tbe
great emAnoipatOr." 1t says."-
"Thst slavery as system will be fatally
damaged by tie war. there can be.no
doubt lhtso far as the slave system ia
broken down and the system OF free labor
takes its place the country will be prosper.
g.
ly secure permanent benefit. Ii will tend
to unite the North with the South, 10
break up sectional distinctions aud
political distinctions Who.
will have the credit OF discrsdit? Not the,
radical a6olitionists In Congress- orlout of
il. The frst and primary cause lieslin the
fact of secession. The South itself was
the prime mover in abolition; the irStshot
fred from Sumter. emaprip&ieda the first
slave. emAnciPRled .bSss aIAF. The
second great cause is the natural progress
of our armG McOlellan. wac the first
enancipstor OF the country; he.f5Fst enuiE
cRted thespribotples md earffedtthem out
practically, which have effected emaucipa.
Won Neither the Pseslds5tl dor tie anti
ga yety soristies,. bpFi adieAI Inekbers of
Congress with all their bulls aud pronun-
have effected one foot in al.
vance 10 practical or effectuAl emancipa-
tion. When McClellen made his frst ad
vances on The peninsula, he emancrpated
all the slaves that came within his lines.
When they came there, they were protect
ed, and informed of their IreedOm, that
they could not be eusIaved again, aud
were emsncipated MS quasi citizeps of the
United States. Whenever our picket lines
covered plautation, and the slaves of
that plantation were within the lines, they
were made tree By the natural operations
OF war, aud that without bulls and fulmi-
nations. In this manner he commenced
the work OF emancIpaiion--the first great
practical emancipation in the United
States. All the procIamatious OF the
president have only declared the work that
Mcclellan was doing"
This is a most important aud remarkable
change of base on the part of the northern
democracy. We may expect soon to see
them claiming the credit of the emauci-
patton proclamation itself, and insisting
that Gen. Mcclellan first proposed it aud
demonstrated its prOpriety AS a war N cas-.
ure in his famous Harrison Llndiog letter,
which in truth he did, but without know
ing it. With the democrats acquiescing in
If not sustaining and claim
ing the credit OF it there is ut least pros
pect of new ami extraordinary party com.
binations belJfc next Noysln ser. q But, ma.
kiPg sure Of the prqseeudOn OF ID sjSar to
its legitimate eudTS and Ihat no step back
ward shall be taken in the policy of free
dom, loyal ueu mny be comparatively iu-
different to the Efforts OF party ihspiranis
to ride to success ou the topmOst wave OF
public opiniun. Nj. Lincoln has, auj advan-
tage, of which neither his competitors nor
any change in the course Of events will be
likely to deprive him, and that is the
strong popular conviction that uhgjpilot
who has stood at the helm during the
storm and steered the good ship Of !state
through its tremendous perils, should be
allowed to, complete The work heehAs SO
well begun and take her safely into port.
T --7Il Z = - - -! -
a Rebel Governor upon the Amnesty
ID and EiBeAsL eatler."
The rebel State goyernmeut OF Louisiana
il running at ShreEennrI nmh thn- n.r.