Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-16

est teaf IN respect 10 tue pressure VI tua'
debt. II is not as great as other nations
walk abroad under with comparative ease
that have not half the wealth producing
power that We have. And as we have
shown foreign countries what we can dc
with war and popular elections, 30 by and
by We will show them what We can do with
the NATIONAL debt.
1t is told me by one of the engineers,
that when the water arrangements for
Brooklyn were In contemplation, 1t was
designed, by a canal, to connect the great
reservoirs Of our city With the series Of
lakes that are formed by the natural out
flow of the filtered water that falls upon
the whole body Of the Island; but that,
when the work was begun, 30 abundant
were the springs found to be, that the
wants Of the city were supplied by ths
water which these springs furnished, so
that there was no necessity for touching
the lakes. Now, our people are just like
our coil in this regard. You cannot begin
TO build In any direction, that you do not
find that our people are allied full of
springs of abundance for supply.
NORTH AND SOUTH.
In respect to the South, you
are to recollect that she has pursued a
course of finance which will relieve her
at once of all the pressure of national
debt. There is no one OF her statesmen
that ever looks out doubtfully into the fu-
ture. There is no question at all about
her coming situation In that regard. But
then we are to take into consideration, In
looking into the future Of southern eoci-
ETY., the stimulating effects other new So
cial condition. In twenty-five years-in
q single generation-free labor will not
only pay for the market price of every
slave that she will have lost by emancipa-
ton in q money torn, but will make her
rich over and above that, Among the things
that could desire to see, is the wonderful
recuperation of these Southern States In
wealth and popular intelligence aud
patriotism, and substantial unity
For l tell you, when, with their
fervid zeal and outspoken manliness, this
people are once brought upon the plat
form of regenerated and real democracy
they will put to shame the temp0riGtng pa
triotism Of many aud many man that
dwells in New York. During the revolu.
tionary war majority of the iuhabitau %
of both Kings and Queens counties were
tories. MIR. Jefferson declares that 10 New
York all the influential merchants and lit
erary men were largely monarchists. The
hereditary tendencies In favor Of monarch
ical aud against democratic forms OF gov
ernment, in New York, are Rs old as the
Revolution. And | expect to see the day
when there shall be more genuine propa.
gandism of liberty in Georgia than 10 New
York. I'e1pect, If live to be as old as
my father was, to see more enthusiasm for
liberty on the sugar and cotton plantations
of the South than we have ever seen in
the relatively cold aud resrved New Eng
land and Middle States. Great as is the
disparity between the tendencies OF the
North toward liberty and the slave tenden-
cies of the South, when the cause of the
North has prevailed, and has been aecep-
ted by the South, you must NOT be suFPris
ed If the South are the representative peo'
pie for liberty Of this continent. Andwheu
this shall take place, what autagontsm car
there be between the South and the North