Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-05

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slavery question matss M era in ouribo
liticalt progress SGne OF the rspublicat
presses. taken by ssrbriss, interpret ,6iI
nnexPeeted movesaett aa merely strategic
aud doubt whether he democratic leader
are sinesEe 10 it or will hold to- it NOR,
than long enough % get the republican
party eommittedit 70 tae most extreme rarii
cal position, Tue theory is that the dem.
ocrats foresee popular reaction against
radical anti-slaysss measures and think
by encouraging @ party in power to q
ree,k4 less course to promote that reaction
and SO get the bensft Of it in the presiden,
tinl canvass. Wiri this motive they take
or feign to take tR identical ground ocSu.
pisd, BY the admin tign part, At the
ginpthH ot she pssssat stFlgRle and spy
tpst y ne tle q Jset Of ii
should be MAJ ehanes Of the Unfoa.
slavery must satfes The inevitable 'Ia5 conse.
quenees of the wqt. Many of them, like
representative Brooks, of New York. 90
farther aud acknowledge that the destruc.
ton of slavery is certainly TO be accom-.
plished, and that this fact is to be recoR-
nised and acquiescsd in. In, Mr.. Brooks,
case We can suppose there is something
like the feeling of tsrecovered sbacksliaef,
for in his early d Is he was an earnest
Hnti-slavery man add only denied his org
inal faith from the Influence of bad boliti.
cal associations. Nc. Brooks ia bisiIa,s
speech in Congress pretended to base his
belief in the extinction of slavery upon the
statement that the rebel congress had au-
thorized- the arming of the negroes; both
sides having made soldiers of the negroes,
he insisted that both were alike on mitted
to the ultimate removal of the Institution
Here Mr. Brooks stretched point to cover
his own retreat from false position, for
the rebel congress has not authorized the
armtng Of the negroes, but merely their.
conscription as teamsters aud laborers in
the camps and treucbes-lubors quite as
consistent with slavery as work in the
cotton fields. That the rebels would arm
the negroes if they dared trust them NAV
be readily believed, but they dare not nut
arms into the hands Of even the free ma.
groes, and there is no reason to believe
that they will under any circumstances,-
They know that their negroes are against
them.
Nevertheless Mr.. Books is right in his
general conclusion Tat slavery Ia
doomed, aud the opposition presses and
politicians show more than their usual
sagselty In determining that they will not
sacrifice t6emselHes III the vain fforL .to.l
resist the current ofHeHents. Their,deuial.
however, that the democracy has ever de.
Tended and protected slavery is a little tool
impudent. Why, even after the war com.
menced they organized a society in New
York "for the diffusion of political infor. |
nation" and the tracts they have scattered
most prOfusely over the country have been
The scriPtural arguments for slaverr "a n |
divine institutiou, written by Rev. DR.. Lord
aud Rev. Bishop Hopkins, Two Of the
toughest old theological bruisers Of this
age, who, If they live long enough, win
probably be found after the last slave has
been freed, still arguing the Christian duty
OF compelling the SONS of Ham TO work
without wages.
what the democrats mean to say about |
slavery and their own politics is, that se-
cesslon and abolition have killed it; that
they wash theirhands of fall,responsibilfty |
tor its death, but are not such fools as to |
attempt 70 IgsISantzs the corpse; that they
do notsyetiknDW asitheyiw u oppose a cttn-l
stitutional amendment abolisbinp and nro.
hiblting slavery-Ihey wait to see how
popular opinion sets in that matter; that
they will make all they can out OF. the al.
leged unconstitunonal and oppressive acts
OF the administration, the, official. corrup.
tlon, the military blunders, and the general
ianits OF the party in power; aud especial. |
~ that they will do their utmost to stimu.j
hate the feuds and personal rivalrles which
threaten division and weakness to the re-.
publican party. OtcoursaIhey win make
the most of General Mcclellan asa martvr
to rad'calism aud untiitEryt ign ora nee in the |
government, but that is already dead
issue. The people have no interest in il
aua II 1t could be prOvsd that Mcclellan |
Is tne greatest Captain of the age aud has |
oeen oaeiy abused, it by DO means follows |
mat ~ ne Is the man for President. The |
Presidential contest must turn upon scIne
issue of more vital aud national .imnot-. |
tance than the reputation Of any General.
II the slavery issue is is to be taken out of |
tue canvass by general consent, as would 1
now seem likely, then.mOdes Of recoustruc.
tion and questions of finance win became
promtnentIandlh issuS RiIlbs. ShalIvvAyo
through and settIs'Lhe RHuie thing accor-
ding to present policips or 3 hhIl we chSttys
and so incur the risks ot untried and dosbt'
tul experimeuts2 There is no mistake sz
to what is the general feeling at this mo-
ment: abraham, you are doing well-pur-
it through. - FN' :.
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GEN BurLEa having reported that Eve
Jews were caught While ranning the
blockade, Mr.. Isaacs, editor of the Jewish