Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-02-26

always arrives in the progress of ciViliza-
tlon, and without which, indeed, there
would be 40 progressive civilization Whist
ever, when IL is clearly seen that what is
true aud good is also pOIitlc. 1t is in vain
that this ls abstraetly shown But when
1t IS practically perceived \ great forward
step in civilization is taken. When it ia
generally felt that morality lightens the
taxes community becomes moral. In
this country the slave despOtism held US
bound 80 long and so hopeIessIy, because
We we're so prosperous and the evil was to
Us at the North so theoretical, that our
| sympathies and human instincts pleaded
| IN vain against our apparent interests
The Argument against Mr.. Lincoln, as
| against every man whom the slave lords
did not support, was, that if he succ ceeder
grass would grow in the streets and blood
run in the cutters. What vas called the
| t''Union" party of the North before the in
| surrectiOn OF slavery was simply an organ i.
IzAtlon of timldity, whose argument was,
that It was better to let the Southern policy
rule the country, because it would other
wise try to ruin it. That was the final
philosophy of all such movements as the
Castle Garden meeting, aud none more
than those concerned will freely confess il
II Was question OF policy, and it seemed
to them to be best to pat aud pscify. "Per
haps compromised toe long, frankly
says Mr.. Everett, in a recent address.
Now great many persons who support
ed this policy really hated slavery, and saw
the ghasrly wounds it was constantly in-
nictng upon the country, but thought that
they bad no right to say anything about it.
They were ready enough to send an army
OF missionaries, under the protection of q
| huge society. to preach against the religion
aud convert the natives of Cochin China
and Tnibet-f they could get there but
tney were unwilling to say that the indus
trial system OF their neighbors was wrong.
others declined to hear or say any thing
about it, under the conviction that Lhey
had no constitutional right to think or saw
that 1t was wrong to imbrute a man, or 10
Sc your own daughter, or to whip a wo.
man TO death because she pined when her
child was stolen from her Still others,
and the larger number, care nothing about
the matter, except heartily to denouoce the
AboliIlonists as incendiAries, aud fratar-
nize with 'the genilemanly and high
toned outherners"-meauiug slAvehoId-
ers. The general feeling was that moth
ing could be done, even if it were a bad
thing, and therefore it was fast becoming
the fashion TO declare that it was q good
thing
AG 1AAuShS tEOuOISS opened tQe eyes of
the great mass OF the people to the fact
that the system was the direct rival of
every free settler in the country. The
question added a material argument to its
moral appeal, and from that moment the
overthrow of slavery WAS fixed. But under
the Union its extinction would be peace
tu! Consequently, as a last desperate re-
source, its chiefs tried war, counting upon
the umidity of trade and the party orRani.
zation OF the free States friendly to slavery.
Both failed them. Every day, from the
18th of April, 1861, it has been clearer to
the American people that slavery is the
enemy of their industry, of their trade, OF
their peace, and of their Union EverV
day We have been moving nearer and nearer
to uuanimity in opposition to it, however
We might differ about the method of end
ing it. The most nuprincipled newspapers
aud politicians see the inevitable and ire
sistihle current OF eveats Even James
Spence, the rebel agent in England, does
not dare to face civilization and plead the
cause for which the rebels are fighting
their fellow -citizens, and massacring the
uobleet youth The war is the fierce
denth-struggie of the monster, and who
ever would end the war will strike q the
serpent. Men OF all parties, of all policies.
OF all convictions upon other subjects, re-
peat the cry which long and long ago
peaied majesticalIy from despised lips: III
Is the commou enemy. Let it die the
death =