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

submefge no ifee lnstitunonB and raise
up no Oppressive ones, We establish no
strange edicts. We leave the South all
their liberties. No foreign court IL TO eli
among them. No soldiers Of foreign equip.
ment SsSe'to be etationedA in their midSt,
No yoke Is topbe thrustinpoh them. 1tis
not as when the SSSons were forbidden to
speak their mother tongue; It ts not az
when the House Of Hapsburg told the peo-
pie of Hungary that they must speak Ger
man and not their own native language.
Their own courts remain;' their own legis.
lathres remain; their own civil procedure
remains; their own people are to be their
own magistrates. They are as free to day
as New England, And fb-meFroW, when
The old fiag again stands ioaihg in beau ;
ty, It will be.a symbol sof libsrty just 90
much in Georgia and Alabama as In Mas
sachhBeRts and dinN NeIEYofk.fT There 10 TO be
the imposition of no foseign bondage, no
penalty moi odiousAuthoritN no badge Of
seryitude. And tsit possihl rpder snch cir
camstances, for men 20 90 on from gen.
Grafton 70 generation burning with hidden
fires Of hatfed2 One change only has taken
place. Slavery Is ended, But for the
South TO hold a grudge against the North
fbk that, Ia as Il one should strike the sur
geon who had taken of cancer cleanly
and thoroughly. Isit to be supposed that
when man wakes without disease or dis.
tnrbance Of body, he will be more irritable
in health than he was In sickness. In ten
years the destruction of slavery will be the
most popular event In che history of the
South! 1T will put au -end 70 . class Of
despotism which was just beginning TO be
felt. For, let me tell you, while Southern
statesmen have had . certain ambition to
control the g0yefnment tNandg the continent.
this was not the first form oft. Those
who are most intimately acquainted with
Southern society in al It's parts, are we'll
aware that it was needful for the slave
holding class, BY some exterios antago-
nism, to keep their people from TeVolting
and destroying them and theirs. They
have long feared the rising up of the COM
mon people in Indignation against class
despotisism based on slave property p
When, therefore, though 1t be by the sword (,
slavery is destroyed, If olass-despotism it.
self is destroyed, the change addresses
itself to the enthusiasm of the common
people in the South, aud raises them to an
influence which. when once IL is fairly
tasted by them, they will never forego.
REoRxRRAF1vE POWER OF ImBRTY,
am one Of those who believe in the re-
generative power Of liberty. All our cal
culations based upon the past must needs
be false; and all the calculations of stran-
gers that look into our attaira without an
intimate knowledge Of what popular libet-
ty does for q people would be false. For.
the moment you give 70 the South real
popular liberty. and sOour il dean from
the foul taint Of slavery; that moment you
have regeneEated her, and brought her into
that condition of health ID whiehTin spite
of herself, she must be in sympathy with
US, because her iateFests and ouFs ara re-
It may be asked, "what about the recu-
perative power of the North and the South
after tliis terrible drain of war;" AS TO
their reeaperatioui iu'the e-matter Of popula.
tion, already our population is as great az
it was when We went into the struggle, by
reason Of natural increase, and that mira.
ole, emigration, Never before did men
emIgrate into a. craterl bnt such is the
unbounded confidence Of the common peo.
Pile in the safety and prosperity of the tree
North, that during q most terrible civil
war they have poured unexampled num-
bers into our midst, and raised our popula-
ton, so that We are as populous after four
years Of conflict, as we were when we
went into It. Our armlea may not -he- as
populous, because wedo not draft foreigu-
ers; but our work dslds has not materially
sufered. The South, toe, will receive the
benefit Of this emigration. As soon as
work is honorable in the South, and moi
till then, emigration will certainly seek
Texas and the tier OF southern states al
around the Gulf. just 90 soon as the Ger
man, the SWede, the Dane audPthe French
man find that they arc not humtliated BY
contact with slaves, and that their work Il
not stiRmatisad BY the odium that rests OF
seryile labor, they will seek the southern
states, and the .Southfwill be built up al
much as we are.
PAYMENT OF THR DERT.
Aud as regards the matter of the public
debt, the capacity for the development o
wealth among people SO vast as Ours, g
free, so intelligent, and so Industrious, II
simply inconoeivable. There are men tina
live better than the richest men in New
England; but you may take an equal ex
tent Of territory and not on this globe II
there common people that live ms we'll o.
the New England people do. fyou exceP
some PORTIONS Of New York stRte-Athil
great port where the Nile Of every tOreigI
country overhoWs and leaves It's slime OF
our ground; If you take the vast interior
of the state, the working people live hun
dred degrees higher than theaverage people
of the most favored nation on the globe
We are not accustomed to think ,et that, :,
when political economists cipher will
reference to US, they must take into con
sideration different people from those O.
other nations, and q people acting undel
different circumstance from. those undel
which the people of other nations act ]
political economists judge of us by th'
same rules which they apply TO other peo
pies, they will come to false econclustons.-
1t is as if a farmer who had never raiseS
grass except upon the tops of barren bills
Where he had been able to cut but quar-
ter of a ton to the acre, should undertake
with no other knowledge but that whict
he had gained by experience, to judg'
Of the crops of the people Wht
live il the fertile valleys of the Connect
ont. that overflows and leaves richness ii