Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-14
Wednesday Morning, December 14.
sourH CAaOIIHA lifts up her yOinice

Souri, CAROLINA lifts up her voinice
unison with Georgia, North Carolina and
Alabama, against the arrogance and des-
ootic tendencies of the Davis government,
and this at a moment when her sacred soil
is threatened with invasion by Sherman's
yAndaIs. Resolutions have been offered
in the South Caroline Legislature, (already
published in this paper,) denouucing as
unconstitutional the proposition of Davis
to emancipate the slaves, aud the PROPOSE
ton to abolish sill exemptions from militia
ry service, and place the power to exempt
wholly in his hands, which is declared to
be an attempt to subVert the freedom Of
the press, the rights of citizens and the
sovereignty of the States. The resolutions
assert that the States of the Confederacy
are not Amenable to the Richmond gov
eminent, and advise other States not to
submit to its unconstitutional usurpations.
All this is fat treason against the Rich
mond dynasty. And if it is already true
rs the States which were first to secede
now stoutly protest, that Davis aud his
associates at Richmond are attempting to
subyert State sovereignty and establish a
central despotism, they may well begin to
ask themselves what they have gained by
secession; or rather what they have not
Iost by it. They have certainly sacrificed
the two things for which they rebelled-
State rights and slavery. If they come
back to The Union they must accept the
Union theory of State rights and abandon
their own; if they stay under Davis they
must give up State rights altogether
And as their rebellion has determined
Northern opinion for the utter destruction
OF slavery, and Davis means to free the
slaves and arm them if the Southern
states continue to stand by him in this
revolutionary experiment, slavery must
also go by the board. Practically now,
therefore, the rebel States are driven to
choose between an absolute despotism uu-
der Davis or such State sovereignty as
they have always had under the United
States constitution. Slavery goes by the
board in either case. II they adhere to
Davis they lose the institution in dis
graceful Csusei if they return to the Union
they lose slavery, but save their honor aud
everything else worth saving.
The dissatisfied rebels pretend that the
course of Davis bitterly disappoints
them They did not think he would so
openly repudiats and trample upon the
great southern doctrine of slavery and
state rights. That they are vexed at his
course is credible enough, but not that
they are disappointed. They know him too
well. Why, Davis has been all his life a
repudistor. This is his strong point. II
he is distinguished ia history it will be
chiefly as the great repudiator of the age.
The first public act that gave him aOtori-
ETY. was his advocacy of the reputation of
the state debt of Mississippi, which he car
ried, and by it gained the political power
he has ever since held. His great act of
treason in 1850 was a reputation of the
constitution and government to which
he had sworn allegiance and which had
crowned him with undeserved houors.-
Since his accession to power in the con.
federacy he has broken faith openly
with his own subjects with as little com
junction as he did with the government
He raised an army of volunteers for on,
year, and then all who would not re-
enlist were compelled to remain an,
serve for the war. His next act of repudi
alton consisted in cancelling the exemp
lions paid for at his own price, and forcing
also into the ranks those who had alresd
furnished substitutes. When the pape
money of his government became so album
dant as to be nearly worthless, he had al
act passed by his Congress to repudiat
one-third of it, and to compel the peopl
to accept for two thirds it's nominal vaIu
confederate bonds, the interest on which i
payable in the Same old worthless notes
while they are not receivable for taxes
Now, having drawn the South into hope
less war and brought it's people to tn
verge OF destruction, under pretense of Sc
curing to them their cherished theory q
States rights and their pet institution @
slavery, he sets himself deliberately to re
pudiate and destroy both. Well may Sout
Carolina cry out, In shame and indignation
against such treschery. And well may al
rebeldom begin to ask if it is not the acm
of folly to destroy themselves and thei
idols too in order to demonstrate their Low
for the idols.
WHAT THE Rebels ABS Dome PoLIT1cALt,
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