Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-04

his Toice will ring out clear the ASSURANCES
Of his high purpose to continue stsadfast
the work upon which he entered four years
ago, and be viii say agsin in the language
Of his lass message, that another aud not
he, must be the one to take any backward
step.
We can hardly believe the evidence of
our eyes when We reed the Richmond pa
peFs nowadays. Their articles are so
changed. We are carried back to the pal
ny days Of theNSS York Tribune and Gar
TfSoH'S Li6yatOr, aud We recall the ancient
attacks Of those sheets upon the institu.
ton. Who expected. aver to see so strange
3 sight as the Richmond editors, with whom
slavery four years ago-three years ago
two years ago-wss eVerythiOg-the alpha
and omega-the pearl Of great priee-the
one thing altogether loTely-Actually. in
Weighing against the effect and tendency of
the institution upon the minds Ofthoss who
are pecuniariIy interested in it. Little did
We suppose that it was ever IL reserve for
rs to read in tho Richmond Enquirer HON.
lily upon homiIy showing that the South
could be and would be great and powerful
under system of emancipation, and that
sitter all the duels and street fights at
Washington and throughout the South
growing out Of uusoundness upon the
goose question" We should read fervent
essays from the scions of chivalry
and slavery urging the fsllacy of
any and all peculiarly in the "ps.
cUliar institution" 1t seems now that
there is no saoredness in slavery-thst its
divinity is no shield to it-lhat it simply
stands on q level with vulgar tobacco
which every one speWs out of his mouth,
and ignoble cotton which even. the poorest
"White trash" may tread under their feet.
The "corner stone" of the great Confed-
eracy is at this time discovered to be no
corner stone at all. It is but mere brick,
and hardly that, in the Southern structure.
Its place can easily be supplied. Negroes
will not only make good soldiers, bat ex.
cellent field hands with their emancipation
papers in their pockets. 1t is no longer
necessary to believe that the negro is an.
between monkey and gor-
rilla, in order to be- considered orthodox
1t 10 not incendiary to talk Of them as
human beings, with whom liberty and the.
right to own their wives and children, is a
demoralizing concession. "Help me Gas
sius, or | sinkI" is now the cry that
siags cot EVou. RiohmUuu euILors. FuUr
fellowsI We wonder 1t they ever
read what shylock said to Antonio
on a certain occasion when the latter
would "have monies." But yesterday, said
the former, you called meta dog" ia
Jew" aud did "Void your rheum upon my
beard" bat to-day you are all complais-
auce, amiability and concession, because
you would "haVe monies" The immortal
Shakespeare was writing for all the world
and all time when he sketched that picture
of the baSer sort Ct human nature SO
frequently met with in the world. He hit
the Richmond 6re.eaters square on the
head. Only few short months ago they
were the rAmpageous champions, the very
Knights. Grant, of everlasting divine slave
~. Not all Europe, much less the horrible
byeuss of the North, should ever bulge
them an inch from their position. For the
fanatics Of Exeter Hall and Faneuil Hall,
and all the balls, profound contempt was
affected. But how changed all this to.
dsyl They would shave MONIES" they
would have escape from the halter, from
ruin, from sGbjugatiOn, and they are
mean enough and low enough to come
down on their knees aud call on the
slaves, for whose hopeless degradation
and more efFectual EQUALIZATION, they
undertook their rebellion, to join them in
a lAst desperate effort to ward of the ami
hilatiOn now 30 imminent. The world will
laugh at such bObtail Chivalry when /,
comes ont, as come out it will, of this
rebellion with all its feathers plucked, and
ita comb forever out, not because 1t did not
hght long and desperately, but because in
ita extremity it turned on its principles
and was base enough to seek aid from those
upon whose necks its heel was proudly
and deaantly set in sCOrn of the Christian
world only four years ago.
IT now appears from the dispatch Of
Gen. Gilmore published yesterday, that
the capture Of Charleston was, as far an