The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-11

Though war has wasted hundreds OF
millions of treasure and accumulated
u large national debt, it will Indirectly
increase our wealth. 1t has checked
our extravaganza and indolence, awaE-
ened new energy and enterprise, and
induced greater effort and economy.
i These will more than compensate for
the loss occasioned by war. Our debt,
though large; is small when measured
by our ability to pay it.
i War has determined the status of la-
Dor IN this country. With FREQ COM
pensated labor we shall. soon be the
wealthiest nation in the world.
we are strong in the 7ned1ls Of defence.
j we nave an army unequaEEed by that
! OF any other nation, and n nnvy that
1 could sweep the fleets of all other ma
4 dons from the ocean.
But the power of q nation does not
! depend on her numbers and wealth,
and armies and navies, but on her IN
tetttgence and ViFttte. knowledge is
power" Virtue is omnipotenf 3
T. The stroke of war not only 8 iffet7
the chain that bound the limb 40
struck the fetters from the mind and
nnsealed the fountain of knowledge to
| the ignorant millions of the South. It
IS no longer crime to teach them to
read; and everywhere the people read
and think as they never have before.
There will be less crime. Political cor
ruption will not prevail as formerly.
The people will ask of their candidates
for office, "ls he honest, is Incapable,
IS lie loyal? Tho CrtIelties to our OPP
pressed are ended. Nor will the white
man, the minister, be hung at the cross
roads, and women tarred and feathered
i'll the streets, for opinions sake.
we shall have more homogeneous,
and therefore n more united people.
The Yankee will go South and take his
Yankee notions with him-free schools,
free press, free speech, and all the en-
glnes and implements of his higher
civilizations; and the school house, and
church, and open Bible, the emblems
of his higher Intelligence. and virtne.
And we shall have, not only in fancvI
but i'll fact, a "universaT Yankee ma
tion, believing the doctrines and prac-
tlclng the principles of the Pilgrim
In our great struggle the eyes of the
world have been upon us. The lovers
of liberty and the foes of freedom hive
watched the progress of the conflict
with intense anXiety-the one with
hope, the other with fear. When our
civil war commenced, the enemies of
Tree institutions We're jubilnnt over
what they believed the downfall Of
our, our Soyernlnent. Govern ni they congratulated
each other that "the great American
bubble had burst" They told the
people that this disruption was in the
natural order of things; that republics
could not hope to live. When they saw
that we were not quite dead, they did
what they could to complete the work.
Ihey favored the rebels, subscribed to
their "cotton loan" and supplied them
with clothing and material of war.
%Stand up to it my good fellows. y
Great was their modification when we
trlumphed over treason. Their sorrow
was only equaled by the joy of those
VINO desired our success. The liberal
Journals of France declare that athe
principle of fdemocracy-of selE-Royern-
ment-is Judged, and is heneeforth out
OF the pale of dissensioll- 81 we hnyI,
solved the great problem, Europeans
themselves being judges-lidn Is ca
PdOte Of SeLf-I0rc'7iNle1t. We have de-
monstrHted to the world that there is
one people, Mt least, that can be 90
verned without being enslnved. Tie
nope OF despotS has gone down with the
Great Rebellion. Tyrants tremIle on
their tOttering thrones. The oppressed
ofnl lands take hope. Our success is
the worlds grent Jubilee. Our failure
would have turned the tide of the
worlds progress to civilization aud
freedom, back to barbarism and sla-
very, and put out the light of the
worlds hope in the darkness of utter
and dreary despair. For our success.
ana the blessings resulting from it, we
are indebted, under God, to our brave
soldiers: The nation-Lhe world-owes
tnem n debt of gratitude. Never shall
their names and heroic deeds be forgot
en-. When that flag wns insulted and the
principles Which it tSymboliZes were i'm
periled, they rushed to its rescue and ut
the clnnons mouth wrested ii from the
grasp OF traitors. They have brought
back and unfurled to the breeze olr
beautiful banner, the ensign of our ma
tons glory-and the stars are all there
not one has been pluclSed from its
azure field; but in the night of its hu-
imitation another was added, not the
least brilliant of the bright cluster.
Der the land OF the free and tile home of the
brave" - 't'0
untouched by the traitors hand-un-
sullied by foreign foe.
rms day Introduces, as we have rea-
son to hope, the brightest period of Our
hlstory-the golden age of our Republic
Our government, now free in fact as
well as i'll name, shall throw its aegis Of
projection over the millions who seek
lshelter on our shores, and, iftrue To her
Ppl;I1 PE;lI41clples OF freedom and equal rights,
VIII remain the hope ofthe nations, the
worlds benefactOr and humanity's
friend. With the divine blessing. our
country Will continue to be in the ages
70 come, rs it has been in the past, the
nome ofthe free, an asylum for the op-
pressed, the light and joy of the whole
earth; nor yield its empire and close its
career till time expires, and then 70
dowH with the sun iii its last setting 10
grave of glory.
Letter from Jackson County.
Editors I1teIIigemcer:-
Permit ME TO state to the friends oil
me government, through your exl
Geuent paper, how the loyal citizens of
1nl0n Township, in Jackson County,
w. va, celebrated the 4th of July. The
several Sabbath-schOols in the town
snip agreed to meet together ut Cottage
vile, on the morning of the 4th for the
purpose of general celebration and a
general rejoicing, not ONLY for the birth