The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-12-02

egory ofthe Infinite, !" and we suggest
to our friend Judge Thompson, that 1t
shOuld and place in his next edition
I of that valuable work.
THE STATUs.-We would we had the
power OF the lightning to place our
views before the public. We Will do In
/ q few moments what we can.
/ A proportion of our citizens have af-
/ hlinted with the southern confederacy.
They We're among those who held that
Southerntsm and the gentlemen were
synonyms. The North has been COM
/ PEELED from its cold and inhospitable
{ climabe to be busy to rear her money
aud raise support for the people. Is
that degrading? No. If man aids in
the production, OF sustenance, educa-
ton, refinement, he is the MAN. The
writer Of the declaration of Indepan-
dence in saying that men were equal
was as much a religious prophet as
1sa1ah,-as much prophet OF God. Do
you not see that he wasP
/ What Is the difference between me-
the humble editor of the Times and
President Johnson, or Queen Victoria?
Simply that they have more power to
do good than have. What is the diff
ference between me and the humblest
lRborer on the street. Simply that
have more extensive field than he has
and yet il L do not work the power
nave AS wen Us ne docs am less here
after and should be less here than he is,
There are principles founded upon
our organic law which we wish to i'm
press fully. Ceour De Leon, Front De
Beouf Brian Gilbert and hundreds of
others set up themselves as the masters
of chivalry. This was the world, then.
They had no conception that Gerth was
their equal, No man of the Russian
nation who lived as a serf until the
present reign thought himself the equal
of RomanOf. The question is, was he
not if he performed his duty as well in
his spheres? M
nyou will examine carefully you will
ind two facts in our late rebellion
which have been mainly overlooked
LIST. Slavery was an intermediate
cause of the rebellion, not a primary.
The primary runs back for generations
Virginia was settled by Ghe reckless
chevaliers of Charles the lists day,
south Carolina by the HuguenOts and
the same spirit was perpetrRted by both
The memory Of the old instead of the
prospect OF the worlds progress. Per-
Sonal pride, the memory of genera
tions-the bones under ground, was the
original spirit of the whole thing, l
will give something good to find man
among the whole Southern COnfederacV
who feared, in the election of Mr.. Lin
coin any attack upon or injury to
slavery. As we have said it was only
an intermediate element that sustained
the old programme OF the few govern
ing the many, because the few drew
their ideas of social life and the world,
from the past-when the world was half
yea more thanhalf savage and would
preserve that status because they are
determined to impress upon social cir
cles-that youth, strength, beauty, birth,
wealth, exemption from labor, &C.,
should be the governing power, and ali
else was "p0or white trash.'
The tournaments of East Virginia are
intended to foster the past in q feeble
way, instead Of looking to the future
and the great principal of equality.
From an examination of our Southern
files We think much more work is to be
done yet to suppress the real rebellion
and give US a firm, loyal, equal peoples
government. r-a'
We might detail but now only make
suggestions.
Brother Wharton, do you know we're
seriously afraid somebody has been
presenting you with another dozen of
quails-or of something equally exhil-
Grating.