Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-24

| TIER Arnies are 0psrt6rOvss and 1i,.
Persed. N5
Prom the Richmond Sentinel Of the 18Th inst.
Woe te the conquered for ,snb1nission
VIII not bring about peace, nor even in
spgpFste trTcs. Aifsw may submit and
pow tnelr necks to the yoke which, the
iaEhi44ee AsEhi44ee vii impose. 1.-The latter already
assume that iat: State Is ;subiugated when a
G1nln OF tne people agree to reconstruction.
HneneVeTIand wherever this NAV hannen.
cont1scstion, willbegin. Loyal landholders
will be driven from their farms, and Van
kee intruders will occupy them. No mai.
ter whose farmiR coveted, 1t will be easv
to suborn Yankee witnesses and still easier
TO buy mp disloyal Southrous, for they are
oaser and smore vensl than Yankees. IN
prove that the owner ofthe desired prom
erty is untrue tothe North.
Sooni very soon, all thelands of the sub.
mitting States would pass into the hands,
OF Northern landlords. Spies and inform.
ers, lin sWarms, would infest the commuui-
y, eayes-d dropping, searching houses, and
dogging the heels of every Southron, In
the various villages and cross roads Yam
zee troops black.an white, would be sta.
toned to watch, insult and rob the elected
Contederates. The craven spirited sub
missionists would then become hireEnps
and farm hands for the Yankee landlords,
at rates OF wages depressed alike by North
ern cruelty and cupidity, and negro com-
petition These landlords would exult-
lngly and truly proclaim that mfree labor
was cheaper than slave labor" Aud sp it
would.yb be, for they would not paw. in.
wages, to white laborers, taking their fam !.
lilies all round, one-haIf the usual allow
ance to slaves.
All the outcry against slavery proceeds
ttSa4 me- yfSct that "free labor is cheaper
than slave labor;" that in free societyithe;
land holders, house holders and other csp-
italtsts, by starving the poor, soon force
them to work for less allowance than a
humsne master freely comedies to his slave.
Hunger, cold and nakedpess, are as efficient
Physical coercivesa as hickories. Capital,
like master, ommands labor, but is not
at the responsibility or cost of owning it
1t only allows the laborer q portion of his
own earnings, aud q smaller portion than
masters allow their slaves, and hence, and
hence only, free labor is cheaper than slave
labor. p.-
Capital of all kinds is mere instrument,
employed by it's owners to compel the poor
to work, and to pay each other for capital
does not work, is not producer, and all
useful products or values are the results of
labor. The rich throughout free society
are masters without the humane feelings
or interests of masters. All attempts to
remedy the seeming Injustice of domestic
slavery have but aggravated the evil in-
tended to, be cured; for throughout the
world it is admitted, nay it is the boast,
''that free labor is cheaper than slave La
bor," which is exactly tantamount to say
ing. "that the allowance of the slave is
greater than the wages paid, or rather al
lowed the free laborer." But let US return
from this digressiou.
Let not the few dsstardly submissiouists
among us try to deceive themselves, or to
deceiveE others, by pretending that Yankee
rule, after all, would not be so intolerable;
| bpt would be only the exchanging of one
toFm, of political government for another.
Che whole lands OF the South would not
pay the North for the cost or conquest, aud
hose lands, If successful, they are deter
mined to have. Then the Southern sub.
nissionfsts would be reduced to a state of
slavery more degrading, cruel and exacting
han ever before was imposed on hu-
nan being. ..l4.5.g =. s.ala'-'g % 2
ltVe Victis P'-Gwo to the conquered who
sould have 80 terrible fate to endure;
Tut NO also, to the. conquerors, for their
/
hich they Wonld reduce our people, is
II le-which nine-tenths of them would dlnsver
' lduFe. ltThey would take to the bush,
Sea the Jsraelites nnder Moses or Joshua,
u ida part of them under David; like our
'minole Indians; like the Scotch and
slsh 1--WE speak metaphorically, for Scot
I'd does not lboasto of trees or bushes,)
ohaVe never been conquered; ike the
les, the Spauiards, the Circassians, the
tch, the La Vendesns; like all people
abitiug mountainous, or desert, or march
,ntries, -.---,-- 5,.-.
en- our houses, our Enclosures, our viii
yed, and our, fields laid waste. Then
llW to the .couqprersl for then would be-
the hAnditti warfare, the guerrilla war
the lying in,,Waih the AmbusGRde
g. surpfise, murder IN detRil5 assassins.
II tirc in sVery form. 1.4==zszt l--
Ieady much Of our country is rSpidly
q ring up in dense forest; roads have
Pt s.me impassihts -for wheel carriages;
: eat Rpd hogs in large droYes are ruputpg
v! " '6hF Woods aud our fields teem With
&c as, and our creeks and rivers with; fish
~ wild fowl. . The voluntary fruits oi
. 90 sol, added to ostheiresourees iust emu.
/. M y,teds would enable us 10 carry on 9
? g. s;riila warfare almost interminsbly; fol
th4sa resources increase daily, Just as the
: deEe stations Of the Soemysextend.
: ~ our affairs should come to the worst
!. snr tive should not be able to maintain
i lafssi regular armies in the field We would
!, ny EaerrillA warfare, make the South t6t
:, lot toshola Yankee inttdding landlords
4 The Vould be watched. ambushed. AMI