The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-11
WHEELING. WEST VA TUEsDAY. MORNING, JULY H. 1866

giving up the contest and emigratine
with his chosen braves to this country
Eof better hopes. Under his leadership
however, the republican form finally
prevailed, so far at least as to be the
ment. When the question was settled
in England by the triumph of republi.
I can principles, the contest was trans.
ferred to, this continent.
\ In the year lG20the May Flower lnnd.
ed on Plymouth Rock IL band of Puri.
tans. Driven by religious persecution
from their own, they sought i'll for,
/ eign land the liberty of conscience they
claimed MS their right.
About heSame time jamestown, Va,
was settled by n company of "neblemen
gentlemen and nerchGnts,' - accompa-
MED by class of menials. These 3Cey'e
representative settlements. On Plymouth
-the germ of II higher civilization than
the world had ever witnessed-a civili-
Zntion in which thought is free, learn
ing fostercd, every mans rights re-
spected-where "labor is compensated
and hOnored"-where the poor find
protection, the oppressed an asylum,
libertyn home, and science and religion
sanctuary.
jamestown produced n race directly
opposite. In the Dutch ships was the
seed of social order radically different
and antagonistic. Here one class of
society was composed of persons des-
pising labor-Of idle and dissolute hab-
its; the other menial race, doomed to
Ignorance and unrcmuneratcd toll
with mo rights which white man is
bound to respect" This system bore
its natural fruit-ignorance, licentious-
ness, oppression, and strife. 1t put
shackles ON black limbs, and padlocks
WhItn Inns CsnunrUnV. -
Virginia, i'll his report to the Privy
Councils i'll 1871, says: 81 thank God
there are no free schools and printing,
presses, and hope we shall not have
these hundred years, for learning has
brought disobedience, and heresy, and
sects into the world, and printing has
diYulged them. God keep us from both. I"
On Plymouth Rock was planted free
dom. AT Jamestown oppTession-here
democracy-t there despotism. These
two systems cannot cO-eXist harmoni-
ously. Antagonistic i'll spirit and pur-
pose, they must come in collision.
Thus, on American soil, is the old
contest, made up of the same elements
OF which it was composed i'll England.
The greatqueStion here, as it was there.
is for supremacy-fOr power.
Plymouth Rock claimed the right to
speak. "All men are created equal.
They are endowed with certain inaiien-
erty and the pursuit of happiness.
''Silence!". cried jamestown. ''Not n
moment" replied Plymouth Rock.
"Shut up or I'll make yOu," demanded
jamestown. As the years passed away
the controversy wnXed warmer. In the
race race for empire, they start. for the Pa
citic. Plymouth Rock outstrips and
plants the standard of liberty on the
broad plains Ofthe West. jamestown
becomes cnraged. They confront in
the national councils. plymouth Rock
out-argues. jamestown grows desper-
ate and appeals to the bludgeon. But
blows would not answer for arguments.
IheX meet at the ballOt-bOX. Plymoth
hock outVoteS. Jamestown, in unEOV-
efnnole rage and passion, unsheaths
the sword, determined to I'ule on. ruin !:
ana, hapghtily spurning every over
tuTc ana compromise, presented his ri
val the single alternative, "sMbnn or
Me." Plymouth Rock, i'll the calm con-
sclousness of the right, replied, "Die If 1
must, ont submit ncUcT lCiL."
Ihey met on the field of blood. Four
yenrs the conflict ragged, and near the
spot where thesecd was planted, james,
town expired. Plymouth Rock has out
stripped, outwitted, outargued, out
voted, outgeneraled and outfought her
ival-overpowered hinl-killed him.
To-day he is buried. No dirge is sung
at his funeral. His Obseuuies are Dor
formed, not with expressions of grief.
but amid the rejoicings ofenrth and the
shouts of heaven. Buried now so deeD,
we hope he will never have a resurrec.
tion, and'may God grant his miserable
ghost may never revisit this land of the
free. fApplause.l
so the great question of the ages is
settled. The ''irrepressiblo COnfliet'' is
ended, in this country, i'll favor of free
dom. me struggle which commenced
i'll the interest ofaristOcracy and for the
extension and perpetuation of Oppres-
sion, has terminated in the triumph of
domestic principles and the abolition of
slavery. The sword was raised to
strike down freedom. The grasp was
firm; the arm which welded it was
strong. The head offroedom seemed de-
fenseiess. The nation trembled. Tho
world held its breath. Never was
there an hour of such intense anxiety.
Never before had the world so much 10
gain by victory or to lose by defent. The
stroke intended for destruction de-
seconded; the sword, touched by Om-
IMPOTENCE, glanced; the edge came
down on the chain that bound four mil.
lions III slavery, cut 1t assunder, and
recoiled upon the head of those who
dealt the blow. Thus illustrating the
truth of the divine word, Ellis mischief
shall return upon his own head, and
his violent deHling shall come down on
This is a day of great rejoicing. The
war is over. The doctrines of the decla-
ration indicated. u Our government
sustained; its brave defenders returned,
and Liberty IS secure in this, her best
retreat. Henceforth this anniversary
Will be doubly precious. 1t is conse-
Grated anew, to freedom as well as in
dependence. While it serves to cele-
brate our deliverance from foreign
tyranny, it will commemorate our
triumph over domestic treason. Here
after when the light of this glad day
greets the eye of the American patriot,
| 1t Will call to his remembrance the
scenes of the Great Rebellion, us we'll
as those of the Revolution, and inspire
him with warmer love for his country,
and greater gratitude to God, that he
gave us men who had wisdom to form
and patriotism to protect so good a go