The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-20
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of the South If the Confadpracy had
isucceededF 1HIAI' -iH
There are visionary minds which I'M
ngine that we should have had n Heay-
en- upon earth IL 1.-THE Confederacy had
been successful. But that Heaven
have lasted about as long asithe prime
val Paradise. The devil would have
come in with a long tail and three
pronged pitcfiCorE and made short
work of that Eden. In point of fact,
there was strong smell of sulphur
about before the disappearance of the
Confederacy, and distinct marks OF
cloVen feet upon n good many of the
public highways. If ever any Govern
ment apprOXimated n Heaven upon
earth, IL was this country before dfsu-
MON. But the Temper came and inyi-
! That was prohibited, and told us that
we should not die, but be as the gods.
Is he not q liar and the father of lies2
We say that even before the fall of the
COnfederacy the germ of future discord
and confusion had been fully develop
ed. It may not be generally known
that, in the Montgomery Congress,
which elected Mr.. Davis Provisional
President, the contest for the Presi-
depCy was for some time an even one
between him and Mr.. Toombs, of Geor-
! gia. Tho vote was a tie vote, and the
election was finally decided by, Mr..
| Barnwell, of South Carolina, who had
\ cast his vote for Mr.. Toombs, voting
for Mr.. Davis. 1t is true that, in the
! popular vote afterwards, Mr. Davis
| was unanimously elected. 1t had been
supposed that he would select Mr..
BnFnwell as one of his constitutional
advisers. Instead of this, Mr.. Mem
! minger was the fortunate " man
an able financier, who soon engi-
neered the Government upon the
breakers. The friends of Mr.. Barn
I well may have forgiven Mr.. Davis his
forgetfulneSs oftheir distinguished lead
er. But ifthey did, we never heard any
evidence of the fact, The harmony OF
tho first year ofthe Administration did
not last long. Party spirit rs fierce and
| relentless as it ever had been in the
\ United States, soon reared its head.
The Administration, by its obstinate
adherence to incapable men, offended
many; the conscription nndthe impress
mentS eXnsperOted moro, whilst others
alleged TINT Davis, in ottretnliating
for the military executions in the Uni
| ted States, was trying to mike favor for
| himself with the United States Govern
l inent. From these and other causes,
such as the removal of Johnson and the
/ substitution of Hood, the mnn who was
at one time the idol ofthe people, be-
camo the most unpopular man in the
I Southern States. If the experiment
could have been safely tried, he would
have been removed from Office and
another man mnde Dictator. Nay,
\ more; to such an extent hnd personal
disntfection gone, that some of his old
I friends were preparing for reconstruc-
tion, because they had lost NIL conti-
/ dence in the experiment for indepen-
dence. These nre facts which no intel
ligent man in the Southern States will
deny, and they demonstrate that the
Confederacy was born with the seed of
\ death, the elements of dissolution, in its
bosom. The. ferocity of party spirit,
J and the same contempt of law which
I produced the overthrow of the United
States Government in the South, gnin-
! ed strength by exercise, and would, in
n very short period, have reduced the
whole South to anarchy and chaos.
| The ficlcleness that ut one time made
! Davis an idol, and then split the idol
into firewood, could no more have been
trusted for permanency than the luc-
/ tuating waters of the sea. Let us
suppose the Confederate States" to
have emerged from the war triumph
| ant, their independence acknowledge
ed by the United States and the
! European Governments, and fairly
| launched upon n career of indepen-
dent nationality. In the first place
! States would have been only nominal.
| The people of the North would never
have forgiven us the spoliation of nm
Empire. England TO this day has not
for one moment forgotten the loss other
colonial Jewels. But her feelings to-
wards the United States are love and
affection compared to those with which
| the successful ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
Republic would have inspired the
North. England for n thousand years
has scarcely ever been ut peace with
France, even though separated by the
q ksh
have been between two such neighbor-
ing nations as the North and South,
separated by such an act as that of
disuniOn, having different institutions,
antagonistical in every grent interest,
and hearts ranking with the most bit
ter memories? ? We should soon have
been compelled to become nation of
I soldiers-a condition which may suit
the ambitious few, but which is ruin to
general industry, stability, republican
ism, life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness.- But even IL Northern human
nature Is unlike human nature in gem
era, and the North had cherished only
the most Rffectionnte and grateful feel
ings for its own defeat and mortifica-
tiOn, how long could the Confederacy
have held together with such leaders ms
those who upset n Government which
was for almost the whole period
of its history under Southern
u influence p How long. before the
the opposite interests of the border and
Il gulf States would have produced anoth-
er collision nnu division2 The border
States would have been the manuflc.
turing and commercial States, the New
England of the South, and slavery
would haye' gradually been concen-
trnted in the scotton-growing rcgion.-
We should have hnd FREQ Stntes and
slnye States in the new confederncy as
: in the old. Demugogues in each would
have risen to fan tho flames of seCtionh
jealousy for their own aggrandiZetnent
Even during the war it WINS difficult Il
suppress the jealousy of Virginia inlu
ence which was manifested in some o
the gulf Stntes. What would 1t 'lInvl
been when the henecessity of mutual har
mony for MISREPRESENTATION no lOngei
eXisted2 South Carolina would hay,
. led off once more; the gulf States FOL
lowed; secession would have been thu
recognized remedy for every difficulty
between the States and their Govern
| ment, and the consequence would hav,
: been perpetual strife and war between
petty States until human eXistenci
. would have become intolerable.I Is /
: difficult, then, itoi believe that ProYi
denee, in disappointing the scheme o
u Southern COnfcderacy, has saved n
: nom ourselves, and instead of denying
: us blessings and prosperity, hns rescuet
T us from an unfathomable abyss of mis-
s cry and ruinI Ief
4 Acting Assistant Secretary Eckert ha
I informed the agent of the Associate,
Press that the transmission OF dali,
j, lpress reports, to and from, Augusta AM
, Mobile over the military TELEGRAPH
lines, will be permitted.