The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-17

MR- JOHNSON GlN HN SVHN "a A4'9
usual and inevitable veto yesterday,
bp: " IL! do 80 CA Thursday. In the
ne,r. ilne Congress sereneIy awaits its
sarc .rauce in order to Pu; it through
the two-thirds machine, a process that
tax. = nova davis only about i've min
ute. Johuson's vetoes are the only
Oh, s,p things in the market these times.
10 the language OF the pork dealers.
y .ev are " heavy, dull, and neglected.
tbs Richmond DLspdtet processes TO
%, reconstructed paper, and would
even call itseIf"Ioyal" we suppose, and
We, :hr, old pro slavery virus shows
itself whenever good opportunity Of
ters. In its issue Of Monday it COM
ruance- an article thus:
our gooi friend Governor PeirPoint
ia NirgiuiAu by birth, yet he is as
genuine specimen OF the Puritan as If
he hsd been born in Massachusetts.
FL. believes in making slaves OF all
Iu-u " hose skins are white. he Is OPP
posed to negro slavery for some reason
~ other. We know not why; but as TO
the whites. ne holds very different
views. Iiihey do not know when they
teaching .hem; and as il is plain TO him
zr,- H.. people OF the south would have
been ruined II they had succeeded IN
gaining their Independence, how
ever desirable thRt result may
have appeared 70 thein, ne hs
ms letter which he has Just written
.F,t II vraz for that reason nothing out
--,at that Uncle sam did not let them
-. NJ Tor themselves. This : the usua!
argument OF the whole Tribe of Pun
:sa--tEey not only wish 10 do as t. ey
pleas. themselves, but wish 10 compel
ey-ry body else 10 do a. they please
The foregoing remarks are part OF a
preface 10 an argument intended 10
snow that such men a. the Governor
have hem the zeal enemies Of the
negro race. in having brough; about
,n-lr emancipation. The argument IS
made sGs! This fashion:
Thomas Carlyle SAYS that the laboring
classes q England would be much bel
Ter cared .gE u. Ike the IA; cattle and
E.- l.r--s which be -=.-> ever y here,
:a-v were the property o; the o" n-E- OF
.z- -gs. John Rl=kin has come out IN
..N1E g. a system which seems to u 10
Be- 1ll- another zane for slavery
TEotr,-- J. Dlrsnt, the notorious Lou
ss,suA Radical OF inAt name, made
,rescl n SeE York last week, IN
when ne CJQJsuded that every form OF
tssIHpu .-pry laUor-sDd in this ds>cTip-
I.sr lie included all IA Dor done by men
VINO either had to DO il or do worse
y.sS species OF slavery.
The reader viii 80 that this Is the old
,.7-u-oy.- argument OF slavery and Sc
,es,ton over again Every stEaw is
,,auEa; At now TO msSs, II posi-
rEe. ;le auIec-ient= oftL- rebell!o-re-
spectacle. The ownership Of labor was
one Of H. cardinal saurciat!ors- 50
:zr =. regards the principle OF ;hsi
ownership. white men and negroes
..oot n essentially the same category.
Tnelr c1.Ur made no real, but only a
conventional! and unnatural difference.
Indeed I was q dogma OF very general
4ccep- stiou and authority s. the South
rhat lst,ar should % owned-ibai free
society was faiIure-ihaI slavery was
a normal. not an exceptional, condition.
..We nave 90. TO hating everything
fro said the Richmond ESGm'Her
some years ago. slavery IS the
s.on- that the builders rejected"
aid NJ. Alexander stephens in
his inauguration speech at Richmond
in ISL. but it "has now BECOME the
head OF the corner" That was his idea
of tie new era-it was the Southern
ides-:he Richmond DispGtch idea-and
il was the central impulse of the rebel
lion. For-ooth, because Governor Peir-
point. and such as ne, did not accept
,nat dogma at the time, and because
t.sv do not now assume the status of
rrrantau: errorists and confess to
having been at fault in OPP
posing slavery and the owner
snip Ijea-they are Puritans-
Observation-Disclosures and des-
po.s. That is the DL.pateh logic. They
had no business to oppose slavery, no
more than they had to oppose the rebel
lion. and notwithstanding the two
were overthrown and are now SO uni
rs-.aliv execrated by civilized men
everywhere, yet, still for all, we who
triumpned are in the wrong and
opIy show our fanaticism in persisting
that q.a were right, and in attempting
u make z God that idea.
Let the Dispatch rest assured that
tina, persistence will be maintained
clear through to the end, until every
rebel ofits school shall bow the knee to
,be free instead Of the ownership idea.
People who talk at this late day, as it
does. are not fit TO be trusted with self
government. They need Puritans to
govern them. The lesson they have
vet to learn is that the barbarism of
Southern civilization. as it existed be-
fore the war, with all its ideas and con-
ceit= in re,ard to its own and other
peoples superior and inferior capaci-
ties, is henceforward TO become not only
subordinate but extinct.
THE philosophic Snowman and hu-