The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-13

poin,'s address IS entitled Tine Lost
Cause and after some explanations
As 10 the derivation Of that phrase, he
defines it as follows
Il tbink it was e bad cause, that
ought TO have been lost, and SO viii
I future history pronounce il In9 mo-
IIEes which urged its promoters vas
no; that IzboriDg men or the middle
CLASSES might have greater privileges;
with the exception OF single state,
manhood suffrage was enjoyed by ala
Z the white men VINO we're OF lawful age,
Z and not convicted OF crime twas not
TO elevate the social condition OF the
I uasses Of white people BY extending TO
them q system of general education;
[ for the free schools OF the North were
made subjects Of rid!cUle by the South
ern politician II was not TO lessen
taxation and lessen the burdens OF
government: because TWO standing
armies, Two nsyies, Two sets Of national
officers OF every grade home and foreign,
would hEYe 70 be supported, instead of
one. L Was not on account of high
protective tariff, bsca use the necessities
Of the "Confederacy" would have re-
quired the very highest duties on for
elgu Imports that could have been laid
10 meet the requirements Of the Govern
menf- It wzs not on account OF the
failure Of the Northern States TO execute
The FugitiTs Slave Law" because
the cotton States that inaugurated
the Rebellion scarcely Lost q slave,
except in their own swamps and jan
giles. The leaders Of the Rebellion
had none Of these objects in view.
When South Carolina passed the oTdi-
nance OF secession, ner leading men de-
clared that they had been educating
f! the people for the act for thirty years,
and that If they were not taught then
o - - =
I declared they must have a stronger
Government; the term Democratic"
as party name, Was at once dropped;
the declaration became fashionable
that there was an end offree voting and
free schools, and that Republican Gov
ernmentfwas failure; IL might do for
rude rural districts, but was not fit for
gentlemen TO live under in refined
state of society; 1t had no power to Pre-
serve or Perpetuate itself among the
first acts Of the Legislature OF South
Carolina was one 20 exempt the sons OF
| her first families in her colleges and
universities Fl ON military duties. Vir-
/ ginia passed an act to continue the an
1 Preparations tothe University and Mill
\ tary Institute, and appropriated the
residue of the Literary Fund to mill
tary defenses; thus her statesmen put
/ an end to the encouragement of educa-
| ton among the poor. Those who in
| aUgurated and encouraged the move
{ ment had their minds tiiled with ideas
OF class government, based on the idea
| that capital should own labor, and
those who owned the labor should make
the laws. The exemptions from mill.
tary duty of the large shareholders by
the Confederate Congress, the numerous
details granted by those in power 10 the
rich and influential, and the ruthless
consrriptions of the labOring and
middle classes, all indicate the
object of the leaders; in fact, II
passed into pTOyeTb that IL was "the
rich mans war and the poor mans
| fight" But l need not accumulate
facts to prove the intention of the lead
eTs. De BOtp's ReUieIO, the organ of the
slPyshOlding aristocracy, expressed this
object to be attained by the Rebellion
One of Virginia's mos
gifted and houored sons has declared
since the war, that ait was universe
suffrage brought on the war" L an
aware that these ideas and notions die
not influence the masses in Virgins
who entered and were dragged into tbs
late war, and that, had the COnfederacJ
succeeded, and the effort made to de
prive them of these civil and politica
rights, every leaders, head would have
been in danger of the block, or his bod
of the scaffold. The spirit of liberty
still rules in the minds of the masses
1.-The lost cause" made its tens of thou
sands of widows and orphans; 1t IaiC
waste our fields, and brought penurJ
and starvation to our homes; It sough
10 deprive US of the rich Inheritance o
Z freedom purchased by our fathers;
/. struck ut the life and liberty of the ma
ton. Man proposes; God disposes
Man proposed to erect fabric of gov
eminent whose cornerstone should b.
human slavery; Providence oyerruleC
the purpose, and made freemen OF mil
lions of slaves. The cause died. "Wher
God arose to judgment to serve all tn,
meek of the earth; surely the wrath o
saith the Lord"