Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

(From the New Orleans Delta.)
Negro Slavery is the conservative element of Republicanism, and the firmest basis of society in these United States. This truth the thinking men of the North recognize at this moment. They begin to see that the knell of the Union and of national republicanism was sounded when bad, or ambitious, or bigoted men in the North declared slavery to be sectional and not national, and weak men and selfish politicians in the South, anxious to preserve a Northern connection at any price to the South and the country, bowed to the sentence and only craved for mercy.
Such being the social and political value of slavery, its diffusion and extension are of the first importance, and nothing, at the present time, should more nearly interest the wise philanthropist and the patriotic statesman than to devise measures to effect these objects-to restore slavery to its original national character, and make it an object of political solicitude.-
We cannot avoid looking with jealousy and suspicion upon any political combination in the South which does not flatly commit itself to these views.
We have heretofore pointed to the measure of negro exemption as one highly favorable to the objects just named, to-wit: the diffusion and extension of slavery, and the consequent consolidation of the slaveholding interest. One other measure we are in favor of, though we fear its announcement may throw some of the "ancient fogy men" into almost epileptic consternation.-- Nevertheless, we shall announce it, and here declare that we not only desire to make territories now free, slave territories, and to acquire new territory into which to extend slavery-such as Cuba, Northeastern Mexico, &c.-but we would re-open the African slave trade, that every white man might have a chance to make himself the owner of one or more negroes, and go with them and his household gods wherever opportunity beckoned to enterprise
But the North would never consent to this; they would dissolve the Union rather than grant it, say the croaking impracticables. Gentlemen, you do not know the North, oracular as you look when dubiously shaking your heads. It would not oppose any more bitterly a large demand like this, boldly made, than the smallest one faintly and politely urged. Try it. There is nothing to lose by the experiment. At all events, if the attempt to re-open this trade should fail. it would give one more proof of how injurious our connection with the North has become to us, and would indicate one more signal advantage which a Southern confederacy would have over the present-heterogeneous association called the Union.