Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-01-27

contain three millions Of happy human be-
iags. Two ofthese will lie on the western
aud one the eastern side Of the Mississippi.
What patriotic heart expands not. at the
growth OF the Western Satesl The en-
terprising, the vigorous, the youthful, the
athletic, the men Of small fortune. with
rising and happy families are
by thousands and hundreds of
thousands, TO the delightful regions OF the
west. As I iourneyed EDWARDS. last au-
tumn, from ST. Louis to Washington city,
verify believe that met on an average,
one hundrad persons, every day, emigrat-
ING wes'~4rdl Ruddr hssi;h sat on every
face. intelligence and moral vigour beamed
from every eve. The Census of $50 will
give the Western States the majority of
presidential electors, a majority Of both
Houses OF Congress, and Of course, the
entire control of our National Affairs. To
resist this event it would involve the ne
costly Of preventing the revolution Of the
earth upor its axes, of day and night, OF
summer, autumn, winter. aud spring, OF
seed time and harvest, the ebbing and
flowing of the tides, and the running DIVA
ter, and the whole course of nature.
To mourn over it, involves the extreme
folly of repining at the happy lot of Our
posterity.
From the growth ofthis Nation the lover
OF liberty has nothing to fear, because, our
people, from their cradles, are taught TO
be republicans. They are such, as If by
instinct. all those principles which tend to
make them men, are taught them from the
first moment they see the hight. breathe the
American air, aad taste their mothers
milk.
They are not, they never can be, any
thing bat republicans--aud sweep away at
one fell sweep every constitution Of govern
ment among US, aud every republican IN
sdtudon, and we should instantly rear up,
on their ruins, other constitutions, IN all
respects similarto those now in existence
Every other institution would Immediate
" re.appear, because happily every thing
of this sort eliminates from republican
hearts. Having such source coming
from perennial fountains those streams VIII
never fail until the great consummatlon OF
all things. Some fear local iealousles and
party rage. Let such persons attend, as
have done, on the U. States Senate, aud ne
will see before him a citadel OF freedom IN
which are placed the unceasing intrepid
defende. q. liberty From thus lofty
tower, those who occupy it see every
enemy who approaches it. The people
watch the conduct of those whom they
elect, and those appointed by the President
must pass through this citadel before they
rise into power. At stated and short PERI
DDS their conduct isreviewed by this body
sEAz@s
KENTUCKY ANTI-SLAVERY.
Two bills have been introduced into
the Legislature Of Kentucky, both of
which, It is said will pass. One pro-
vides for the emancipation of all slaves
brought into the Commonwealth for sale:
the other prohibits the use of jails within
the State, for the purpose Of combining
slaves for safe keeping. 1t thus appears
that slavery is becoming unpopular in
Kentucky.
Mr. CLAW has recently delivered an ad
dress at Frankfort, before the Colonization
Society at that place. Mr.. Clay speaks
decidedly in commentator Of roofing
out slavery from Kentucky. lie says
The African part OF our population, or
their ancestors, were brought hIther fjrcI-
bly and by violence, in the prosecution OF
the most abominable traffic that ever dis.
oraced the annals Of the human race.
rhav were chiefly procured in their native
country. as captiyes in war, taken, and
subsequently sold By the conqueror as
slaves TO the slave trader Sometimes the
most auocious practices Of kidnapping
we're employed to obtain possession Of the
victims. Wars we're frequent between
numerous and barbarous neighboring tribes
scattered along the coasts or stretched up
on the margin Of large rivers Of Africa.
These wars were often enkindlcd and pros
ecuted for no other object than to obtain a
supply Of subjects for this most shocking
commerce. In those modes, husbands
were torn from their wives, parents from
their children, brethren from each other,
and every tie cherished and respected
mong men was violated. Upon the ARR
val. at the African coast, Of the unfortunate
beings thus reduced to slavery, they were
embarked on board the ships carefully con
structed aud arranged 10 contain the great