Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-09-13


friends. aud a, the work. Fow ~eeks only
remain To do what has 10 be done.
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In the course of some comments on the re-.
cent expulsion of &. NJ. Ciay's abolition pa.
per from Lexington, KY, the Nc9 Bedford
Mercury says
We are inclined To believe that the act. Of
aggression pcrpetmted by the people of Fay
cite County upon the rights and property of
Mr. Clay. ought not To be classed with orii-
nary cases OF popular violence. We believe
the great majority of the actors were really
apprehensiye of-a servile insurrection--thst
they sincerely believed that they, and their
wives, and their children, were in danger OF
butchery 1.-THE hands of the backs--that they
attributed their Instruction TO the paper pub
lished by MIR. Clay, connecting certain acts of
the negroes directly with that paper. Under
these circumstances they Were justified in cal
ling upon Mr.. Clay TO stop his paper, and
perhaps as a matter of self preservation they
might have been justified i'm peaceably sup.
pressing il il il had continued TO print dan
gerous articles, and ii legal address could not
be procured But SO long as a Grand Jury
existed in Fayeite county, they were guilty OF
gross outrage in taking the law into their
own hands-aud after MIR. Clay lowing doubt
less tn his dangerous illness.) had agreed to
stop the paper, they were guilty both of out
rage and cowardice in doing as they did. Had
MIR. Clay been in good health, or even as he
was when first threatened with violence there
is no doubt that blood would have flowed
Accident, therefore, only preserved the city
OF Lexington from becoming hundred fold
more infamous than her citizens have made
her. We consider the suppression Of that pa
per matter oil nogreat consequence in itself
/ We object strongly TO the manner of doing IL
when the id1 could have been appealed to
and if the law trouid not interfere. and il
seemed plain that the paper was foncnting
insurrection and would inevitably lead TO the
indiscriminatc slaughter of the white popula-
ton, we think the people, acting for seli-pres-
ervation, would have been justified in sup
pressing il with the use of as little force as
practicable. But here was 10 appeal to the
law, and no overt act of the blacks rendering
ii unsafe TO wait for the operation of the law,
it was therefore case of violence and out
rage.
These remarks are candid, considerate and
in our view, just. They recognise the exis-
tence of the evil sought To be redressed, while
they condemn, pointcdly and emphatically,
the manner in which that redress was sought
and obtained. They put the case upon its
proper footing and are free from the fana atheism
and random passion which have marked the
comments OF large portion of the Northern
press on this subject.
lnanother part of the article of which this
is an extract, the Mercury says that the tran
sactions at Lexington have shown the true
nature and condition of slavery at the South;
they have proved that slavery sis a terrible
magazine, ichich the least spark may ignite,
and hurt into eternity all 'oho guard It," Out
OF regard TO their own safety, therefore, the
Mercury thinks slave-holding States will
sooner or later abandon this institution With
the soundness of this prediction we have no
concern; but, conceding the fact, that slavery
is such terrible magazine as tits described 10
be, and that the least spark will destroy all
connected with it, is it right or just, perpetu-
ally 10 hnn SPARKS at it, or to establish upon
Its very brink FORCES and furnaces for the Gre a.
ton and dispersion OF these sparks. And are
not the Abolitionists of the North continual,
engaged in this work-not those Simply who
rally under the Abolition flag, but all who seel
to inllame the public mind on the subject o
slavery, and create feelings of bitter and en-
vcnomed hostility against those who are in
volyed in its vast and terribly knotted folds
And 90 they nN ft h56bS put hazard the pea"
we wish e az eo@s n on ns part pa 10
SOUTH Were more general with the Northern
Journals. 1t could not fail TO moderate tn
ieeiing which has become ianatical, upon thi
subject, and lead the whole community to
more iull fair and effective consideration O
, the whole subject 1t would lead to a NOR
t general understanding of the sensitiveness O
the south, with regard to the movements O
5 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. very Justly charac
teTised as hurting sparks at a terrible magazine
I winch carnes death and destruction in It's hos
e som. If we can allowably forget that TN
: e'ates-exposed to this direst of all calamities
l are members OF the same national body will
ourselves, that they can suffer no injury O
wrong winch will not likewise touch us yer,
!, nearly, and that in their destruction we shout;
also run the hazard of ruinous commissions
'hat common humanity, which with man,
ranks so lar above simple patriotism and love
OF country, should incite us TO more fair es
innate OF their condition and more caution
aud prudence in our attempts to reform thei
institutions.-N, J, Cour. and Enc.
SUDDEN DEATH.-Mr. David Hender