Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-11

A CAPITAL JoKE.-Our friend of the Pittsburgh
Dispatch INDUCES in furious anathemas against
Congress, Virginia, and good many very reSpecta-
bic people on account of the late Bridge decision,
and even ntimates that disunon is preferable to the
continuance of the Bridge! Hear him:
We properly regard it another aggression and
triumph Of the Slave Power. For example, 1t is
suggested that the most material advantage secured
to Pennsylvania by the Federal compact was the
protection of her commercial nights and interests
BY and under this same compact Virginia IS pro
tected in her slave property and her commerce; I'M
der it she claims and exacts the right to hunt, and
seize, and carry away coored persons found IN our
State, whom her citizens may even pretend 10 OWL
as slaves the oaths of hired peIurers being all sui
ficent TO convert free born colored man OF woman
of Pennsylvania into property, which we must sur
render, without privilege of habeas corpus or irial
by jury. What is secured to us IN return ior these
priyileges of the Slave Power-theSe peculiar ad-
vantages which no other class of property holders
have ever dreamed of demanding What is our ex-
change for making ourselves the hounds oil the Save
hunters-permitting them TO swear our citizens INTO
slave property while all testimony OF theirs or their
friends is to be taken for naughtf Do we ieel that
we can safely rely on the legal tribunals OF the
land? Not at all Virginia bridges our rivers
the Liquid highways of the great West-whereOy
we carry on our commerce from Pittsburgh TO The
Gulf of Mexico; compes to give up our most I'M
portant interests, our steamboat and ship building
and our steam commerce; and when we appeal 10
the Supreme Court of the United States for redress
when that Court solemnly and carefully consid-
ers and decides that her bridge is an obstruction
and nuisance which must be abated, her Legisla-
ture mutters notification, her citizens openly
threaten it, and finally she appeals successfully 10
the Congress of the Union to nulify that decision
of the Supreme Court-.to mock and spurn, ano
give the lie to its Decree and declare that very nul-
sance a post route and a legal structure, which
shall stand in despite of the decision of the highest
tribunal of the land
Are we but bondmen of the Soulful Ale they by
the compact TO obtain all they claim justly or un-
Justly, while we must submit to every outrage and
indignity? five look in vain TO the Supreme Court
for redress-if every petty town of every slave
State on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers may bridge
and obstruct them and look to legdh=ation OF the
nuisances from this precedent of the Wheeling
bridge case, what have we gained from the FEEDER
al compact? We are more able TO protect ourselves
against foreign invasion internal sediton, than
any slave State in the Union-than all combined
for they are themselves at the mercy OF hating
internal foe, WHOM we las they even aimit) must
aid them to keep in subsection! Mustwe give all,
and receive nothing? Are SO degraded, that
not only political Platforms but our dearest
commercial rights are to be held as favor at the
permission of few hundred thousand lnsoicnt
slave holders, our liberal mastersl If this be the
price of peace and Unon-if only by these mean
sacrifices appease the insolent power when
has ruled this land so long-better that dlsunlon
occur to-morrow-that we shake of this 'Old Man
of the Sea- at any risk!
All CANNON, friend Foster, perfect CANNON, sir
In the first place, Bridge does not injure sim
gle interest of your state. In the second place,
our peacable, law-abiding citizens, Gas they GER
tany are,) never threaten notification on any sub
ject, and little about your sable friends, as
they do about the favor of mock philanthropists,
the worst enemies of the blacksi) and in the third
place, they have not the remotest idea that either
the Union Bridge, will ever dissolved by
such fustion.