Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-24
STANDING Committees.

turnpike except upon principle OF barter is rahy
confess stranges OF the many strange political
phenonena which daily called upon 10 witness
the Western Democracy are to gain from the prine
pies of 9s and 49, they do with the who
boldly avoy did Mr. Montague the Democratic Eiecor
OF the District that their objection TO the Wing
PLATFORM compr omse is that recognizes the final
ty Treases I'd who VIGOROUSLY regard the srea:
Compromise settlement adjustment which they merely
Ge9uesre who ready at the first opportunity to
the Nashville convention resolutions OF the Vir.
gna Legislature ard empty resolutions could effect 1t,
would the Union atoms for the sake OF abstrac
tion; they gain hanging bndly to the skirts
their Eastern leaders, contrary 10 their own interest,"
and the the country, cannot for
ascertain. I." . ~ .E ...
Instead OF legisatng for the lettering and de-
velopment of Virginia, our Eastern Democracy
meet and discuss Federal relationships high sound
ing and empty resolutions on resistance at all "haz-
ards and to the last extremity and them when the
very act is passed on which they had planted their
opposition they ignore the whole matter and sink
down into the most commendabie state OF dcquies-
eenee.. The people of the West want action
They wish TO see the mighty of their hills
and mountains rendered accessible by the help of
permanent and vigorous improvement. Theywant
market, they want roads, they want adequate
protection 10 the products of all portions of the
Eastern idolatry, to the party and prncipleawhich
lead them backwards, which promises nothing and
does nothing, which favors nothing and opposes
everything, which has done nothing in its whole
history but legisate distractions and slumbcred
over the memories of the past. .na .f.l
Another and better day is approaching. The
stalwart sons Of the West, just einancipated from
the shackles of servitude in which they have been
bound from the declaration of Independence to
the year 1851, are up and acting. They must act
for themselves il they would act wisely and if they
have their new won liberties profit and avail them;
they must beware lest they find themselves free
by the constitution and still more than ever the
slaves and puppets of their Eastern task-masters
upon questions affecting the great Federal contest
of the country. Eirsinians for who are such i'll
fact and not in name merely-who desire the
advancement of your State and of the Union, who
desire that Virginia shall again march to the front
ranks of progression, and renown, and look down
again from the proud elninence she once occupied;
do your duty in the coming struggle. Fetter not
yourselves blythe miserable shackles of party names
or association, but look when you vote to the well
fare OF your State and your Union and to selfish
end or party purpose. Act thus, and November
next will constitute brighter era in the history of
Virginia, than has yet been witnessed, for il
will be the epoch of her disenthrament from pre-
JUDGE and party aims and will be the bright day
on which her sons determined for themselves TO
take their stand upon the broad platform of i'm
provement, of equal protection and perpetual
Union. ='T!i Il