Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-29


come from Europe, We were turned again to AZ
rica, and the minds of men were further forced
10 vibrate between the alternatives Of perpetual
Dependence on the slave trade.
And there was sill anothsr step. Men have
been forced to realize that whites and slaves
have been brought together here in unequal and
unnatural proportions A slave society," prop
erly constituted, VIII have neither race in cx-
cess and if left free to FORM there is little doubt
but that the races would come together in natu-
raj proportions. There would be slaves enough
for labor, and whites enough for direction, and
the case would he exceptional IN which the
white man would labor in, competition with the
slave, or the slave direct, except IN s,ibordina-
ton 70 the white man. But as already main
tanned, they have not been free to form.
While slaves from abroad have been kept out
whites from abroad have been forced in, and fill
ling the rounds of employment, open from the
humblest labor to the highest offices of direc-
ton, they have been in the way of pushing sla-
very out. That slaves if free to come, would
have been competent to every emergency of la
Dor, there can be little doubt; but, not being
free to come, they have been too much extend
ed; they have left intersticeS into which free Ia
Dor, by the necessities of the case, has been
forced, and the institution has lost much of its
integrity.
While the South becomes strengthened, there
is no increase Of strength this peculiar feature
OF our society: free labor. in competition with
slave labor, is necessarily conservative of its
own peculiar interests, and it has seemed posi-
bic, therefore, that the fortunes of our constitu-
ton may be determined by class who have no
direct and legitimate connection with it al
ready, in some sections of the country, it has
become more popular to talk of whipping the
North than advancing slavery; all have common
cause Ill the one but all seem not to have per-
ccptiOn of common cause in the other and
while the interests of the country sustain the
South, and point TO magnificent career of ma
tlonal prosperity out of the Union, if not in IT,
they do not point to the Integrity and advance
ment of our own peculiar form of society.
10 obviate the evils of this unnatural condi-
ton has become the object fevery serious in
terest, but it only can be accomplished by an
increase of slaves. With this every interest
would be harmonized; there is no white man
who would not engraft his work upon the labor
of the slave, if the slave could be had so cheap
rs to allow him to do so to advantage; but with
out this, the evil must increase, and those who
believe in slaycry-who have confidence in its
efficiency and order, and who would preserve
and perpetuate it to the great objects of its
achieYement-are constrained to look for the
remedy which the condition indicates, and these
again are forced to vibrate between the alterna-
tives of social dsintegration and the slave trade
AT every step of reaction, therefore, we have
been met by difficulties which only find solu-
ton in the measure I'VE propose. 10 preserve
equality in point Of States, to recover equality
in representation; to have any share, in fact in
federal legislation, to demonstrate the efficiency
of our institution, and turn the tide of CONNER
cial power from the North, and even to preserve
the integrity Of our own peculiar system of So
ciety, there has seemed to he the necessity for
opening up again the stream of our foreign la
Dor. As with every other stream the channel
points us to its source; the reception OF so much
has fixed us in the condition of receiving more
If our society is to flow in perennial current