Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-12-17

bush Southern having been sold at 69c, which
is an advance; I,S00 Blu mixed also sold at GA
CSC, and 4, 900 bush new yellow, from Jersey,
at SIC. Oats are unchanged. We quote prime
Southern at lie, and Penna. at 45c. Sales of
g. 600 bush of the latter, old crop, are reported
The markets for Groceries and Provisions are
without alteration, and small business only TO
notice.
Whisky is about stationary at s2assc forbbls.
and 80 Liable for hhds.
Yours, truly, PHTLADELPHUS.
Kansas AS 4 FREE aSD SLAVE SrATE-In q
late number of the Missouri Democrat we find
the above question considered at length, from
which me make the following extract:
Considering Kansas in relation to Missouri,
we cannot hesitate in declaring it is immeasura-
bly, better for US that she should enter the Union
as free State. Every negro in Kansas occupies
| the place of a white labOring man. There are
about twenty-five thousand Shareholders in Mis-
souri, to eight or nine hundred thousand non
Shareholders and If the interests of the majority
| are to BE preferred, no sane man can doubt of
the propriety and justice of our position, or of
/ the advantages which xonld accrue TO Missouri
4 from making Kansas d free State. 1t is not
alone that the negro occupies the place of the
white man, but that The ta=cs choke and wither
the wheat White labor thTiyes hut poorly In
I tue presence oil save laDOf. Inc shareholders
would be benefited TO a ccrtain degree by ma
/ king Kansas a slave State, because it would in
crease the value of their slaves; but what are
! the interests of twenty-five thousand, compared
with the interests of nearly million2 Kansas
as field for white labor for our native asricnI-
turists and mechanics, for the hardy laborers
I from Germany and Ireland, and not : domain
! for any rich aristocracy, is what we prefer, and
/ what every true democrat in the State every
I friend of commerce and industry, should prefer
The interest of one class of the community
should not be permitted like Aaron's rod, to de
\ YOUR and swallow mp every other interest. Let
US Judge of Kansas by California. If slavery
! had been legnlizcd there. the simple act of re-
! moving slave from Virginia 10 California,
I would, according TO Gov. Wise, have q1adrtip-
j ted his value, making him worth five thousand
/ instead of fourteen or fifteen hundred dollars
] With such inducements the shareholders would
4 have precipitated themselves and their slaves
upon the new country, and the very first year,
niggcrs would have swarmed in the mines like
locusts. The young and courageous men ofour
/ own and other States would have TO compete
in that rich field of enterprise with combina-
| ton of labor and capital, which would have cx-
l Guided them or crushed them, and instead of
young white men winning the lavish treasures
fof California, slave owners, or rich spectators
who would purchase slaves, would monopolize
those treasures The consequences which would
have followed the legalizntion of slavery in Cali
fornia, will, in lesser degree, follow its estab-
lishment in Kansas. The few will gain at the
lexpense Of the many, the rich at the expense of
the poor. the slave owner at the expense of the
working man.
1 Taking the agricultural class of Missouri alone,
nineteen out of every twenty who desire to live
in Kansas, would be more benefited by its being
Ia free State. Taking the trading and lnechani-
cal classes, every individual of them except the
negro trader, would be more benefited by its
being free State. Ii is not yet possible to give
an estimate of the gains which the river towns
would derive from the wide market opened to
/ them by free Kansas; nor to form any coniect-
\ urc of the extent OF the trade; Gncluding our
manufacturers with a white population which
| Tor many years muStbe mainly agricultural; and
(which, for long period. must buy and sell in
the cities of Missouri. The merchants, manu-
\ lacturers and mechanics of St Louis. we pre-
sumo, know their own interests, and if they re-
\ gard them, they mustdesire to see Kansas a free
State. 1t is unnecessary to show by statistics
that the population OF free State increases
twice rapidly as that of the slave State; and
thatit consumes five times as much Of the neg
cSsaries and laxuries of life in tho ratio of its
numbers. Every class and every interest, save
one, should pronounce for the exclusion of sla-
very from Kansas. The zeal and perseverance,
Of twenty-five thousand shareholders, make them
match for million. Ono other fact 1t is pro-
per 10 statc Tor every mile of railroad built in
slave State, there three miles built in q free
State. In view of the construction of the Pacific
Railroad from our western boundary, this alone
should determine our voice in favor of PREFER
ing Kansas free. If an adverse destiny should
decree the contrary, some northern rival, armed
with the hardy industry winch characterizcs
our northern brethren, viii rob Missouri of that
great enterprise
| We therefore, say in conclusion, that it is
better for the whole country, better for the
! West, and infinitely better for Missouri. that
l n
an issue, we declare for white men against ne
groes, industry and talent, and for the rights
\ and interests of eight hundred thousand against
those of twenty-five thousand.
TuE NEcRo STANDARDIZATION our ex-
changes we gather the following items, coming
\ from different parts of the country. 1t almost
seems as if a San Domingo era was threatened:
IMPoRTAST IF TRuE.-A gentleman writing
/ from Quincy, over the anonymous signature OF
| Floridian, informs us that a bloody conspiracy
IS now ripening with certain class of the pop
| uatiol of this State, against the lives of our
citizens, and that the development of the plot is
/ to occur sometime between the morning of the
18th inst. and the first day of January next, en-
suing. We frankly confess that we place but
| little confidence in the statement vet such a
thing is possible, and suggests very foscibly the
propriety of organizing an effective police force
in every neighborhood to guard against the i'm
probable contingency. &
The Augusta, Ga, Gonstitutionalist of the
18th inst. also has the following paragraph:
The Patrol La,es-For reasons which are
unnecessary to relate, we particularly call the
attention of the Police of our cities, the Jadges
ofthe Inferior Courts, and the Magistrates Of
the several Districts in the counties OF the State
to rigid enforcement of the Patrol Laws "a
4 word TO the wise is sufficient for them
The Cityof Nashville Tenn, has passed a
N.wran ~s.N,,e IL. =
iassembages and kindred matters This orii-
nanc. ,r. sis.refl tho Afax.c +.t Liz. 81.