Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-19

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WEDNESDAY MORN: NOVEMBER ls, 1856
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Tnr ArslcAs sIAvr TaADE AsD 1HE Eanayo
AelEATlox foz MS EsTasLI=agEsT. The last
nurnBer Of the chaflestons Is 60 Standard, has
an article upon this subject which, 70 our mind,
Sc quite en- advance upon any thing sEe havese
yerl:pon the subject Its extreme length only
prevents Us from transferring Il . our columns
AS 4 Is, re do not propose review Of II, or of
sssdea5ofing 70 combat rs positions. for we have
TOO fsTcibly bef5rc our mind the known senti-
5fnsnts Of orr people. and Indeed. Of our nation,
outsideof South Gsroiina, and few IRE eating
sections ~ other States We regard It more,
than any thing else, as literary curiosity
IN the same spirit which, We would Eiew fos-
SLICED relic Of a bsrbarcus age Taking the
sentiments Of the Charleston Standard as IN e,.-
ponent. a foreigner coming among Us would be
sstified in setting us down. as a nation Of Por-
sugnese, Spanish or Algerian pirates. for the
spirit and motive by which its arguments arc
piled, are Of that Pizarro or CoFtez character
which lingersdson the dawning Of eisilization.
We notice the article more rtie,ilarly onithe
account of the perceptible growing effect which
il is having upon the Southern press many
Of whom regard It's talk as can't, while many
). others nod approvingiy, and third, and not
IN inconsiderablc. portion, seem standing of in.
dread OF the epithet Black Republican Now,
the way we look upon this matter is on this
wise. The Charleston Standard is as yet, a
newspaper experiment, and unlike its rival, the
Mercury, has not the prestige of veteran-of
being an agitator and formcnter Of disnnion be-
fore, almost, we were fairly recognized by the
world as Union. Modification, from its elab-
crate discussion and adulation at the hands of
the Mercarys through long years, has become
rather a tame subject for that latitude No
doubt in this liglt the Standard sees the matter,
end ambitious to lead rather than to play second
fiddle to the Mercury. BY ringing changes on this
thread.barc subject it has res,irfccted this mon
sterof the dark ages and seeks to gaIyanizs its
hideops features into life, while the Standard
shall become noted rs the adventurous ghoul
that has dared TO exhume It. Such IS our can
did opinion Of the Standard. But there IS one
passage in The article which we will quote, and
a.ss'. ,tvsitss istlsi
There may be questions among ourselves AZ to
the policy Of re-cpening The slave trade, but the
e. trade is not opened by the removal of the
restriction in the act Of Congress = Nov, we
mark this, for it isof the same school and motive
IS the repeal of the Missouri Comp
Senator'S Douglas and Dixon did not want the
TERRITORY Of Kansas mol II was the principle.
the mere barren abstraction they were after
That was the kind of talk we first heard about
the repeal, when Il was, as it were in a nascent
state The next step was 70 do away with the
principles Of Henry Clay aud the beneficial inn
preston which they had created, in which he
had taken the grounds that Territories, as such,
were free soil, and only through the legislation
of sovereign State, created from them, could
be anything else. Just IN. the sas,s polite and
cautious manner, is this question put forward,
md the risk of public opinion taken The
time may come, although VIC hardly believe it,
when thoss presses and tho men who oppose
this measure, VIII be branded as Abolitionists
and Black Republicans. The time was, when
Inen in our national Legislature, could stand up
and laud the Missouri Compromise when the
new lights Of recent notoriety We'd with yeter-
ans in praises of the measure, and tho men who
had negotiated il If this Slave trade measure
gets any hold at al, it viii bejust in this man
ner, by seeking TO brand good and patriotic men
with some dercgatory epithet.
But we leave the further consideration of this
subject to our contemporaries, merely adding that
not unhl our country is prepared and willing
fprlthe actual trade ilsclf-not until the mist
of the dark ages again envelopes us, can this
gaunt, siekly abstraction, which the Standard
suggests, be established
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THE GasAr WgsTEss SraKE--The mechanics
of the Great Western Railway, in Canada, have
followed the example of.the Engineers of n. Y,
and Erie Railroad, and arc now on strike
Their grievance is that Mr.. Stephenson, the
master mechanic in the shops at Hamilton, was
arbitrarily discharged 1t is a matter of less in.
terest 70 the public to know whether Mr. Ste
7phenson has been injured, than to have. one of
the great thoronghiares OF travel blocked up
This spirit Of concerted action, in large body
ofnen, 70 revenge the wrongs, fancied or real,
ofone Of the number, is wrong. This strike ON
the Great Western, so soon succeeding that ON
the New York and Erie Railroad, shows that the
spirit is spreading and those roads, which, for
a temporary purpose. encouraged the strike ON
the Erie. may soon have the same difficulties to
contend with.
SrNkES Wan yEssEIs AT SEBAsroPoL, no BE
RAISED ny An AMERIcAs-John E. Gowen, Esq.
of Boston, who is now in Russia, has just enter
ed into contract with the Russian Government
70 rinse the ships of war and other vessels, ffty
TWO innutnbcr sunk in the harbor of Scpasto.
mol ut the time of the sien,e IL will no ra,,,a,