New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-01

projecting portion Of Virginia which interyenes be
tween Pennsylvania and Ohio is di7ided into three
Countits The ,nallest one Of these is Ohio County
10 which s Wheeling To .he Forth Of lies Brooke
county, and t. the west Marshall County. Brooke
County, by the last ceSsus, in total population o.
5,05i, had 81 slaves; Ohio County in total pop
ulatidn Of l. OOa, had l64 slaves; aud Marshall
10 total of 10, l39, had 80 slaves; nor in the
Counties of Tyler, Monongaa and Marion,
which adjon Marshall County on tae south,
is the proportion Of slaves much more con-
siderable. twill be seen from this that the number
OF sIsvehclders In tAs City Of Wheeling and tn.
County of which it form, part, can hardly exceed
two hundred PersOns-eyen making liberal al.
lowance for wherein one slave is cut up and
distributed smong a Iumser of part owrers. And
yet it appears th,t this small number Of slave
holders are complete lords, masters and dctators
over the City Of Wheeling, so much so as to be
able to break up and disperse Fremont meeting
recently attempted to be held-the principal per-
sons concerned in it being put in danger Of their
lyts, and one Ofihem severely wounded.
1t will be seen from this that the slsveholding
reign Of terror and absolute domination the non
slsveholding citizens does not at all depend on the
numerical force Of the shareholders. Few as they
are in Lumbers in that part of the State, they are
enabled to dOmineer and to dictate what political
meeting, may or may not be held, by means of
large body Of dOughfaces among the non-slavehold-
ing populstion, whom they employ as dogs to worry
everybody on whom they may wish TO set them The
proportional number ofslave-Owners resident in the
City Of NewYork and of slaves owned BY persons
VITO reside here is probably much greater than in
The City OF Wheeling, and if they should succeed By
tie help OF the dOughfaces who suarl and bark st
theii back in once fairly thr0ttl:ng TIE Republican
party, ard in establishing thenseve. ia the unds-
pukd possession aud control of tbe Federal Gov
eminent, we may expect soon to see things done
here, and in every other Northern city, similar to
what hss lately been dore in Wheeling. II is not
to be expected that the shareholders would be any
more lenient to US, or any more moderate in their
demands Of US, than they are in the case Of their
own resident citizens. A meeting OF supporters Of
Fremont-sny meeting of men who are opposed to
the extension of Slavery, no matter which side OF
the Ohio River it is held-s alike hateful snd deest
able in the eyes Of the Virginia shareholders; and
had they but the power, would they not stimulate
the Five Points mob to break up Fremont meetings
in WORK They would be 4ss as prompt to do
1t here as they are in Wheeling.
Nor 10 this danger in which we stand matter Of
conjecture or probability merely; it is a matter of
fact and of history. Twenty years ago, when the
Apli.Slsyery sentiment was very weak, and dough
lacelsm was decidedly in the ascendency, precisely
the same sort of thing was done here in this city
and in numerous other places at the North, which
has recently been done in Wheeling. At that time,
leading doughiace politicians strose to recommend
Themselves to slaveholding favor b. showing them
selves ready TO go all lengths in favor OF suppress
ing oil discussion of the Slavery question.
learned Judge of Massachusetts expressed the
opinion from the bench that all such discussions
were ssdiiou., aud might be indicted at COM
mon Law; and the Hon. Edward Everett, then
GOve nor of Massachusetts, advised tae Legislature
to back up this asserted common law by the enact
ment Of apecisl statutes. But it is not necessary
t. 90 bick 40 far az this, or to persons holding
official sta'ons for il is only two or three years ago
that Capt. Rynders and the Empire Club took II
upon themselves TO break up ard disperse one OF
the annual religious and charitable anniversary
me etings in this city on the ground that the dis
cussions allowed at it were of a character danger
Gus to the Union
We may easily foresee from what has happened,
wha! may happen again. Should the slsyeholders
succeed in breaking up and putting down the
Republican party-that object in which they find
such earnest and devoted assistance from many
douehfaces among us-the ffeemen of the Northern
States might expect to find themselves speedily
crowded down into the same degradation Of mis-
cradle servitude which now prevails at the South,
where any man who presumes to attend Fre-
mont meeting is liable to be mobbed or murdered
and where tie aale Of Uncle Toms CABIN aud SIM
lar books is regarded as worse crime tbSn rape
or murder; the unhappy individuals accused or sus.
pected Of it, having no security for their Gves. as
recently happened in the notable instance at
Mobile, except in instant flight aud the abandon
Int ut Of their business and property.
Let Buehauan be elected President, AID let the
Republican party in the Northern States be efectu-
ally routed and put down, and we should soon see
the slave.traders clamO:iDg, and cur Choate, and
Fllmores repeating after them, that is dangerous
to the Union and fisgraDt breach of the implied
obligations Of the Constitution to allow any discus
sion at the North of the Slavery question Plenty Of
oily-topgued doughfaces would be found ready
to argue tn the people Of the North had sill less
right, as they obviously have less interest, TO dis
Gus, the question of Slavery than the people of the
South. Under such influences, to please the slave
holders, laws would be passed such as Governor
Everett once recommended, or without waiting for
such Laws ferocious mob would be Employed as is
,.nalr dor af the South stimnlarnd and lnd ON L.