Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-03
=7TVE FeIENDLY IxvAsIoN or WESTERN VTRdrS-

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 9, 1857
--TgE FRIESDLY IxvAsION OF WESTERN VIRGIN
1ALReeeption of THqyer and His COlOny.-We
publish this morning, quite an extensive and
interesting account, from the Cincinnati "azS.'e'
of the arrival and reception of Thayer and ms
colony, down at Ceredo, distant few miles
from Guyandotte In spite Of all the threats
from Richmond, they have landed-men, wo-
men and children-bag and baggage scrip and
scrippage, and with their engines, saws ham
rners and axes, are hewing out for themselves
f,ot.hold upon our Western Virginia territory.
The account of their arrival recalls to us our
historical readings of the landing of the old and
bold navigators of early times, upon our shores
introducing to the gaze of the Astounded ma
tiyes, not the gorgeous insignia of war, Span
ish or English royalty, as they did; but In
their stead the paraphernalia of Atlantic civlll-
zation. The country down there is walked up
new life is infused into the old sluggish cir
cnlation, and that comparatively unknown re-
zion will soon be down life size on the maps.
There is one little remark in this speech OF
Thayer's that is capital hit, and is worthy OF
acceptatiOn by certain class of people, viz:
THAT this loud talk in Western Virginia, about
..e. r..ossVusOH, Is only taIK. inc TACT Is, you
have not negroes enough to make an institu-
ton" Now we ought to stop little just here,
open our eyes, look around and see If this is not
so-and particularly so of us Panhandle people,
where Niger is about the scarcest commodity
in market Property holders of any kind are
not generally the biustcrers-the bullies, mob
bers and general Lynch law advocates. They
are generally peaccable and intelligent citizens
men who, either from nature or from grace, have
learned that force or violence never can win
and that even heterodoxies may be safely tolera-
ted. where the expression Of public opinion, pro
and con, is free and unrestrained Hence it
comes, that in all slave State cities, the class
who swear by niggers are generally rag and
bob-tail set who have not the wherewith to pur-
chase their next glass Of three cent whisky
This class is always lying in wait for "breeze,"
and in the absence of fire, the mobbing of
political meeting is just to their taste.
In this connection, we are reminded of
troversy which tho w1'tSourS HsF"'''' mas 0ee"
having with b"olswoods paper upon the pro-
priety of the emigration of these "hordes, as
the backwoOdsman dainty entities them
Says this philosopher:
'ThOse persons who are in the habit of CEN
Surfing Virginia because she has no more man
ufactHring establishments may perhaps have
somewhat more of charity for her when they
realize that her fondness for agriculture has pre-
vented her from having thousands of paupers in
the shape of discharged operatives. If our
county bad, as some once thought 1t advisable
to do. imported last year five hundred opera
tivcs, she might now have had that many more
paupers.
We cave, speaking in the emphasis of street
parlance, after the reading of the above Surely
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