New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-29
POLITICS IN NORTH WE STERN
VIRGINIA.
ssrrsspo.dsass Of The N. 7. Tribune.

oerrespondenee Of The N. l. 1nbune.
WHEELING, July, 1857.
Since wrote 70 you last during the Presidential
Campagn) there has been in this part of the old CON-
monwealth Ct Virginia complete stand-stlil, not only
in politics but also in commercial and social progress.
Perhaps some think the late ELECTIONS for Congress aud
the Assembly of Virginia to have been Erents, but
who else would consider them SO but those whose
vision is limited to very small portion of the po-
hiicn borizonl The District elected Shenard
Clemens to Congress. Sherrard Clemens is known
a little beyond the circle of his constituents
and a little to the readers of The TRIBUNE,
fum Pro-Slsvery letter he wrote to that
paper few months sgo. He was elected by the votes
of the Hill Democracy. In ths city he could not have
oetn elected AT any time. He is man Of not very
Ia e capacity aud not much apt to do his own cause
gr- at deal either Of harm good. His Predecessor,
Dr. Howell possessed Of more sagscity, and al
though in cOnsf oneDce of being Virginia POLITICIAN
b, trade, belonging to the Richmond rabld Fro.
Slavery School, waS rather man OF good SENSE anu
popularity even beyond the limits OF his own party,
which Clemens is not. Yet Dr. Kidwell had to throw
up biz commission, having been the Fortunate lncuIn.
be- ut Of membership Of Congress for a sufii ;ept
time while Clemens who had worked hard for the
Slavery pary during the President election, was yet
t., receivs his compensation. What was more natural
than that he should receive this place In Congress at
The hsndr Of the Faithful At the Presidential cleo
Bucbanan bur at the last State election 1t again went
Wbig the Know -NoihDgs call it Wing" aga., be-
cause the term American seems TO have lost ts at
fractions even bere) or Distribution" Our worthy
Mayor Caldwell, formerly Wing, then American not
H. n by any means, he says, finally Distribution"
was returned for the Senate in spite Of his being very
vmienty opposed by eur grand little Slave paper;
Tie Argus, violently that masy outsiders believed
be woud be- beaten in spite of the lager" Yet he
was not. He ont triunpbently, aud all the
hopes Of the country conferred upon his little but
f., ndsb's person. He, in bright dreams, is the
n,an who will help to bring on those happy days when
the " Old Mother Of States" shall bloom again in
youth and vigor because she will have received her
share Of the Public Domain. He is the man to help
her 10 that blessed share. He is the star OF hope to
guide our cart out Of the quagmire into which has
been pushed
Wheeling il dead, although it lives end bresthes.
It lives like ssthna!c it bre athes like consump-
i've. Prosperity, commercial welfare education, ill.,
el,ec,ual vgor it see,as cannot thrive in the shadow
which is cast up from the South and East Though
virtually free, Wheeling and vicinity is but Slave
country without Slavery. 1t breathes dull sckly,
ifelert, swampy, souess atmosphere-yet people here
will aoi know it. They live in that atmosphere,
pantipg and wondering why it is that they dout get
along faster; they suffer and at last they emigrate to
the Free West. ZwISGLi.