Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-30
!, which prohibits tho

repeal the Act of 1863 which prohibits tho
foreign Slave trade, and so they will import
from Africa, ut the cost of only twenty doll
lars per head, slaves enough to I'LL up the in
terror of the continent. Thus relatively in-
creasing the number Of Slave States they will al.
lowsno ameDdmen to the Consti tuition prejudicial
to their interest, aud so, having permanently es-
tablished their power, they expect the Federal
Judiciary to nullify all State laws which shall
interfere with international or foreign commerce
in Slaves. When the Free States shall be suf-
fciently demoralized to tolerate these designs
they reasonably concluded that Slavery will be
accepted by those States themselves. j shall
not stopto show how speedy or how complete
would be the ruin which the accomplishment
of these slaye-holding schemes would bring up
on the country. For one, Should not remain
in, the country to test the sad5eXperiment Hav--
ing spent mySmanhood, though not my whole
life, in Free State, no ;aristocracy of any kind,
much less an aristocracy of Shareholders, shall
ever make the laws of the land in which shall
be content to live. Having seen the society
around inc universally engaged in agriculture
manufactures and trade, which were. innocenc.
and henefcent, Il shall never be a denizen of a
State where men and women are reared as cat-,
tie and boughta and sold as merchandise. When
that evil day shall come, and all further etortat
resistance shall be impossible, then, if there
shall be no better hope for redemption than L
can now fOresee, shall say with Franklin, while
looking abroad over the whole earth for new
and more congenial home: "Wnere Liberty
dwells there is my country
You will tell me that these fears are extraya.
CANT and chimerical. Ianswer, they are SO. but
they are so only because the designs of the slave
holders must and can he defeated. Butitis on
" the possibility of defeat that renders them so.
They cannot be defeated by inactivity. There
is no escape from them compatibleWith non-re-
sistance How, then, aud in what way, shall
the necessary resistance be made? THERE'S only
one way. The Democratic party must be per-
manently dislodged from the Government. The
reason is, that The Democratic party as inertri-
crDLy committed to the designs Of the sSlQeehol-
ers, 90ftich Z hare described Let me be we'll
understood. do not charge that the Demo-
cratic candidates for public Office now before the
people, are pledged, much less that the Demo.
cratic masses who support them really adopt
those atrocious and dangerous designs Candi-
dates may, and generally do, mean to act justly,
wisely and periodically, when they shall be
elected; but they become the ministers and SER
wants, not the dictators, ofthe power which elects
them. The policy which-a party shall pursue
ata future period, is only gradually developed,
depending on the occurrence ofevents never
fully foreknown. The motives of men whether
acting as electors, or in any other capacity, are
generally pure. Nevertheless it is not more
true that Hell is paved with good intentions, -
than it is that earth is covered with wrecks re
sulting from innocent and amiable motives
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