Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-23


TnI QrALIgIcA11oSs yo9 EExY IGovEEEoE-
On oQr. pe0pIe End0ysc A5eD9 I'VE have often
asserted it, and we hold 1t to be just as demon
strate as that the sun shines, that the present
dominant party ia this country have no other
bond save tiggers They do not know today
what kind Of tariff any considerable number
Of them favor, or whether they favor any at all
or not. The man who vas the other day nom
mated from Ar. Buchauan's own district
pledged himself to q protective tariff, while
men who are elected IN the South stand com.
mitted TO something as near. free trade as they
can get it. There never was more disin-
tegrated body of selfrepellipg particles, we
venture, in the whole range Of science. Them
teTests Of the country are subordfnated to the
Niger question, All things must go by the
board TO preserve intact the Niger interest.
We are led to these remarks by letter in
the last Richmond Enquirer, before US, which,
in considering the qualifications for next Gov
ernor, says;
He must in heart (n0t from poIiey) be de-.
voted To Southern rights, TO Southern institu-
liOns, to Southern principles, TO Southern men,
and 70 the South generally.
Lastly, be must be perfectly sound on the
'pigger question: and must be able, in every
respect, to present clean TeeoTd on this alb
importauta and all.absorbing question.
This last qualification every true Virgiuian
must regard as the most important of ali. II
should be considered zine qua non. And the
Democracy Of Virginia 10 considered il in the
memorable contest of 1851, between johnson
and Summers. All over The State the hue and
cry were Faised that the emancipation views held
and promulgated in 1892, by Mr.. Summers
made him unfit to be Governor Of slave holding
Virginia. Indeed for the last ten years, the
Virginia Democracy have denounced free.soilIsm
md aOOhtionism 10 every shape and form. And
many political victory have they gained by
raising the cry Of abolitiOnist, emancipatiunSt,
Nl90uld, &c, &c, against the opposing candi.
dates Having thereby established for them
selves the reputation OF being the particular
guardians Of Southern rights and Southern
Institutions, how inconsisIcutit would be in that
party to nominate for the next Governor a man
who was an enlanciPationist in 1s4T.
Now we ask every thinking citizen to look At
this matter. Here is laid before you a most pro,
scripItve despotism: Those of rs who protest.
ed against the prescription Of even foreigners
and who refused to go with tho american party
just on that account, certainly have right to
Ift our voices in indignation against such tyrani-
cal dOgmas rs those put forth in the above quo.
tation II We have NOT, then indeed is our
citizenship hollow cheat and nockery. We.
feel that We would not be discharging our dnty
toWCstern Virgins, were We to letgo nnrebnk.
ed such sentiments The white population Of.
Western Virginia, WAS in 1850, over 100000:
while the Stare population was but Is, 900 or
oneslave to about twenty whites. Yet here
nineteen. white men are asked to subordinate
their interests to one man, aud 70 make his
particular interest the test question by which
competency or incompeteney to administer our
l6wH is to- be measured. Butnot only thnst you