Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-26
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Ne,Os, published at Milford, Del, comes out IN a
long editorial article for the abolition of slavery
| in that State. In order to make good its cause,
it institutes comparison between Newcastle
and Sussex counties, one free and the other
slave In the former improved farm land is
worth over ffty-three dollars per acre, while in
the latter, similar land is worth but from seven
to eight dollars per acre. 1t cites the following
cases as showing how slavery repels populations:
"About three years ago band of three hun
! bred Swiss emigrants arrived in New York,
with all their arrangements made to settle in
Delaware. They were farmers, with money to
buy land, and hearing that land was cheap in
IDelaware-a State settled by their fatherS-they
concluded to settle there; but finding, on their
arrival, that Delaware was slave State, they
passed us by, settled in Ohio, and helped to
augment the wealth of that young giant of the
Union"
The News proposes a remedy thus
"NOw, if the people of Delaware, at the next
session of the Legislature, will pass an act that
after the following fourth of July, all children
born or brought into the State shall be free at
the ages of eighteen and twenty.one, it will give
Delaware the character of a free State Mt once,
affect no stakeholder seriously in his property,
and bring down into Kent and Sussex rush of
emigration from the industrious freemen of the
adjoining States. Land here will at once com
mund advanced prices and there will spring
into being among spirit of enterprise to
which we are yet strangers. We have thought
much and long of this matter, and can show
that an act of the nature mentioned above would,
on the very day it is placed on the statute book,
increase the value of the real estate of Delaware
five millions of dollars! 1t would give an inn
pulse to great public works which we are
now struggling almost against hope TO accom-
plsh, and instead of the crushing inertia which
is now resting on us we shall soon realize the
life, activity, and prosperity which now charac-
teriZes the new States OF the great northwest"
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WHAT A WOMAN THINKS ABOUT HER RIGHTs.-
A correspondent of the n. Y. Post, says:-Al-
low me to enclose you an extract from private
letter written by lady, in regard that much
yexed question, ''Woman's rights and wrongs"
1t speaks for itself, think, and needs no intro
duction or apology:
4" As for 'wOman's rights I have strong be-
lief in them, and insist upon them, you
know, but never expect to insist upon those
which will almost certainly SupGrsede such as
she possesses now. | don't believe, for instance
that when women go to the polls to vote, men
will run around to get carriage for them, If it
chances to be raining, ifshe differs from them
in politics; and prefer the right to such atten-
TONS to the privilege of voting. have every
right for which l have any desire, thank Hea-
ven! | have the right to be taken care of, and
guarded, and comforted, and protected from
privation, and of sharing my husbands inter
ests, with which have no rights that conflict.
What lively time we should have if NO dsa-
how Charming woman : would look nursing a
baby and reading or writing political articles.
think it wonld be quite awful to have a wo-
man kept from going to vote by such cause as
detained Curtis from delivering his lecture in
Philadelphia, when Beecher supplied his place
and tho rpnSOn frankly. Yes | believe
in the legal changes to protect unhappily mar
rted women and all that, but voting! Ifmy hus-
band ever advocates my voting, shall be sure
be wants to kill me off. As if 1 didn't have
enough to do and think about without posting
myself up in the affairs of the nation, for whose
management men were specially created! If
not, wonder what is the use of them"
CUREM.