Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-12
The FaluFe % Free soll q aII..ourI-..
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Free SOIL we assert, is stronger in st. Louis
to-day, than it was week ago, by thousands of
votes. Those who tainted by the wayside, or
fingered in the rear of the battle, will fight
henceforth, upon comPWEsion. The doubters
numbered near six thousand, and of the doubt
ers, four out of five, are free soil. And even rs
lit stands, what does q plurality poll of TWO or
three hundred signify where fraud has stalked
at large through the city, and the President OF
the United States has anticipated the national
revenue to carry his fayorite for Gongressg Is
it funeral knell for freessoilS Mo- Brave
Emenado not surrender thus-the six thousand
five hundred free sellers of st. Louis, are
To-n none other can it belong, for they are pro-
gress-they are politics hereafter. Let us add
some words for our microscopic friends, who
see in every misspelled word, and every
original expression, or excentrication the cause
of our apparent defeat Such things are
not so. 1t may he that some Catholics were
driven off from the ticket or some Protcstants
made to withhold their suffrage by this cause or
thnt cause. One saysitwas the Ahsciger, another
says it was the Democrat. But such stuff is
very idle, for those who desert find in such
things the grouse, not the reason of their deser-
ton. The principle IS stronger than men or
candidates If sectarinns have gone against free
soil, it was upon sectarian Gtfnities. If lay.
men have transferred themselves to slavery pro-
tpagandism, twas for a consideration. If apa-
thy had seized upon any, it was during the
soistice of politics when men ancied Tepose
grew under the bushes set out for their delight
by artful contriVers But the vital democracy,
the essential protesting thoughtsof our people,
the radical, fundamental liberalism that must
underlie every social reformation, has made
itself manifest in a shape, with prestige, and
under circumstances that admit Of no YStreat.
As well talk of reaction against the daylight, or
the spring time or public intelligence, or the in
crease of population-as reaction against free
soil in Missouri. Nothing can react against it
but slave importation, and that has neither
where to come from nor wherefore to come
The column of migration. that embraces the
1 movement of the white race from east to west,
is upon us, and it will blaze the path of civilian
ton with the church, the school, the farm, the
city, until islaverya us system shall be known
no more in the land. In speaking these things,
we know what We say. Never was the heart
ofthe free soil party frmer than it is in this
conjecture. Never did its prophetic men see
with surers vision the final triumph of the cause
and its rapid recuperation from the very ele-
ments of discord that induced defeat Never
were those who have led aud those who have
been overborne more calmly conscious of their
strength or more heroicaIly resolved TO hold
their positions against all Corners. Before this
day teco years hence free so1ers mill 6ure deploy-
ed an c0ntr0ttfng force frithin the halls OF our
assembly, and ,oill hare possessed themselves of
tie entire state g0reramcat. Mark the predic-
| ton.