Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-29
FLOR The 1ntell,repcer.l
WFIAT VIRGINIA WANTS.
CuIPRPER G. a., Oct. 18th, 1868

| is not adapted to commercial pursuits, it may
befound in the fact, that Norfolk and Alexan-
dria were once places of considerable tradewith
South America, but in spite of all efforts to sus
tain and enlarge that trade, it has been declining
nd.indeed is now almost entirely extinguished.,
Nor have these efforts been inconsiderable. We
all know the zeal of Gov. Wise in the cause of
commerce. Who has forgotten his recommen-
dation to the last legislature, contained in his
letter to Mr.. Lacature, that the sum of $780,
! 600 should annually be given from our exhaust.
ed treasury, to private company, as bonus
to encourage a direct trade with France? Then
| how many commercial conventions have we
| been favored with, by the aid of which we were
promised q speedy and entire change of all the
laws of trade and of political economy. The
origin and course of those Southern Conven-s
tons were both curious and instructive.
| The delegate to the Southern Convention on
Eopening his eyes in the morning, looks up to
behold the northern curtains upon his northern
bedstead, and throwing off northern counter
pane and northern sheet with q feeling of per.
feet disgust alta bed, every yard of which, even
to the tick and pillow cases, had come from
northern loom, jumps with genuine southren
independence upon. northern carpet and put
ting on his northern pantaloons and northern
slippers, after having sharpened his northern
razor on northern Strop, standing before O.
with the aid of northern soap and northern
brush, he removes his beard, and then with wa
ter brought in in a northern bucket and poured
from northern pitcher into northern bowl
upon northern wash stand, he performs his
morning ablution. After wiping with north
ern fowl and arranging his hair with northern
comb and brush, he puts on his northern vest,
coat and boots and sits down in a northern chair
| to northern writing table and with north.
ern pen, ink and paper, he prepares n set of
flaming resolutions to be presented to the con-
vention which is to establish our commercial
independence. He then takes his seat at a.
northern table, covered with northern CLOTH and
from northern dishes he takes the tea or coffee
Imported with the sugar that sweetenS and the
salt and pepper that seasons his breakfast, by
northern enterprise in northern ships. He is
now prepared to enter the northern car drawn
by northern engine over rails furnished by
northern commerce, and upon q road built by
northern contractors, he soon reaches the con.
vention where he expects to achieve wonders bys
his paper resolutions of contempt for patient
northern industry and those northern FREQ
schools and free institutions, which, by en-
Tightening and directing that industry, have al
ready converted the bleak and barren wilder
ness of New England into rich and lovely land
Iscapes, into gardens of beauty, dotting it all
over with schools and colleges with smiling
cottages and palaces ofluxury, with magnificent
manufactures and temples of worship, with
tionrishing towns and cities united by innu-f
merable ironbanded roads, Welding a rich re-
turn to their stockholders, and by. their exceed
lngly low rates oEfare furnishing tho greatest
facilities for social and commercial intercourse
The false estimate which5our aristocrats have
placed upon labor, and the disgrace which7they
have attached to the condition of honest industry
has been most fatal delusion. Onthe contrary,
how. should labor be honored when we consider
that it produces the food wc eat, the clothes we
wear, the houses we live in, the books and pa
pers we rcadj in one word, everything. which
contributes to the comforts, the conveniences
and the elegancies Of. life, that 1t improves and
confirms the health of our bodies, and by its
SOLDERING and refining influence upon the pas.
slons, chaStenS and inspires the noblest senti-
inents OF the human heart. Not only have the
noblest of men like Sias Wright, and Gincinna-
tus given us eminent examples of these truths;
but the Bible teaches US MS we'll rs the great
book. OF nature a lesson-s'My father worketh
hitherto, and work" What text for proud
aristocrats, dandies efferninates of botn sexes.
and all sorts of lazy people, who act upon the
principle that the world owes them a living
whether they exist themselves or not. We see
the working ofthe Father in tho creation and
preservation of this magnificent universe in
the constant and ceaseleSS revolution of the light
and life giving sum- in the beautiful moon in the
maleStlc success of the comet,, and in those
countless stars which adorn the armament and
sparkle with eternal brilliancy in. the blue
arch of heaven. We see his working in. the
Ieyerchanging reasons, in the whirlwind and the
storm,sIn the genial showers SO often poured
upon the earth, to give beauty to the prospect
health to the atmosphere and fertility to thesoil;
| in the bursting forth of vegetables in the
blooming of the flowers, in the maturing ofthose
fruits of his bounty which are necessary to our
daily wants. In short, we know his guardian
care is ever over us 'swhile we wake aud while
Sleep, and over all things from the particle
which floats in the sunbeam to thoSa i,nuaneo