Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-22

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s19gthe sEsditoro1 thesN s,o8Y or6A Tines
There could hardly besal stronger argument.l
against theTeope the Slayeft 1as;t
been by eEeVentss the astWeeksabI
kHaTpeFs Ferry and I'VE earnestl itSf6A
ttentionSo fsthe5 fanatic beenSap
lroarlo1sly demanding fresh5snpp Of Guinea
negroes, as essential To- the prosperity of the
South any things could convince q sensiblei
man that the South has qnite.negroes enoughlI
its comfort forts safety, would Dol
the uproar created by cold Browns, insuTFec.t
1tion. five pride ourselves upon thing It'll
upon the soliditY our polti upon.l
Inference to the plots Sconspir andI
EtheyraYings of Missionaries. ARE always, and
wlthsreason, making merry over the throes OIL
alarm in which the despoticS Governmentso Of
| older countries are constantly plunged, over
their senst iYenesss TO the
E,discontent over the convulsions into which
they are thrown BY the smallest riot or outs
break.
mock at these fears Of Kaiser and King,
and glory in our own security. Butiseethe ex
ishi6ltonEwe have made Of ourselves during the
past week Twenty men, led by angoldS mad
man, seize on asyillage in the night and in the
morning take forcible possessionsof an armory.
I things were5in their normal condition, the
Sherlff Of the county ought to have disposed Of
the mattersin the course of tile following day,
calling posse from the neigh borhood, firing
a volleY, and bnttering in the door, as the
United States marines did, with a ladder or a
beam. The whole affair ought to have occupied.
the same place IN your col Omns with an account
OF aMackerelville faction fight, or of Wholesale
rape orsrobbcryS on board a Baltimore steamboat.
The soughtlto have treated tas they treat.
the dolngsgo of the Louisiana " igilance Commit
tee, or5ot the ina: content laborerss on the Erie
Railroad But whatsare the facts of the case P
I'm EN0 t11.
4. Union as being NEGRO insurrection,m and.
4 torthw the excitement becomes as intense as
Eifa hostile army had lnnded in Chesapeake Bay.
4 and were marching straight on Washington
j a Cabinet meeting is summoned; Secretary
i Floyd communicates intelligence of such infor.
mation received BY him weeks previously
limited States marines and United States artil-
lery are dispatched to the .'seat Of ~ al, q tho
Virginia militia and the Baltimore nalitia is
calledBout. Cow Wise hurries off by=express
train, breathing out threatenings and Slaughter,
and proposing to demolish the rebels and their
.Iprlsoners together by round of artillery The
.Eupshot ofstEe affair is that by5the time the
A Wretched Brown and his twent yslnen meet their
late, full a thousand troops, with artillery are
Il collectedson thetspot though there has really.
Il been no negro rising whatever, and the sole
enemy is @ score of lunatics ARMED with ShaEp's
rifles, and shutup in a sloop:holcd house.
When2o our Southern friends have their quar-
0y1M CGuHYa
4 adventurers from Kansas that takes federal
4 forces by q Colonel of the United States
Il Army, and two orsthree regiments of Iili(ia
4 to restore! theirpeaccl of mind, it may bc5per-
United to JUS respectfully to inquire what the
state of.ahairs wonid5be if the negroes really
Ibid rise5in5any considerable body and seryile
lswarsreally did break out2 If theremedy was
in such case, to bear the same proportion TO the
zl,disease, us in this Harper's Ferry "Insurrcc-
Il ton, theawhole militia Of the Western States
4 or as many of them as could be got under arms
A say 5000 900 lmcn, would be the least We should
Ibe expected to contribute for its repression, to
say nothing oi%our anxiety of mind, the inter-
\ .ruPtlon tozour business, and the expense Of
II keeping our forces on foot. Weallsknow, and
II nobody knows better han 1.-THE Sontherners
4 themselves, that we should have to bear our
part to the3tulc extent, If for humanty's sake
II alone,,i lnzpnttlng down .nsncgro rebellion. We
have, then, perfectri light to inquire OF thcnuis
Il sy demagogues, who havebeen calling for fresh
5Elmportations of 1negrncs if this Harpor's
Ferry affair is q fair indication of their own
state OF mind regarding negro risings; and,
E.if SO, with what face they can ask the
country to- agree to a5large ncreaseto this cause
OF aIarmWe will not say element Of danger,
which they cherish SO eagerlY. If the United
/ States has TO keep Southern negroes ia order,
or if takes q thousand men to arrest twenty
armed Abolitionists, the United States has, cer-
i talnly, something to say about the number Of
there shall be to keep in order, or for.
4 A6olltionstsito practice their weS upon We
can assure the Browns and the YancysF thatzun=
I'll they prove themselves better able to manage
the property" they have than recent events
would indicate, they will find some, Diff.
Guilty us to agree to their making fur
Ether5acqn ofsthe same sOrtss ~
The affair, moreover contains warning TO
dlsunionlsts also, and thereare more of these,
than OF Wouid- be slave:traders IftSOld Brown.
has proved so troublesome, and alarming in