Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-03
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The mildest course of treatment
we have seen suggested is, first, to try to bully
Mr.. Caldwell into resigning his Office, and that
falling, to eXpel him from his seat for holding
opinions likelYto endanger the future growth of
the negro crop. In other words, the Senator
from Wheeling is suspected of holding TO o
literal Interpretation of Virginia's sic semper
tyrdnnis, and of endorsing unqualifedly that
portion of the Bill of Rights Of 1875 which
declares shat all men are by nature equally
free aud independents" Moreover, he is be-
lieved to entertain Sympathies with one George
Washington, weak sentnentalist, who, many
years ago, before it was discovered that slavery
is ordained of God, lived in Virginia, and ex-
pressed as among his first wishes desire ito see
Slavery abolished by lax" Also with one
crazy- Drained, but well-meaning man named
Jefferson, among whose t'glitterimg generalitIeS"
was the absurd'idea that all men are endowed by
their Creator with the inalienable right TO liber
ty, and who, in speaking of our treatment OF.
the African race, said 81 treInhe for my coun-
try when | reflect that God is just" And
with Mr.. james Madison, a gentleman. who oc>
cupied rather prominent position in his day,
but was so unsound as TO stink it wrong to.
admit in the Constitution the idea that there
could be property in man." And with Mr..
James Monroe, another respectable old gentle.
man of the ancient Virginia school, but who so
widely failed to comprehend the will Of God
and political economy as to say: 1--WE have
luuIlu .SFlt NoIufeTSJ upOll
the very vitalS of the Union, and has been
prejudcial to all the States in which it has exis
ted" And Mr.. Patrick Henry, a reasonable
agitator and "higher law" fanatic, who, in his
day, not only detied the King, but said of Sla-
very (whichiS greater than the King or the
ConStitution), 81 will not, 1 cannot justify it
7~.. ltiatlzIs ut variance with that law
which warrants Slavery" And with George
Mason a leading member from Virginia of the
Convention which framed the United States
Constitution, and who SHIELD it essential in ev-
cry pointsof view, that the General Government
should have power to prevent the increase of
Slavery"
Mr.. Caldwell is also charged, and probably
not without reason, with holding opinions in
common with other and hardly less distinguish.
led Virginia statesmen, whose hercSieS were
given to the world at later period and in a
more enlightened age than those to which we
have already referred, and were therefore the
less excusable. Such, for instance, rs the
eccentric John Randolph, who, in his will
wrote: 81 give to my slaves their freedom, to
which my conscience tells me they are Justly
enttled." And Thomas Jefferson Randolph,
who said: "How can an honorable mind, a
patriot, and lover of his country, bear to see
this Ancient Dominion converted into one grand
mGnHgerle. where men are to be reared fnr tho
market like oxen for the Shainhles?" And with
Mr.. Clay, who, in the famous debate on the ads
HllSSiol VI SdIlIOTEIu III 1oOU lWnen he was OlQ
enough to have known bettcrl, in reply TO
threats that the Union would be dissolved If
Slavery were not carried into the Golden State,
said: $50 long as God allows the vital current
to flow through my views, will, never, never,
never aid in admitting one rood of free territory
to the everlasting curse of human bondage -
There arc many other Virginia fanatics from
whom we might quote similar sentiments, and
with whose views we suspect Mr.. Caldwell sub.
stantialy agrees; such mon, for instance, as
Coy. Thomas R. Randolph, Peyton Randolph,
Edmund Randolph, Gov. Mcdowell, Charles j.
Faulkner, Ehos. Marshall, Mr.. Summers Philip
a. Boiling, Benz. Watkins Lehigh, and others.
tits then for holding steadfaStly to the an
Gent political faith Of those Virginans whom
the world has learned TO call great, that the
slave driving Democracy of the present Gay,
who, with strange inconsistency, boast their dc.
scent from these fathers of the Republic land
they certainly descended very long way from
then) propose to GUST Mr.. Caldwell from his
seat. We shall see whether they will think it
wise to carry their threat into execution The
expulsion OF one member for difference of
opinion with the progandists, may neccSstate
the turning out of n much larger number the
aext year. 1t must not be forgotten that in
Western Virginia Slavery has but nominal ex>
lstence It's hardly to be supposed, therefore,
that the people who ure beginning to see and
appreciate the advantages of the Free labor sys-
ten would tanely submit to see a faithful public
servant punished for truly representing their
Interests and sentiments.
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