Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-11
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,TnB. Richmond Nag Of Saturday, another
long jeremiqd over the downfall Of n West
ern Virginia. After a thorough examination Of
the elements whchiiconspired to throw the .
State into tleihSnds of Letcher,: 7tbss1 R1ig is /
convinced that the heretcal free soilers of the /
North West did the busincssss.St.I There is cyi. .
depce conclusive and overwhelming of the ex-
istence and progress. of a,-thoropgh1goipg and
radical abolition sentiment in North Western |
Virginia" says the mig 'SrBere are no less
ttian. 5S5 FteesSoil journals published ifii North
Westsftx Vgrgi6iag;R also says the WRtgg Too
many by three Mr.. Wig although these, three
are, perhaps what might be cPlie4, in hopeful
state Of progression. A. 'kEverysone Of them sus-
tanned and Observation-Disclosures John Lctch-
er in tie late cn,Hpaign.H An6thsr mistake, il
you. please. We. don't know 81. one Of them |
which Sustained and advosa ted the election of
John heteher,H 'lwithontth the IlThighns reference
tQ. the next door Organ and some Of its rnonn-E
tain cOunty Gonfedcrates. The only papers in
Virginia, known to U.S. which make any protein
sions toaOppositiop to; the extension Of slavery
and ipfaY9r 96 the gradual extinction Qfrit in
this Stale, ore, the Wcsburg Herald, the Intel
Hgsncer, audperhaps, the MouudsVilIc Sentinel
None these papers supported John LctcBer,
although none of them supported Mr.. Goggtn..
Probably il they had: been compelled to make a
choice, as happily they were. not, between
.Messrs.' LetcIitr and Goggin, two at least of
them, would have given their preference
TO Mr.. Goggin. This will, therefore, show
to the Wing that in its great anxiety to appeal
to and to excite the prejudices of the ultra, pro;
slavery niggerites of the East, against this por-
tionaof thesState, 'it.has been proceeding upon
a very Aimsy ifoupdntion.g We think we can
speak fera pajoIityyqf those, entertq tanning free
soil sentiments in Virginia when we say that
their sentiments are dccdedly.sympathctic with
The general opposition of the Statc-that Is,
with the Wings and Americans and not with
the Democracy. Most of these belong, tosthe
regular Opposition. or used. to when, they were
at home, and they hayeiorly been compelled into
the Funwillipgpositon of an EARNED neutrality"
as it were, by tho low stoop which was taken
by the regular Qppostton to secure a triumph,
by abandoning what was always understood
to bcSa CHARACTERISTIC of the Wing party, viz:
white pep syintercsts rather than the, negro in
tl which were taksu
Advocates in the East, Con the slavery question.
the frce-soilcrs OF Virginia had supported him.
they would have meritcd public reproach and
never afterwards could they1hpye hid claim to
that high respect which conscientious CON
sistency and integrity of principles galway give.
The free,soilers of Virginia could not fail to
perceive that Mr.. Goggin had taken ground
not only hostile to, but in utter derogaton Of
their claims to respect. lie denounced them,
he misTeprescnted them, and held them up TO
sIldlcule, not only in his speech at Petersburg,
but wherever else iii the canvass he thought he
could make capital by such course. Either
he was sincere in so doing, or he was not, and
in either case, it one and the same to those
whom he thus abused. 1t seems tons that the
feelings Of those who thus came under Mr.. Cog
agin's prescription, would, had he succeeded by
their votes, been somewhat akin 10 that ex-
pressed in verse, which we remember 10 have
read somewhere and which ran, as near as we
can remember, thus:
THE struck eagle stretched upon the plain,
"a y; more through rolling clouds to again,
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,
That That winged Che shah that qqivrTed in his heart;
s,p He'd nprsed the pinons that mpelled the steeI',
- For our part the YAig and allits TRADES to
the contrary, we are glad that the free sellers
of the Northwest, did Just as they did. Were
tito do over again, we should cxhort them 10
do l;fswise-tos never give vote, or lend aid or
eoaritcnance tostbe election Of any man whose
! triumph would be their own dishonor.
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4. TnE St Louis Dsmocrst Of Saturday, quotes
the language Of 1Ir. Hyde, reporter for the Re
Publican Of that city, who was on board the
balloOnaRhens she was rushing over lake Ontario
so fast. Ther,words were: II am prepared to
die, but would rather die on land than water"
The Democrat is reminded by this of the phi
losOphieal reason which n niger down there
gave for similar choice: said sambo you
gifts ruh>ofF de track and smashed, up, dah You
is bntif you gets blowed upon de; boat, .,V1t,.I
q TT The Essaiag, Ns,ss Of the sarne city gets off
this paragraph. about Mr.. Hyde and the same
balloon that sweeps down forests ''like a
tornado, would bea valuable machine for clear
ing outrailpoad tracks in a,timbered country,
while a newspaper reporter that 'Sslashed''
around SO, So apd dashed trees to pieces iu his
path, would make, we submit, an excellent pile
gPiVeFlz If sKCe,Con,h, Ds rTODnd tho r,r No. -