Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-28

in this part, who do not believe that African
Slavery is the greatest good that Ito the
heritage of any State or people. On the con-
tfary, they thinkit of very doubtful pub!ic bene.
lit Still they say it exists aud say, also, let cx
ist until those who own it and manage it become.
convinced that they can substitute something
better forit. Still, however, while they concede
all the rights which the laws Of the state throw
around 1t as one of the divided interests. thev
feel 1t their right and their duty to complain
that in order to prefer it and foster it, unjust
Determinations are made against, aud unjust ex.
actions made upon other interests, and among the
rest the interests Oft the complainants But, to 60
still farther, grant that there are no complaints
OF this sort (Which we all know arc heard ON every
s'de) and simply say that there are many citizens.
III various sections who believe that it woold be
the joint interest of all classes to unite in inan
snrat'ng aninquiry or discussion into the effects
upon their joint interests, of the existence and
prevalence of an institution such as Slavery
among thcm Suppose that at a meeting where
score-a hundred, or thousand of them. are
come together, some one of their number tells
the rest that from data in his possession-as
well as from his experience and observation
he haS=it, as his conviction, that in consequence
OF the prevalence Of such an institption the soil
of the state, from tide water TO fresh water, is
not worth, by an average geofone-twcnticth, Of what
it would otherwise be. Suppose he reads the
figures to them, showing (rur in> tancc) that in
Virginia, only back as Far as 1890 VIC had
population more than twice that of New York .
ttatin the same year our exports largely exec
ded those Of the same state: so of. our imports.
FhatlaSt year we Seut hut thirteen representa-
tisrs t" Congress, while the latter state sent
thirty That the imports OF the last year
were as four hundred and fifty to one, in favor
Of the latter state, and that in the same latte,
state the products Of manuractnre, mining, Sc,
with less than one round hundred per cent. of
oar natural advantages a:nOnnted to something
ike ten times the sum of our products. And
also that in the same last naned year, the value
of real aud personal property Of Que city of The
latter state, eNeluSive OF any monetary vaina.
ton of human beings, was greater than the
whole state of Virginia, negroes iuclu.lrt.-
and finally, suppose that the orator Of the oc
casion Should ,sliaN that this one iatcrcst-al
lowing that. it %as an i,terest to anybody or
class-was confined to but one seventeenth por-
ton of the white inhabitants of the state; and
that he Should argnc from the data above set
forth that the effects OF the prevalence OF this
interest was to dag down or seriously iuiurc
the other interests, both Separately and con-
joiatly.-What, we say, snpposing the occa-
sion to arise and the facts 10 be as we have
stated them, is tho lot which should await
the speaker, or his constituents, WHO say
amen? RecolIect lie is not responsible for
the facts They exist: he discovers them or
exposes them as the case may be- What should
be done with him, tl,en9 Should he DC put down
on his knees, or in stocks or pillories, and like
Ga!lico, be made to bclic the evidence of his
senses and say that the world does not move
that like causes do not produce like effects 2
Should lie lac mt "u the oor Uf the common
Capitol, and there either bepcrsonaIyi or
his constituency sighted by the oarl who boasts
that his interest aud his test is the interest of
nesre one e.seyentccuh minorityy Certainly not.
Reason, jnSticeaniev dictate of well ordered
mind cries out against such gross Inequality.
But what ate the tuctsg Isitu not one Of them
that mon III the common Capitol OF our common
state dOsee and feel this great inequality aud This
manifest disparagemcnt. Certainly tits. And
is is not, likewise, fact that men, who think MS
we have written, are forbidden, by considerations
Of harm to their persons or. property, from cx.
pressing themselves in a!l.theritics of his State
with the single exception of our own. Aud
still rorther, is it not a fact, aud most dis
graceful ono, too, that there should he found IN
a city and community like onrs whose interests,
above and beyond all others, perhaps of the
State, have been subordinatcd to this minority
interest-not only a person, but journal, and
not only one but two Of them, ready, tho one
TO suggest and the other TO adopt the suggestion.
that We should yield up a prominent victim to
cOnciliate the wrath Of this minority Moloch,
whom they say we have lately offended
Unnatural and unworthy as such a proceed
ing would be, it has, NC say, been suggested
aud adopted by two journals in our midst, gro
Tossing TO uphold our good name and reputation
before the world. Tftheir voice is to be needed
and their advice adopted, and tho ignoble sur,
render made by this community, then, we say,
let it be written and spoken Of US as Tacitns
wrote of DOniit;an when he relafnd tI,,t ti,bt