Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-11-28

p1ease-=-.Iou may dry up 70 your ttl0s
the fountains of his feelings, the springs
of his thought-you may close upon his
mind every avenue to knowledge. and
cloud it over with artificial night-you
may yoke him to your labor US an OK which
liveth only to work, and worketh only to
live-you may put him nnder any process,
which, without destroying his value as a.
slave, will debase and crush him rs a ra-
tional being-you may do this, and the
idea that he was born to be free will sur
yivc it all. 1t is allied to his hope of i'm
mortality-it is the ethereal part of his
nature, which oppression cannot reach-it
is torch lit up in his soul by the hand of
the Deity, and never meant to be cxtin-
guished by the hand. ofman.
1t would be difficult to find anywhere q
more eloquent tribute to the God-givcn
rights of man than this. The same speak.
er, in another part of the speech, gives the,
following prophetic warning to the South
= 'tLf gentlemen do not see aud feel the eUiL
of Slavery tphiLe this Federal Union lasts,
they sciI see and feel it tChen It is gone; they
will see and suffer it then in a magnitude
of desolating power, to which sthe' pes
thence that walketh at monday would be
a blessing-to which the malaria which is
now threatening extinction, to the eternal
city, as the proud one of the pontiffs and
Caesars is called, would be as refreshing
and as balmy as the first breath of spring
to HIGHLANDER of disease. Was
it the fear of Nat Turner and his deluded,
drunken handful of fellows, which pro-
duced, or could produce, such effects r.
Was it this that induced distant counties,
where the very name of southampton was
strange, to arm and equip for struggle?
No, sir; it was the suspicion eternally at
tached to the slave llimself-the suspicion
that Nat Turner might be in every family;
that the same bloody deed could be acted
over ut any time, and in any place, that
the materials for it were spread through
the land, and always ready for II like ex-
plosion."
What Yirginian will not at this moment
acknowledge the terrible force of these
words?
Mr.. Phillip "A. Boiling, of Buckingham,
said:
''There is a still small voice which
speaks to the heart of man in tone too
clear and distinct to be disregarded. 1t
tells him that every system of Slavery is
based upon injustice and oppression. If
gentlemen disregard IL noW, and lulL their
| conscience to sleep, they may be aroused to a
sense of their danger trhen it is too late to re-
pair Mcir errors
However the employment of slave Ia
Dor might be defended, gentlemen would
not, could not, justify the traffic in human
beings. < How many u broken
heart, how many q Rachel mourns, be-
| cause her house is left unto her desolatc
The time has come when these feelings
could not be suppressed; the day would
come when they could not be resisted"
Mr.. Broduax, of Dinwiddie, said
That Slavery iu Virginia is an evil, it
I'M "a 10 II g.
human being to doubt or deny. 1t is II
mildew which has blighted in its course
every region it has touched, from tho cro-
alton of the world"
The Hon. Charles ]. Faulkner, who also
resides in the vicinity of Harpcrs Ferry,
made long, eloquent, and radically abO-
litiOn speech. We have only room for n
few brief extracts. 1t will be seen that,
like all the Representatives from that re-
gion, he was, perhaps, all uncOnsciously.
prophetic. He said:
again, sir, ask, what new light has
dawned upon the gentleman from Neck
lenburgh (thc late William 0. Goode,) that
we should be called upon to retracc our
course, and TO disappoint the hopes which
our first manly decision gave? Does not
the same evil exist? Is it not increasing?
Does not every day give it permanencyand
portentous cloud above the horizon, OK
tending its deep and sable volumes
athwart the sky and gathering in its i'm
penetrablc folds the active materials of
| elemental war? And yet, shall VIC be re-
quested to close our eyes to the danger,
and without an cifort-without even an
inQuiry-to yield to the impulses of dark
and whitening despair? Sir, is this manly
legisiation? Is it correct-is it honest
legislation Is it acting with that fidelity
to our constituents which their sacred
| interest requires"
We regret to say that Mr.. Faulkner did
the thing he denounced. He closed his
eyes, thinking thereby to escape the I'M
pending storm, and for twenty odd years
has withheld the honest legislation which
heinsisted upon in 1882. It's to behoped
that the scare given him and the whole
South by the Wild prank of Old Brown
may serve to awaken him to a sense of
duty. We quote few more sentences, to
show the spirit of the above prophetic
warnings. He said:
''Sir, tax our lands, vilify our country,
carry the sword of extermination through
our dcfenceless villages; but spare us,
implorc you, spare us the curse of Slavery,
that bittercst drop from the chalice of the
destroying angel"
He insisted that society in self-dcfence
had right to abolish Slavery, even with
out compensation to the masters. But VIC
must conclude our extracts with the pas
sage, which he cmphat;colly adopted from
Mr.. jefferson:
''You must approach it-you must bear
it-you must adopt some plan of cmanci-
patton, or worse will follow"
[Frum the Stcubenville Herald.
The WHEELING DAILY INTELLIGENCER.-
We have neglected TO make mention, un-
til the present, Lfor which we beg pardon