Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-05-11


fathers bore arms for less otIlense-for a
less indignity put upon them than this /;
was the taxation upon tea-lhe tritiing
| thing of money ta1-that roHzed your
glorious ancestors to the Resistance; and
am l to De told--are we 10 as to.d tlet
| their sons have lost sp!rit-thHt they Hre
willing to have their EUi.tigHi q 4slis StCip-
| ped from them-taat t!ieS a:c wiling to
accadc that 4 man who livss 81 hi. side
of the Ailcghcuies Or lhe h!Ue Ridge : ef
less weight than the gen'ieGlha SIN 'i.s-
| ters upon tie sands of the Chesapeake!
Not only do you bear this huricn-Uot
only are the nou-s!aveloiIcrs oi IirgiGi.
and of every Southern State called upon
to strip Themselves of their political friu-
chises i'll order ,ha: they may he i3ricd
over by this other class wLO assume 10
themselves higher and greater preroga-
tiycs-not only have you to bear this bur
den, but this institution taxes you and
burdens you in many other, cannot say
in any greater respects. Wherever there
lis negro slave at wo,k in this State, ii
takes the occupation from a free white
man; his presence excludes, wherever he
stands upon the ground, white man, and
many white men. The State OF Virginia,
which should have increased Us the State
of New York has, for her natural increase
must have been quite as great, has driven
from her soil three millions of her own
children to make room for half ii million
OF negroes. What did you gain Ivy that
exchange This institution has bauishe6
your strength and your pride, has driven
three millions of white men out of the
State of Virginia, because the nusur-
al increase of the Old Dominion would
have made her number upwards of
four millions at this hour, if she had
increased as the State Of New York
has increased. You behold the spectacle
that you have sent into exile from
this State-ur this institution has sent
into pxi!p-three millions of white peo-
pie, to make room for half million
of negroes. Have you made anything by
that exchanged Are negroes valuable in
that proportion, when compared with
white people? Your sons are now scat
tered throughout the great West and
Northwest. They have led before the fnce
OF this institution. They were not able
und not willing to bear its degrading COM
petition-thcy were nut willing to be eX-
cluded from the privileges of free schools
and education for their children-they
have gone forth as exiles-they have gone
forth and fled from the fuce of this insti-
tuition, and they have left you this resi-
c'aun1 of 100000 negroes in this State
Never was there such mistake made in
political economy. 1t is like II man tai
king his life blood from his arm and in
iccting poison into his veins, aud thinking
that be WAS strengthening himself by the
process. The Old Diminion has been
dragged down-down into the depths, or
will be, If her sons do not assert their
privileges and their rights.
But not only are you disfranchised, but
your prC pcVty is rendered almost vaIueIess.
Take tho State of Ohio, and contrast the
value of its landed property with that of
Virginia, aud l undertake to say that its
excess OF value over the land OF Virginh
would pay FOR every slave in your State.
Grent applause You have submitted to
see your property annihilNted thus. They
talk about the rights of property in their
slaves. They have those rights, and no
man won!d undertake to deprive them of
it without due comPensatiopi bat the very
presence of these slaves in your midst has
annihIatcd treble their value in other
property. Your lands would be to-mor-
row, if You had not slave in Virginia,
three times the value they now are. So
YOU arc robbed OF your citizens, you have
| driven them into exile, you are TOhbed of
! your political franchises, and robbed OF
! The value of your property by this institu-
| ton, and you are told if these plain truthes
are spoken to the people of Virginia, lit
was held in one of the morning papers,)
that it is an indiguity-you were this
I morning told that ii this Convention,
. holding the sentiments of the fathers and
( founders OF the Republic, of native-born
sous of Virginia, should meet together to
consult about the benefit Of that great
commonwealth, they ought to be attacked
| by mob violence. That was the insinua-
/ ton. They were wiser in actiou than they
have been in their advice. LAUNDERING
applause, and very feeble noise such rs
addcTs and geese make.
( The Republican party, as have said be-
fore. and us has been more elOQuentiv said
than can say it, by the distinguished
gentleman who preceded me, holds no
sentiments except the sentiments of the
Fathers of the Republic. We have drawn
our whole creed from thcEirginia states
/ men-the great and ilustrioas states
men who now sleep under the sod OF
the Old Dominion. If our sentiments
are to he denounced, if men are TO be
] driven from the SOIL for ntter!ng those
sentiments, let them take up the bones OF
! Washington and throw them into the Fo-
/ tomnc; let them, as WAS said by THE elo-
! queut and great orator, Mr.. Corwin, let
them hang Jefferson between heaven and
earth on gbhct. Appiause. Their
denunciations are levcled ut the aeads of
/ these great and illustrious men-they fall
hnrmlessIy by us; we are their mere disci-
pies; we learned this treason from them,
md some of us have the courage to speak
out their treason. Great applause. AL
though, perhaps, we may be reserved for q
different fate.
I q TorIS n ETDHlRO. & H., T..