Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-22
Ni1EEl1lN6,W EDNESDAY5 MORNING. AUGUST %, 1860
Eight'tO establish slavery is clear and in

right 10 establish slavery is clear and in
dispntnble.
ssFourth, The right of Congress TO abol-
ish slavery in the District of Columbia, ad-
mits of no question; but The exercise of
. that right without the sanction of the
State of Maryland, to which the terriory
once belonged, would bc II gross breach OF
faith implied, though not expressed, by
the 0ctof cession.
''F.fth. The Negro, in our juIgment, is
physically, socially, and morally, IN a better
| condition as u Stare an most of the .S2uVe
STATES, than he sroutG be IN a state of Cret-
dom; aid therefore, opposed as tce are 10 the
Institution, II the General Government POS >
scsse6 The PotceT and the constitutional s-iyht,
to abolish s!0rerY IN Tie Stare .SRates. lre
Should earnestly protest against its abolition
'rtEh0"t .Hrst Pr0ridjny for the er'rdditi0n Of
ne .tEeed1"d" beyond The limits Of The United
States.
".S6r;h. While it is the right of the peo-
pie OF Slave State to agitate the question
of Slavery and to get rid of the Institu-
tion MS soon as practicable, we hold that
every attempt or the part of persons not
inhabitants of such State, to interfere with
the Institution where it legally and con-
stitntIonaliy exists, is crime against the
Union itself: and that it is not only the
duty of all good citizens to frown down
any such attempt, hut if necessary, to bear
arms in defence Of the right of every
State, to regulnte its internal affairs as to
it may seem expedieut not inconsistent
with its duty to the Constitution and the
| Union.
Submit this creed to the consideration
of the Southern people. and we hazard
nothing in saying, that to nine-tenths of
them, it would prove entirely acceptable
True, the leaders and II handful of restless
and ultra politicians, insist upou the right
OF the people of the slave States, to extend
the institution of Slavery into the Free
! Territories of the Union: but we speak
I advlscdly, and in the conviction that we
are we'll informed, when we assert. that
this class does not embrace one-teuth OF
the Southern people. 1t may we'll be
asked then, why all this clamor against
the North and It's determination to adhere
to the principles of the Missouri Com
promise so iniquitously repealed by Mr..
Douglas, with the aid of Northern Dough-
faces and Southern votcs2 The answer IS
Il simple one. The people o! the South,
are not permitted to know what is the
creed Of the Republican Party and what
will be its conduct when in possession OF
the Government. They are not permitted
to know, that the creed of Republicauisu
rs C"tGeHse4 ~ Us III the foregoing eG-
tract, is the political creed of Abraham
Lincoln as put forth under mis- own hand
in his contest with Douglas in 1875, and
upon which he carried majority OF tile
popular vote in Illinois. And they are
not permitted to know these facts, because
the knowledge of them. would at once and
:orcver. put an end to slavery agitation
and cause the election of Abraham Lin
coin to be hailed with enthusiasm by the
great mass of the people in every South
ern State.