Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-18

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES FROM
MIR. RlVEs.
Hon. w. G. 4Rives, of this State, writes
t:infavor of Union, and maintains that what
ever South Carolina, Georgia and Ala
bama may do, there can be little doubt
that Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mis-
souri,, Louisiana, Arkonsas,. Texas, and, 1t
is to be hoped, Mississippi also. would
cordially unite in a plan Of adjustment -
He says:
These are the natural allies Of Virginia
insevcry great crisis of the Republic She
eon never divorce herself from Maryland,
I kentucky, Tennessee and North Garolina-
States which Immediately surround her,
land with which sue has so many common
interests of the most intimate and vital
lcharactcr. And when it is recolIected
that, in one half of her territory, she5is n
/ Western State, having, for that portion of
her domain, her natural outlet to the
ocean by the river Mississippi, she is, by
that circumstance us we'll us. by the large
number of her children who now people
Fits magnificent valley, linked by the ties
Iof kindred feeling aud common destiny
to those flourishing and prosperous States
which have risen to such magic wealth
and powerupon its fertile bordets.
1t is also to be remarked that the slave
tshoiding States of'the valley of the NIissis-
| sinpi, by their position on the banks of II
i.great stream, assigned BY Providence as a
common avenue Of commerce for them
selves and other powerful communitiesin-
habiting its upper parts, and having dis
Similar domestic institutions, can never
Highly regard a severance of the Union by.
Esuch liue--an event which wouldlbring
with it to them inevitable conflicts and
the danger of national controversies. and
wars, as is abundantly proved by the his
I tory OF the river when its mouth was held
by an independents aud foreig Power:
Let, then, the States have mentioned
reinforced it is to be hoped by Georgia
aud her two neighbors-unitc in her de-
mands upon the non-slaveholding States
and sNy to them frankly and plainly, but
1 soberly and kindly, that the time has come
when the authority of the Constitution.
which is the bond between them, must he
recognized, or that Union will inevitably
lperiSh that there must be no longer acts
tof State legislation, in the guisc of .'per-
sonal liberty laws, to nullify and set at
naught IL solemn and uncq:,ivocul compact
written in the Constitution that there
must be no attempts. covert or open, by
Congressional legislation to nssnil or lln-
Idermine their domestic institutions and
THAT their full and perfect equality under
/ tue ConstitUtion,zas cn-States of the Fed
erll Union, must he loyalty acknowledged
land faithfully respected. As these were
the terms, well understood on all sides, on
which they came into the Union. so they
are the only terms, consistent with honor
Tor justice or seif-respect, on witch they
can be expected to remain in it.
The justice and reasonablencss of such
a demand, urged with the solemn earnest-
ness and dignity which the occasion inn
Fports, cannot failstOa be leeded, if not by
all, by the major orsmost important part
of our confederates. PENNSYLVANIA and
New Jersey ever loyal and true to the
I lunion-who have stood firmly by their
\ Southern brethren in the most trying ne
lriods of their history, both before and
Esince the adoption of the Constitution
would, am persuaded, feel and acknowl-
ledge its justice.
l. New Jersey has already given her an
Iswer in advance, to such an appeal bv her
vote in the Presidential election; and al
though Pennsylvania voted differently in
THAT contest, it must he borne in mindthat
There were issues supposed to be involved
in the election atiecting the peculiar inter-
tests fiber industrial system, (which doubt
Hess mainly influenced her vote When
ever IN issue shall be presented on the
4 preservation, by her good faith aud LOYALTY
of that tnion,of which it is her proudest
boast to be regarded rs the Keystone, no
one copversant witllher history can doubt
where Pennsylvania will be found.
Nor can doubt, when theIday of soI-
emn decision shall arrive, that the powers
full Northwestern States-taRen out oftbe
tside of Virginia, whose children. are still
i widely .diffused among their bold apGgen=
1 'Eterprising5 popnla tion-b ordering, as they
lido, on Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Mis-
lsouri, rs we'll as on Virginia, nndshavinr
/ a common interest With the slaveholding
Snates occupying the hanks of the MiSsfs@.
| sippi i'll the use of the great Mediterrane-.
Ian channel of intercourse and trade, will.
trally with those States, cordially and
frankly, to n Union of equal rights, of.jus-
tiGe and fraternity. - ,.ss
+ When ne turn our eyes again to the
eastward, we connot doubt on what side
will. be fonnd the imperial city, the centre
1iof american industry and commerce-in.
herself sovereign power-With ait her
vast connected tnterestsnnd dependencies.
Tito the Internal question now involving
the State of New York-many of them
deeply affecting the intettstsaof the city,
liberadded the supreme-one OF "a dissolution
ofkthe Uniont it is not AN improbable
event. amid dthesrcvolutionsso the empire.
that we shalt see the southern position of
the State, comEreheRdipg thecitY Ssepa-
rated troI9. the res t.lnl formed into anew
apd independent State, firmly .adhering to-