Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-06

be hunted down by Elle hundred. durin6 n.
believe, more than a year, for the express
purpose of5eStendiHg slavery into it by
border-ruitiNns-uC notwithstanding all that
! excitement, nobody could be found impli-
cAted' except those at Harper's Ferry, di-
rGctlyswlth Brown, and one or.two accom-
IpliceS who had fed. No man of name. {.
not even any of the leading abolitionists
at tue North, was found concerned in il. Il
why, 1T is, as a general thing, truc, that
the nbolltionists at the North, so fur from
exciting rebellion, I are of tie Ouaker's
opinion, thntit is wrong to shed blood,
and are the most pcaceable and anict. if
tue sllliest and most misled, of people in
the world. [Baughter
Gentlemen, have. stated whatI believe
TO be the condition Of atfairs att North.
If, with these views of Mr.. Lincoln and
his leading friends, they should succeed in
reMGhing power, my Opinion is that they
will act upon these opinions; and, unless
the question is forged on them by being
raised by democratic agitation, they wiilu
let 1t rest where itfs; because they hive
nothing to accomplish, and there is no
reason why they should reopen the ques-
ton, and they declare that their only Dur-
Epose is to oppose tue extension of sluvery
| into territory now free; or, in the words of
Alr. Bntes-who is entitled TO spc0k for
thcm-in enumeratiug the opinions of Mr..
Lincoln, his personal and political friend,
"his opinions areptbat slavery is an insti-
tuition in the States. of the Stntes wl,irh
| choose to have it, md it exists within
these States beyond the control of Con-
grcss; that Congress has supreme lcpisln-
tive power over Ill the territories, and
may, ut its discretion, allow or forbid the
existence of slnVery within them, that
Congress in wisdom and sound policy
| ought so to exercise its powcr, directly
or indirectly, as to plant and establish
slavery in any territory heretofore free,
and that it is unwiso and impolitic in thu
government of the United States to ocG,irt.
tropical regions for The mere nnrnoao Of
converting them into slave States.
Then, gentlcrneil. over all the nrcscnt
territories of the United States. unless
democrats agitateto extend slavery in fact
it is settled ACCORDING TO the confessions
of the Union party, according IN iIo ,.or1s
fcssions of everybody, exceptinp MIR DONE
las upon one Side and Mr.. Breck;nri5gc
upon the other. Who is in favor of nc-
quiring more territory to rcopen the oucs-
ton? am not. Are YOU !? Tt.No nom
Is John Bell? Is Edward Everett ? 7!
Mr.. Lincoln? Not one of them which
is the party that does not frown ON the
fillibuSters; or, if rot that what nartv
eX00nSl0ns
proposed to buy Cuba. at nm exnnnsc of
$500, 600, ,OOO,-a small item of Sis OOO oO0.
interest per annum, to be saddlcd ON Won
and me; who proposed to take military
possession of Sonora and Chihuohno
which, if once gotten. wonld never bc civ
en- up? WHO was nepotiotinr treatr
which virtually inauepr3tetl n nrotcctorafc
over Mexico. which must sooner or Intcr
resolve itself into a conouest and onncxo3
ton? Not those oDposej TO the democrat
ic party.
The Democratic leaders are the persons
who alone propose to ACQUIRE additional
territory If they do ACQUIRE it. thev
must take the responsibility of the arito-
ton that will arise ont of it. That ii will
be fierce is certain: that If can he settled
is uncertain. That the acquisition can bc
prevented, aud ourht to be Drcyented is
of NIL things the most clear IF rrrot in
tcrnatioual necessities should force inon
us, contrary to our will. additional terri.
tory. take it that irrespective of the ab-
stract opinions of this Dur:v or that. IL
will Lc apt to settle itself according to the
existing condition of the territory When It
is acquired. Doubt very ,nnch If Won
were to acquire the Terra Cuyicnfe of Mex
leo Tomorrow, with the Mexican nonula-
ton dcnsely filling it, slavery could ever
be carried there for it could only be car
ricd there by consent of the pcoplc, if at
all, and the Mcxicans having abolished it
once would not be likely to Tcinstate it,
On the other hand, if YOU ACQUIRED
Cuba with its immense negro population.
no amount of opposition could prevent its
admission into the Union with its slaves
as it stood. When acquired, in other
words, the law of settlement would be the
st"tesman's law applied by Mr.. Clay to
the territory acquired from Mexico, the
stutM quo, the condition in which it when
acquired. If it is free, it is impossible in
this country ever to make it slave, for the
whole body of the northern vote is ire