Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-23
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1Yhn IL for n Cont of Tar mud Fe 0thers!

Prom the y. Y Post
who Is for n Coat of Tar and Feathers!
Probably there are few of our readers
who would like to be smcared with tar
and then equipped with covering OF
feathers Nor would many of them, we
fancy, be much delighted with receiving
thirty-nfpe lashcs with n cOw-skin, well
laid ON. y ride on a rail might be less
unpleasant but VIC doubt whether many
of them would think it an agreeable dl-
version. To come down TO matters of less
moment, we do not suppose that they
would take pleasure i'll being summary
expelled from the country for the offence
of speaking their minds respecting po-
litical institution which they desired to re-
form. or that they would be even satisfied
to have the newspapers for which they
| subscribed, withheld from them by the
creatures of the government. y re"sona-
BILE man. let him live in what part OF the
country he might, would, we are sure,
pardon any of our readers for not takinga
fancy TO be treated in either Of the ways
we have enumerated.
| In saying this we but state some OF the
objections to the extension of slavery
which have not hitherto received the at
tcntion they deserve. We of the free
States object to lcgalizing the relation OF
master and slave in the territories, be-
cause, if slavery goes thither, we are not
allowed to 90. If is true that those who
favor the enlargement of the area OF slave
ry tell us that, although they claim tue
right of carrying it into the territories, yet
the moment the inhabitants OF any terri
tory in which it is established frame their
constitution, they have the liberty to abol-
ish it.
That is not true; every mail that we re-
., Il cf0 evidence
that it is false Wherever slavery goes,
whether into a territory or a state, there is
no longer any liberty of speech or even OF
thought i'll regard to that question. II any
man denies its benefits, the practice of the
day is to mob him, to shave his head on
one side, to push him off n railway train
TO the danger of his life, to tar and feather
him, to give him public fogging. If he
simply comes from the North, his trunks
are opened, his baggage searched for in
cendiary publications; if a northern news
paper is found, he is subject for lynch
lay; if the search be fruitles, he is warned
to leave the state Immediately. bare
suspicion Of abolitionism is enough to
cause the unfortunate traveller TO be elected
from the community without further cere-
mony. A man selling maps, who never
troubled himself to know whether he was
an aboIitionist or not, is admonishcd that
he is regarded as dangerous parsonage,
and obliged to dccamp with the first train.
Commercial travellers who attend Union
meetings at home, and do their best to keep
on good terms with the shareholders, are
met by committees, who tell them that
they will save their friends at the North
great deal of anxiety by making the best
of their way back again.
Is not the theatre in which these cnOrmi-
1VTrIN OH fl1- hat
must we open to them all that mighty ter
r.tory which lies between the states on the
Atlantic and those on the Pacific coast 2
Are we, are citizens of the free states, COM
prising two-thirds of the whole population
of the Union, ready to introduce into the
territories system which will bar the
whole of that vast region against us and
against our children? Are we willing that
the territories should become part of the
country into which we cannot enter with
out the certainty of being mobbed and the
danger of losing our lives; in which we
cannot express our opinions on pubic
questions with that freedom which has
heretofore been the boast of our institn
tions; in which we cannot read what books
we please, and into which the newspapers
of the free states, for the very reason that
they discuss public questions freely, arc
not allowed to circulate? Are we ready
to establish over those extensive regions
censorship of opinions and censorship of
the press which shall make residence
in them impossible TO a northern man de-
serving of the name of freeman?
Yet this is precisely what we are asked
to do The institution of slavery, when it
reaches its full and consumnHtc growth,
which it now seems 10 have done in the
southern states, demands all these sacri-
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