Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-11-10
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individuals, and makes states ovefbearing I
and iutolerant as States. And it is
the constant never endiagand- still |
beginning exactions Of this institution that
has nnde the NORTH unwilling any longer /
to subordinate the goycrnmentinto mere
machine for the endorsement and propaga-
ton Of each new spoAed-child demand |
that it may make They have borne and |
struggled and acquiesced with a patience
that might be called stolid in less In
telIigent people. They took all the un-
equal burdens ofthe compromises of 1850
and with hearty good will gave the South
the President of her choice in '52.-t
They bore the gross inFraction of all
plighted faith on the part of the south in
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
and gave her another President of her
choice, in SO. Aud;not onlytthat, bat GU
the top Of that they gave her everything
she asked for in the last Congress. Her
six millions of population were rep-
resented at the head.of thfrtY-three stand.
ing committees In the Senate and House,
while the great fourteen millions of the
north were represented but by fourteen.-
Such strong nItraists aaSenators Mason and
Hunter, of3this State, Clay, of Alabama,
Davis, Of Mississippi, Mallory, of Florida,
Bayard, Of Delaware, Yulee, of Florida,
johnson, of Arkansas, Benjamin, of Louisi-
ana, Sebastian, of Arkansas, Toombs, of
Georgia, Iyerson, of Georgia, Brown, of
Mississippi, and Green, of Missouri, were
made chairmen Of all the important COM
mittees-such us shape the whole legis-
lation of the country-those: for instance,
such as the committees on Foreign Rela-
tons, Finance, Commerce, Military affairs,
Naval affairs, Judiciary, Post-ofice, Pub
lie Lands, Private Land Claims, Indian.
affairs, Territories, &C., &C., while such
as Seward and Fessenden and Trumbull,
and even Crittenden, were made to tail
some poor, pitiful little, no account com
mittees, or else not appointed on anything.
Aud yet the North has not peevishIy COM
plniued. She has uttered no threats
She has borne it all with a patience that
can only be called maguanimous. 1t has
completely unouopolized all the places of
honor and profit in the Government, both
at home and abroad; that she has at this
time nearly four hundred more uppointecs
in Office at Washington City than the North
has; that she has always enjoyed this mo-
nopoly; that she has had the majority of
the Presidents and cabinet officers, from
the commencement; that the high Office of
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has
never been filed but nine years in all from
the North, and that the Associate Justices
have been scarcely less disproportioned.-
of all this discrimination agaist her, the
North has not roloar pireo5- iI1.aIe, ipBf
we may say, without murmur. Neither
has she turbuleutly complained that while
the Slave States have taken the "lion's
share" of the territory purchased, the free
States have had to pay three-fourths of the
purchase money: nor yet that she is
Obliged to foot the Post-offce and other
deficiencies. OF all these things she has
made no burdensome complaint, we saw
And now look at the contrast. A State
''NS SNuLo SaEoi1uA--luaL naS always been
stall-fed and pampered with indulgence
and preference; that has been-if it were.
perhaps, not too inyidious to say, it-a
charge upon the Government. She sets
up to secede, simply because the patience
of the North is worn out with vain en-
de"yors to couciliate this slavery propagan-
ing spirit within reasonable bounds; sim
ply because she has determined constitu-
tionally to keep such source of endless
complaint, trouble, expense and aristocrat-
&c exactiou, out of the territories that have
never yet been cursed with it. This the
North has decided to do, and in conse-
quence, South Carolina now leads off in a
secession movement. The great popular
voice of the country will say to her: Ia
grateful recuisant; you will be glad enough
to get back to our friendly union, when
some intestine insurrectiou or other woe.
full mishap befals You.