Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-11-01

'ONE of our interior exchanges wishes to
know what is to be done with the slaves
when the projects of Mr. Lincoln are con-
summatcd?" They will be kept out of the
territories that are now free. That is all.
The people of new State, when it is ad-
mitted iRto the Union, will judge for
themselves whether they will have slavery
or not; and they will form their iudg-
ments unfettered by any consideration of
necessity, for the protection of slave prop
erty already recognized. AS Mr.. Lincoln
has no sprojects" of any kind relative TO
. slavery in the states where it exists, the
slaves there will remain, as they are now,
subject to the local law; and when Mis-
souri,, and other border slave States, shall
conclude, as Rhode Island and New York
and Pennsylvania did, to abolish slavery
of their own free will and in their own
way, the slaves in the other States will &c
no moro affected thereby than their ances-
tors were affected when the previous emau-
cipations took place.
Mr.. Lincoln holds TO the doctrine to
which everybody beld until recently, and
which Mr. Douglas has affirmed in the
most positive manner, that Congress has
plenary power over the territories; in the
words of Nr. Douglas, "they are subject
to the jurisdiction and control of Congress
during their infancy-thcir minority
just as n minor child is subject to the con-
troll of his father. He believes that the
advantages of free labor are so much
greater than those of slave labor, that at
some future time the present slave States
will adopt measures of emancipation, Just
as the old SLAVE States that are now free
did, in their own good time, just as
Missouri is now contemplating, just as
Henry Clay proposed in Kentucky, just as
Gov. Letcher once favored in Virginia,
just as Washington hoped for in his letters
to Lafayette and to Robert Morris, and ms
Patrick Henry in his letter to Mr.. Pleas
ants. 1t is possible that this may be an
error, but certainly it is not crime; and
if he is mistaken, he has the satisfaction
that a man has seldom been mistaken in
better company.
What would happen if the charges
falsely and most slanderously charged
upon Mr.. Lincoln and his friends
should be carried out, we need not dis
cuss. The stories belong to those who
have invented them, and who have held
up their fellow citizens as inccndinries
and assassins. 1t is plain that there are
men weak enough to credit them They
will be so soon relieved by tie exposure
of the calumnics, that it would be waste
of time to go into any discussion on this
point What Mr.. Lincoln believes, what
he means to do, if the people give him the
power: can be seen by any one who will
read his record a record not made up
for the Presidency, but written in his
previous life. His views arc cmincntlv
just, patriotic and conservative. These
we are ready to defend. The stories in
vented by his enemies we will leave to
the refutation of time and the facts. We
have no inclination to fight windmills.
If ma" -'lrU preituuru THE rluol vvm,vI-
sion of the whole world to Christianity
should be met with the charge of intend
ing to propagate his faith by the sword and
to put to death all the Jews and Mahomc-
tans, it would sound very nbsurdly. Yet
it would not be more absurd than to at
tribute such atrocious designs to the Re-
Publicans because they believe that free
labor is better for State than slavery.
WE have received quite a lengthy cont
municnt;oo from q subsor;l,ou 80 D.,,.