Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-11-12
A Cotton COnfedlerNc cy--TIle 7EHect on
the Border Slave States.

the Border Slave states.
We find in the Kanawea (ya. Republican
the following vivid sketch of the conse-
quences likely to arise from the destruc-
ton of the Union and the formation of a
Cotton Confederacy:
'Butlet us come little nearer home;
let us take a practical, common sense view
ofthe matter. How are we Of the border
to be affected by such step2 What will
be the result, so far as We are concerned2
In the first place, negro property-aud tits
about this property that the whole difficult
ty has grown up-will disappear, for no
one will risk an investment so insecure
All the negroes TINT do not run of, will be
taken South and sold at rates ruinously
low, because of the large number thus
thrown into market, Next, we do not
raise cotton; and we will be overpowcred
by the cotton interest, for bear in mind
that our Contederacy is to be founded on
the idea that "Cotton is King,n and all
other interests are to be made snbservient
TO that. Again: We are as yet without
manufactures, and our supplies must come
from distance.
Sofnr, we have gone on the presumption
that the Union will be dissolved peace
ably, but who dreams of any such thing?
No one, except such ''rctired philosopher"
as Willoughby Newton. The other Dis
union leaders are of the same stamp. But
how long would it be, if We dissolved
peoceably, before we would be involved
in civil war? not thirty DAYS. The first
negro that ran off-rhc first difficulty that
occurred between individuals on the oppo-
site sides of the Ohio river, would be
magnihcd into national aggressions; then
would come reclamotions and encroach-
ments from one side and from the other,
taunts, jeers, and II thousand things to stir
up i'll feeling and hot blood, and Immediate
ly the whole border would be involved in
strife and civil war. Bloodshed and house
burning, rnpine, famine, aud midnight for.
ages would be the order of the day all
along the border, and only on the border.
And when this occurred, who would do
the fighting? The brave sons of the soil;
and who would pay the expenses? The
men who did the fighting. Who would
run all the risks and get none of the pro-
hts? The men who bore the expenses
The citizens of every border county would
be organized as standing army. loaded
with taxes and crushed by high prices
for they would have to buy all their sup
plies. And what will be ali our remuner-
alton for all this2 Read it in the forsaken;
plllaged homes, and smiling farms unten-
anted; our hills and valleys, now vocal
with thrift, and industry, aud joyous in
peace, depopulated and waste. Instead of
cultivated fields, lowing herds, bleatinp
tlocks, and loaded vineyards, the wild beasts
and the forests. will assert and resume their
sway. Instead of the ring of the wood
mans axe, the merry carol of the boy at
his plow, the hammer aud saw of the ar
tlsan, and the mechanic, will be heard the
crack of the deadly rifle, the tread of arm.
ed men, the rattle of the drum and boom
ing of cannon, the wall of the widow and
the cryof the orpan. And instead of the
peaceful sleep of the lnboring man, he
will have to stand sentinel over his own
premises; lest his little Rll be DESTROYED,
aud his house burned over his wife aud
children. Read the history of civil war
in Kansas, and say whether you can look
with desire upon such future. But they
say we will not suffer alone; the other side
will suffer as muchas VIC. Grant it. Does
that make our position any more dcsirable2
Not one whit; and this is but q tame pic
tuTe OF what disunion would be on our
borders. AMI when this all comes, where
will your disunion leaders be? All of
them at a safe and healthy distance from
the scene of turmoil and conflict winch
they have involved us in. They will have
no fears for The contest, Though it cost
us the last cent in our purses, and the
last drop of blood in our veins, they know
it will be given, and given freely if they
can only manage 10 "precipitnte revoln-
ton" They know that with the strong
arms and stalwart frames and brave hearts
of the border, between them and n North
ern Confederacy, they have nothing to fear.
They know that there the fight will begin,
there the fight viii continue, and there tho
fight will end, although thereby that bor-
.derwill be prostrHted in every interest that
enhances prosperity, or aids the progress
aud happiness of a people.
We write these things with solemn
conviction of the dangers and difficulties
into which these disuhion leaders hurry
US, and we earnestly beg our readers to
ponder them in all seriousness"