Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-30
Yours very truly. Z
-WM Il WO0I
West Roxbury, Nov. Is, 1860.
Emancipation Movement in Virginia.

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Emancipation Movement in Virginia.
In answer to Mr.. Wise's disunion PROPOSE
tions Wheeling paper says that if Eastern
| Virginia goes out of the Union, Western Vir-
| gina will not, but will remain in the Union
las free State. There are indications that
| the conflict, long preparing, between the East
ern and Western sections of irginia on the
slavery question, will develop itself rapidly and
powerfully after the Presidential election
There is in Western Virginia deeply seated
| jealously and dfstrust of the Eastern section.
The east is the slaveholding and slave breed
| ing section; the west is comparatively free
The east monopolizes most of the State and
Federal offices, and its leading politicians are
of the rabid, fre-eating stripe, who keep up a
constant ferment on the slavery question
The east has managed to control the State
policy and TO establish an unfair system of tax
| atfe4l which throws the burdens of the Gov
ernment unfairly upon the west. The western
people are tired of this state of things and do
| not hesitate to avow their purpose to compel
reform. And since the shareholders of the
| east will not listen to the just demands Of the
western people the latter have determined up
on a vigorous emancipation movement. If an
extra session of the Virginia Legislature
should be called at the instance of Wise and
the fire-eating Democrats, the question will be
precipitated, and the -Alleghanians will
set themselves decidedly against all such trea-
sonable folly.
The strength of the free-fabor cause in west
fern Virginia is TO be much increased by col
ony of forty or fifty thousand Frenchmen who
are to settle in the Kanawha coal region, in
the course of the year. The company by
whom they are to be introduced have lately
purchased the James river and Kanawha ca
nal, aud some millions Of acres in Kanawha
| and Boone counties, embracing The richest
! coal lands in the State, and with their abun
dapt capital and extensive operations they
will give new impulse to the developments
of that part of the State,
This will greatly help the emancipation
party. 1t is for the interest of both sections
of Virginia to be rid of slavery. The Old
Dominion would grow in population and
wealth with magical rapidity If the incubus of
slavery were thrown off and free emigrants in
vited in. The people in the western part of
the State understand this, and they know too
that they bear heavy and unequal burdens of
taxation on account of the slave system, in
which they have no interest. They will move
against it with a will when they do move, and
an organization has already been commenced
for the purpose, which will become more bold
and active after the general government has
passed into Republican hands and the peliti-
Clans of the Eastern section are shorn of the
power and plunder given them by Democratic
administrations We look to see gallant
struggle with slavery in Virginia, and it will
not be surprising if it shall free itself quite as
soon rs Missouri from slavery and slavery pol
iticans.-[Spring Republican,.
The wheat crop in Logan couaty, KY, and
the adjoining sections of tbe State, is said tc