Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-23

only instance OF n complaint OF the klnu
was when the early inhabitants of Indiana
and Illinois complained of the legislation
of Congress in confirmation of the ordi-
nance of 1887 excluding slavery, and
asked for its repeal. Their amable re-
quest for authority 10 employ the chain
and the seourge. was firmly refused hy
Congress, and was sternly rehnked by
John Randolph, of Roauoak. And mil
lions now have, and increasing millions.
in all time to come. will have reason TO
bless the refusal. As mere spontaneous,
volunteer measure, the Kansas bill violated
another canon of sound legislation, that is.
that all legislation should he practical,
! calculated 10 supply a present want, or re-
move IL present grievance. If the legisia-
tive history OF the Anglo Saxon race tor q
thousand years past, has been in the main
a history of eminent success, it has been
owing to this, its practical character
| Legislators of the race, both i'll England
and America, have generally refused to
follow after the jack lantern lights of
untried theory aud speculation. Hence
their success while the legislative attempts
of other races and nations, not guided by
the light of experience, but indulging IN
visionary ideas and theories of useless and
unattlinable perfection, have almost uni
vcrsully and ANONYMOUSLY failed. y
1854 will confirm the truth Of these prim-
ciples The territories to which the COM
promise measures of 1850 were applied,
| had some population; those measures were
practical, were urgently demanded by the
| exigcncies of the times, and they brought
| peace The territories of Kansas and Ne
hraska had no population. The Kansas
and Nebraska bill was demanded by no
exigency of the times, was founded on
visionary and speculative ideas, produced
! feeling throughout the Northern and
! Western States, precisely like that of son
| suddenly and unexpectedly disinheritcd
! by II capricous alteration in his fathers
will, and brought not peace, but sword.
| Much more Sin sorrow than i'll anger.
implore my Southern kinsmen TO think
| of these things. When a man has vio-
lent quarrel with his neighbor: when he
begins to resolve that law suits and iiuga-
ton shall no longer suffice: that lac
must, positively, provide himself with an
arsenal of canes and clubs, and dirks and
derlngers, and bowic-knives and pistols,
and rifles and revOverS, it is advisable for
him to pause and reflect whether hc has
really exhausted all pacific cxpcdientS.-
Whether i'll short, Il slight change OF his
own conduct, might not save all necessity
for his homicidal preparation. Certain
| am that such pause will be agreeable
to the dictates OF morality Aud II his
ncighbor is much his superior in personal
strength, in opulencc, in the number OF
his brawny sons. and ncphews, and de-
pcndents and retaincrs, it will also be
agreeable to the maXms OF wiSdom.-
Now, my Southern friends and kinSmcn,
in all earnestncss, | ask you, can you not
abate little of your fierce and furious
spirit of pro-slavcry propngandism? Can
In q lnSS ms
your ebony institution? Can you not
sometimes refrain from obtruding it on
our lOathing and unwilling attention ?
Can YOU not be Il little less eager, little
less active in encouraging and rewarding,
those flIibustrrs, who in other countries,
commit all those crimes on n gigantic
scale. which you so much disapprove in
Old John Brown, Then only attempted,
in miniature, on the soil of Northern Nir-
gina? Can You not be a little less zeal
Gus, little less determined i'll protecting
and defending those miscreant slave
traders, whose crimes excite more horror.
more intense Indignation in the minds of
the Northern people than the crimes of
any other set of assaSsinS and rntlinns
upon earth. Can you not refrain from
driving your free negroes over upon us
by the fear of penalties worse than death?
Can you not even provide some little
mitigation of the hard lot of those myriads
of miserable bOndmen, who gronn upon
your own soil? Finally, can you not
adopt manners little more conciliatory,
and sentiments II little more Eraternal to-
wards the inhabitants of those mighty
empires, for they are nothing less
than mighty empires, which are situated
upon your Northern and Western borders?
| ask all this, but ask for no sacrifice of
Southern honor. The Northern people
ask for nothing of the kind. They desire
no such sacrifice. Our Southern fellow
citizens are cndearcd to us not only by
consnnguinity, hut by fourteen centuries
of common history Our common anccs-
tors, fought side by side, shoulder to
shoulder, on the bloody fields of Poictiers
and AginCOurt, as well as of Saratoga and
Yorktown. We can never be indifferent
to the honor or the welfare Of any portion
of the great, mighty, dominant and impc-
rial Anglo Saxon race But on the con-
trary always anxious to point them to the
road OF true happiness and lasting renown
The subject will be resumed in our next
number. In some future number the snh-
scriber will undertake to Show that the
nnti-slnyery sentiments of the Northern
aud Western States are only the inevitable
offspring OF advancing refinement and
civilization, and therefore constitute no
just or rational ground of cnnity or
offence. Not only so, but that those
sentiments arc the sentiments of universal
humanity, outside of the immediate in
lluence of the unhappy institution, and
that the Northern States, in respect 10 it,
are still tagging far in the rear of Europe.
\ Son OF THE OH DOMINION.