Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-21

eSty and integrity OF large poFlOu OI
the corps editorial, who would not know
ingly bear false testimony against their in-
nocent neighbors, yet unfortunately We
have few partiZan scamps, who, for
petty consideration paid in paltry gold,
would aid in carrying into execution the
Judgment of Pontius PLATE. Those who
know them will know what value to place
upon their accusations. Who are the ruff
6eus that have couspired to do this afro
cious deed? Dc not dwell in geueralitieS,
but name them, give us time, place and
person. Who nre the rufiaus? Alas, we
know too we'll, who they are. We know
all that we are ever likely to know. Ev-
cry one of them has suffered either in the
Armory ut Harprr's Ferry or on the gall
lows at CharleStown. And the acts OF
their leader were the undisguised acts of
mndman. OF the total population of JEFF
ferson county, the whites were Il little
more than two-thirds, the blacks free and
enslaved, a little less than One-third. The
exact numbers at the last census were as
follows: whites lO,476; free colored $40;
slaves 4,34l; majority of whites above all
others 5,5es.
Would any man fairly and honestly en-
titled to leave off his straight waistcoat,
think of commencing slave insurrectiOn
in such a community? Would not any
man fairly entitled to escape from the re-
straints of that very inconvenient garment,
know that us the free have laws, learning,
discipline and organization in their favor,
the enslavcd must, in order to have the
remotest chance of success, have an i'm
mcnSc superiority of numbers and physical
force. But in Jefferson county, Virginia,
the superiority of numbers and physical
force was two fold on the side of the whites.
even if every slave and every free black
should Join the inSurrection, which no sane
man would expect. Again, would any
sane man commence his campaign where
the railroadw ould enable the government
to concentrate forces upon him almost Gd
infnituu? Had old Brown been at the
head of twenty thousand men instead of
twenty, his capture would only have been
u question of time and of very minnie,
insignificant portion of time, where the
railroads were ready to bring on men from
the East and the West, the North and the
South. at the rate of thirty or forty miles
an hour. Old Brown denied his insanity;
what madman ever acknowledged his in
sanity? We may lament his insanity and
its horrible results, but we abhor his
crimes us much IS any citizen of Virginia
can Conscious of the goodness of our
cause we want the aid of no such reason
ers as Old John Brown, i'll the conduct OF
this great argument Even IT proh!ga-
CN ana treason SitilIl ulNG 50 ihI iOA iiiCN
their work as to have produced II dissolu-
ton and civil war, we will deal with
them a5 best We may, without the aid Of
drivelers and madmen. We again demand,
and we make the demand in the name of
Justice, of truth, of e"erythlng holy, II
any man in the free States has used lam
guage intended or calculated to incite ruff
| fans to murder our brethren in the slave
| States, point him Out-name him; let US
know i'm, in order that scorn may forever
point its slow, unmoving finger at him.
But we shall say no more as to this charge.
1t is false false to the knowledge of those
who make it. Old Brown still has import,
ant functions to perform. He is now and
long will be political raw-head and
bloody bones to frighten simPietousi just
as the genuine cold critter" is used by
nurses to frighten children. Even at the
moment of this present writing paragraphs
are going the rounds OF the press North
and South, to the effect that hllibnsterS are
mastering aud collecting in great numbers
in our Southern cities, preparing to invade
! Mexico and the countries further South.
They are preparing to commit arson, rape,
robbery, murder-in one word, all manner
of atrocities, on large scale, amongst
| people who never offended them. Yet no
Old Brown thunder is expended on these
| iadvcnturers The national power of peace
and war is tamely surrendered to them
and hy this means we are rapidly acquir-
ing n character amongst the other nations
of the earth, similar to that formerly pos
sessed by Tetuan and Oran and Old AL
gicrs. But then the secret of this is that
they are going to ''eplarge the area of
freedom" Yes, they arc going to enlarge
the area of freedom by spreading system
of slavery as horrible, as merciless as any
| that deformS the face of Gods fair earth.
And it is for this system that the keItts,
the Hammonds, the Browns, the Barksdales
and the Toombses threaten to make
ruthless war upon us unless we tamely
submit to see it spread all over the North
American continent. If we tamely submit
to their demands, one set of people will
fully deserve to be slaves, aud we will be
that PEOPLE.
Fellow-citizens, here feel disposed to
make a solemn pause. We are come to
the very crisis of the struggle between the
powers OF good and of evil, of right, and
of wrong. In our Southern neighbOrs we
can see the decentralization, which the in
stitution of slavery produces amongst an
otherwise great, noble. and generous tenn
pered people. We are called upon by
considerations, the most pressing, the
most urgent, the most cogent, to abandon
our mere private and personal affairs,
neglect them, cast them to the winds,
until we make ample preparations to stay
the spreading plague of pro-slaVery lePro-
sy. Ny Fellow-CitizenS, you will soon
have the opportunity to exercise the cleo
tive franchise again. Come from mountain
and glen, from hill and vale, from forest
and field, from workshop and counting
house, come from every habitatiOu in city
or county, in town or village. Come in
your might Come as the tempest, when
navies are stranded. Come AS the storm
comes, when forests are rendcd. Come
and make civic revolution Come and
hurl from power, which it so much dis
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