Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-05-23

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wednesday Morning, Hay 2s. 1880.
oITIEEss OF WHEzIISs AID GHIO cOUST1l
After Mr.. Pierpoints able and eloquent
EXPOSITION Of the enormities Of the recent
'odious TAX upon labor yOu cannot doubt
that the election which comes of to-mOr-
row is an important one. Important, not
only ON account of the Offices to be filed,
but because the Tree working men of Ohio
county are either to begin the work of vindi-
eating their gaipst thseonstantlyin-
ereasing oppression of their worse than
Egyptian task masters, or to tacitly
acknowledge their inability to free them
selves from the meshes Of Eastern Virginia
uollcy-a policy, which has for its sole
and constant aim the destruction of all the
industrial Interests of Western Virginia
that depend upon the intelligent labor of
free white men. Under the odious assess
raeut, now about TO be made, thousands
of dollars WILDE drawn from the resources
of industry in Ohio county alone, which
viii never add one dime to its wealth or
prosperity. Ever since the day when the
Olegarchy secured their peculiar property
from the influence of taxation, that natural
concomitant of State enterprise, they have
shown no want of alacrity in availing
themselves of the advantages of railroad
and other public improvements, which
they have paid for with the taxes drawn
from the industry of the West. Little by
little, step by step, with ever increasing
strides, they have advanced in the prose-
cution of their plans of selfish aggran7
disement; now pouring the oil of fattery
into our greedy ears; now loud mouthed
in their compliments to the loyalty of the
West, fanother term for trueuIent sub
servieney,) until, believing that our highest
idea of political bliss was to bask in the
sunlight of Richmond, they have despised
MS for our want of spirit, and their con-
tempt has eliminated in legislation more
odious than that which strewed Boston
hnrbor with cargo of tea. The question
for.the men of the counting house, of the
work shop, and of every department of
labor, to begin to decide is: Have the
Democratic rulers of Virginia calculated
with unerring certainty on the submissive
disposition of the free white men of Ohio
county and of the West? Are they right
in estimating that the free laboring white
neh;; invested, as they are, with all the
sacred guarantees of Constitutional liber-
", are even more subserTient to their in
terest and dictation than the degraded
African, in that, having and knowing their
rights, they dare not assert and maintain
them2 VIII you, knowing, as you do,
that upon the manufacturing enterprise of
the City of Wheeling depends her pros
perity,-wIll you, We ask, by an unjust and
onerous tax upon your labor, uncalled for
by any sxigency of the State, suffer your
zzszIIELlI or aaOPtion. We hear you say, no
Wehear you say: We have made this
city what she Is; we have made her houses
aud lots valuable to their proprietors-hel
prosperity is the work of our hands. We
will not suffer her, in the words of the
Honorable Mr. Wilson, "to become COW
pasture" her houses habitation for FL
thy bats and gloomy owls. They tell you
that this Is not an important election, but
one Of tho political lights of Democracy
has been among them and has told them
that this election is of vital Importance
that IL the Opposition secure the prestige
of victory, the star of Democracy with its
bauefnl influence on the West, will have
set forever. Go then TO the polls remem-
bering that the Opposition has the numer-
cal strength to secure triumphant victory
If they act with unity. Lay aside all
personal preferences and vote for the men
who combine the greatest number of tue
Opposition. Remember that although the
Democratic candidates are gentlemen, they
are the standard bearers of party, who
under legal cover, are undermining your
prosperity and attacking the very com
forts of your freside.