Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-26


| And accordingly little Mr.. Wigfall, the
new Senator from Texas, is at this mo-
ment exerting his utmost strength to carry
| his small thimble full of oil to feed the
! fierce flames ofsectional strife.
We repeat that the Northern people al
most universally disclaim all right and all
| intention to NEEDLE with slavery IN the
! Southern States, by any hostile action
kwhatsoever Even the widest Abolition
| lists, in Eastern Ohio, make this disclaimer.
Tho reasons for this nou-interference on
our part are cogent, and we believe that
| our moderation in this respect will best
promote the interests of the white man
and the black. But We can not perceive
that those reasons apply to the settlement
of new territory, and especially of new
Northern territory. Considering what
slavery is, the reasons ought to be cogent,
| indeed, for carrying that institution, with
| its weakness, its poverty, its fears, its in
security, its jealousies and its crnctties,
into the bleak northern prairieS of Kansas
and Nebraska. The rage for spreading
and propagating slavery into these new re-
gions, appears as frantic, Us irrational as
rage for disseminating fever, or plague, or
leprosy. Citizens of Virginia, what inter-
est have you in the presence of few
thousand miserable bondmen on the snow
would you be happier, or richer, or more
secure? If convinced that your happi-
ness would be promoted, the citizens of
Ohio would both do and forbear q great
deal to promote such an object. But this
essay is already long enough for news
paper article, the subject will be resumed
in the next number, with an effort to
prove and illustrate every proposition
here advanced.
In the meantime, reader. pardon me in n
short depression. l would like to have q
tete a tctc with the Letchers, the Fnulkners,
the Hammonds, the Buffers, the Keitts, the
Brookses, the Browns and the Breckin-
ridges would like to ask them what
they want, what they expect? would
say to them, "You complain of no statute,
no enactment of the General Government,
and the Administration is obsequeous to
your wishes" If you complain that we,
the masses, we, the millions, arc not suf-
liciently friendly to you, will you increase
our friendship by insults and injuries, by
dissolving and destroying that national
government, which is the object of our
Yeneration and our affection? Will dis
solution and civil war remove us any fur
Their from you? Will those calamities di-
minish either our disposition or our ability
to injure you? appreciate my kinsmcn
of the Southern States. Whatever any
equal number of men can do, they can do.
They are of the true Anglo Saxon warrior
stock. Braver men never formed them
selves into battalions, or looked upon the
sun from the field of blood. But, fellow
citizens of the South, suffer not these
frantic and misguided men and their CO.
adjutors to bctray you into contest OF
physical force with your Northern breth-
rem. You cannot prevail in that contest.
The forces are too unequal. Tho dispari-
ty of power is too enormous to be over
come. Nothing but miracle could give
you the victory, and no miracle will be
wrought in favor Of whips and chains and
stocks and slave dungeons May Cod
save my country, and if this wicked and
foolish and suicidal contest must come,
then may God defend the right.
4 Sox OF THE OLD DOMINION.