Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-07


vested in laboriug men? Did ever free
representative legislature, invested with
powers so great, and with the guardianship
of matters so important, or trusts so sacred,
of interests SO precious, and hopes at once
so noble and so comprehensive, surrender
them all so unnecessarily, so unWisely, so
fatally, and SO ingloriously2 If it be true
as every instinct of our nature and preCept
OF political experience teaches us, that
Gnl fares the land, to hasteninE ills prey,
Where wealth Accumulates, and men decay"
then where in Ireland, in Italy, IN Holland
or in Hungary, has any ruler prepared for
generous and confding people disap--
pointments, disasters and calamities equal
- those which the government of the Uui-
ted States holds now suspended over
large portion ofthe Of North Am
erica,
-
You say that the Republican party is
sectional one. Is the democratic party
less sectional2 Is it easier for you to bear
your sectional sway than for US to bear
ours2 Is it unreasonable that for once we
should alternate2 But is the Republican
party sectional? Not unless the democrat
ic party is. The Republican party prevails
in the House of Representatives some
times; the democratic party in the Senate,
always. Which of the two is the most
proscriptive? Come, if you will, into the
free states, into the state of New York,
anywhere from Lake Erie to Sag Harbor,
among my neighbors in the Owasco Val
lev. Hold your conventions, nominate
your candidates, address the people, sub
nit to them, fully, earnestly, eloquently,
all your complaints and grievances of
northern dislOyalty, oppression, pertidy;
keep nothing back, speak just as freely
and as loudly there as you do here. You
will have hospitable welcomes, and aPPre-
ciating audiences, with ballot boxes open
for all the votes you can win. Are You
less sectional than this? Extend to US the
same privileges, and / illengage that you
will very soon have in the South us many
Republicans MS we have democrats in the
North There is, however u better test of
nationality than the accidental location of
parties. Our policy of labor in the terri
tories was not sectional in the first forty
years of the republic. Its nature adheres.
1t will be national again, during the third
forty years, and forever afterward. II is
not wise and beucficent for US alone or
injurious to you alone. Its effects are
equal, and the same for US all.
You accuse the Republican party of
ulterior and secret designs. How can
party that counts its votes in this land OF
free speech and free press by the hundreds
of thousands, have any secret designs?-
Who is the conjurer, and where are the
hidden springs by which lie can control
its uncougregated and widcly-di6persed
masses and direct them to objects unseen
and purposes unavowed? But what are
these hidden purposes2 You name only
one. That one is to introduce negro
equality among you. Suppose we had the
power to change your social system, what
warrant have you for supposing that we
should carry negro equality among you?-
We know, and we will show you, if you
will only give heed, that what our system
of labor works out, wherever it works out
anything, is the equality of white men,
The luborer in the free States, no matter
how humble his occupation, is white
man, and he is politically the equal of his
employer. Eighteen of our thirty-three
States are free-labor States. There they
are: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu-
setts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan. Illinois, Indiana, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, California anu
Oregon. do not array them in contrast
with the capital States. am no assail-
ant of States. All of the states are par
cells of my own country-the best of them
not so wise and great as am sure it will
hereafter be; the State least developed and
perfect among them all is wiser and better
than any foreign State / know. Is 1t
then in any, and in which, of the States
have named that negro equality ohends
the white mans pride? Throughout the
wide world, where is the State where
class and caste are so utterly distinguished
as they are in each and every one of them2
Let the European cmigrnnt, who avoids
the African as if his skin exhaled conta-
gion, answer. You find him always in
the State where labor is ever free. Did
Washington, Jefferson and Henry, when
they implored you to reliuquish your
system and accept the one We have
adopted, propose to sink you down to the
level of the African, or was it their desire
to exalt NIL white men to common politi-
cal elevation?
Butwe do notseek to force or even intrude
out system on you. We are excluded just
", wisely and contentedly from all polite
al power in your capital states. You are
sovereigus on the subject of slavery within
your own borders. It is well and wisely so
arranged. Use your authority to maintain
whatever system you please. We haTe
wisely, as we think, exercised onrs topro-
tect and perfect the manhood of the mem
bers of the state. The whole sovereignty
upon domestic concerns within the Union
is divided between US by unmistakable
boundaries. You have your fifteen parts
we eighteen parts, equally distinct. Each
must be maintained that the whole may be
preserved. If ours shall be assailed, with
in or without, by an enemy, or for any
cause, and We shall have need, we shall
expect you to defendit. If yours shall be
assailed, in the emergency, no matter
whnt the pretext, or who the foe,we shall
defend your sovereignty as equivalent to
our own. We cannot accept your system
of capital or ethics. That would be to
or subvert our own, which we
esteem to be better. Besides, if we could,
what need would there be of division in
to states at all2 You are equally at iber-