Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-28
WHEELING, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH %, 1860.

tion OF European powers, ut least posi-
bic event? Have we not right 10 guard
against possible danger? And how are we
best 10 guard against dangers, except by
adopting that system which Couduces most
to national greatness. wealth and strength.
As to the citizens of Ohio, have we not
right, as patriots, to rejoice in the pros
perity and greatness Of Pennsylvania, New
York and Massachusetts? Are we not
the better of it? Do we not occupy
higher national position in consequence of
it? Are we not thereby more secure from
insult and aggression? Have we not as
phi!arthropisls, u right 10 rejoice in the
animatiEg picture of happiness and pros
perity presented by these great Common
wcalths and the remainder of the corstel-
lati3n of free States? If Virginia, by dis
ct-Ging the wretched and ruinous system
of slave labor, had preserved her place AS
first i'll the coniederacy, with four or FIVE
millions of free, happy and opulent inhab-
itants, would not our situation in Ohio
bave been still more happy, still more en-
viablc? Would not the Southern States
themselves, if their -remOrselss dema-
gogues would let them alone, be infinitely
better OFF for the prevalence of the free
labor system in the North and West? Is
not our commerce with them more extern
sivcaud more valuable in consequence OF our
free institutions? Could the petty wealth
and scanty population, which are the in
cviIable concOmitants of a system OF forced
labor, possibly supply the materials of
such a vast commerce as that supported
by our mighty population and growing
wealth? In case of great war, or, as
Edmund Burke termed it, - long war;
with some first rate power, would the
Southern States be no better of i'll conse-
quence OF the wealth, the numbers and
the belligerent force of the free States p
And if the free labor syetem has been
productive of such happy. such desirable
results in New York and Pennsylvania,
why not give it trial III Kansas aud
Nebraska? Yet every sentiment, every
aspiration of national patriotism is ruth i.
lcSsly checked by self constituted South
ern dictators, whose naughty language
and impcrious tones would stir up
TO resistance meeker men than we
can pretend to be. In fact. we are
told in almost categorical language, that
we may stHdy history, Jurisprudence, po-
litical economy and philosophy if we con-
fne our '.speculations' to our own closets,
if we merely enjoy them there, as dreamy
philosophers" But we mnst never attempt
10 reduce our opinions to practice. We
the millions; we the pIcbian people, must
never pretend to exert the slightest intlu-
ence on the destiny OF this great North
American continent. That destiny must
be entirely worked out by the naughty
little nristocracy of shareholders. II is
none of your business. ''If the territories
want slavery let them have slavery" This
is substantially the language of MIR. Doug
las in his late reply to Seward And Mes
sicurS Medary aud Black in their late vetOs
supply the corollary. They say that if the
territories want freedom they shall not
have freedom. Mr.. Douglas, you are be-
coming an adept in the language of your
Southern masters. But Won need not speak
out so sternly. We have been aware of
the matter for good while. Ii we choose
to act in favor of slavery, we are to have
the very largest liberty of action, but, if
we choose to act for liberty then We are to
have no liberty al all. In his speech, so
often alluded TO, Mr.. Wigfall tells US with
the most magisterial air, and themost con-
descending candor, that mo black RcPub-
lican can evcc he inaugurated President
nd lie gloats, he triumphs, he exults over
the picture which he draws Of the heads of
our emiueEt citizens carried along on pixies
by n ruthless mob, reduced TO famine and
desperation by the ebony war which he
and his Southern allies are 10 wage upon
US. aye Christian dogs, ye know your
doom. The Koran or the Scimetar, cir
cumcision or the sabre" THIS was the
language employed by the caiiPhs of the
SaracenS toward their Christian prisoners
when the crescent was blazing, when Ma
hommct was Il mighty and growing power.
There was Il sublimity in its ntrOcIty. The
conquering rUiIians had power TO put their
threats into execution, Napoleon in his
table talk, once remarked to the Able De
Pradt that there was but one step from
the snblimc to the ridiculous. And
when Texas threatens such Commonwealth
rs Indiana, lllinois, Ohio, New York and
Pennsylvania, that step is taken. It is
weakness, threatening strength. U God
o God, unless we are more imbeciic and
stupid than the natives Uf China, more
soft and effeminate than the native of Ben
gal, we will check this insolence. The
most base and servile gang OF slaves, in
the 5ultriest Southern cotton field, cannot
vie with us in baseness and servility, if we
submit. The language of this man is the
very quintcssencc Of all imDudrncc. of all
mnliguity. ''If these men only knew that
the South was in earnest, they would keep
quiet. They are not the men to coin their
hearts blood into drachmes.' Is not this
the ne 5,c~s ultra of human iusoleuce!!!
Fellow citizens, again implorc You to
come out in your strength, to the next Ma
tional election and make civic revolu-
ton Aud put in an Administration, who
will fairly exert the natioual strength to
sweep from the seas the Piratical slave
trader, whose crimes cry to HeaYeni and
sweep from the land the ruffian fl!ibuster,
who is making our once honored name to
stink in the nostriIs of all the civilized ma
tions of the earth. Aud which will give
these men no opportunity to display that
doughty valor, in the promise of which,
they are now so prodigaI. IF any man
chooses to vote for the Southern candi-
date, believing that he will thereby pro-