Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-29

settled by the moYements OF Virginia.
gu SSpnot make a move In the way Of Sc
session in Virginia without prerinftatine-
MARYLAND. know IL; yon7 cannot do rs
Maryland, connected to you Gy every lie
that can connect one State with another !.
6y all C4r common rights and interest In,
the Potomac and the ghesap her
magnificent raiIroad. Eliminating at two.
points within your isrrltory-W Wheeling,
and Parkersbnrg--t tFgyerstng the whole
extent OF your northet9 and nortli-western.
E.et 9orders-will yon 60 out BY separate
!StAte. - action without e9psulting Maryland )
tasrepy Precipit9ting her into. the most
Iaiplui q and difficult Position in which u
SsIate can be placed, Pettilg her into. the.
hands OF the Federal Government with NIL
the power of that Gaysrnnlent mon her
But again, Sir, wliafe s. the Old North.
State, the lend of athAniel Macon, typical
US p be was Of North caFolins,; slow but.
wise, hard, 70 come up1 til tnafk 1t mny
9e' but firm and tppsssable when she
a9gs coms-yShe is s. eFth Carolina?
Why, Mr. President; ;if You, pass, an. or.
9lnance y Of SECESSION, ypll cAuu0t get 10 the
Southern ConfederPc cy hnleSs North Caro-.
lima goes with you, foE, she lies between,
yon and Georgia, There Is evidently no
disposition on her pRri 70 secede. A ma.
lority OF her votes haze been cast against
9 Convention. She refuses eyen to. cali a
Convention to ronstdsE the question of
secession, resting, calmly upon her dignity
and upon her rights,
And then what do you say of Tennessee
Tennessee, daughter of North
Carolina, which borders your territory and
receives from you the waters of the Clincb
Youaku6E the character
and sentiments OF her ipe6pte-true. brave
and iloyalii the brayest Of t6 brave. the,
trnest Of the true. She has called no Con-
vention, taken no moisture or movement,
laying quietly, biding her time, ratifyfDg
by her vote in the Peace Conference the
acccptability, the entire acceptabilfty of
that scheme and g6nrahty.
And then comes your noble and rlorious
dahgher Kentucky, the first born Of Vir.
ginia. I come from the Kentucky border
country. Indissolubly connected as We
are with our Kentucky friends on the other
side Of the Sandy River, aud with West.
eIn Virginia, holding the same rights and
The stme Interests in the Ohio and the
Mississippi.
Kentuckyholds some six hundred miles
OF Ohio front, with the States OF Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois an lying across the
stream, in full view of her Do YOU mean
to precipitnte yourselyes out Of the Union
without considering OF enduring what
effect that movement Is to prodnce upon
Kentucky? Do you Contemplate such n
step without conferri1a with your other
sisters of the border, who are equally in
terestedwith you in the result2 will you
gotut without Consulting Maryland, North
Calpiiua, Tennessee, Kehtucky-ail con-
nected with US, bound up in our fate, affect
ed necessarily Gy. our let of.Aecession?-
Do you, mean to take jump outside the
magic circle which no ) 6ses ma. With
out taking coHusel with those whose fate
rs intimately connected with yours, md
whose destiny forgood or eEil would probA-
bly, be cpnslmmated by your act?
- Why sir, we hear the'argument advanc-
ed continually, that whatever Virginia
does, the other States will do. Mr. Presi-
dent, have we come to -this2 Are we to
assume before the world, and put forth as
our justification the idea that Virginia can
go out of the Union in her present
position, without arrangement or consulta-
ton with her surrounding sisters, upon the
theory that so cotnmandingis her attitude
and her influence, that these other States
will be compelled to follow where she
leads? This is not On argument uron
which Virginia can stand. IT is not
worthy her ancient fame, or heryet unsuI-
lied justice and mngn6nimity.
Sir, we.nre constantly expressing our
selves. and in strong terms, against coer-
cion. We are all against coercion. we
are pledging ourselves against the poIicy
6ftcOerciou.a Yes, sir, and rightly; and
yet, in the same breath, shall we ourselves
coerceH You will not let President Lin.
coin or the Federal Government coerce
any of the Southern States. You announce
yourselves as utterly determined TO resist
this policy, and yet you take course to-
wards your sister States, that have not
offended you, who are relying upon YOU.
who are Lugged mp, as It were, in yonr
arms aud sitting upon your lap, which will
inevitably coerce them inton system which
they would notEWillingly adopt. You are
forcing them to change their position, and
encounter all the perils of the change,
whether they will or no. BY your own
leap into the abyss, you are compelling
those States to follow, with boast before
hand, that they are obliged to take the
plunge if VIC do.
What is the difference between moral
and physical coercion, IN the result which
is to be brought about24 What is the diff
ference between knocking n man in the
river by blow, or compelling him, by
causeslwhirh you can control and which
lie cannot escape, to jump in himself?-
Sir. ,tlie people of Yirgiaia win not Tolerate
such u policy towards the States have re-
.ferred to, Here is Missouri, more. distant
from US, now in Convention. Arkansas is
now ia Convention. Both these States
will, in all probability, propose and re-
commend a border slave State conference.
There is another State which will not
forget for have had recent occasion to
be reuewedly impressed with admiration,
for that little State. will not forget the
gallant, noble little Delaware. With only
some eighteen hundred slaves within her
borders, she is true and faithful to the
rights Of the South-as trhs to the guar
hntees and obligations OF the Constitution
as her proud soldiery were brave and in
trepid in the days which tried mems souls,