Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-05
THE BORDER STATES.

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THE BORDER STATES.
Their Position with References to
Both SesGiOns---A cPhIlos0phienl
View of the Relations OF Slavery to
the Cotton stntes-TVhere Will be
Their Ultimate AmlIatIomss.TVhnt
will bic the Eject Ofthe AnSIO-SRx-
. Spirit OF the Age Upon Thema 60
From Communication In the Philadelphia North
AmericRn.l
Apart from the vast influence which the
action of the Border States must hare in
deciding the future Of our country, there
are reasons which should induce the
steruest Republican to go in their fIYOrtO
tncexlremc limits of concession One rea-
son is that they Nre still loyal TO the Un-
ion. They have not left it, and but that
others with whom they have natural Fyn-
palhies have left it, would still be willing
to seek for redress of grievances in the
provisions of the Constitution. Secession.
has never been ready remedy proposed
by them. Secession with them means sym.
patty with the seceders. Tho people of
the border States would not have broken
the Union, but the Union being broktnthe
question arises which party they shall join,
the North or the South. The guilt, there
fore of destroying this fair fabric of free
government is not on them, but on others;
and they should not be the objects OF that
resentment and indignation Which may in
duce an unyielding, uucompromiSing spir-
II towards thoseiwhO ure the guilty par
ties. 4H s -
The border States make no threats. They
have pot burstRsunder theties ofBllegiance,
assumed nu attitude of defiance, seized up
on the national property, cred upon the.
flag, insulted and 5derided our government,
and then come Forward with arms in1 their
hands, arrognntly TO. demand. 5f a party
fairly elected by the 1ghla1 tlIo in
slant concession of every Priucif flie slltrl5J
tlaGS Sote was iaeant 10. e5ilFesS 8ttdtiss
rance has is limits, apd It is mol easy
t0FI got cOtlntty to e q much % ilaitis
thus pressed. But much may be yielded
to claims reasonable in themselves, and
urged according oIaw., Very iittIe would
content the border States, aud they have
never threatened, to dissolve The Union If
that little be not granted; though now when
the question from them is whether to Join
(. southern Or northern confederacy il
harshly repelIed, they may choose the
formers against their rbetterjudgpent.
= Very llttle would satisfy tle border
States, " lilst nothing short of the nbso-
which the Republican party is founded
on which the opinion of the northern peo-
pie and of the civilized world, in regard
to.slavery, Is founded-would satisfy the
cotton States. The reason Is that these
two sections occupy very different positions
inrelatiOn. to slavery. InIhe Cotton States
slavery, in some form, that,is to saw. the
complete suhjcction of the negro race, is
the one absolutely essential condition Of
their safety, prosperity and existence, now
and in ALI future time 10. protect it, to
huttress it, to hedge it round with every
possible defence, is therefore the cliet
Object Of all their policy. and alltheir laws.
They have . fertile soil, producing the
great staples of commerce., but in a climate
where only the negro can work. They
have an, immense and increasing negro,
populations which threateus them with
terri bic dangers unlessi it can be kept under
perfect control. All that they have, all.
that they are, all that they can hope.td be,
is therefore bound up in slavery. What
ever threatens it,, threatens4them with de-
istructioD The Onion isstd them valuable
only so long as'it pfoteCts slavery. The
moment suspicion arises that it will
cease to afford that projections, still moeer
II the sentiment of a dominant section or.
party in the country should become hostile
10 slavery, the Union would become TO the!
cotton States nj. object of terror and hatred.
That moment has arrived The opinion Of
the north and of the cifilized world con-.
ademhssSl avery; and sueHlis the subtle pow
er Of npinionIIhS II exseutos It's ClGcrees4
through and over tawsl md nstitdtiBaSle
outwits party combinations, and passes
like a SpEitat between II q ssegrted r4lulEs OF
armies. 1t is ifresistahle Ia ad age of
printing, of intercourse of the free cireu4i
lation of thuugEt. Mtah Sfules now, and
morals, not the sword not even cotton:
aud mind and morals are progressive.
The mind aud mnFt feeling of. the
north have been swept into the general
current, and stand nouE aFFayed among ,Ghe
forces by which slavery Is attacked. This
ts the terrible truth that now glares npon
the'southim al iissR Rhastl y reality, antl ac-
coun tsl tor the frenzy of passion and alarm
that has driven soma OF the States into the
rash measures of the lAsts few u Wsdks-rash
and fatal indeed, for they only hasten the
Inevitable doom. The question with them
.tS, not the election Pf Nr. Lincoln OF ex-
slusioh from the terri mes, or the nonzeS-
ecption of tie Fugiftye SIaveSlaw. bpt
what do these things meau3 Do they NOT
mean that in the, north, the powerful north.
that can always govern the country if 1t
Ple1sesI slavery Is stgmatiEed as an evil
and q wrong, to be checked and restrained
If Possihle, 70 he tolerated only, because
projected in the Constitution, to be 7ex--
epsed only by the fsrt that the negro raee
IN fhe soHth IS 50. numerous. thai slavery
Us neeessary for the safety of soeiety7 II
IS indeed necessary for our safety, the.
People Of the cotton States say, and
it is also necessary that we escape the.
dQmiAiOns OF men Elp tbink7t thus about
slavery We will not lice under GOV.
erumeut By which an iustituti6n; vital
to Us, is gegsF Fasd s IN unelean Thing, as