Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-07
The New state--The Way to Insure
Its Prosperity.

of Henry Clay, August LIST, 1850.
The New State..The Way to Insure
Its Prosperity.
We do not believe that American history
affords parallel to the unanimity with
which the proposition for new State has
been carried II there is so united and
one-sided a vote on record VIC cam
not recall it. Under all the circum-
stances it was most wonderful. For
no other proposition that we can think of
could our people in Northwestern Virginia
have been brought to such hearty cooper
Grafton.
We augur from this a happy and hnrmo-
Nous session of the Legislature
We do not presume there will be
one opposing voice in the work of laying
the foundations aud enactiug the organic
laws of the new State. By this VIC mean
that all the members, so soon as assembled
will be ready at once aud without argu-
ment to proceed to the work Of
getting ready n State Constitution
We shall no doubt have varieties and mod
fcatious of sentiment touching certain pro-
visions in our Constitution. This is to be
expected, and is to be contemplated with
relish rather than otherwise, by intelligent
minds. We do not believe we will have
any differences that will mar our coun-
ellis, for we believe that the men who are
selected from the various counties of the
new State are determined to come up to
the responsibilities of their position-to
periodically consider both what is right
and what is expedient, aud to so combine
their action as to produce good feeling
and good results amcng the people. 1t
can be said of the people who will be in-
cluded in the new State, that they are as
free, perhaps, from hide bound prejudices
or Crotchets, as the same number of people
to be found anywhere in this country.
They have all the elements of Northern,
Southern, and Western people. Almost
every variety of sentiment has been rep
resented among them for years.
And while they have received their poll
tics and their laws from Richmond, they
have traded and associated, visited, mar
ried and assimilated with the people of the
upper Ohio Valley almost exclusively
And since their interests have become so
closely intertwined with those of their
nearest neighbors and associates, we have
NO idea that ever their State institutions
will differ materially from them. In
the nature of things, it is impossible
that they should. Aad for our part, so
strong do we feel in the naturalness of
our immunity from the draw back of
slavery, and the impossible barrier which
our geography presents to it, that we are
quite willing to leave its gradual extirpa-
ton to the work of time. As vital
question, it can have no menaces for
our people, for its destiny is to die
and die away with each succeeding
year, and all the legislation, all the
Chinese walls and fostering care which we
could concentrate around it, could not make
Its extinction other than question of a
very short time. So far as it is question
Immediately demanding action, it rests, In
our opinion, simply upon what is expedient.
If the legislators, from the evidence before
them, shall believe that distinct an
nouncsment to the world of their purpose
to make IL a free State, will attract the
more speedily and surely the wealth and
xiii and industry of the populous Eastern
'ree States, we doubt not they will 80
lbape their legislation. Our own indiTid.
AL opinion Is, that the best way and the
light way 70 insure our full grown success
y new State, almost at once, is to take
he ball firmly and Fearlossly by the horns,
md insert a clause providing for u
rec State amer lapse of ten or IF
cen years. We believe that fifteen