Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-02

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proud empire, reaching to the skies
stretching its arms over. the world has
fallen to the Rfound. They are an cyi-
dence that mal requires kings and despot
isms to govern htm--that he cannot govern
himself" You the proud nation, arc now
cited as an example of the impotcncy. the
incnPacity of mankind for self-goyernment
Ito show that your boosted liberty Il
nothing but the inhalation of fancies, iav-
ing nopOwer, no strength, no capacities.
= aness arc tle e2pssqp9nces that will accrue
Tih :. SoNPI5AER sFGFhsE.l EliE BORDER
sTTRposs yirEiniG Goes out or theiUn-
i-iOnI then what uppOse she Staya
condition viii be In eItherETemt.
We think there is a growing feeling in
the North that the relative attitudes of the
border and the North are not what they
should be, according to their relative posi-
tions and dnecessitiesi that If the former re-
ally aud patriotieaIly value the Union
or If they regard rightly their own
most obvious Interests, there should he
moro hcartinesss il not in their symnnthy
wtth7the North, Jst in their opposition to
the reckless treason of the South. But of
this mort hereafter. We have now 10
speak not of what their loyalty and pat-
triotisni should dictate, but of what their
local interests shOuldrecommeEd.
One thing Is obvious enough, thaftif
they join tue South, they must do SO. o.at
the risk of protound Internal d discords. a
large portion Of their populations is not
merely indiderent, hut actually HUSTLE to
slavery. Western: Virginia is so, not only
by reason:Of material conditions and of the
comparative sIl5snee of the institution, but
9y. long Proy9ratipns from the policy of the
EtlsternI purtionsoN the State, By wHirTii in
equitable burdens Of taxation have weigh
CD upon the West. In the East itself and
also IN central portions Of the State, free
labor has been fos some years usurpinr
the 'oil, and repairing its old wastes.
These elements Of discord will render the
attemptsnt' secession no light talk when it
comes to its ultimate crisis. Similar re
marks may be mn'le Of'Kentucky and Ten
nessce, in both of which free labor has
sway. Their realnud permanent interests
must be bliHdlY disregHrded in any ATTEMPT
TO sever them from the Union. The re-
n"rk is still more emphatically just in re.
spect to Missouri.
hut again. Shonld these border States
go with the Sonth, it must be on account
OF some supposed common interest with
tile South in slavery itself. A little saga
cious forecast must, however, CONVINCE
them that any such supposed interest is
exceedinglyi prCcnriOus, if not entirely un-
founded. Virginia has an interest (One
which her best citizens must lament) in
tue slave trade with the South. But what
is the prospect of this trade If she ioins
the Southern Confederacy? IF the latter
opens the African slave trade land wh0
can doubt that this will be it's ultimate
policy what becomes of the slave interest
OF Nirginm AS u ruse ofpolicy, especial
ly toward foreign States, the new confed-
Cracy has made an apparent enactment
against the slave trade We saw apDarsul
forits presidentsin his veto message, shows
that it is bnt apparent. So palpabIe was
the Tuse that itcould not enswer its pur-
pose as slIchjlitis found desirR6le, there
fore, TO disguise it more completely. But
the attempt to do SO has developed the real
probability of the ultimate policy of the
confederation on the subject. 1t gave n
majority of only nine tor the presidents
veto. Obviously, then, large proportion
OF the leaders of the rebellion have fixed
their hearts on this design, a design which,
however nefaFious is really legitimate to j
their entire theory and programme of the
rebellion, and without whichtit would be A.
practical absurdity. If, then, Yfrginin's
chief interest, her only material interest in
slavery is in The internal trade, what must j
become fthat interest If the foreign slave
trade is Arrayed in competition with it?-
That IS question worthy OF her consider.
alton. lsi - =,
ButshouId theforeign slave trade hotbe
opened, what then9 How long. will it take
the new confederation to draw away and
exhaust her slaves and leaYe. her virtually,
n tree State, bound Within the iron en- /.
brace Of II slare eonGederacy2E In feither
case, therH she ha6 no ultimate intefest in
union with the South. In the first, her
trade in slaves is destroyed; in the secoud,
that trade will destroy her itlen.
tity of interest with the South. In the
latter c'sse she has, OF course. tue tempo. <
ray financial adyanlngeTUf the trade, but
this only during a transition period, which
ends by leaving her in a condition ia (which
all her interests, and finally her seuti-
ments! must he identical with those of the
free North. sButeTepthis temPpFary5inan-l
cial result she will have, If she alhEres to
the North. The South may threaten what
It Pleases on this subject, it win follow
the inTinGible laws Of interest and trade
IL it opens the African slave trade, it kills
the only material interest of Virginia in
slavery if It does not open that diabolieal
traffic, Il viii as certainly seek the slaves
of Virginia as that the law of grayitatiOn
operates IN nature. Any laws to the con-
trarT can be but Temporary menaees, de-
signeI TO affect the immediate policy Of
the builders on'the question ofi5seesaon. -
l3nt, We repeat, IN any case secession is not
The eKPedient policy of the borders.
I FaftbeF,5 the real conditions offmaterials
property, to aylnothing OF moral or So