Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-07

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nance oftEs POs0srs Of the UniOn.-[sPeech
of Henry Clay, August lst, 1885,
Z THE Rsrkersburg Gazette deprecates the
Introduction of the negro into the Wheel
ing Convention. But the question is, how
shall it be kept out? The Convention can
not ignore the causes that have led to dis
! rnption of the State; that have imposed
heavy burdenslof taxation upon the people
of Western Virginia, and rendered their
8 political and commercial influence nuga-
-. tory. npon all occasions. Slavery has new
er been profitable to the people of Western
Virginia, while is presence has prevented
immigration, dwarfed enterprise, and de-
laysd the development of the physical re
sources of the country. The people have
paid a heavy price to insure the safety of
i-l his sacred and sable majesty and in sew
ering their connection with the Eastern
portion of the State, it is not natural that
a the Convention, in framing an organic law
adopted TO the people for whom it is to be
devised, should submit to them the people
for whom it is to be devised. should sub
q submit to them the question whether they
do not desire n complete severance from
. 3 the cause of all their heavy burdens in
-,st the past?-C Cincinnati Commercial
-. This is the case exactly. The CONNER
ciaps structures on the Parkersburg Gaz-
etc are very just, in our opinion Our
90 own thoughts on reading the article re-
ferred to, were of the same character
% The idea of our Convention ignoring the
- great question of the day in forming
q Constitution, is simply prepOsterous. It's
the great grievance to be remedied Had
it not been for that grievance we should not
have been in reyolution-and of course the
Convention would not have been in ses-
g. sion. Why the editor of the Parkersburg
q Gaz elite should all at ouce, SO suddenly,
have become so conservative, is more than
2r5x we can tell. He was one of the early pi-
,s 5oneers on the subject in this State-long
before our time he agitated the matter;
land ever since be has been at it, in Massil-
lon, Ohio, and Brooklyn, New York. Now
when it comes home to us-when the fruit
brsof his labors our labors, and the labors of
5s all others of like mind, at hand, he
wants to let the golden opportunity pass
by. We do not see how he can reconcile
his past with his present. We cannot see
the consistency. The evil then is an evil
now. Its evil effects are ten fold more
serious now than then. 1t has been the
sa cause of all our woe.
For our part we hope that the Conven-
ton will listen to no such counsels. 1t
would be strange infatua:ion to do So
1t would be repeating the fruitless labor of
sasysiphus, for this Convention to adjourn
without taking actiou-defRite, decided,
masterly-health- giving action this
subject. It would be playing Hamlet with
Hamlet left ont, and the Convention would
be the ridicule of the country. The loyal
masses of the loyal States, would say,
= why do the people sever their connection
= with Eastern Virginia :? Why do they
|. complain of a want of homogeneity2 Why
sgsdo they incur the expense and excitement
~ State, simply to engraft and enact again
the source of their trouble2 Have they
- learned nothing by experienced Is Bour-
bonism hereditary with them-"forgetting
f. nothing and learning nothing2"
- Leaving out every other question, in
material point Of view alone, it would be
- little short of suicidal folly to ignore the
fullest initiatory measures for free State
5TtRe hGUe nothing to cEpsct tn the future except
= from the free States. From the South we
have nothing to expect. Our friends, our
community of interests-our associates
s5our sympathies-our commerce and trade
...=49ur eysrythinglies now and forever with
b,4be free States. In geography We are one of
them. We are knit by every possible link
tothsm. Why then refuse to own all thiO7
no say 70 thom, we are not ashamed, but
proud to declare oufsetves one ofsou. 10
say, hsnCsforth there is friendship and
Identity between you and US. Every thing
Salts upon us to Say this, To. say IL uns.
tqufyecally, THE sooner, tho Armsr, the
moro enthusiastically we say IL, the soon.
--sF and the more beautifully Will we reap
The reward, The sooner will the Jew Of
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