Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-27
RtoaMoEp. Feb. q, ls6l

Why should not all our national troubles
be at once settled? is question that Of.
zen aad oten presents Itself to the mind
of yonr correspondent, more especially in
view of what he has seen here. The
Union men ia this Convention are sup.
posed to be in strong working majority
Undoubtedly, + heavy preparedness OF
the members are against secession. Aud
this is even more true in all the Border
Slave statss-as also In North Carolina
and Arkansas. And what is trns Of each
aud all these States, is still again more
applienble--to majority Of the Northern
States. In. fact; everywhere, except-aray
Of in the ar,hest extremes Of the coun-
try, the people are overwhelmipglY and
and crushingIy for the Union. Why,
then, do We not adjust all our difficulties :?
Is there any insuperable difficulty? can
not see it, II there is. The y. Y. Times, of
yesterday, which have just been reading,
! contains, il seems TO me, mn excellent and
most sensible article on the subject. 1t
says:
1.-THE pith Of the whole controversy be-
tween the North aud tho South, as it now
stands, relates to slavery in the present
Territories The South demands recogni.
Itiou,-the North refuses it. On enabling
act for NetO Aexieo could settie IL ttstdatiy
aud JorepsT. Let Congress pass law en-
lnbliug the people of New Mexico to form
a State Consultation, with or without
slavery, as they may see ft,-designating
"a day on which the election Of delegates
tshall be held, fixing time and place for the
meeting of the Convention, and providing
for submitting the Constitution to tho vote
tof the people,-aud this whole territorial
controversy is at on end. 1t dies natural
death. All the Territory of the United
States Is, disposed Of There is nothing
Whatever left for the two sections to quar-
rel about"
Do you not think this very wholesome
paragraph can see no reason why its
good sense should not be reduced to prac-
tice at once. And think it will. It is evil
dent that the feeling of the people is getting
more and more deeply interested in this
matter in proportion as the schemes of dis
Eaolutiou open one by-One on their sight
Look at the late results in Missouri and
| Advantageous Union-gone against con-
ventious, even clsarSS heels over head. So
it might have been in this State, and SO 1t
would have been, had the traitors but have
given the people a chance to vote on the
| question of "Couvention or no Conven-
\ vention," AS they did in those States which
! have VOTED "Convention" down. The
stubborn determination not to give us
chance to vote that way, has cost aud will
cost this State immense sums Of money!
| II is costing her thousands upon thousands
each week that is passing, and God only
knows how we of the West will live or
stagger under it, during tho years that are
to come. Ny. prediction is that the State
will rePudiate-that sue will be forced to
and that before five, yes, before three
years. and wouldn't be surprisedIif she
lets the next July payment go By default.
We are in debt without hope to pay ; our
State bonds are selling Mt as cents on the
dollar, and they must, in the nature of
things, sink on. And yet these mad Sc
cessionists and traitors are piling Pelion
upon Ossa-literally immolating us with
their wicked extrhvngnnces.
They have appropriated hundreds of
thousands for Armorie5 and for arms, for
4 Arsenals, aud for all the tom foolery of
gsrEssiop schemes. Aud we of tho West
0Verplua of white people-of hard, dill
/ eelt working masses, have got to foot the
bill, and merely that these people over
here, who ownstheir 472, 900 niggers, flor
l whose benefit they tax US to tue VerS
earth, may feel more secure, and may
devise ways and means and try experi-
ments for cutting us loose from the great
est, most powerful and most prosperous
people on the face of the earth, and hitch
ing us on TO the miserable tail of broken
down, bankrupt, Africanized South Caro-
lima. Are we of Western Virginia to
stand itI Are We, majority-wo, tue
real bone and sinew and support and hope
of the State to be dragged by an arrogant
Z gRrnoainn faNfin0 inf =.
4 Godi hope and say, and believe that
High Heaven, as he sympathyses with
progress, civilization and humane advance
ment of every sort, will turn the accurscd
councils Of Ahithophel to foolishness, >
and Will make this great treason OF the
traitors to their country the means of their
everlasting and irremediable uudoiup.
You will End that this State will not Sc
cede. The thing can't be done. Tho
Union men here each day feel more buoy
ant in this belief The tide is slowly but
irresistibly turning in their favor. The
late elections, as say, have encouraged
their hearts until the weakest Of them
are assured up to the point of hcroism a nd
defiance almost. Mr. Bolts predicts that
A Withtn the mkt moon or tWotwe shall see
the disunionistsin full rotreat-most Of
them denying that they ever meant really
Ito seeede,7 And, by the way speaking OF
Bot.4, what stetIing old fellow forgive
my trfeyerepeel hsis. A party of as went
up 70 see him yesterday. He entertained
usthree or four hours. He is a regular
old Cincinaatus; lives in plain style; at
tends to the cultivation of his farm: read =
and studies q great deal is thoroughly
4 posted on all tue records of the public
men ofthe Stale and the nation, and is one
1ipf the Profouldest and most independent
thiuksts ever met With, In conversa-
ton be Is very impressive, because. in my
\ oPiuionSlhe isIthorohghly honest. There Is
i a mAssitenessin bis Views, aud a native
force and bappineSsin the expression ofthem
that have never seen surpassed. He told
EnS That befGrch he W6ald live under the rat
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