Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-12

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81 On he side efny country, fer tie support
ofths general authority, and for de mantle
aanes eGths PopeTI efils URion.-l Speech
Of Henry Clay. August LIST, 1850.
The Division auestIOn and the Inev-
liable NIRger.
II We knew Of any patent way BY which
We eould express our ideas plainly to our
neighbors Of the PFess, and Al the same
time not tread upon their very soft eorns,
We would avail ourselves Of it. II seems
asif It were impossible for rs either to
parry = thrust Of our neishbors, or to estab-
liIh point in argument, without subject
ing ourselves 70 harsh and petulent replies.
II seems 70 be nothing in the eyes Of our
neighbOr that he can denounce the division
movement as an abolition one, and impnss
abolition designs 70 those advocating it.
And this, too, Notwithstanding be regards
Gbolitionism As very disereditable, not to
say disgraeeful. But when we take hold
of his asssr ton, and show how ridiculous
II Is 10 hear man who has lived the
greater portion Of his lifein the North, i'm
putting abolitionism 70 the owners ofslaves,
who are the most conspicuous adyOeatea
OF division, he has nothing but gruR and
ressntfal charges Of dlScourtesy to otter in
return.
Now this is no fair way to do. Our
usighbor must expect to get as good as he
sends. He knows very well that we do
not intend to treat him other than respect
fully. But We do not intend, BY an OYER
strain Of courtesy to let him go on, unIe-
buksd, hsaPiag all sorts of offensive im-
putation upon the friends aud advocates
Of division. He knows just as we'll as he,
lives, that in the division movement abo-
lition has no existence Why then does he
say so7 We do not like to say that it is
simply to array prejudice against diTi-
sion, and to earn in so doing, n cheap rep.
utatiou for conservation. but, still, we must
say that 1t squintI suspieious'y in.
that direction.
We agree entirely with our neighbor
that IL a man were born in France it would
not alter the merits Of his argument for
or against division. Having been AWAY
al opponent Of Know nottingham, We can
easily afford TO admit this much. But the
point We had In view was simply this; To
show how absurd Il was to hear man
who had been born aud raised in region
where anti-Slavsry ideas were in the as
esndaut arrAigning men, IN areEiou where
they were not In the ascendant, for uu-
soundusSs on the Niger question, simply
because those men were opposed to him in
u matterWith which slavery or anti-slavery
had 90 especial connection. That it had
no such connection We argued from the
fact, that the wellSburg Herald (Republi-
cAnl was on the same side With the whee-
ling Press ANTI Republican,, while seua-
tor Carlile, John s. Burdett aud about all
the other owners Of slaves IN the new
State, were opposed TO both Of them, and
cooperating with such papers as the
wheeling IasslIiseaeer
II this Is not point, then We yield our
judgment 70 the Pres. II It Is = point,
Why does the Prtss not acknowledge it, and
not resort to petulant aud discounted
complaints Of usf For our part, when We
cannot defend the policy Of divislOn With.
ont charging abolitionism, or some other
obnoxious Ism, on It's opponents. We shalt
rofruin from the discussion Of the subject.
Aud this We say, too, when all the pre-
sumption Of unsoundness on the slavery
question Is against the Press, and in favor
Of rs. For, added 70 the fact that the
leaders on the divisiOn side are mostly
from the iaterior, And that they own about
all the niger property that Is included In
the new State, We have the opposite fact
that nearly all the opposition 70 division
came from the Panhandle, whore there are
no niggers worth speaking OF, aud where,
If Il was an abolition move, We might
reasonably have expected quite as much
support and favor for It, As insash soqatiss
a. Preston, Harrison and Monougalia.
The moral from all this is, that those
who attempt to bring forward Mr.. Niger
on al oocasiOns, and use hia a. a getter
up Of prejudice, need not be surprised to
waksa In the morning aud fnd the two
edged animal cutting from the other die
rsetiOn.