Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-26

1 "tA"t" AlES SuUL II InNL u was IN
tended to exclude Affft6u slavery from the
territories. That WaS lahother. That the
respective sections We4e not homoVFheou
\ and hated one Anotelit, Ind that sornF lof
the Northern States9W SFt3 for negro eonRli.
ty. THESE charges copstitnted all the al-
1 legations In the bill 6fltndistment which
they had filed. As g The first. he ron.
fessedi that personal 'IiE sFty hills did cxist.
without extchuation AID without excess
But wns due to trptll to say that these
obnoxinus bills w69ii 81 be swept OF MI
the statute book OF nee States. That
was the only charge eoutd be sustainE
eo: lc., re fe 4 oatdnes a ,e sl allegations kiey
'10de oat ecere gtt testls Pence 70 thiMgs that
I neper Ag9pened, and nersr eovIS 6ars
hGppeNtd had the Seefd SSfdtes remoinsd -
| the Union, and .6a9 q eoyssenfqt;rss moi
stayed at home. Aud bN as to the pcr.
sOnal liberty bills, only charge on
which they had to te He wus assured
that the personal ftY bills had been
struck from the EsSeJ books of all the
ooFeer ,,! IEes iPwn, Indiana, IL
Il IInglsl Yploi fenpsfl md Hew Jersey
I 10 ns e llFe, tney ,tsSe fetained IN YER
mont, where, he wast Cd, afueftiye slIye
lad not been seen years, and which
wasRs sinaccessIhlet t6a 4 ae as vi is the KING
dom of South Catolil him at that mo-
ment. NOIc, ne 4teed z lifp q days ride of
three free States, and lad nsrer knorn
Of a stdps 10 haze teeI kSl0ien from his dis.
trict aud retained, ~ had known of one
.cscaping and passit rough the district
represented by his tFifhd from Kentucky.
who made his way ih Illinois, where i,e
was arrested by the phIe and returned
to his owner. But fte South ever an.
iipcAlcI to the North;t6 epchl thcir nersornI
liberty bills2 IHtgF 1 done no such thing.
But they said that tie North would not ex-
ecUte the fugitive slat bltl, But what was
the fact2 The presS executive, in his
late message, used language That
theJHg'tiUe sLdVe tgte been executed in en-
ry contested case Atat lad ariscn." They
knew itwas so.- EVeS tsmptetl rescuehacl
become u matten OF elic notoriety, but
1t was not so sednlDu made known that
fugitive slaves were sted every day in
the free states and ertied hack to their
masters. But the -HIifper's Ferry riot. and
accounts of rescucs sof slaves, was the food
which revolution rtote ia and grows fat up-
on. But if il was sJen all true, would
there be IN excuse, Nor iissolying the UuionP.
| Wouid. they have lg9 md order, would
they respect she Cons sutton, and live in u
feeling of brOtheth0ea with their fellow
conntryman? They A5uld no nothing of
the kind. Tennessee and Kentucky were
Border States, and they would have to
bear the burtllen OF tte battle and the heat
of the day to protect The States all down to
the. Gull, from wheneea slave in escaping
would have to trayel Oyer six hundred
miles of slave teFritgty before he could
fne = sanctuary Sshd free States.
| Precipitate us, wj you ? No he
/ would prefer nhy Tier Rindsof stpre-
cipitateH to that Then there was.
no fault to be fopap ifh The fugitive slave
hMTr, law; A United Sta epFnmissioucr, Ap-
t.t " ~; lawb n resident of
had assured him that fhe present law was
as stringent rs htl q Ingenuity could
make 1t. And Won gQu dissolve the
| Union for that cahs He knew that the
Northern people .Wete opposed to the slave
T. trade. They always ad been, and ALWAYS
| would be. The NoflllsEn men, born suHd'
/ educated in the free States, knew nothing
whatever Of slavery, except what they had
heard OF it from Garrison and others
| But the strongest pro-slRvery man South
was the Yunkee whotWent down there and
married II widow with a plantation ell
stocked with negroes But they could no
more hope to make The Northern people
| pro-slRvery, than "a could hope to mike
a hungry politician run away from fat
Office. Laughter Ehese preciPitators
] say that the NottheFl people, in some time
3 to come. intend to.abolish slavery in the
/ States. lie did R6t Belilee one ,rora of IL;
7 and standing there q hfs place, before that
4 crorded audience, he drotVed that there teds
| not a man in ths HSlts lotS desires to abolish,
siaesry IN the State ifga0ines they hare
1 Mcright to aAempt Il. Cries frO.n Republic
can benches, Not 6as, not Ohe.'f7 Ifthere
was such a unnn, hetie 5tteCil to see him. Such
| n man would deseFVelthe execrGtion of his
colleagues, and the Astecfation Of every
man who respected tha Constitution: and
yet that declarationat abolish slavery was
made by those pfetipitators ia the teeth
! of the most solemn assurances that could
/, be given By u poiltieAi party he asserted
that no political parry that had erer risen IN
athc cOI'ttTBhGd 6tbehS sl.elt strong and solemn
! guarantees tOrcEpsct tl3psry tOithin the States.
/ utfkis fact stpGS supp ssssd By tie politicians
and HslrsPGPers ~ ~ sqa,ltTy, Gndfhe opbo-
site doctrine zedl lS6ses lcGted into The rub.
! Tic mind. Whatim0r ehad the Republican
party done D. Ehlt mich no other party
in the he4country hld formally done-they
had denounced, n ~ fseUtrest dRd iStr6agcSt
terms, tjtutiSiteh fal thaEof f.IohR BroScn
into sPiygiiiiE teer greuieSt of all crimes.
/ They would not tai the word of that
I party, and TO appease them the Republic
/ cans,exprePs theiFSr iness 10 vote fDrfaIi
aniendmeirt IN A6e Redistribution which
/ would bind them heffFsio interfere with
slavery in the sStat u would in fact
be no amendmGit, int Wouid merely de-
Glare what the Cont tntton now was; and
mo man believed Ton mOmeRt in their
power to interferef Hjth slavery under the
! Constitution asst They declared that
the people in the tes rive sections were
not Homogeneous an that they hated one
EanOther, That might be So 4 but that