Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-16


no design beyond that of stocking Kansas
and Nebraska with slaves, the game was
not " orth the candle. More recent his.
tory tends to the sRme result, On the
i2lst of December, the declaration of the
causes of South Carolina secession was
brought, by n committee, into the seCes-
sion conYentiOn.-O OF coursc tho matter of
fugitive slave, Bfugi tive slave figures from
beginning to end. Once the committee
glances of to change tue States Of Ohio
ana Iowa With refusing 10 deliver n fbgi-.
tive from the Justice OF Virginia. When
tue reading was finished, Mr.. Maxey Gregg
objected TO the publication OF such a
document. II was only a partial state
ment of South Carolina grievances; and
it published ut all, should be published as
such. AS to fugitive slaves, the griev.
ances of South Carolina were minute aud
inconsiderable, but in the whole address
nothing was said about the expressions of
the tariff and the cxtravugaut,4 expendi-
lures OF the Federil Government Mr
Keitt obtained the floor, ard stated that
every Senator and Representative from
South Caroiiua voted for the present tar
III al" said lie. ''the gentleman [Mr.
M"xey Gregg had been there, he would
have voted for it himself" Laughter,
says the reporter. Mr. Keitt continued
that, ''"bOut twentyscight years ago South
CnrOlina had bad controversy about the
tariff. But the State had lriumphed, the
General Government had beeu defeated, ),
aud the tariff policy overthrown aud
abandoned. Mr.. Clay mad so admitted.
Now here is a remarkable spectacle
One hundred and seventy men preparing
torches to kindte tue hanics OF civil and
servile, and national and border war; nmi
all Kinda sIF
of thcm evidently Ignorant of the Cnuscs
which have SET them to work. NJ Iilln
c'In read those debates without being CON
vinred TINT MIR: Maxey Greggis murhah0ve
tue average OF the members, yet Mr..
Gregg, like thousands more, is altogether
Ignorant of the causes Of the-trpnson and
secession, wlieh he is. helping on. This
is becanse MIR. Gregg is of the es6tcric
school, Mnd the Ostcltsible causes Ofitne
quarrel nrenot the real cnnses, and the
real causes are not osttussble. Visions of
Chieitainships in Southern coufederslcies,
of whole regiments of tillibusters mar:l-
lug into Mexico aud Central America, there
to erect the slave dungeon, and forge the
cInin and tho frtler, and to "extend the
area of frec'ium," by the commission of
every conceivable crime" Visions of dark
ships flying swiftly westward from unhnp-
Fy @-sN sS'A-A eSsANAut5 bAGGGCf CNNly
gIlewith the sigl:s aud the grnans of their
wrctchcd human cargoes. These; these
nre the visions TINT draw the minds of the
Southern leaders TO diSMniOu and dissnIu-
tiOn. How is it possible to doubt about
these mattets2 If the grievances were
real, If the pretended injuries were sulI-
stanti1l, if the Northern people had any
actual disposition to icjure the Southern,
tile quarrel would commence along the
borders. OutrNgcs and retaliations would
begin here in tile centre, nnd would extend
oulwar6ly, both North aud South: Bnt
tile reverse is the fact, and were it not for
tle growing of this Southern tempest the
minds of the people throughout the whole
80 tot the Ohio, would be as calm and
utFHttted as a summer lake. agree with
Maxey Gregg that the loss of fugitive
slaves is, to South Caroliua, very minute
and incousiderable, and assert that we
might we'll comprehend, in the oI,scrva-
tion, the States of Maryland, Virginia aud
Kentucky, The visits Of these wretched
creatures to Ohio, are "like angels visits,
few aud far betweeu.Y We live here years
and years, without knowing or hearing of
| one passing through the settlement. New
er, never before was great nation brought
to the verge Of dissolution aud civil war
fer causes so grossly inadequate.
Fellow citizens of Western Virginia, or
rather, might say, Friends, Cousins,
Brothers. for every man of you stand to
the subscriber in those endcAring reIa-
tions, if we of Ohio have injured you, or
desired to injure you, then takeno counsel
except of yonr just indignation. Abrave
man will not stop to measure the strength
of an unjust antagonist. But IL the very
/ contrary is the fnCt. If we have always
| fn1t nd 4
u hrOtherly interest in your welfare and
happiness, then / implore you to pause
and count the value of this Union to You
and to us. Will you suffer onr sbeautiful
river" to be turned into n, hostile border.
Will you listen tU those emissaries of
treason from the South, who wish, at your
enormous cost, to make you rampnrt to
shield them from that well merited ven
geance which their own crimes have
provoked. The State of Ohio has Mt
this moment, more than two million
three hundred and fOrty-six thousand free,
happy and prosperous people. Your M :
tnrRl relations of commerce and friendship
and brotherhood are with this vast imnss
OF opuience aud power. How many South
GarolinAs, and Fioridas, and AlabHmas.
and Mississippis wouldiit require to make
a power equal to this Then what hut the
NSly su"''A' S-"' uAuuesS couiu lcau you
to make common cnHse with heir treason,
their poverty and their weakness against
your natural allies, friends and brothers.
Ii write these lines becanse have very
faint hopes that the worst of National
lralnmities will he avoided, and r wish the
grounds of thissmost unnatural and un-
necessary quarrel to be remembered aud
understnoh. '.Thricc is he armed who
hath his quarrel past " And If civil strife
must cqme4 may God defend the right
A SON OF THE S0UTH.
TO THE PEOPLE OF TWESrERr
VIRGINIA. - :
The Imperative Obligation on TlayaS
q 9People--rhe- True Source OF oIlI
PFospefttys-yVO we RatIfsr In