Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-08

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And follow It 70 Death OF FAms-
The nuestIon OF DIvIston-The Fig
uras Connected with It's C0nsiderh-
lion.
We had some remarks yesterday, going
to SLOW the propriety, as well as the ne
eessity, for some action by our re as
sembled Convention, towards opening
door of escape for Western Virginia from
the ruin and debt and disaster which the
rebellion would undoubtedly entail upon
Eastern Virginia. md upon every part Of
the state that adhered to her after the war
was over. While it is necessary for the
Convention to- be matariug some of the
primary steps looking to division, ii is
more the less necessary for our people to
make up tlpi. minds as TO what sort Of
State Western Virginia ought to be-
Ought she TO be free or slave State is
the question which they will have 10 set
tie as they go long. We mean by that,
shall she, when she ccnstitutionally pro-
poses to detarh herself from Eastern Vir-
riuia, also prepare some plan looking
either TO her present or prospective rid
dance of the evil which has cursed her so
long, and which is so wholly usuited to
her soil and elimate rs ala institution. So
far as the Northwest is concerned, she is
almost as free from the institution
except in its effect and expense on
her, owing to its large existence in the
Eastern part of the State-as is the Coun-
try lying on either side of US. In popu-
lation of nearly three hundred thousand
whites we have scarcely ONe err five thousand
slaves-And each year the former is fast
increasing and the latter are fast deCrens-
ing. BY natural causes the institution is
leaving our immediate borders, and it
would only need decIaratory provision
nominating some time, 10 he indicated by
the probable operations OF these causes
at which the State should be free S'ate-
the same rs was done in Pennsylvania and
other States once situated as Se are. The
figures in connection with this view of our
future are so suggestive and instructive,
aud wiILal so conclusive rs TO The policy
ola course ofibis kind, ihSt We will quote
thrm from the last census returns.
The average Increase of the Tree States
for the last ten years has been 27l OIL per
cent Of the slave States, lIs % per cent.
Massachusetts, with population of
l.23l.oc5 ard an area Of $500 square
miles, has a valuation of Ssl5,2s7. 433.-
Virginia hiss population of ,ss9, 7sl, aud
an area of 81 ,s52 square miles, and a wall
uation of only S7Os, 24o, 6sl-less 10y S2l,-
es7,752 than that of Massachusetts. Pos
sessiig an nrea almost nine times as great
as Massachusetts,, water power hundred
fold greater, soil of unsurpassed fertility,
rich mineral deposits, one of the best har
bors On The continent, hundreds Of miles
Of uayignblc river, with all these advunta-
Gcs-the elements of IN empire within her
Self-Ihe real estate of the Old Dominion
Is valued ut S54,4el 1871 less than that of
the little Bay State. Her personal prop
eriy-e~en Including her sinvcs, worth at
l.ss than an average valuation, $3.50. OOO,-
600, is estimated Mt So, CTS, $40 less than
that OF Massachusetts.
Maryland and North Carolina together,
hayinga population of 2sI,s27 greater
tban Massachusetts, and a joint area of S.
600 square miles, have valuation (inclu-
ding slaves valued at 22s.sOo ,ooo) less by
s1s.40s,o3f than Massachusetts,. The
real estate Of Massachusetts, with only a.
500 square miles Of sterile soil. is valued
AT S415, 4l3, les, which is $50. s2I, s45 more
than the value Of the real estate of North
Carolina, Florida. Texas and Arkansas
eombinedl The real property OfNew York
exceeds by more than SlO,OoO,Ooo the
omIincd valuation of the same kind of
property in the States Of North Carolina.
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Louisi-
ana, Texas aud Arkansas.
The three States OF New York, Ohio and
Pennsylvania have a population OF elss,-
sil, which is l, 4ss, SIS more than the eu-
tire population. slave and free, of the elev-
go rebel States, while they have a valua-
sion Of SIlo7sisI6 greater than oil the
So called Confederate States.
AMER quoting these figures, nothing
more remains TO be said in favor Of tue
policy Of forming a free State out of
Western Virginia as soon as just re-
gard TO the interests Of all concerned
win permit. It would be very little use,
as the wsllsburg Herald has well observed,
TO have a division at all IT the same source
aud fountain OF all the grievances which
we have suffered from the East, is to be
established and perpe,uased 10 our own
a cheerful paragraph states that under
takers are 10 Washington from Philadel.