Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-31

AAS heNoAutlon OF Public Sentiment
on the Slavery Question In the BOr-
der statea y
The State of Missouri goes ahead So fast
in its anIi-slavery that we need weekly
bulletins to keep pace With her advance.
Yesterday the dispatches told us that az.
o. Marvin, Radical Emaucipationist, had
been elected Speaker of the House, by "a
majority" that 81. B. Pratt, Emancipa-
ZIONIST tsimpIy) had been elected Secretary.
of the Senate" Also that ..Mr. Richard
sou, in the Senate, introduced resolution,
that emancipatiOnists are favorable to com
pensated emancipation as enunciated by
the President, which was unanimo usIy
adopted
What wonderful revolution of public
sentiment is indicated in the foregoing
Oews. We do not any of US appreciate it
Events are rushing upon events so thick
and fast, that we are not excited nor hal
ted even for moment by such an au-
nouncemeut as that from Missouri yester-
day. And yet it indicates a great, won
derful, indeed an incredible revolution
Just to think that Missouri is virtually
free Stale in this Union now! The same
State that only few years ago was the
very synonym of pro-s:avery "BOrder
rufianism"
Such news as that from Missouri is one
of the way marks by which we may note
the incidents, progress and results of this
rebellion. The status of things here in
Western Virginia is another of the same
kind; rot so great nor extended as Missou-
ri, but strongly defined way mark, new
ertheless
Who can tell when this rapidly culmi-
mating emancipation revelation will end
Ii will not end short of the border States.
that is certain. Will it stop with them
We doubt it, Our troops have Judgement
in North Carolina, South Carolina, Louis
lana and Mississippi. Can they tarry long
with immunity to slavery! All history and
experience teach US that they cannot
mighty revolution Is imminent. What it
will be. where it will end, no eye can tOrsee.
1t is in vain that we attempt to compass
the prospect.
But We were speaking about Missouri.
She is the avant courier of the new era
Kansas gave her the first lessons: the re-
helliOn and its war are finishing the in
struetion. Herpeoplea are now so unanimous
for emancipation that they can afford to ii.
vide upon the how aud when. 1t was
strange but expensive commentary on the
birth aud growth of the new revolution to
find st. Louis dividing itself in hot feeling
and equal vote between Frank Blair, the
, original leader of the emancipation move
meut, supposed to be now too slow, and
Samuel Knox, radical or immediate
emaneipatiouist. Blair beat Knox by only
| few votes.
The Legislature now in session has the
election of three U. s. Senators, or; rather,
has the making of three appointments, one
for the simple vacancy in this winters Con
gress, one for four and another for six
, years from the fourth of March next Mr..
Hnox's name, as the defeated candidate
in the st. Louis contest, has been entered
by his friends his appointment tor the va
earcy is suggested. For the chief places,
b. Grutz Brown, whose Connection with
anti slavery agitation in Missouri has been
most prominent and able, seems a frs,
choice OF the dominant party, and as his
associate, John B. Henderson, John w
Noell, now in the House, Governor Gamble
John S. Phelps, John ii. Richardson and
e Samuel T. Glover are all urged by personal
friends and the various shades of anti-sla-
1 very conviction aud purpose into which the
State is divided. The Legislature
!, about to elect these Senators, has a decided
: majority of avowed and immediate eman-
: cipatiOuists, while probably those not re-
coguized as smancipationists would readily
agree to reasonable plan of compensated
and gradual emancipation.
: Missouri may thus be fairly counted with
r the free States hencefortb she will hayeapti
slavery representatives in both branch
es of Congress Even the st. Louis
: Republican, the Conservative and pro
slavery, and at one time border
rufiau" organ OF public opinion, yields to
the revolutionary tide, and raises its voice
for emancipation. Its language is clear
and unmistakabie but it probably speaks
too late, when it proposes, as in the ex.
tract we make. slow plan of gradual
! emancipation the temper of those who
are in power is for more speedy and sure
work.
ave hope that the conservative and
} democratic portions of the Legislature will
go to Jefferson City prepared to agree upon
some plan which looks to the gradual
emancipation of all the slaves in this
: State. We shall never have peace until
this is done. Propositions for an amend
ment of the constitution, providing, sub
stantially, that all slaves born after the