Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-23

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NATIONAL PoL1T1Cs--No. :.
Ediiors Intelhyencer:
Cnndor is the first duty of n political
writer. 1t is needless to say how much
that duty is neglected by the advocates of
that grim, gloomy, old dconservatism viii ch
darkcns while it affiicts our land. In the
columns of those pro-slaVery organs will
often be found such expressions rs the fol-
lowing: "The white man has some rights
as well as the niger" "Itis time now to
attend little TO the interests OF the white
man as well as the everlasting uigger.'-
"lf the niger was imprisoned, the Aboli-
tlonlsts would be all up i'll arms, bnt they
don't care copper for the white an
"a white man is almost rs good us mig.
ger, if he behaves himself" And the ternis
negro-worshipper " and T" gro-philisr.
figure in their productions.
II is difficult to determine whether the
absence of Capdor, or the presence OF low
Vulgarity of sentiment, contributes most to
render their paragraphs repulsivc. Do NOT
these men know that the strongest ohjec-
tons to slavery, originate in the anxiety
for the welfare of the Anglo-Saxou race -
II is very true that no good man can either
be, or pretend to be, indifferent TO the hap.
piness or misery of ~ large portion of the
human family. Such man can not
he Indifferent to the sulierings of any Great
ture which the great First Cause has rem.
dered capable OF feeling pleasure or eudu-
ring pain. But still the strongest bull
warks, against the extension of slavery, is
raised by regard to the interests OF the
white race. Let facts speak: New York,
the Empire State of freedom, has a populI-
ton of II little less than four millions
Georgia, the Empire State of slavery hns a
free population of n little more than six
hundred thousand, and total population
of IA little more than Il million. Georgia
has greater territorial extent than New
York; but is new settled. Then take the
case of Virginia. Her superficial extent is
much greater, and her settlement is older
than that of New York But her total
popnlatiOnis but little more thnn aimii-
lion and Il half and nearly third of.thesc
are soOty slaves. And it is remarkable
that while both these communities perse-
vered in their slaYe-driving propensities.
Virginia maintained decided superiority
over New York iu wealth and population.
Ohio has an extent of territory much less
thah any of the States NAMED twenty
three thousand square miles less than Vir-
ginia, and about fourteen or fifteen thous-
and less than Georgia. Her first settle
mcnt was tifty-six years later, than that of
the last named State. Yet at the last CEN
sns her population was found to be two
million three hundred sud forty-six thous-
and, and according to the natural rate of
increase, may now be estimated without
fear Of material error, at two millions and
a hall. BntIt would be endless to parlic-
ularize. The statistics OF the seventh fed
Cral census were compiled BY De Bow a
fierce pro-slavery bigot. His volume is :.
mighty tome indeed and its contents, Il
mighty satire upon tue institution of slave.
ry. But if no census had ever been taken,
no statistics ever compiled, would not nat
ural reason conduct us to the same result?
A hard aud naughty aristocrat in the
Southern States, with his white family,
w0llows in luxury upon the unrequieted
toll OF q thousand sore and trembling
slaves. Ills individual wealth is euOr-
nous. But is any mau green enough
20 suppose that it equals the wealth of
a thousand people in Ohio or Pennsyl-
vania !? 1t is in fact nero tritle in the
comparison. The system Of which this
Lordling forms part, is perfectly compat-
ible with great riches ergrossed by few I;
but is perfectly Incompatible with general
welI-beiug, opulence and prosperity. When
wars and convulsions, invasions and calam-
lties come, the difference between the two
systems forces itself upon the attention.
But do not the slave States pursue their
own interests? No, certainly nOt The
government Of those States is in the hands
of cruel, if not a'close Aristocrncy, just
as regardless of the interests of the poor
whites, as of the interest of their ebony
slaves. The Shareholders do not consti-
tute majority of the white population, Of
any State. Yet they are everywhere the
governing class. And the most tame, stOl-
i'd and uninHuential population, that ever
descended from the loins of Europe must
| be looked for amongst the uOn-slavelIold-
ers of the Southern States.
If the interests of the State were con.
! suited, instead of the interests of class
| il true State pride were the. governing, in
Ehuence, instead of the pride of n naughty
aristocracy, would the slave States, with
all their mighty advantages, suffer them
selves to be distanced, as they are, by the
free States, in population, in opulence, IL
1 every element, in every eiTcunstRnce o.
/ national greatness Whatever else may
be, Si0fr interests cermtnly is not The con
trolling iafluence in the slave States. 'i'il'A
\ Sir Archibald Allison, in his essay OF
/ Taste, tells us that ruins are picturesque
an old mill, an old dwelling house, an ol'
4 castle seen at distance, clothed with ivy
l Not only so, but an old beggar IN hiSrags
and above all, an old horse with his bone
angular and protesting, reduced, to such
state of. poverty as ktot be- scarcely abl
ilopger to contend with the ills of life
These, according to Sir Archibald, are th
Ipicturesque objects. This old aristocra
4ourbt tyall means to visit old Virginia AN
Maryland and the cities of the Distric'
Ills taste might be gratiied by seeing til
luxury and spleudor Of Rihapghty aristoc
rncy, and perhaps still more 9y the sigh
Of the misery, the inligenee, she sqlialo
of an abiect population. He might stud