Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-13

aud then submit the adoption of iba,
amendment to the people. The question
will then be, shall we have a new State
with wise and humane provision tor grad
nal emancipation, or go back to Richmond
and Eastern Virginia with its expressions
its taxation add irs heavy debt Of rebellion
aud ruiu. None bnt those: who want
the new State defeated altogether have any
doubt of the result when that question
comes back to oar people for decision.
But the great buEaboO is that we are not
going 70 be admitted With the Constitution
as adopted by the CouventiouI Yes we
are going to come in with that Constitution
precisely, bat in order TO get in at all with
that Constitution, it is proposed to add to
it small provision that gradual emauci-
patton shall begin in the new State on the
first of July next. and then our people are
70 vote whether that shall be provision Of
the Constitution or not, and it they reject
il, it will NOT be, and if they adopt it,
it will be. That is all there is 10 this ter
ribls HAbolition Congressional dietation' p
We determine the question ourselves. Our
tpeople deal With their own domestic insti.
tuition, aud ifthey think it will be TO their
advantage to take steps for gradually get
Ting elsarof 1t, whose business it is but their
EoWn7 All We do is TO seek at the hands OF
the National Congress an opportunity Of
determining this matter for ourselves as a
new aud independent State.
| The idea that the friends of the new
State are trying to get the measure through
Congress in some uuderhanded, illegi.
innate way, as urged from day to day, by
the Wheeling PrG,s, while it and its broth
Ter butternuts seek admission for the new
State with its Constitution just as it came
lftomthe Convention, is very happily illus
trated by the conduct of its chief patron,
Mr.. Carlile, In writing secret letters home
TO his friends pending The cote on toe Con-
stitution, to do everything IN their power
40 defeat that Constitution before the I'eo.
IpIe. Yes they want a new State too. o.
course. It is popular to be in favor of 4
new State. But they wantto be Stree, soy,
ierigu aud independent" That is We sup
pose they would be satisfied with nothing
less than the privilege of seeding from Iht
General Government whenever the new
State saw fit. They "wans it State to b,
proud OLA great niger State like Soutl
Carolina, for exampleI A grea
cotton or sugar growing State up her'
in the mountains aud hilIsl
, great State with society organized on
f Southern basis and only few dozen bal
, fugitive ringers scattered around amoui
+ the hills to support it! Where capita
j Weuld own labor, We suppose, and the pol
tics of the State be in the hands of tbos
> who possessed certain amount of lam
and specified number of niggers. A prett
niger State indeed West Virginia woul
make without niggers or q soil on whic
{ to employ them. And besides we wOul
{ have to import some real Southern gentle
men to do our governing and make on
laws for US, for we are of opinion that W
} should have to have something better tha
] either Connecticut Yankees or Euglis
Cockneys to do the lordiug for such grea
"free, sovereign, independent" State as "
: should then be.
No, if it is niggers We, want, we don
j need any new State. We are better of a
, an appeudage of old decrepit ruined Vir
: QiniR. We can hold on to her and be
, great State like South Carolina without tb
l trouble of a new organization. She cal
j send men over here to do our politics 70
us, to vote away our revenue, and galhe
onr tribute. What if it does drive all th
capital and industry away from US, and i'm
d poverish aud degrade our masses and SOY
8 Ignorance broadcast like moral pesti
4 lence! Won't we have the cousoliug re
: lection that We are still part and parce
i of the great aud digui6ed Commonwealth
5 of the GLORIOUS Ole. Dominion" and won
b that be glory enough TO balance all lack G
e material prosperity which can only be ha
g by submitting to the schemes of the blood
''Abolitionists? Who would not rattle
' have niggers and be Stree, sovereign au
I independent" though be had nothing 70
E them TO do and nothing to feed or cloth
: them with, than to be without them, an
' be rich, prosperous and happy2 Certainl
. no one but a veritable abolitiouist
Here as wen As There.
In an admirable article from the 81
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