Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-05

west hold over it united or supreme con-
troll.
WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC NovEXESr THRRAr-
HSs IN The WEST.
More than this. II there be towards and
mercenary tories among you whose "lOyal-
~ will be severely tested" by any ''weight
of annual taxation" and to such an extern
as that they shall be induced to assist
in, or even permit the acknowledgment
of this thing called Southern independ-
ence" from that hour another revolt will
have been inaugurated. To US who
dwell in the valley of the upper
Mississippi, as l have said, the control
and free navigation of the river, from its
source to its estuary, are a necessity. a
union with the Atlantic States, though
every way desirable, is not to US neces-
sity. Let but dissolution of the present
Union take place, either through the cow
ardice or the mercenary motives Of the
people of 1.-the North" then, and from
that day forward, a union with these States
would he neither necessary nor desirable
to the Northwest. On the contrary, our
ten million of people would revolt from
having the productions of their fertile soil
and rich mines taken to enrich the manu-
featuring lords of New England and tho
merchant princes of New York and other
Eastern cities. Nor would we permit our
selves to be governed by people whose
interests are not only not identical, bot
adverse to ours. That would never be al
lowed. Such circumstance as disco
luton of the Union would inevitably make
our people "hewers of wood and drawers
of water" for the people of the Atlantic
States. Already they loudly complain of
taxation which they unequally sustain by
reason oftarifs far from equiI&bIy adjusted
20 their interest of the Western and South
err agrieulturists. Think you, we're the
weight aud influence of the now rebellious
South permanently lost to us in our nation
al Congress, that the Atlantic States would
be disposed 10 be more liberal in our be-
hal2 Think you, would our burdens, now
shared by our rehellious brethren, be les
send in consequence of a dissolution of the
Federal Union2 For one, an frank in
saying, believe the very reverse would eu-
sue. Nay, more. We would also become
mere provinces, and having our COM
merce shut out from the world we should
be reduced TO subsection aud poverty By
those who, on the one hand, held us num-
erically in their power, aud on the other,
controlled our intercourse with foreign ma
tions.
What then2 Rebellion and revolution
having been iuaugurate through caprice
ana tAncled interest, aud permitted, through
the operation of other interests, to attain
successful results, as part of the pro-
gtamme of American diplomacy, the
Northwest would sunder the ties existing
with the Northeast. A new nationality
would spring up composed of all the states
in the valley of the Miss powerful in the
numbers and character of its people, with
interests almost identical, and whose terri
tory would be marked by well known aud
unmistakable natural boundaries. This
would be one of the results of the present
Southern revolt, if successful. Aud 1t is
towards this that these party; orgauiza-
lions" in the States on the Allegheny slope
are fearfulIy tending. Let no man deceive
himself by tho superstition that this is an
idle threat or visionary dream. Before
the rebellion was iuaugurated by any overt
act the probability aud propriety of such
an issue was contemplated by many in this
valley. There are thousands who coutem-
plate it to-day, who would arm themselves
for that issue whenever we shall be aban-
doned by those who should be our friends.
Nor is the trial of that issue more improb.
able now than was three years ago the re-
volt of the cotton States. Neither would
the result be uncertain.