Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-05

! Idtrectiohs which have not benefited th,
northwest section OF the State, fthat par
u contained in the new State, but have ihdi
a rectlY operated to its serious disadvantage
Thts;sectional appropriation of the States
Feyenues hasllong heeneinyeighed Rgainst
as untrieDdly and unjust, and has engen.
dered bitter sectional animosity between
u the counties lying east and those lying wesl
1.-THE Alleghanies. But, perhaps, it might
be more charitable 70 attribute this policy
4 to an, absolute necessitysgrow out of the
i gtteg ippractic bility of Constructing any
lmprOyementS connecting the two sections
Hof the State E i+1t 5.osif
13 THIRD. This,ap for admission as
anew State is predicated in consideratieus
OF industrial aud lc6tnmercial necessity
sEhes people living within the limits of the
projected new State never had, l., and never
can have, any trade or commerce with
Eastern Virginia. .Thetesis no means al
I getting back and forth between the two
sections by anyrdireEt aud convenient way.
There never has been, there never can be.
The impediments are insuperable Trans
ltAlleghauy sells nothing to cis-AlIeghany; /;
andiUEce versa. The traffic and commerce
between tbetWO sections has notamountell
to fifty thousand dollars in the last twenty
years. The natural and best markets OF
fG9siIt- 1hltlu0QEGta Iltt900fH.
Cincinnati, &C.. II Eastern Virginia were
willing to do SOL she has not the ability to
push her railways Cand other means of
transportation and travel into tho North
westi and IL she had both the will and the
ability, all such improvements in Virginia
could only carry the trade and staples of
West VirginiW beyond better and nearer
markets! IL b gait;5s4siss s5lA ,tsaiTgrIEf l4
Fourth. Tho difference of social institu4
lions and Qhabits of the people indichte
tho propriety Of hissdivision of the State,
The existehceiof negro slavery is said.
and i think correctly, by its friends, and
by those who own slaves and yet are not
its friends torequire system of laws
aud municipal regulations adapted to
the peculiar necessities and relations
necessarily growing out of thas institu-
ton. Apt slavery mover can exist to any
considerable extent il, the territory proDo-
sed to be enlhraced in the now State. 1t
never has dourished there, 1t never can.
The inexorable laws of climate forbid it.
The staple commodities of the country.
are not such Us in the production of them
slaves labor1is valuable Why, then.
should West Virginia be forever subjected
to9a system of laws and policy adapted to,
andindeed necessary, for state Of society
Gnd class of interests fundamentally
diferent from theirs, aud embarrassing
their progress in almost every depart
ment Of life2 Why should the labor Of
the white man of the west be Compelled
to be regulated by the policy adapted to
the slave labor of the cast? 10
In making these rcmarks, have no ref
erence 70 the moral aspects of the slavery
question. do not wish in this connection
to be entapgIed in the mazes ofureument
with which moraltsts and religionists have
surrounded and involved the question Of
slavery. In this respect my opinions are
maturely formed. have heretofore ex-
pressed them in the Senate, l am now on,
ly referring TO slavery and the new State ini
the light Of q wise and jpdicious political
ecohomy. Homogeneousness of interest,
pursuits, aud social institutions is essential
TO the harmony and prosperity of every
political Community Hence, the utility
andswisdom of our separate State organi-
cations, exercising municipal authority.
within their respective limits, aud adapt
ing their policy to the peculiarittes of soil,