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

picturesque in the eight of one horse
team coming intOzWnshington, with n cart
loau OF pine wood for sale. At the mar
iets, in the morning, he might see corn
musk collars and rope traces, siugle-trees
destitute OF iron, withH notch in each end
to hold the aforesaid rope traces, which are
attached hy II loop. This is not because
iron is scarce or dear, for it is abundant
and cheap; but the necessary cost exceeds
the means OF such capitalist. The dri.
yer OF one oil these teams Is sometimes
sneerlnsly called n Tuckahoe. lInis gen.
orally lean and lGnky-his cuuntcnance
pale, sallow and cNdaverOns. He is much
addicted TO salt behring's. lie considers lit
tie chunks of bacon fried up with lettuce,
a rare Injury, ,oDlyaattainnblea on special
occasions, Ills language or rnIher his
pA;olS IS curious compromise between
Anglo Saxon and African Congo. To de.
scribe 1t would require more sphce than,we
have at command, A genuine Tuckahoe
often mixes up the sounds OF the and the
w. he speaks of veal and vinegar. He
almost uniformly ignores the sound of the
little COnsOnant r. He changes it into the
sound of Ah. Hence a stranger often no.
tices snch RECOMMENDATIONS us sab, ,.1ninistah.
nistah. lie will not tolerate the sound
OF r, even in the middle of words; q parish
priest lie calls pASsOn and single indi-
vidual ofthE human species pllsson He
has an lnvincible repugnGnce to long words;
Inc name OF Anne Arundle county he
ssluFs int Annannnel Although white, he
Is more than half IL slave, for honest la
Dor Is disgraced and dishOnored allnrOund
hun, and where slaves are numerous none
can be entirely free. lie is treated will,
contempt, yet lie hugs his chains. He is
inclined 10 be AristOcratic in his feelings.
lie thinks himself great distance above
the "piggah, and is a bigOted pro slavery
man. Yet illiteratc, abject, stupid as,he is,
he is no proper object of hatred or
contempt. He is sciou of that mighty
race whose keels yexelverY wave1of every
ocean, whose restless enterprise. explores
ana colonies avery nook Ot every land.-
he is standing living proof that nations
as well ms individuals are, to some extent,
the creatures of accident; that adverse
circumstances might have tanned down the
turbulent energies of the Angle-Saxon
race into the lislltss apathy, the hopeless
imbccility exhibited by this man. Yet
with his education and surroundings, his
feelings and preiudices, however deplorl-
pie, nre perhaps, unavoidable. 4, ID,
The foregoing observations have no ap-
plication to Western Virginia, where the
number OF slaves hns never been sufficient
10 produce much effect upon mannrrs.-
Western Virginia has only been blasted
aud Impoverished by the indirect and Sec
ondnry influences of slavery, mauitestedin
Dad laws, unjus; taxation, insecure land
titles, aud general stagnNtion. Herr people
have now the opportunity to wheel into
line with the great, the opulent and tue
prosperous States OF the Union. Heaven
graut that they may resOlutely determine
TO cast everything atrocious out of their
organic institutions, well.Nssured that no.
thing morally wrong can ever he truly cx-
pcdient. WuBERFORCg.