Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-19
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yesterday, II might be worth while add !
space 70 eousider What West Virginia eouid
reasonably anticipate from PolihesI ton
neetiou more closely sOntbern than the
present. such IS the oPPsnentg Of = bev /
State ali predicate their a1Enpssts uPop- !
CoaId We become The vorkshop Of the
SOslhera PrOplsf Thea Shy are ne BOT /
20 aIready7 Through eeatuty oar biils
Of irOs Hsd bsds of coal have lain uBdeTeI- I
ops3. and or Hater- PSEsr FAsted un=n-t
PIoysa, HsAdrhiie ne grains 81 dsTelOP-
neas asd iudastsy ba- besa At 1o1k all /
road n 1ad the59proTidest snd is5ossat !
SSr,h 10 With re hare beloegsd has pass
Cd rs By 70 parosfIe IL Why Il not all /
YIrEisiG ese great zOEkssOP7 Not because !
naizrs has aot eadoEed a. The coal beds |
and vster power Of the James river have
made The Rast capable ss The Yves, Of great |
isdu5iriAl ac5leTeDeAt AID sbJ IS Viz /
gini1 with tbe capabilities Of az empire.
grea, oaiy in its folly sud its GadeVeloPsa |
resourees she is the oldest STATE IN the ]
Union, the grestest il extent, The riesest 10
mineral Wralih equally bIest 10 SOL and
climate With aBy other; with unsurpassed
ba.bors Sad ports, great riFsn; and, 10
word everything 70 make her the abode Of
Anamsroas and thriting poOolAtion. In
stead Of this result Virginia is bat Eth
nate power, HbundSat only in ignorance
and poverty. Does any one ask vhyi It
Is because she Is devoted 10 institutions the
very spirit of which Is hostile 70 industry
and an Prom tine imDenOrial her great
men devoted themselves 10 the creation OF
political instead OfnatsriAl power. They
Btudied politics instead OF G-t They dealt
in ine spun, imprseticsbis theories instead
of commerce distractions Instead of
solid realities. With I view TO ere
ate political power lbs East built up
its system Of slavery, aud committing
the unhappy ptstAks syof Imagining
that political power vas All they needed %
make them great, len alI other meas of
wealth 70 perish, ana relied for material
support on the only system of agriculture
left them by their peculiar labor, the pro-
daetion aud export Of tobacco. When this
unremuneratiTe treatment had exhausted
their soil, they fell back on the only sup
port LEFT them, the breeding Of negroes for
The Southern markets. Finally to save
their wounded pride, when their long cher
ished political power was giving way be-
meath them, they made war on those Who
hsd run the race better and achieved great
er results. The history aud the lesson Of
Virginia Is the history and lesson of much
Of the South. Virginia Was ruined by such
causes long before we Of the West had OBJ
tanned numerical power. Political power
We have never had yet, or at least have
never used. Separated by natural bar
fies from the deeayipg Bast. We have still
been bound to It by an unnatural tic that
made as too the sufferers for its follies.-
The same causes that have ruined it have
held Us back from prosperity. 1t is an old
stoEy-aiAmiliRr as household Words'-the
wrongs Of the West from the domination
Of the East. wsDeed not repeat it here
Our history has been the history of psO-
pie bound TO another with which it had no
identity Of political, social or Commercial
Interests, aud it has only been ruin, ruin,
and repression, from FIRST TO last. We, es-
sentiaiIy free labor people, have been
compelled 10 be governed BY municipal reg
ulattons made for slAyeholding aristo-
.. crazy; have been made TO contribute to the
continued political predomipanee of that
Aristoeraey, aud furnish the substance to
build their public enterprises while de-
prived ourselves.
With capacities for skilled labor We have
been repressei by laws made to protect
the rude and crude labor of the East
taxed on our property to spare theirs;
and everything aud every body that offered
to come and build as up repulsed and
driven away. Wheeling Is not the Man.
chester of the South for the same reason
that Norfolk is not its Liverpool or Rich |
nond its Birmingham. The same causes
that operated there operated only less
fatally here. The same causes that have
: achieved such results in the past will, If |
not removed, achieve the same results in
the future. Now we are asked 70 cling to
the poverty aud repression that has always
chung to us. Are We utterly reckless of
what becomes of US : or blind and deatto
all the teachings of experienced We trust
neither. There is nothing in the genius of
Southern institutions that can ever make |
US better or richer than We are . There Is /
nothing in their cherished labor system
that viii either developer permit us to-
our misunderstanding wealth. All the evil
dences abroad in the country prove it
where has it built up such people as We |
aspire to be3 There is no such example.
Whist it has failed TO do heretofore and
elsewhere twill fail to do hereafter aud
s - III -e,..tL ,,ilI s,iII hsraafter -.