Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-19

sheu EIEy across tie seas % bees1saDed,
Instead # fosssriag P0p1lstios . eoa-
swe lhea Al koas aod re1url tie wealth
70 tie roIii il taksa froA They viu sui
prefer % bay der 9a-zs abroad ratber
thaa rake iken Al honr, spa % pay for
thea By The exhaustion Of the soil. jast a
Virginia and NArylsnd did IOag ago.
They VIII Rot have nAuufaetories At
hooe Tbey dat BAnt them; dost want
\ nanufAeturing POPalatiOs dont EAht
the free society Uith lie eqaAliIed PriViIs-
ges that seeonpauies The neebaaie ara
EhereTsr they 90 in dis eOaatty- So If
Western Virginia Aspires 70 become "A in
dqstrial people We have no business sionE-
dde Of Soath csIoiina, nor 20 business
under the ssms manieipel governmeut As
Eastern Virginia. West Virginia ueTsr can
achieve asy thiDg worth aebisvi1E with
this cold Bloodsd demon Of An fnpraetiea-
bic, Seifszslting, labos-dsgradiDg. labor
OWnipg hriStOeraey elutehing her throat
With It's grasp but rendered more deadly.
As 1t would be uhen the var has died ost,
ghA: eooId ne ever hope 70 Be but uhat
We have been, . poor. sparse. ignorAnt.
politics rid5so, trfbatsry: fax-psying PeO-
pie, UBder each = rsleAs ia. DAVIS aad
Leteher are noE snfsaeing IN thseszt. Via
better could re hope for2 IfAsy nau can
see, his vision Is more hr-reaehing than
sarL Every thing t6at eoaI4 briag pos
pesitE1eaId khun as As herssofore. What
ever would ere<se It AZ heas wOuId IeATe
~. IS IL has aIvays LEFT Is, fOr more Es-
uill soil Oar youug nsa EOald enigrate.
IS th-y noH eaigra4e, aod nothing would
prosper ba: Poyerty, and nothing Increase
bst ign0rabee. taxes sd irOnblez.
Within aud Of ourselves a. people We
hare neiiher de eaPitaI nor labor TO make
a. Dnrh greater THAI BE are. For both
Eeuest look abroad Shall ne look to
Eastern Virginis, or 70 PeunsylEania, New
York and SeV EngIAnd7
What has Rasteru Virgins ever sent rs
A FEY planters u6o having impoverished
thenssIres there have cone across The
mountains 70 bay farms 70 set their niggers
dOun 90 ia the hope that they will be able
to support both their masters aud then
selves The aiggers run Oh. or are sold
away for fear they will, aud the master.
plod along in their PoTerty-strieksn way
As best they can. The ouly real aeeessioas
Of wealth, energy aud enterprise We have
ever received have come from the free
States; aud just As this has been in the
past 80 it will be in the future. Eastern
Virginia has nothing 70 send us, the free
states 0ftbe North have Everything. OIheT
parts OF the South never have sent ~ any
thing and never eaa. But free State capt.
raj aud population is not willing 70 come
aud dwell in Geheuna. NolOeh must be
first dethrOnsd. else they will seek other
homes for their ehiIdrsn, aud other reposi-
tories for their wealth. They will move
on 10 the far West where they may build
mp free aud prosperous communities, With
the shop. the farm, abe church, sad the
sebOoIh0use for the tour great pillars OF
their fabric.
There is sin view Of this question
which must not be lost, in coasidsriug our
future either As connected with, or sepa-
rate from, the rest of the State. When tbs
var has termisatsd Eastern Virgidia viii!
be ruined-s already. Her material
wealth will be consumed. her people i'm.
poveriShei. her government bankrupt
and pledged for untold sums IN carrying
on the rebellion. As part of the State oil
Virginia, the West had no hand - bring.
ing about this ruin or the contraction Of
that debt Yetif Ve hold on to the 1asi
how do We know We will not be called up
on TO help make it good? Or at least be
uutted With her in the disgrace Of repudi-
ation7 There Is debt Of more than forty
millions, contracted before the rebellion
broke out, for her share of which the ives,
is bound. How long will it take us to pay
that, get a settlement on the best terms We
cant II matters NOT how small a share oil
the benefits purchased by this debt ever &C.
crued 70 the West No matter though it was
nearly all expended in the construction Of
railroads and canals east Of the mountains,
eentering 10 Richmond, and that not foot
Of canal or railroad was ever made with it
west Of the AlIeghenies-we shall, thanks
to an unrighteOus connection with the
East, have our full share to pay. But
what would We do with Yirginia's debt of
the rebelliOn-perhsps fifty milIiOus-piled
on top of that. Or ii it is repudiated,
how, but by separation. are We to escape
being dragged down into the ruin that is
certain to enguIf the East7 Will the heart
less and bypoeritical men who pirate about
this not being "tbe proper time" and
quib6ls aud falsify about points of tech
nicality. answer. When the war is over
the East viii have nothing from which TO
drAw revenue. The West with its COM