Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-03

We are glad to know that through the
energy of Mr.. G.. D. Hubbard and others of
our citizens, ample provisions has been
made to secure to the people of Wheeling
an expression of their sentiments on the
free State question, to-day. Books for
this purpose have been prepared and will
be found at all the polls in the city. We
are also glad to know that the officers who
will conduct the election at the various
precincts, will interest themselves in elici-
ting an expression upon the question:
This arrangement although necessarily inn
perfect and hasty is a great deal better
than none. Every man who casts his vote
to-day for a free State will show that he
is an earnest man, and large vote will
show to Congress and the country that our
people intelligently voted for new State,
aud that they meant progress. industry, in
crease, in so voting, and that they never
meant to Perpetrate the farce of voting
themselves out of a big slave State into
little one. It will show that they had
purpose that viii commend their movement
to histo ry; that their action was NO idle
change for mere changes sake, but that
it was induced by the deeply grounded
conviction that the Institution of slavery
was alien in every respect to the soil and
best interests of Western Virginia.
In full vote on this question we have
every thing to hope for. If anything in
the world can influence Congress to admit
US with our present Constitution it will
be in consideration of the vote that our
people poll in spite of that Constitution, for
free State. 1t will speak a language to
the people of the free States that none of
us can appreciate here. 1t will be like the
spring call which the busbandman receives
from the fields just growing into green
Thousands of eyes will no longer turn
westward for new homes and new fields
Of labor and enterprise. Convinced that
we are in earnest aud that we mean soon
TO be thoroughly identified with the
great States on either side of US, the peo-
pie of the free States will no longer pass
by our borders as they have done in years
past.
An other thing is to be considered in the
vote to day. Several members of the Con-
vention declared that at very early day
the legislature would do what the Conyen-
tirn did not do, viz pass gradual emanci-
patton law, similar 10 substance to Mr..
Batelle's resolutions. Ifthey were speak
ing in good faith when they so declared,
they must be earnest desirers of full free
State vote to. dRy-for such a vote will be
in the nature of our institutions from the
people to the very next Legislature. There
fore it is dOubly and thirdly important that
We cast-as full a vote as possible for free
State to-day. Important in our relations
to Congress, because it is the only thing
that will admit us-importaat in our rela-
tons to the free States, because from them
we expect to draw our future sources of
prosperity, and lastly, important to our
selves, in that it will induce the leg,sla-
t1Ee At an early day to remedy the mistakes
OF the Convention.
Need we say more to our people3 We
earnestly trust that there is no need for
even this much. That man must be blind
and PeFblind indeed, who is so inconsis-
tent as to profess himself desirer of a
new State and not equally and for the same
reasons exactly, desirer of tree State.
In orr best and most candid judgment
there can be no such thing as a sincere and
ardent new State man, who is not also
free State man.
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