Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-26

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letter fromi dIstInEuIshedteIt tIzen
0fPrestOnCOunty- ON the New state
question. a}et-
Edittors IHtell5gehesf: 81
AS an ardent friend Of the new State
4 desire IT possible TO prevent any unneces.
Sary strife among those having the same
Fobject In view with myself. i hear of
threats and opposition to the proposed
fSonsutunon, from the advocates of a free
state, and disposition from that quarter
to deteatHit before the peOpls at the bolls.
/ am and have been from the bepinninE An
advocate of free State, aud urged upon
my friends in the Convention the propriety
and Importance of inserting a provision in
the organic law for the gradual extinction
OF slavery within the new State. While [
am IN favor of free State entertain no
conscientious scrnplesor prejudtces against
the institution aud think it may we'll sx-
tst inthe Tobacco, Hem D Cotton, Rice and
Sugar growing portions of our country,
where the l1bOur of the black race can be
prohHblS employed aud the slave better
clothed, fed, and cared for than he posi- !.
Die could be, if free, and left to compete
with the disadvantages of colour and in
telleCt-with the white race. Ny desire for
free State arises out of the conviction
that o climate and soil, together with
the various branches of industry that must
necessarily be pursued 10 deTelope our
rich resources are vastly better Tdapted to
Il Tree than slave tabOur. Then the question
among the friends and advocates of Tree
laoour IN West Virgins is, how eau we
best get clear of the institution of slavery:
Is 1t to be done by continuing our cOnnGc-
uon with the oyerruling slave power Of the
eastern part of the State, who have here
toforc imposed their code and theIr policy
upon US, not only defeating and neglecling
To pass laws designed TO promote and de-
l'SelQpea our best interests but actually en-
Eacttng laws calculated and designed to.
embarEess, llindsgs RRd delay. The ptpRl ess
of the northwest. Irepeat the embarrass-
ments of this Overruling and hostile power
by remaining in the old State. NY clear
and firm conviction is that We should by
no means lose the present opportunity of
cltting lose from tue "Old Dominion, . it
We ever intend to strike for freedom.
The Convention may not have done for
us all that II should have done; it certain
4 ly did not do directly aud Immediately for
u.s. all that We desired and hoped for but
u is equally true that it has started us in
the right direction, and it we but suppress
our bad and revolutionary passions. and
laval ourselves of the favorable breeze. We
will, as certainly as the suu continues TO
rise and set, DRIFT into the desired haven of
safety aud repose, and anchor aud rest
along side of our good neighbors of Ohio
and Pennsylvania.
The Constitution presented to us for
adoption, is sSsimilatcG in many resnects
4 to the inslitutions of the free States, and
the Shareholders within the limits Of the
new State, do not form more than one.
twentieth Of the voting population; con.
sequently they will have no power to cod.
tr0l the policy or destiny of West Yir.
ginia, Under the proposed Constitution,
the slavcholders will be like a besiegeti
garrison, with twenty to Que agaInst them,
with all the avenues of rPinforeements and
supplies cutoff, ready to surrender ut the
demand of the assaiiants
IL there be any who are opposed to the
bOlition of slavery, it seems 10 nue. they
ought to be the oues opposed to tue Con-
stltuGonii which leaves the institution at
the dtspQsRl of the ordinary Legislature.
But tt.clearly appears 10 me that there
should be no strife between the two class
es. II, on tie one hand, slaves should de.
preeiate, on the other the lands will great
\ ly appreciate, and in the end, all will be
benefited by new and atfree State.
Itinustbe apparent to all men who are
attaehed To a Tree and liberNl system Of
State policy that the proposed constitution
isihinitely better than the old one as now
lRmended BY the late Richmond Convention,
4 and that all cl6sses, sscttons, aud political
Z divisions within the proposed new State
Should merge, and silence all their differ
itenees, and by unanimous vote carry
l6htough the new constitution at the elec.
tiOn in April next. live do this We will
lget new State ~ some time and upon
some terms aud take fresh and vigorous
start in wealth and progress. If on the
j other hand iNe should be guilty of the folly
Of political suicide by rejecting the eonsti-
tuition IT. the5polts, opr doom is liked for
! ages TO- come; fastened to that old dead
political trunk that is now. passing through
the most loathsome stages OF decompOsi-
tion. z,
Now, my dear sirs, as the conductors Of
one Of the most popular aud widely circu-
Z Hated ionRn0lStOf the State, the friends Of
this time, to ron and your valuable paper
with great Interest. No great government
; ESl rsformWas ever accomplished by sim
gle effort or In single day. Such reforms
are the work Of time and patient perse-
vereuCt.7 IA man can; hardly in a few hours
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