Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-18

tbeir sPefse white POpulAtion, and their
crude system Of agriculture which employs
nothing bat the hoe and gin. Our bsst
east0ners hare never been In the South
The VasI territory TO Dc EuPPIieG thsre. has
made the Southwestern trade important
aud desirable: bat hoE Is it now when an
trade With the far SoGlh il cut OF, and has
been a year and a half Are We ruined!-
Far from it. Even If re bad As nany eus-
TONERS soaib aE West. they would not bay
90 much, because their wants are Tot 30
vsrioas or great. We know that nasy peo-
pie sIen here have always regarded the far
OF SOath~estesn irade As the most TaIuA-
bic wheeling bad. There never vas =
greater mistake. Far the greater bulk Of
our manufactures hsTs gone north Of the
Ohio river instead Of soath Of it, and thi.
in spite Of The competition Of Pittsburgh
aud othe. northern manufacturing eities-
As a general principle We shall always ind
most Customers where there Is the deDsest
and most prosperous population and "a
for competition, With her natural adEsnta-
gts. EiEs wheeling the same free institu-
tions that her aNorthern competitor" have.
AID she has nothing TO fear in the same
markets reached By them We can msnu-
fae,ure As cheap and as we'll, aud Why not
in oar nstaraI markets successfully con-
pete with them!
But Why take time or space to show all
this, when it is not really material TO the
question:. Are We going to be deprived of
our Southern market if ne cut OF from
Old virgini.7 Or srewe to be deprived of
our Southern eustom-rs unIeas We join
Southern Consederaey! No. In the 6rst
place. thereis not going to be any Southern
Confederaey TO join. In the next place.
We eau have no commerce with the rebel
lions States anyhow till the war is over
and in the third Piaee, when the war Is over
We will occupy the game relation TO The
South commercially that We have always
occupied, except that as new and iu-
proving State We shall be able to carry on
a trade to a better advantage than before
the rebellion. But even then, the South
west will be but poor customer. Ruined,
desOlated. her material prosperity wrecked,
she will be tho poor 10 pay If she buyEf
aud We shall be glad hereafter to claim (as
we expect to claim aud obtaiu) large share
of the patronage of the great and growing
uninterrupted and prosperous West aud
Northwest. Whenever the Southwest gets
able To bay again ne shall be ready to sell.
undoubtedly; Aud then We shall have the
came advantages that our rival Pittsburg
f has, the same Ohio and Mississippi to float
our commerce. aud not quite SO far to go.
AS going to show that even the Secession
lists here appreciate how much We here de-
! pend on the Northwest, We may mention
/ that their exponent the Wheeling PreSs bad
4 an article the other morning aiming to
: show that the interests of Western
a Virginia were closely allied with III.
South. and further, that the
! Northwest would fud its own true
Abilities in the same direction
thus showing that they would not even IL
I, dissolution separate US from the great
: Northwest But such an argument only
e helps to prove more and moro how impOs,
l sible it is ever to effect any separation a
all. The Mississippi aud its tributaries
5 like mighty ligatures, bind half the CONT
neut in one commercial union and make II
forever aone and iuseparable.Y
There is 40 greater falIaey than the idel
e 80 popularizsd in the South, fallGcy. too
: by which the seeessionists here hold Of
= their other fAllactes in respect to our ma.
; teriaI fnterests-that the South sup.
q ports the North by the purchase of itl
wares aud that the prosperity of the North
e would give way lift were not kept up BY
L Southern gold. What a commentary or
: the assumption is the condition of The
e North after an embargo of a year aud {
q half on Southern trade. The North is The
e Eorth's best customer. 1t consumes more
: than three times as much of its own pro-
D auctions as ever the South did, because iti
: white population is three times as great
{ and its requirements much more varied
( and numerous.
5 1--we were compelled to make choice
{ of nationality between North and South,
. which should we look to as most likely to
; contribute to our material prosperity
Certainly not to the South in its palmiesl
, days; mnch moro certainly not TO it as it
: is now or will be when the war has
swept it desolate. Even If it were only
, customers We wanted we should choose
: the North. But customers are not all We
want We need capital aud population
Prom the South No; where we have got
f that We already have, from The North and
Until we get them We shall need but few
more customers. Where shall We get them7
} RAst.
But there is no question iof this kind
before the people of western Virginia