Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-14

We speak what every thougbtftI, intelli-
gent man knows, Eheu7we SAY that The City
of heeling has most +itai interest in the
success of the bill, now peudIug before
Congress for the admission of West Viz
giniA. Every inch Of West Virginia has
great interest in the bill bot chiefest and
above all has tbs City of Wheeling It's
success opens up furure to her in eompa-
rison with which her past has been moth
ing. Ttplaces her like city upon hill,
aud through her will be reflected for many
years to come the resources and capacities
and iucreasing proportions of the new State
She will be its metropolis and In all pro-
liability its capital. 1t is within her limits
that emigration will first find its way,
aud here it will be that Eastern capital
and labor and enterprise will first come to
look about for an Investment and home in
the new State.
Wheeling has a national reputation. She
is known as q free city-as a city of
acknowledged enter
prise and great capacities. The country
now looks to her as the head and front Of
the Union movement IN Western Virginia.
She has the friendship of the nation. She
is known to stand upon the Ohio river
within stones throw of the great State of
Ohio, aud almost within guu-shot of Penn
syIvauia, She is known as the terminus
of the Baltimore road, and as the prospec-
tive center of railroad system by no
means Insignificant. Her great resources
for manufacturing are becoming gradually
as we'll known as those of Pittsburgh, aud
she has promise before her that no city
of equal population 10 the land has
What she wants now is to complete her
road to grand future. The new State
opens up to her an avenue that under the
Richmond government she never dared
aspire to. She becomes at once the head
ola free State. She will draw to herself
financially all the commercial, manufac.
turing and agricultural interests that will
attach to the new State. She will enjoy
the FIRST fruits of the new era TO larger de.
gree than any other place, and will in the
futurs stand to Western Virginia as Pitts.
burgh has stood to Western Pennsylvania
All sagaciOus business men here in oul
midst know that it is free State immigra
ton, free State capital, enterprise ant
thought that have made Wheeling what sh,
is. Take out S4 her that population anC
that capital AID iadustry and nothing bu
shell wOald remain. Nine-tenths of nj
the heavy business of the city is carried Oh
by meA who came here from abroad. The,
have made Wheeling. And it is the sam
sort of men Who have got to work out he
tAsare. 1t tsto tho great free States tina
wheeling must look. She commands thei
good viii now. Our daily budget fletter
shows how extended is the interest that i
felt in her future in these States. From
these States immigration is looking toward
her and when this war closes We will fnt
the tide largely diverted from its oil
channels and streaming into Western Yir
inia,through Wheeling. five have slav,
State of course that tide will avoid us in th
future just as it has in the past. We shall
only get the drippiugs. If we have a fee
State the stream will set directly toward US
Our rainbow of promise is free State
Anything else would be our bane. wha
ftwouId Western Virginia do as a slav
! State? What hope 10 the future would sh
have? Southern immigration could no
q and would not come to her, aud Easter
EaBd Northern immigration would shuu her
It is "a necessity OF our geographical posi-
tfon that We strive to be free. Every in
q terest within our borders bids us strive Il
be free. Every foot of ground will be en-
/ HANGED in value and every opening of trad
! enlarged. Cau any one say the same, i
/, 1--we were 10 come iuto the Union as slay
Stats Let some one answer. Tell u
from whence property is to come to Yves
tern Virginia as slave Slater She ha
no future as slave State. She would b
the gibe of even the South.
/ We appeal then only to the self-intsrss
of our people when we advocate fire.
( State. Everything dictates to them tina
their hopes are bound up in the prospect
of such State. As people, with on
past experience, we should be written dow
as the most monstrous suicides should We
iuflict on ourselves system which has M
element of promise for Us, aud from which
all men know we had suffered SO disas
trously.
Next Monday Two Weeks.
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