Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-28


ready to aequte5ce to the emancipa,io
policy Of the GOVetnmSnt. The ueI, Ste
IN the progress will DO psrrmptory De
mand for abolition BY the people Of ID
State. This will probably take anothO
year
Missouri Is about twelve months abeA,
Of Hentucky. Before the war, though s,
Louis contained hamber Of far Srelul
merchants who were 10 favor Of emauclpA
liOn, the general sentiment Ol the Stat
was as unequivOcAlly pFo.slavery as ,ba
OF South Carolina, ItWas from Missour
that the "border FllianS" hailed. VII,
strnVe 10 force slavery Into Kansas will
fire and sword. No more ardent advocaLsl
Of slavery ever went to Washington thar
Atehiaon and Green. When the war brok,
out the Legislature Of Missouri Was Dol
only devoted to slavery, but was 90 closely
allied in sentiment to the other slaVc Slais
Legislatures that, but lOF the hero Lyon,
we might have bad 10 lake 81, Louis aRd
Jetiersoa City as Weto6k NAihvllio ana
Aemphls. After the proclamation Of Fn-
mont the anti'slaVeFy seulImen, madr
progress, especially among the Germans.
aud Governor was eleCted-MF. Gamble
who, though Tar from being m aboll.
tionist, believed that there were other in.
teresta in Missouri besides slavery. When
Congress adopted the Presidents recon-.
mendatlon to pay for emancipated slaves
the aHIi.Slavery impulse 10 Missouri re-
ceived further impulse, and Convention
was held in June last, at which il was ia.
termined to abolish slavery In eight years.
Tnis resolution, which would have seemed
revolutionary and nOnsIruus three years
ago, has not satisfied the people of Mis-.
souri,. They are not content to wait eight
years for immigration aud high prices for
land. Accordingly another Convention
will be called BY the next Legislature.
which will undoubtedly abolish slavery Al
once. This 10 very fair progress.
In Maryland the development Of anti.
slavery views has not, as yet, made It's an.
pearance on the surface Of the political
arena. But the tone Of leading neWspa.
pers, and the price Of slaves-a large slave.
holder the other day had bis entire stock
assessed ut So head-indicate plainly
enough that within short period Mary.
lGnd will, Of her own free action, get rid
Of the incubus OF slavery
1t is possible that the Border States. ran.
idly as they are improving in public senti.
ment, may yet be outStripped in the race
toward freedom BY some of their more
sisters The destruction of sla.
very, as An economic and productive insti.
!utiOn, is complete on the sea coast of
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Geor.
gia, in nearly half Of Virginia, in more
than half OF Louisiana, aud in the Missis.
sipPi Valley. No other system Of labor
has yet been substituted. 10 some locali.
lies all the adult male negroes are taken
for the army. In others they are hired
out, sometimes by their old masters. Bat
ls general rule, wherever slIyery has
been abolished BY military rule chaos has
succeeded, and desolatiol rules the plain.
Now il 10 ObyionS that this state Of thiuRS
,An not last long. An intelligent and in.
ius.FiOus nation Of twenty-five millions Of
Ehites will not long permit fertile land 10
10 idle when cotton Is worth 65 cents.
lugAr cents, aud tobacco Is cents
Sooner or later pride, prejudice aud pas.
zion will yield 10 the dictates Of interest,
md attempts will be made to reorgauize
labor. There have already been such at.
Iempts, spasmodir and partia., in Louisi-
lua. When the tall campaign has firmly
secured to US the eutire productive area Of
that State, together with the western part
Of Mississippi, aud the valleys Of Arkau. |
sas, we may feel assured that those at.
lempts will be renewed, and on a general
plan. This will be Gen. Banks work.
And there are those among bis friends who |
are not without the hope that, as early as
next winter, delegation Of regularly |
elected Congressmen from Louisiana will |
present themselves at Washington with a |
Iree State Constitution in their band, and |
! platform Of principles which will render
them cO.workers With the delegations from |
and Illinois.
For the world will keep moving. Here,
Ia the great commercial metropolis, where
every man who is not engrossed iu making
money is euErossed in spending 1t, We have
ineal descendants Of Galileo's Judges,
Who deafeu us with daily euIogies of sla.
very as it was, aud denouucs all progress
rs the work Of the devil, or the radicaIs-I
which means tho same thing. But the
world does not stop for their Croakiug,
and the planters in Louisiana aud Nissis.
sippi, wheu placed IN the dilemma Of
between free negro labor on the
One hand, aud no labor at all on the other,
will not feel much sympathy with North.
cru politicians who are so euamored Of
slavery that they would rather see planters
starve than negroes free.