Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-04
The city and COunty-ThoIr Interest
In the New State,


No portion Of the aeW State has the
same interest In Its success as Ohio county
and tho city of Wheeling. 1t needs no
lengthy argument to prove this. The 9th.
er counties and especially those in the in.
terror, depend almost exclusively on aRri-
culture for the support of their people -
Nearly every man owns or rents a piece of
land, and every body can live in a frugal
way by simply raising enough meat and
bread to feed their families. Not so il IL
In this county. Here the people are par sx-
oelleucs, commercial and manufacturing
people. Without commercial and manu-
featuring prosperity Wheeling would rap.
Idly lOsO her present population. Ever
since she has pretended to be city she
has labOred under the dead weight of an
adverse and unnatural policy-a policy
shaped and contrived by hostile hands hun.
dred' Of miles away. Despite Of that pol.
Icy 'ho has gained a little--an inch this
year and another inch the next-but her
progress has always been diScouragiuRly
slow. Rad she had such policy for her
basis as Piutsburg had, she would TODAY
have been the rival OF Piusburg. Pitts.
burg has had free State pOlicy-she has
has held out every inducsneut to emmigra.
tton' aud the consequence to-day is tina,
with no such advantages as Wheeling DOS.
SesS she has LEFT her out Of sight in the race
Of prosperity.
The city OF Wheeling has only one de.
Psndencs, and she has NO other, aud that is
the growth aud spread Of the mechanical
arts in her midst. Immigration has made
her what little she is and immigration must
make whatever shO is to be 10 the future.
1t is not necessary at this late day to 70
into an argument to prove that imuigra.
ton avoids slave States and cities and
towns. Wshavs had painful experience
OF that great truth 10 our history, Al ON.
time our national road was tho one great
highway of travel from the East to The
West. Immigration poured through our
city all the year round. It uns eompsl,es
to POar through our borders. AID vet
how little of it could be made TO stick
to our streets or divert itself out into III,
interior. 1t appears incredible a. tbi, d.r
to look back and remember tina, thonssnd.
aud tens of thousands otimmisrauts from
the East passed through our borders in
every shape aud conveyance and yet scarce
" one in a thousand of them stopped 10
inquire Into tas advantages OF the city and
country through which they we're passing
Such has been cur experience in time.
past. WHAT'S the prospect for thu -fa,ur.
under the same state of things. Tbs,.,.ro
some people 80 stark blind and .tbbbot1
and so bigOted and prejudiesd tbs, tbs1
will not stop even for moment ana Iost
At the probable coussSu saees of spy vo,o
they are about to give on any &C, ,b.v are
about to commit. Have those ;ci6,sn.
opposed TO the New State copsid.r,I M:
faOt-viI that let Ohio county vote =:
she will the New State win be Oysrwb.lm.
IuEly adopted, So tar as her vote zoe, :.
viii matter nothing as to. the anal Fssn,,
There is not probability that another
county IN the New State will vote again,
1t There iSa moral certainty that ,o.pv
1.-THE counties will vote almost uusuimonsly
for 1t. Outside Of the Pauhauals, IN fac.
0ntaids OF the county of Ohio but yerv