Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-12

free States. We use the phrase in no mar
row or partisan sense, but in its catholic
and progressive sense. We want men
whose feelings are a synonym with free
State, and not men who are so simply by
force of circumstances. Such men will
not stand when the day of trial and assault
comes. The ruination of John S. Carlile
was the pro slavery virus that was in the
man, intensified as it was by native want
of principle.
Some otherwise very sensible men. and
personally very unexceptionable, suppose
that in order to be conservative they must
be to a considerable extent pro-slayery.-
Such Is a very common feeling among
certain public men in West Virginia,
even yet, Notwithstanding the dear
bought experience which the Nation
and State have had with Slavery
They cannot get rid OF the ideas and affini-
ties of the school in which they were
brought up. They cherish their old preju-
dices the came as ever and on all tempting
occasions they cannot help mauitestiug
them. They are afraid somebody will sup
pose they are 10 sympathy with the Adolf
tionisiz. Such an imputatiou is more than
one of your fashionable and weak ueryed
| conservatives" can stand. 1t has been
his bug-bear through life and his moral
courage is powerless to resist it under
pressure. And this, TOO, Notwithstanding
the fact that Slavery, almost next to
original Sin itself, has been the cause of
woes unutterable to this land, and not
WiIhstauding, too, that it has been our
especial curse here in West Virginia, and
notwithstanding further that the iustitu-
ton is going to the wall and sinking to the
ground never to rise again. Notwith-
standing, we say, all these patent, every
day facts, we have men who connect all
their political principles aud sympsthies
with some hem of the old pro-slaveEy
garment, seemingly for no other reason
than that thus far in lifeit has been mark
of responsibility so to do. Such men in
Congress at the next session will be in the
road, aud viii be simply stumbling blocks
to the country and the new State. We
trust in Heaven that not one of them will
DE sent. The fact to be recognized is that
we are in danger of committing a suicidal
qualification in sending any such men to
Washington. Wehave confessedly sloughed
off and repudia,ed the Richmond school of
ideas, having seen how great a curse they
were to us, and heucetortb our school is TO
be the ideas that permeate and actuate the
people of this Ohio Valley, wherein all
tnat we are or hope for is bound up.
..Ah r. says some owl and gboul of a
Coppernead. tits an abolition State you
want" The same one who makes the re-
mark is the fellow who did his best to
rally people against the reorganization
movement and against the new State move
meet under the same howl. 1t was tue eff
fort of just such fellows 10 keep US tied to
Richmond having previously failed to
identify us with the rebel oonfedera-
cy- All such owls and ghouls will
vent the same cant slang as long as
as there is niger in America and per-
haps afterward. 1t is ali they know, feel
or appreciate. There alpha and omega be-
gins and ends in niggerism. The way to
treat them is to pay not the least attention
to them. There day is about over. The
Irresistible march of events will tramp
them down and tramp them out of exis-
teuce. The end of this war will be their
end God speed the day? In the mean
time the duty of all earnest, true, live, en-
ergetic friends OF the government and the
state is to see to it that no one who has the
least sympathy with such people goes into
Congress from West Virginia. 1t will be a
most lamentabie draw back and misfortune
to have even one such in our delegation.