Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-19

Win tuemI anu more th0n all, their love OF
free institutious-their desire for schools
their peaceful hsbits-tbeir thrifty ecouo-
my and their ambition for. cultivation and
intelligence and constant progress. What
have they done for Ohio and the west
See what they have made out of them
Look what an empire, each, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois have become. Look at their
systems Of railways and ca
nails and State roads. Look at the values
Of theiriagricultural productions. Look at
their factories aud mills and shops. Look
at their thickly studded cities and towns
their schools and churches; their wealth
and intelligence; their unceasiug prosper.
ity and increase in every department of
business life.
Why are We to-day what we srei Why
are We here, right in sight of Immense pop.
uIatiOns on either side of rs, compelled to
contrast our condition with theirs? There
is but one reason that any sensible and
candid man can offer that will satisfy his
own or other peoples intelligence. We
have been the slaves of foreign masters.-
We have had policy forced upon as by
far of power that was wholly repuguant to
our natural condition. We have been try
ing to make water run up hill all our lives.
We bays been deluding ourselves with the
idea that we're not as much natural part
of Pennsylvania as her own territory is !;
but that on the contrary we. right along
side of her, were in the South and she in
the North. We have been always imagin-
ing that what was Ohio's interest was not
our interest; that what would make her
great and rich and powerful, would not
make US great aud rich and powerful. We
have repealed the immigration that she
has welcomed. To-day she looks down
from high eminenCe ON US. She con-
templates the sight amazingly of one of
her couuties-one of her poorest coun-
ties-the county of Monroe equalling
in the value of its real estate and per-
sonal property the real estate and per-
sonaI property OF seven counties adjacent
on this side of the river. Incredible as it
may seem she can see this strange sight,
she can point it out 10 the world as an ex.
hibitiOn of what on the one band free insti-
buttons will do for State, and what on the
other hand slave institutions will do. The
question is for US now, are VIC awake and
aroused to the sight? Has all the past not
yet opened our eyes? Are we ready for
the present great opportunity Do we
prefer to make the start ard the trial now +?
or do we prefer ga little more slumber, a
little more folding of the hands to sleep"
Our ancient task masters and opp1essors
have gone of and left US. They have alb
jured the common government of their and
our fathers. They have allied themselves
as member of government whose Vice
President boasts that its scorner stone is
slavery" They have with that selfish
dominancy that has ever. characterized
their rule over US, sent their allies and
their own troops across the mountains to
attempt our invasion and subiugation.-
They claim the right to go where they
please-to make an alliance with an inter-
est that is in deadly enmity to our prosper
ity-to do it all, too, without consultation
With US: and yet they are not willing to
allow US the poor boon of remaining true
to the government of our fathers, and
staying where we have always been /?
Are we freemen or slaves2 Can
Eastern Virginia rule us and use
US aud abuse us both in peace and
in WARP Have we no rights that she con-
siders worthy of respect? Are we her
vassals-to follow at her beck and 60 with
her at the heels of South Carolina! Who
is there among US with SO little pride OF
section that he would rather be the dog of
the East than the freeman of the West?
Who ia there among us who prefers to go
back under the old rule--become it's tax
paying dependency again-take upon his
shoulders its ruined and wasted patrimouy
support its beggared aud bankrupt
trensury7 Surely the commonest sense
of self.respect and o: eelt.interest revolts
At the idea5 We know what must DO our
NNNAS "a VIC BO ohCAs we nave QAQ 3 DIX
ter experience. Our future would be a
thousand fold more iutolerabls Eastern
Virginia is one of the most thoroughly
broken down and ruined countries the
world ever saw. She will be impoverished
20 the very bottom of her soil before the
war is over. Suppose We 80 back under
her again. Who will pay the expenses of
her civil adminiStraiou2 If the six hun.
bred and twenty thousand dollars per an
nun which We paid over to her in times
gone by barely suaiced, what will suffice
now or in year hence;
Such is the future to which those who
oppose the new State invite us. Those
Who advocate the new State invite us to a
lar different future. They have given US
an earnest of what it is to be. Already