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


Ii is very difficult to tell. We have. .bovn
that it cannot come from abroad, sd If /,
e1ists tall, it can. only be within our own
4 limits. In 1860 there were about IL .OO0
slnves 10 round numbers, and few hun.
dred free negroes withia the new Smte.-
following up the estimate hitherto made.
4 there are 5000 slaves now amongst ds and
i a decreased number of free blacks. There
are, II is believed, not to exceed 500 free
4 blacks IN all the new State. Under this
4 emancipation not slave will be freed for
4 four years-those under 2 becoming free
lat 25-and therefore for this period no in.
crease OF free negro population, except the
j usual per cent in the natural way is bossi-
BILE. While they are forbidden to come ia
they are not prohibited from leaving the
State. 1t ia therefore fair assumption
| that the present number will be greatly 1i.
mlnished in those four years by emigration
No opeswill assert that these 500 free d 81
groea without law or prerogatiVes sins their
hands are going to oVerrun and deto1r asB
600 white people who have all of both. We
are inclined to conclude with the chan who
applied TO very .sancient marinernf for &
passage in his ark that s'its not going to bs
much of flood after ALL" At least il it Al
stlll TO come; it was very obliging on tht
I part OF Congress to give us four years Is
preparesfor Ind if all the Legislatures
We can elect, having control of theiwhoik
| question, cannot in four years fortify
against any possible and now unseen dan
ger from this quarter then we would al
most deserve some such calamity as pSs-
dicted.
-Four years after the constitution becomes
operative the emancipation of the 1900
slaves will begin. If they had all been
born at the same hoGrsand fWould ALL be
liberated at once, it does not appear that
the consequences would be very friqhtful
considering that they are scattered over
% 900 square miles of territory and among
twenty times their number of white peo.
Iple But even this will not happen. The
emancipation will be emphatically sserad-
ual" 1t will run througha period of sew
enteen years. There will not be hundred
freed each year; and very large propor
tion of,these will leave the State within a
year afterwards. So that in fact the mum.
Der of free negroes amongst us will not be
PeFceptibly increased, if actually increased
at Pll. The few who remain with US will
seek menlal employments as they always
and everywhere do; aud the very last pos
siole thing that could grow out of it would
eiany supplautiug of the white labor of
the country by free negro labor, because
first there wont be any free negroes to
labor, and second because they wouldn't
labor at the employments of white men if
there were. So small will be the number
ami so slow the emancipation that3it will,
not half supply the demand for the kind of
labor they seek aud which white men will
not perform. Can any man in whose
breast there fingers n spark of maHIv
selr-respect or Tesnect for trntb hsra
the effrontery in ibe face of aiI .haso
facts to stand up and utter the enor.
nous aud inexcusable falsehood that under
this emancipation West Virginia is to he
the asylum for the free negro population
ofithe North Z Shame herself would hang
her head in confusion to hear fk.s Ssl
Such is to he the onaro,io, of tb;s o,,,
cipation ifleft IN W.T. omt ;,s Ss..%tl
Yet who donhts that FSa ns,.s Iii s';
the institution nraoticsIIx avtino,;sLaS
amongst MS Perhans evsr ~ t5s So
the 66eratiun of the cloHse hag;,s 10 :. .tI Iii
simnIv nv reason of ;ts norta;,,. IS S ~ ~
comsiished the vbc1o Tyori, - 80 ~
s. alone wonl5 have 5ona p Patosa u,ose spsu .la.
time the owners of sI"ve nroeSnts, tuaT .u;,S
have discovnre6 tbst T. 10 ,ha;. - WI, t'
and the United Stotes oovaromant lS ~ sen sen
have honUht them ont 80 o;,l - WI
Thee do 9ot boIJ ~ tOos auu oratcn. u
nrofit,bIa SH, for ftom ~ ,ba uH@ Ses.use u IS
ripbt nnier the IoG nnd tIat tsa. II ;3 !? 5oeir
hankrnntad rather ~ ""u a,.uot3 snsy WI. oe
stitntiopsI ri1bt', p',. ;ttn.lt q con
of .opinion srs r,oina1 ~, - T., Su"uges
And the whole tide set,ina ar% on "uen .ney
will be .eaqer to t,iI IN 5,;,b 9S Gho wy tpey
bave hitherto been de,ermin s5 sS 'res;.t;ny Suy
aud will 90 as fast and Far 40 the nar, Z,
doing what thew NAV bav 49,, :"
Nv resolved thew never would %ru 5o uesp-
rho.a ,tS'.t'.l.
go a. o.SeF, tnougn Trivial, o3lfc-
.n,;s, u"Ie ~ " tne auoPLion Oh tn!s Oonsti-
o . ISL 10 noI Ml'nin u Tue 81, purpose OF this
..t pNpet W uot'!e tuem a!l. Iney are simply
iiactlops, ana 1t would be unjust to the sub
Jscs 20 ueat @.sn mem as II honestly and
slnceFely raised One remaining objection