Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-29
THE NEW STATE.

THE NEW STATE.
a Most Excellent Article on the Sub.
JeOt.
FtVo'0 Citirens Of West Yirginia
CCoNCLUDED.
Fill this country with slaves, as Eastern
Virginia was filled with them before the re-.
bellion and In half century Western Vir-
ginia would be one of the poorest countries
on the continent. But initiate a policy
calculated to invite small capitalists from
abroad to take hold of your waste lands
and bring them into cultivation. Send the
German emigrNnt to your hill sides, and
VITA ms strouG.arm and sturdy purpose to
makea living for himself and family under
any circumstances, he will soon cover them
win vines and harvests, and focks and
herds. Invite the Irish emigrant to explore
your stores of mineral wealth. Initiate
such policy as will invite capitalists from
| abroad to turn to account our uueuualed
facilities for manufacturing, and Western
Virginia will soon become one of the most
prosperous States in the Union. Now one
OF the first prerequisites to all this, is to
remove from among us every Vestige of
slavery. 1t is n slave policy and a slave
code aud legislation in tho interest of
slavery that have hitherto hindered us from
realizing in any degree tho advantages
which we possess. We never eau have n
policy suited to our peculiar wants and
circumstances while attached IL Eastern
Virginia, and We can only become detached
from her by adopting the amendment in
question. But even If VIC could obtain
separate organization and still retain slave.
ry, /; would be our Slightest interest to re
move 1t as soon as possible. 1t is this
"A NJ ANy1un -.
Kept us lingering i'll the wake of 9th.
or communities around us. 1t is this
which detcrs capitalists from abroad
from smbarkinE. their. iorluucs among
us IL is this which turns the emigrant
from our doors, which keeps our lands
uncultivated, our mountain streams
unnpprOpriated, aud leaves our mineral
wealth hidden i'll the bowels of the earth.
And it slavery and slave policy have op.
Grated go di5ustrously to our interests in
the past, its power to harm US in the future
has been increased in q tentOld proportion
by the rebellion. The war has created an
intense hatred of slavery, in all those parts
of the country to which we must naturally
look for any exceptions to our population
aad capital. 1t is viewed as the cause of
all our woes. In the minds of the people
with whom we are naturally connected, in
geographical position, by similarity of pur-
suits, by commercial and social intercourse
it is associated with treason and rebellion.
1t is held responsible for all the horrors OF
this war. Its expenditure of blood and
treasure arc charged to the account of
slavery. The slaughter of friends and
brothers, of husbands and fathers the des.
titutiOn of widows and orphans the vail
ing and lamentation that now spreads
throughout the land, are all attributed to
this institution as their cause No wonder
then that meu shonld turn from it 10 dis
gust; and that all should distrust a COM
munity in the slightest degree subjected to
its contamination. Now whether this SEN
trment be just or not, is all one as regards
our interests. 1t exists, and its existence
is sufficient to deter the people of the free
States, from casting their lots or their for.
tunes among us. This sentiment alone is
sufficient to isolate us most completely
from all our natural friends aud allies, If
we continue to hold on to the rotten car
cass of slavery. Abandoned and disowned
by the South, Stunned and distrusted hy
the North Western Virginia will be in the
most hopeless and helpless of all conditions,
| if we now refuse to rid ourselves of the in
cubus of slavery. Let us, at least, rcl .
low citizens give to the country this pledge
and assurance of our loyalty.
When your delegates had fled in terror of
their lives from the Capital of your own
State, for representing your sentiments
there-when the hosts OF treason we're
gathering upon your borders, threatening
vengeance against your principal city on
account of its loyalty to the government of
our tathers-when all was uncertainty and
terror and dismay among us-these men
rushed to your defence; they imperilcd
their lives for you upon the battle field :;
| they rolled backt the tide Of war from over
kwhelming you, and lett you to pursue your
avocations in peace, out of sight and out
of hearing of the horrors and cnIamities OF
war. And is nothing due to these men :?
Shall we not, at least, give them the assn
rance that We are with them in heart, aud
in hand. and in principle? Shall we not,
at least, take decided aud aucquivocal
position by their side, and hand to baud,
and shoulder to shoulder, with hearty
cooperation, and with all the energies
which God and nature have given us, ena-
BILE them to sustain this Government and
hand it down, With all its manifold bless
iuge, to our posterity? So much is due TO
the whole country; it is due to ourselves ::
aud especially is it due to those noble spir-
its amoug us, who, at. the peril of their
lives, when all amoug us was dismay and
uncertainty, boldly took their stand by the
side of their country, and saved your land
from desolation. To these men you are
indebted for whatever of peace and pros
perity you this day enjoy Had they ,fal.
tered in the hour of trial-had they proved
weak, or irresOlute, or Vaccillatiug-what,
this day, would have been your condition 7
These men have been laboring necessarily
for your security; they have pledged them.
selves to the whole country for your 10y.
your safety; upon the position they as
sumed they staked their fortunes and their
reputation; and should you now fail them,