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

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your loyalty, how will the heads sink and
the hands falter that have hitherto beon
laboring in your behalf The crate.
fuI acknowledgements OF the Community
are duo to every faithful public servant
even in the most calm and pea ceful times !,
how much gratitude then is due TO the man
who, when the storm is raging and the
waves are rolling high--when the hearts
of the mariners are failing-boldly takes
hold OF the helm, and steerR the yesseI
safely through the breakers.
May they never. fellow citizens. hayetbo
modification to find that their pledges of
your loyalty have not been redeemed. By
adopting this amendment we take our stand
unequiVocally on the side Of the Union, and
with the loyal men who are struggling to
uphold it, by rejecting it, aud refusing to
enter the brotherhood of loyaGsStates. We
render our loyalty douttfuI;and all our pro-
testanOns of attachment to thegUnion dis
trusted. Do we, at this time, desire to as.
sumo this position7 trust not We still
have faith in the loyalty of West Virginia.
But we return from this digression.-
FROM review. of the character of our
country and its resources, and the kind of
labor necessary, TO their DEVELOPMENT. we
come uuerringly to the conclusion that slave
labor is not the labor required. Under its
best aspects it can only be rendered profit
able in the production of its peculiar sta
| pies, to which our soil and climate are not
at all adapted. Slaves do not rear and on
crate factories, or plant vineyards, or SUI
perintcnd herds, or bore for Salt or Oil, or
engage in mining operations, or sme!t ores.
or perform any of that peculiar work which
We have to do. 1t must be left to other
hands-to the hands of intelligent freemen
TO men who work for a purposc-Who
nave families to rear and educate, and
friends to entertain, and q fortune and n
dHstIny in their own hands. This is tho
teaching OF reason upon this subject
what is the doctrine of experiences?
Consult the statistics Cf your own conn
try, and learn memorable lesson, Com
pare the States Of Massachusetts, and Vir.
ginia. These are the two Oldest States in
The Union. They were settled nearly at the
same time. Virginia having the precedence.
Virginia had the advantage in soil, aud iu-
comparably SO in climate. She had ter
rltory large enough to form more than eight
States as large as Massachusetts,. Both had
equal access to the scNboard Virginia
chose to be developed by the labor OF the
slave, Massachusetts by the labor of the
treemen. And what has been the result?
Let the census tables tell the tale 1890
the entire population Of Virginia Tas T4S,.
3os, that of Massnchuscts37s,7l7. In. 1860
the entire population of Virginia was =
596,305, that Of Massachusetts /, ,23I, ,s66-
that IS, at the beginning of the century the
population of Virginia was nearly double
that of Massachusetts, iu sixty years they
are very nearly equal, slaves aud all Mas
sachusctts has a population of l57 and
fraction to the square mile, Virginia a pop
nlatiou Of 26 and fraction. The free white
population of Massachusetts is larger than
that of Virginia by l74,053. Virginia is
entitled to eleven Representatives in the ga
tiOnal Congress, Massachusetts to ten. Now
Mnssachusetts has less than one eighth of
the territory of Virginia, while her popu-
I1tlon and Influence in tho national Coun-
ellis are nearly the same. But this is not
all. The assessed value of tho real estate
in Virginia, in 1850, WAS $4l7,952, 22S, that
OF Massachusetts S475,4l3, l65, making
difference in favor of Massachusetts of S57, :
46O,937 on the assessed value of her real
estate. by the same census, the assessed
value of the personal property of Virginia
was 1898, ,069, lOs, while that of Massnchu-
setts was S3Ol, IA ,65l, leaving a balance
IN favor OF Massachusetts of S62, ,675, ,549
IN the value ofher personal property. That
IS, Massachusetts with less than ont. eighth
OF tue territory Of Virginia, exceeds her bv
more than Sl2O, 900, 900 in the value other
real and personal property Can any thing
be more convincing than these figures 10
regard TO the influence of the two systems
OF labor in question, on the increase of pop-
ulatlon or the production of wealth the
usual indiCes of national prosperity But
in manufactures and commerce the dispar-
ity is still greater, on the side of Massachu-
sets showing vast difference in the
nVN mt FnE -. 4
productive Investment. And now, fellow
citizens, what is the cause of this enormous
difference in the case OF the two States
which commenced their career togeth-
or, with all the advantages so greatly
on the side of the one, which has been so
lmmeasurably outstripped2 Tho answer
is plain. The labor employed to do all this
work, in the one case was the labor of the
slave, in the other it was that Of the free
man. In the career of these two States YOU
have the results of slave labor aud of free.
Can any one with these results before him
doubt or hesitate as to the policy of en-
PlOying the ono or the other? Bat this is
not an Isolated case in the history OF our
country. In the same way compare the
States OF Pennsylvania and Yirginin. They
approximate each other more nearly in size,
Virginia being about one fourth the larger.
The supcrticinI-.arca of Virginia is 81 s59
square miles, that of Pennsylvania being
$4,000. They are more nearly similar in
soil and climate. They each have access
10 the ocean on the East aud 10 take the
same river on the West. Their mineral
productions are the same. Thus these two
States are very nearly equal in natural re-
sources. How do they compare in their
development! Let us resort to the same
census tables. In l1oO Pennsylvania had
population Of ABA, ,373, while Virginia Cas
before, stated had a population of 74s, ,3Os
ln 1860, the population of Pennsylvania
was 2,906,ll5, while that of Virginia as
stated above was l,59G,3l8 slaves and all.
Thus Pennsylvania with but little more
than halt the population of Virginia Mt the
commencement OF the Government, in 1860
excells her by .3O9. 1877, and that too on
about three fourths of the territory. The