Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-24
The Border states In 1868.
From the New York Independeut.

4 The result of. a great struggle like tina
(which now conVulses our country is influ
enced not less by progress in ideas than bJ
/ progress in arms. Nay: the victory of to.
day may neutralize the adverse triumph
of last week; but the tide Of Opinion
knows no rehuent ebb, and its advance OF
to-day isirarely annulled or effaced by the
recession of to-morrow. II it had been
diYinely decreed that the Union armies
should be worsted2in every conflict of this
tremendous war, yet that the progress and
experience of the struggle should impress
on every American mind the conviction
that it is more advantageous and prof. jGta6le to
hire lphateVer labor you need in the open
market than to coHStraiu Il through the NG5
chineyy of SlGveholdiNg, the essential yicto-
,ryi would necessarily accrue to the nomin-
ally defeated party, leaving the ostensible
|syictors eficently yet conclusiyely van.
qnished.
Let us, iu view of these truths, note the
6progress of Opinion respecting Slavery in
whats are distinguished as the Border Slave
States since the outbreak Of the present
war 10 81, b .a s
L, DEIAwARE.-ThisS State gave Fremont
30s votes in. 1856, and Lincoln 1916 in
1860, which was just about one-tourth of
her entire poll. Buchanan had her Elec-
tors in '5e by the largest popular vote
5000 and the largest majority Il ta29l.
that she had ever given in any contested.
election. Breckinridge carried her; ElecT
tors in go by poll pf 4, 7,S37 votes, and the
largest plurality (3, ,473 over Belly that had
ever been inscribed on her records. Her
Breckinridge Governor (Burton) made no
response to President Lincoln's call for
Militia to defend the Capital in April, 1868.
That his party fully sympathizes with the
Rebel chiefs, not in seeking disruption,
of the Union, but in intensely desiring the
predominance of Slavery in our National
councils and policy, is undoubted. The
Volunteers whom she has sent to the Ma
tional armies, are of course mainly drawn
from the most loyal portion of her people,
SO that their absence is q serious loss to
the Union cause in each election. Yet in
November last she elected q new Governor
tCannon) on the Unconditional Union plat
form, who is5a thorough supporter of the
War policy of the Government, Emancipa-.
tion inclusive, and whose vote (s, 1859 was
the largest ever yet given, in the State to
any man, 1t is true that at'the same time
Representative in Congress. (siuce de-
ceased) was chosen by the Opposition; but
his vote (S,O51) was less than Gov Cam
non's, and his maioIity but 81, while the
Governors was III. An Opposition Leg.
islature was carried because of the diVi-
sion of the State into two Opposition aid.
one UneonditionaIo Union county, New
castle,) whose population is nearly equal
to that Of both the others. A Special
Election for Congressman lin place of
Temple, deceased) will be held this Au
.tumnf; and the only doubt as to its result
rests in the absence OF tfreelor four thonz
sand of her noblest sons in the Armies of
I4k. 8
returned Delawareiwill have become and
will remain an Administration and an Anti
2. MARYLAND.-T State gave Fremont
2sl votes in '56, and Lincolu2 ,264 out of
Ninety Thousand in '60. 1t cast its cleo
toral vote in '56 for Fillmore, and in go.
for Breckenridge. Its Legislature in ,61
was Democratic, intensely pro slavery, and
strongly inclined to secession. In its chief
city, President Lincoln's life was imperil-
ed, Senator Sumner was mobbed, and ua-
armed Massachusetts malitiamen were set
upon and Slaughtered, ,,in the Spring of '6l.
The excuse offered for these outrages was
irrepressible sympat of her people with
their Southern brethren. Her Democratic
Legislature would doubtless have voted her
Outof the Union If left to their own device
es in the earlier half of5'6l. Yet in the
gustus w! Bradford Union was chosen
Governor by 81, ,46s votes toh26, ,0s6 tor B.
O. Howard, e.. Peace. with Union Leg /.
islature and five ont of six Members Of
Congress. The State is now preparing to
improve on that decision. Henry Winter
Davis, who in '6l was run out of Congress
by a Secessionists, as too earnestly friehdly
to the Union, will now be reelected as an
outspoken Emancipa tionist and Il is high
" probable that three of the six Members
viii be like him. All the signs indicate
not only az. overwhelming Union but q
more qualified Emancipation triumph
Slaves have ceased olahaye more than q
nominal valne and it is highly probable
that the Legislature nowItO be chosen will
prove hostile TO Human Bondage and un-
uualifedly loyal. The policy of Enamel
patton is everywhere urged and. consider
ed ]; tits already strong, and daily growing
in favor. The days of lsstha institution
| in MARYLAND are plainly numbered and its
dissolution at hand. There Is of course
aisloyalty in the lower counties, where
Slavery is alI.perya adingt but the State is
IloyaI by o large majority. ?
3. WEsr VIRdISIk n bis State at the out