Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-21


West Virginia, ever since and good
while before the war. People generally
are in a better condition to pay debts than
they have been for years, aud, since inter-
est is all the while accommodating, it is not
likely that an easier time to pay debts
than the present will occur to this gen.
GRAFTON.
THE Union State Central Committee of
Maryland, of which the Hon. Thos. Swami
is Chairman, have recommended to the
people immediate. not gradual, emancipa-
ton. The Baltimore Amenean gives the
proceedings attending the meeting on
Thursday last. Speeches were made by
the Chairman and by the Hon. J. P. Ken
needy, x-United States Senator, both
strongly condemnatory of slavery aad urg.
ing prompt steps for State Convention
to abolish the institution in Maryland.
The following is one of the resolutions
passed by the Committee:
Resolved, as the opinion of the CenIraI
Committee, That the time has arrived when
it has become the inevitable duty of the
General Assembly to make immediate pro.
vision for the substitution of free for slave
labor, and to adopt measures which shall
enable the people to effect an early, lawful
aud complete extinguishment OF slavery in
Maryland.
Hon. Thos. Swami. the Chairman, in the
course Of his speech, said:
We are iu the midst Of a revolution. We
could not bring back slavery in Maryland
it We desired il. Public opiuion has set
tied the doom of slavery, because public
opinion has associated with e the blood
of the gallant men who have fallen in this
unnatural strife II had no conutenauce
at any time but th at which the Union gave
it. In attempting to break up the Union
to throw around it additional safeguards
and to widen the area of its power, the
States in rebellion have destroyed it alto
gether; and hard as it is upon the loyal
men OF the Border States, We are left no
alternative but 20 accept the state of things
as we End them.
In the further course of his speech Mr..
Swami remarked that:
There is no Disgusting the fact that the
prejudice against slavery has increased
tenfold since the breakin out of this war.
It has no kind word from any quarter
You could not enforce the Fugitive Slave
Law Tomorrow in any State OF the Union
without bloodshei.
Its easy to see from such talk and such
resolutions as the foregoing that the days
of slavery in Maryland, or anywhere else,
arc few in number. The change to which
Mr. Swami refers as having overtaken the
public mind is still going on, and is mani
Testing itself in Arkansas, Louisiana and
Tennessee. Hereafter it will be read in
history to the honor of West Virginia that
she led the way in this great reform.
DR. ABRAHAM ROBERTSON, Surgeon Den.
list, of this city, has written "MANuAL
ON EXTRACTING TEETH" which has just
been issued from the press by Lindsay L
BIakiston, of Philadelphia. We have In
terested ourselves for the best part of an
hour in looking through this manual, aud
although 1t is a professional work, intend
ed for professional men, yet we have found
II, by reason Of its clearncss of style and
general good sense, a very Interesting and
instructive book to tho unprofessional
reader. Farther than this, we notice that
review of the work ia contained in the
"Dental Cosmos" for December, in which
not only this production Of DR.. Robertson's
is highly commended, but complimentary
reference is made to his other coutribu-
lions to the literature of the dental pro.
fession.
HARRISON CoUNTY.-At the votein Eagle