The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-30

amendment of the constitution of that
State, to declare the institution of slas
very abolished, and to toreyer prohibit
its future existence, is q notable event,
however natural to the present situaz
ton Of affairs and however unsuTpris-
ing the great revolution in America has
made 1t to us. Mississippi, which now
leads by this act the returning steps of
her southern sister nom their treason
able wanderings astray, was the second
among them to abandon the family of
the Union, four years and a half ago,
and none, South Carolina not even ex-
cepted, exerted more of the banefu1 in
fiuence which ddeneda great section
of the republic, and plunged q happy
nation into the horrors of civil war.
She gave to the rebellion its civil leader
in the person OF JEFFERSON Davis.
Before the artillery of Beauregard
had opened upon Fort Sumter, she had
establishes blockade of the Mississip-
pi, and her guns, at Vicksburg, had
broken the silence of the nations peace
by firing upon passing steamers. In
every respect she bore leading part in
the rebellion. Her .chivalry'' was the
most fiery of the fire-eating order; her
planters, the haughtiest of the slave
holding caste; her lynch=law the most
thoroughly codified and Systematic; her
tar kettles and her feather bags, the
readiest for abolitionists; her bowie
knives of the longest pattern and the
heaviest blade. = 3
And this Mississippi it is whose State
Convention has just now pronounced,
by a vote of SO to IL, for the Constitu4
tional amendment: s1a5
The institution of slavery having
been abolished in the State of NIissis-
sippi, neither slavery nor involuntary
serVitude, otherwise than in punish
ment of crime, ofwhich the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall hereafT
ter exist in this State, and the 1egisla-
ture at its next session, and thereafter
as the public welfare may require, shall
provide for the protection and security
men of this State, and guard the State
from the evils that may arise from their
sudden emancipation.
4 So perishes slavery in Mississippi,
and with it disappear into the limbo of
things UNANIMOUSLY remembered, caste,
"chivalry, % lynch law, bowie knife, and
all that was Enthusiastically Missis-
sippian in the old barbaric days. The
new Free State will presently recognize
herself us little I'm the records of former
times, as the Lombards of a third gem
Grafton in Italy were able to recognize
the savage portraits of their GRANDPA
theirs, who conquered the sunny inher-
itance for them.
1t may be TINT n scheme of something
not wholly honest turks in the conclud-
ing paragraph of the amendment as
quoted above; but against all such there
must be had TINT security whic his pro
vided in the amendment to be made to
the national Constitution. That nation
alfabolition and prohibition of slavery,
guaranteed by powers vested in Con-
gress, the country win insist upon
having.
WE had the pleasure of meeting, yes
terday, with General Il. NJ. Harris, of
Ritchie county, in this State, recently
in command ut fredericksburg, Yir-
-, - - !, =
very soon now, ana return again 70 % ttAe
pursuits OF civil lie. AT the oreakipg
out OF the war he was PhysileS1an nj
Gienvllie, IN sli ,Is county, s1 ron
wnsnee me- was Slie" 70 .tie Iolillan9
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nj AnnomottoI ca,,rt T 1smuei y a ae.
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