The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-07

( leading to their own ruin and the ruin
of this country.
the objection to the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery, that it
/ is
'TAIlING OTHER MEMS PROPERTY"
But met with another objection. An
other man comes along with what l
have heard is one of the prominent
I points of discussion, with some gentle
men. They come and appeal to the
pride of the citizen. They say, Sir, do
you intend to vote away another mans
property? Why the great mass of the
people have no Interest whatever in this
property. The masses of the people of
Kentucky have no interest, either pres
ent orprOspectiVe, i'll slavery, and never
had, and never would have. But they
have n manly pride, and they have stood
up mAnfully for it in maintaining good
filth toward this property in the hands
of their neighbOrs. The lnbOring masses
in this State have sacrificed their indi-
Vidual interest in order to maintain the
right of the SlaVe-OwneFS' fn7 Kentucky
and other Southern States. The labor
/ ing masses have been contented to give
up'the rich and fertile lands TO the slave
owners, and to cultivate the low, mr.
row creek bottoms, and the unTruitful
ihillSiueS, and rear their families there
/ They have done all this. And now
nm appeal is made to their manly pride,
to ask them if they intend to vote away
another mans property. The man,
without reflection, says, no, don't
wish to take any mans property with
| ont compensation. But, lellOw-citizens,
answer him thus |: Tell him that when
that property remained in its proper
| lplace-while it was profitable and bene-
fetal to him, without being hurtTul to
! you, you did not seek to disturb its re-
! lations. When it was made the instru-
ment to provoke a struggle for the over
throw of the Government, you protect
ed 1t with your suffrage. While it re-
mAined i'll this condition, we were
ever ready and ever willing to make all
the sacrifices in our power to protect
you. Now it is changed. The cOnsid-
eratiOns that formerly hedged it round,
exist no longer. You have permitted
that interest to involve my security
You have permitted it to threaten my
/ peace and happiness. Why, sir, 1 have
4 had II loved son, my oldest son, that has
! been compelled to leave me and go
far down South, to, fight in this ter
rifle struggle, and he now sleeps in an
untilnely grave, upon the stricken field
of battle. have lost him on account
of your negro. say you may go all
over the land-gotO the poor and friend
less, all over the slave States-gO to that
cabin where sits the poor and sickly
Y looking woman, with brood of little
children, almost furnished, around her,
and ask her where is her husband. He
is either in the Southern army, or he
sleeps his Inst sleep upon the battle
field where he has gone down i'll death.
The poor woman is left destitute
Everything is taken from her, and She
is actually starving. Why is it2 They
have been struggling TO stand up and
mnintilin the rights of the stakeholder.
There she is, with her children in
helpless Orphnnage, suffering and starry
ing. The strong arm that provided
for her wants has been taken from
her to struggle for Shareholders
property. Ask her if she is willing to
continue it longer, when il has been
;. stricken down and lost forever. If she
is sensible woman she will say, No
away with it. 1 have suffered enough
on account of it. Let me be delivered,
henceforth, from heevils of such an in
stitution us Tint.
But they say, ''Will you take proper
a ty without compensation" Why, my
dear sir, don't you admit that that prop
ierty is destroyed? Don't you know
whether vote for or against this
amendment it will be passed anyhow,
and slavery is gomez Oh, yes, he says,
know ali that. Then why is it that
you ask me to stand up for you, for
those interests which You admit are
gone, and not worth keeping2 Why
do YOU ask me to stand up for you i'll
this contest? What is the object? What
do you propose to accomplish? Simply
nothing but opposition 10 the progress
of the country--is all you propose to ac-
complish by it. There is nothing else
in it.
: Gov. Magofin, of Kentucky, whose
name was not often pronounced with