The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-30

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"a the CENSUS, and OF trade and business.
"A HeardistinRuished Democtatlca uthoril
/, on these points: Henry A. Wise said in
AZ public when q candidate Tor Go
IA ernor, before the war, in depicting th
b condition Of the South:
Commerce has long since spread be
sails and sailed away from you: You nav
not, as yet, dug more than coal enough I
u warm yourselves at your ewn hearths
Il you have set no tilt-hammers OF vulcan !
Ie strike blows worthy Of gods In your owl
ar iron foundries; you have not vel. sp9l
:, more than enough coarse cotton, IN tn
u way Of manufactures, to cothe your owl
y slaves. You have no commerce, no min
ing, no manufactures. You have RELIEF
Y upon the single power OF agriculture, ant
!. such agricultural Your sedge patches out
. shine the SUM- Your inattention to you
= only source OF wealth has scared the very
e bosom OF mother earth. Instead Of hav
! ing TO feed cattle on o thousand hills, yor
y have TO chase the stump-tailed steer
through the sedge patches 10 procure
tough beelsteak. The present condition
: Of things has existed too long In Virginia.
The Ia alord has skinned the tenant, and
tenant has skinned the land till all have
grown poor together"
Says the Richmond Enqtirr, In 1852:
"We have cause 70 feel deeply for our
situation. Philadelphia herself has a
population far greater than the whole free
population OF Eastern Virginia. The lit
lie State OF Massachusetts, has an aRgre.
gate wealth exceeding that Of Virginia by
more than l25 million"
Says the Charieston Is. o. Standard,
speaking OF the South:
sour present condition Is provincial.
We have within our limits no solitary
metropolis OF interest or ideas-no marts
oil exchange-no radlating centres oil
opinion. Whatever we have OF genius
aud productive energy goes freely in To-
swell the importance OF the North. We
support the makers OF boots, shoes, hats.
caps, coats, shirts, aAnnels, blankets, car
pets, chairs, tables, nantes, mats, car
riages, jewelry, cradles, coaches, collins,
by the thousands, but they come not to
live among US; they are not content to
vegitate upon the dim verge OF this remote
frontier.
"As it is in material Interests, so is It In
arts and letters. So perfect Is our pro.
vincialism, therefore, that enterprise Is
forced to the North for sphere-talent
for a market-genius for the ideas upon
which to work-and the tourist for attrac-
TONS"
WEST VIRGINIA
is not and ought not to be regarded as
any part Of the Solid s6utI. She was the
child born of the conviction that her peo-
pie had no interest in common with
Virginia. Except a comparatively small
trade down the Ohio river. her business
relations, intercourse and interests are
nearly all with the great States north OF
us.
Behold her with the almost matchless
wealth OF her mines OF coal, iron, lime.
stone and building rock, with hetsplendid
water-power, enough almost to turn the
machinery OF the world; her virgin for.
ests Of choicest timber covering forty per
cent OF her area, her oil and salt wells
ready to yield their riches to the prudent
and industrious investor; her unsurpassed
pasturage for cattle raising. her produc.
i've soil adapted TO all the demands Of the
husbandman; her salubrious climate and
picturesque landscape, her proximity to
markets, her cheap landsl Remember
that she has greater area of biumiDous
coal In workable seams than Pennsylvania,
and yet she mines only million and
quarter OF tons per annum, while Penn.
sylyania mines over ten times as much, OF
over fourteen and q half million tons oil
same kind OF coal, and nearly twice as
much more OF anthracite coal, aud Ohio
that has not been esteemed great coal
producing State mines five million tuns
W Seat VI nv. s,iss .s as IHpa T.; La
Thg h al;, ssen 1,ie e pa.e ni.kWs
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wtougnt ia.o uussy Iuan wv sgafs ~ una
e sa.sh;5nsd ~ ,bis S,a,e Fl, ssIa 70 onrnwn
n eoppeS Psmsmbsr I'M. Wei Virs;nia " i.
pe 0ipoIa,;csI fos s;ra;I s ~, cenn,s,6 s,, y,
wss,erp Pe1n ~ sE and tbs, wh;le =
hm .si1 frrnaS., Sraa i;aht ,Sa h;,Is and
noIIans Of ,ha, S,.,s 20 scasna scara tsiv
sa,,yys y, tI"t 10 Wss, V;.aia;s S,,;ysn
,ahppreya and mechs Mos Rsmsmhsr ,ha,
s e. nesd canilsi 10 bniid onr Is,Irosds n,
omen S onr mines or establish iseleries To
efsct furnaces and 10 deyelon slI orr
hnnndIess resonrces Shall we find Il in
snv sontbeTn city or State? M. We muN
20 North ior mosey 10 do these thinos
VIVA, ,hen ia ,hs diit,cnltv' whae the
obs,acIa that imnedes He Grbvth deveI,
oS D and nr3sSsrity of v est yirsiniaP
n ia no, 10 he iound in sny deficIeney OF
hrains or energy. or inCinstryi ior onr
oeonle are tbe paers Of Inc hex, endowed
IN G tbsse r,speoiS We arr, no ans mar, 81 The
SoIid sSn,h In hnsinass in,eresis ,elsIions
in inter- or Community Of prosperity
Why then do we suffer in common with
that South utter staynaIion, want Of
CROWN ana Prosperity, u Is because Oh
US I as al part Of that Solid South POLITICALLY,
and that confounds the political solidiiy
with like solidity and similarity ot meth
oes ~ npslAsss, ep.erhrlse, SoSial NE anu
tom ti0 enterprise and foreign aid.
liza gospel OF hate is preached by press
and politicians In any Southern State, we