The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-27
WEST Virginia,
The Captive about 10 Break Her Hour
bun Eettera,

The Captive bout 10 Break Her hour
bun Fetters.
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IVES. Virginia has stood for years a cap
tive; her fair unwilling limbs bound In the
bands Of Bourbonism, and from the North
that, by legal enactment, separated her
from the slayery.lovlng portion Of Old
Virginia, must come, and is coming, the
help TO Get her free from the last obnoxious
ties, and give her her true place in the
Union. -
One after another the bonds are drop.
ping from her limbo, as this help comes and
strikes them oil. 1t comes y ith free schools,
with books amt newspapers, and railroads,
and the accommodating wealth that FURNISHES
luxuriep, allows travel and culture, and
that n i,es and liberalizes. Everywhere
that labor and enterprise and energy 60,
gees the spirit offreedom from bigotry aud
intolerance and beamipg hope for the
future, and Bourbonism snrinks back fur.
Their into tho dark valleys, and Republi.
canism passes on radiant and triumphant.
When lot Of Yankees come spying
about with strange instruments and finally
ascertain that under the rocky acres OF old
Mr.. Bourbon are concealed mines of coal
aud iron, md deposits Of fire clay, 81, old
Mr.. Bourbon becomes man OF affairs, and
rs the furnaces 90 up and tall chimneys
blast the. mountain air with clouds OF inky
blackness-the dark and dinYy harbingers
OF prosperity and thrift-and as the shafts
70 down into the bowels OF the hills, and
the busy miners 20 in and out like aun,s,
and the old mountains tremble with the
muiiled roar OF the blasting, old Mr.. B.
suddenly becomes convinced that protec-
ton 10 labor and manufactures Is good
thing, and, as he can't find protection In
his old hide.bound free trade State rights
party, he turns to the Republican party for
relief, and another Bourbon band falls
from the limbs Of the pinioned Virginia.
In a previous letter 1spoke in similar
strain OF the hopefulness Of the situation
here, and gave figures from the election
records to show that the faith in Repub-
lican success here is not without founda-
tlor; that is something more than a mere
hope founded upon sentiment.
The influences | hsve mentioned are
known-actlvs and positive ones.
Almos. without exception the operators
Of the great enterprises constantly opening
up in the State are Republicans. They
come from tho North, and bring all their
workmen and capital from there. Not an
operator, not q lAborer, not a cent comes
from the South; and so, in direct inverse
ratio to the increase in wealth, and popu.
lstion and intelligence, is the decrease in
BourbOnism; and those who labor to main
tain Bourbonism in Yves. Virginia, and
keep it in the ranks OF the Bourbon states,
and among the States Of the Solid South, do
80 the eaCriiice Of all the material elements
and prosperity and enlighten-
wealth. .5s5-
Here the choice is plain and simple, and
he that runs may read. In this matter those
who IRE not for the State are against her.
1t is the old spirit of ignorance andsintol.
france and the old reaclionsry Influences
and narrowness and bisotry Of the ancient
slave days against the newer and iairer and
purer lite oil tolerance, Of progress, OF polit-
zeal ireedom-,he darkness disappearing
before the sunshine OF the new day.