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The Hew State—MliaU it be Free t(From the Fair-most NniJoatL)There are two bodies Bitting at Wheeling, one or the other of which ought to bar© hat dowa some time since, The Legislature la making laws for the oldSlate, and the Convention has hithertomade a eort of attempt to provide organic laws for the riling Kew Virginia. - If the (Alter ft re afraid to came op to11 tbft re* quirements of the timet, they should haveadjourned long since, tint die. Tbejsbobtdeither do one thing or the other, and ft ita ray poor compliment to the intelligence of the people t* suppose that they cannotteo the mdk in the cocoa not.*5—There n not a particle of doubt, as one of our cotemporaries obsenrea, that Congress will never consent to a dirUionof territory which wlU make -two slaveStates out o| ooc, and if in the wUdomofthe delegate* they bava Cdtoejtfthe coar elusion that it ig wrong or impolitic, orboth, to proride for gradual emancipation, by a system which wffi let.tbe iditiintibamelt nwety in lime, wjibout iniarj to aojr one—nut even the Mocaula Rangers I— from a region in which it u neither pro-fiiablo Dor especially desirable, at a general thing, and by which entire rite at,dwliFt?*11— he m^Xxi^ ih© wildi ofWait Virginia made to blossom as lb© rose—they ahoald adjourn' Instant^r anda9t- ,try to fasten another harden—taia-tipa—on the people, without malting arrangement* to lift off that which has borne them down so long*. k‘Perhaps the time has not come when the people will refuse to allow prejudice to override their reason and their hestin-teresta— perhaps the convention should not have been held in these unsettled times, at all, when such topics must be mooted__tbiu is not oor broHc* to, decide* but theB!Iude 10 w *iobboro facts, In the disposal of which tb e people shouldbe 1 boro ugh ly informed. They want principally* Fra© School System, whichthyy^Cftnnot hope for ** thing* now are,aqd it tasud to raise hopea which will bo finally dashed to. the ground.»*• ' _ iff ' SBfc'— 78^5 . ■•'.aF'
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Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Tue, Feb 11, 1862
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