Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-04-25

eHiug Co demuiish th, establishment. II its
.t,Hrr. aud agents wouid not agree forthwith
lo move 81 .ut Of this dI,lret.
+ S ,eri gealeme0 addressed The people as
som1el. ~ earnest strains OF persuasion and
en'Teaty t.f ihp peace order and quiet OF the
dfy sat'd not be disturbed. should not be
d.-tgih'i aY Iuy acis ui violence. The crowd
was promised. Thai means should b taken to
60 ~ -'abasameHto The district and that
eNpmincs need NOT now be resors~d To. A
i1f-H committee was appointed 'b wal, on the
editor and publisher, and seqndinl them with
'he excitement and requirements OF those as
s-mo.e1 100 tne streets, aud t0 urge that tie
/ offensive establishment slo4lI Do speedily la
/ keu Oh.
/ The answer to the committees representa-
tons and request was. that the newspaper had
1 not u.ereIcd ia ihe matter OF stirring up ne
+ gr'es to van Oh from their owners. nor had
/ any one connected with the establishment. II.
therefore the citizens OF the district saw iii 10
| take The law iIto their own hands. and pull
| dcwa and demolish the printing office, they
could So There was the office, and the re-
spous1illty OF destroying it would res, only
with them.
This was not satisfactory. The popular *.
ci!cmeut Is up III The matter, and will not be
easily alayed.
ton Of the abolitionisls to establish an oro5n
here. warned aud entFeated them To forrgo
their intention, IN my correspondence for the
Patriot. You remember my repeated illusions
| to the subject, and the reasons | gave, why
deemed II a most impr1dent aud unWi,e
step. ! predicted what would come to pass
II they persisted III their determination, and
assured them that the responsibility. it they
stirred up strife, contention aud bad blood,
anu the destruction OF lie and property en-
sued, would fall upon their heads Foravow
ing these sentim nts, and giving this advice.
| remember, | received the hearty abuse not
only OF the abolition papers. but of several
highly respectable papers in northern ATTITUDES
! very well. believe | was right, and am con-
tent
Fhe excitement got into both Houses Of
Congress TO day, aud formed the subject ia
| oolh, OF one al the most excited and vehement
discussions that ha, been carried on in the cap
iioi or any where else, iof years Nothing else
was doue in either House In the senate.
Mr. ilale's bill 10 prevent the destruction of
property. by MODS aud popular outbreaks was
the theme Stirring speeches were made.
Messrs Calhoun, Butter, Mdngum flanagan.
Douglas, the Daylses. Foote aud Others parti-
elpaied.
Mr. Foote was on his hig1phalutia horss.
and assured MIR Hale, thai il he would come
10 Mississippi, he would be very much crat-
ted, and said he would take hand in doing
those high honers to his abolition desersi
That l.. they would hang the New Hampshire
Senator ~ Mississippi, they could ca tch him
out in that State famed for lis iepudta-
ton.
This did not please Senator Douglass. He
thought his Locoioco friend Foote was doiag
damage 10 the party BY the use Of snch terms
thai he would drive Loco iocos over 10 the alb
i CLIFTON cause OF Mr.. Hale in the free States,
and cause them 70 vote for Mr. Hale the can
didaje OF the abotIonisls for the Presidency
/ 50 he told MIR Foote. that his speecif-yas as
good as ten thousand votes . the Senator
from New hampshire.
NJ rooie was again II on his high horse
by way OF explanation. When he ha finish
+ ed. Mr.. Doug lass said the M,sissi ppian's ex-
planation was a. good as 5000 more votes TO
the gentleman from New Hampshire! He
bad now helped the abolition candidate for
the Presidency to $1,000 votes! This. amid
all Tie excitement, produced considerable
merriment.
The scene in the House was more animated
and exciting, il possible, than that in the Sem
ate. The whole day s session was devoted to
the discussion OF Mr.. PalffeY's resolution and
the merits of the question involved in it, or
bearing upon IT, Some very severe decara-
teas against Messrs. Giddines Root, Tuck
an. PallreY, generally. bu, against MIR. Gid.
Stephens Has Ill, Toombs and Veuable. 1t
Was near, of quite, charged by two or three
OF these gentlemen, that he had participated
III the kidnapping OF slaves and sending them
oil from this district, for which be deserved
10 be strung up Several talked oil expeiling
him. They propounded sundry questions 10
him, which he answered with tact and great
sell possession. He declared that he had nei-
ther aided nor abetted in the escape OF any
slave, Were be 10 do so, he should EXPECT To
abide the rigor OF The laws on the subject He
had visited The prison, and voluntarily offered
TO procure counsel and to stand BY and see
unframed from mob violence, the white men
imprisoned there on charge OF kidnapping
the slaves taken oil by the schooner Pearl but
he had done nothing TO procure tn, escape Of
any slave III the District. He had never be-
lore seen either OF the men he visited in pris-
on, and knew nothing of the movement tor
the escape OF the slaves until he heard of il
on Sunday last.
The best speech of the day, il is generally
conceded, believe, was made by MIR. roombs,
OF Georgia who took the ground that the
House had no night TO recognize question of
privilege. 1t Was practice, borrowed from
the British Parliament. 1t was neither law
nor night. Members OF the House must pro-
tect themselves like other men. They had no
night to ask that House 10 shield them, and
1t had no right TO do so, il they asked for pro-
lecuoni II they made war, they must take
ther chances like other men, aud abide the
consequences There were The great laws Of
naturei rights, which would protect men out
oil Congress equally with those in Congress.
aud would not allow the latter 10 Use their
station To assail the former. He considered
that the House had nothing to do with The
resolution of the gentleman from Massa-
chu>e'ts. Before any action was had in the
matter, an adjournment WAS moved and car
ried.
The proceedings of the Court of lnqury in
Mexico. which came to hand Yesterday are OF
character with those that have proceeded
them. What curious witness Mai,r Burns
appears TO be! The question, who Is the au-
thor OF "LeonidasY' is now of les, interest
Than The question, who made the interinea-
tons IN Ltonldas?' or lie question: "who
struck Billy Patterson
The official organ exults that the editors of
The New Orleans Delta have ayowed. in JUS
tee to GeH. Pillow, that they made The IN.
terIineauons themselves, 10 improve the com
position ol the article But what will Major
Buns say 10 this when he learns the fact
In Court The luterllnsdlio were shown to
hlm, ana he swore that he believed he made
them himself. They were made with differ
+ cnl lnh than that oil the body OF the letter,
m different hand, aud with different pen,
II was true. But what OF all lhat--he wrote,
ia.a