Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-08-04
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| imsstr4 bi3 0SASoooK, Va, July 81, 1864.
Ny ,DEAR SlRi reached home yesterday alter
ON absence often days OF. The Williamsburg court,
and tound letter from DR.. Gainelt, in which he
describes Conversation WITH yon respecting my
self and this causes me to encloSe 10 him this
open letter 10 you. 30 gE 5
He says my opponents for the nomination for
the office Of governor are actively circulating tile
rumor that / am opposed TO the Nebraska Bill
that was Heard soto express myself atOld Poilt
Tect nty as well as at her places. He says that
tins will drive of every ftiend have IN Congless,
&C.; he deprecates The policy Of agltating the
question futther. He sends Inc message also
slyng that the rumor had tesched Washington that
1 was de9opDcing the Nebraska Dill IN The most
unsqlivo altteTms, and thereby making an issue
with the whole Virginia delegation in Congress,
&c. iaie
Nov these rumors don't sppal msin The least.
My opinions on The Nebraska bill weie fully Stat
ed 10 Mr.. Hunter and TO Gen. Allison during the
peHlencyof The bill before the House Of Repre-
ltenialyes. had, and have still, strong oOjtc-
tions 10 severn eatuIes Of tile bill, regarding some
OF them as unanswsfable, but not Os insuperGble
0nthe CONTRARY ] SAID to General Nilsson, eS.
pecially, that were in his seat in the House 4
ieOut pote for the b mainly Tor The reasons That
itTspeaed the missouri compromise, and fortified
slavery In the State Of Missouri as i now exists.
Ny entire view OF the QUESTION cannot pretend
10 present at this time III ths letter. utthe Gun.
lnecton and contextof my remarks recently OF Old
Point were these; ,.5t 5.,j,,, y. b KS, ..,,,,. =
Imei several Of General Wilson's constituents
there. HIS course was comnlenttG on by some one
l-lcan't now recolecl whom, the company around
me neutrality-suspicious.. 4 dsJeTded him on Tue ground
especially that nOtO the bn az has passed should
not benade an issus. | stated that 4, Ds well as
he. had strong objections, particularly 10 the Bad.
ger amendment, but that Our objections were
those Of proiSlayery men-of men who would 80
as for 10 defend slavery as any man Of The South
who had voted for the Nebraska bill; that behad
myconfdence, 0s pIoslaveIy representative, aud
that those who differed ftom him should tolerate In
him a difference OF opinion on q subject about
which the earnest inquiry was, what was lest for
the south and for slavery, His end was the salre
as that those who ior The bill-.to project
ourinstitutons in the best manner; THUS far ,
went on the occasion Ieferel 70, and will so
again Whenever he occasion presents itself. SO
far from denouncing the bill 10 make on issue
With lis lliendsj have always said w ould have
voted Tot II, but admitted the objections toll were
so strong as to excuse any friend Of slavery for,
voting against 1t, and 10 prevent an issue from
being made nstafspresentatiyel like Mr., Mil
son, who had taken his ablennd hunest course.
He is my friend as.well as the reliable friend Of
slavery and the South, and Twill defend him on
that point II weTetolo lose forty ORGANIZATIONS.
| t. =, Yours truly, ,,i.t..r1
To Hon. 2. KipwELt. ae
TnE AFRLiorIoaoF *. PREsIDEET FILLMoRE.
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