Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-09-30
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=. 8. RAYMOND, OF E'AIRNfoNT.
This gentleman addressed the Buchanan and
Breekinridgs Club at the Court House, on Sat
=rrday night. Owing TO misunderstanding as
70 the pIAce of meeting, the Court House was
not damned, as would otherwise have been the
casa large number having met at the Club
Room. Mr.. Il. smoke for two hours, and we
speak thu simple truth when we say that it was
the aSlest speech re have heard during the
canvass. 1t was an argumentatiye Speech and
nothing else. No EFFORT was made by the speak
or to obtain applause, no ad esptenasS', but i:
plain and powerful statement Of the reasons
which induced him, an old lire Wing, to declare
for Buchanan and Brecxinridge. Tic Whig
party had now no organization and its members
must discharge their duty to their State and
country. He was not and could not be know
NOTHING. he could not sanction the original
PRINCIPLES of that party and nor they had no
principle that was tangible in the canvass. lie
could not support Mr.. Fillmore. On him had
fallen the mantle of Clay and Webster and he
had delivered itup to the Know Nothings. He
had abandoned the Wing party when it was
charged With corruption by the Know Nothings
instead of defending them from the false charge.
Fillmore did not claim to be Wing and he had
no claim on Wings. The slavery question was
the issue of the canvass and on it alone the con-
test would be decided.
The charge that Democrats were apro-slavery
party was not true. They did not ask Congress
to legislate slavery into the territories, but they
asked that the people Of the territories should be
allowed to govern themselves and that Congress
should not make slaves of the people OF the ter
ritories. but let them be frecmen and decide for
themselves IS to their own insTitutions. What
had become Of the slaves of the No-thG They
had not been ernancipated, but they had been
sold to the South, and were the sons of the men
who had pocketed the price of the slave now
ciamored for freedom, and prated for oppression
Of the South This was Northern consistency.
Por his own part he asked nothing for slavery,
hut he asked equality for the South and he would
have It at all hazards. The Constitution WAS
made by equals and for equals, and he would
struggle to the last for its preservation, not in
name but in fact and substance. He discussed
the Kansas bill in detail HeappToyed itsPrin-
eiple and would vote for no man who did not.
Ha handled the bogus Wing Convention of Vir-
r,iafa and the second edition at Baltimore with
gloves of Who had authorized them to speak
for tho Wing party? He was Wing and he
had heard of no call to appoint delegates and
he did not believe that it was Wing Conven-
ton. All the members from his region were
notorious Know Nothings and he believed such
was generally the fact. He did not care one
straw about the dshow." 1t was a Know Moth
inc ratification meeting, and he only regretted
that it had imposed upon the National Intelii-
Ecncer That was all the harm it could do
Buchanan was opposed at the North By Ere
mont and at the South by Fillmore. Fremont
was sectional aud opposed Buchanan North,
while Mr.. FilImore's party opposed him south.
buchanan was the only national candidate. His
platform was the same on the Atlantic and the
Pacific, on the lakes and the gulf ThatPlatform
promised peace and quiet to the country. 1t said
let slavery agitation in Congress cease let it a.
lone and let the people of the territories settle
that question for themselves, let them be free
men and act as such, and let US not seek to
make them slaves by controlling their domestic
institutions. He had ever been Wing and
nothing but Wing. That party and its great
leader were now no more, but he could not fol-
low its deserter chief He would remember the
immortal words of Henry Clay and prefer right
to all else. He had nothing to ask, nothing to
give but vote in November for the Constitution
and the Union, for Buchanan and Breckenridge
That was the duty Of Wings" and he should
discharge it regardless of consequences.
Wegive mere outline, having taken no notes.
II ,,-o, 1;stouo1 IN fbn r,oc{ ,InDrare.
denied attention and was frequently interrupted
by loud and long applause. He should be heard
all over the country and we only regret that he
has not been sooner. forced into the canvass. It
is not for success in Virginia that we contend,
that is certain. We want unity in the Old Do
minion. We want 10 see her sons say-to the
Union that we have but one voice and one vote,
and that is that Congress must not touch our in
stitutions one way or the other, that ''aU the
f1otosrs NOT granted to Congress arc Tssorred to
tho people, that the people Of the States and
territories are competent to manage their own
concerns without Congressional advice or Con-
gressional dictation that citizens of Virginia and
Pennsylvania are just rs fit for self government
in Kansas as they were in their native States,
and that Congress has no more right to play the
tyrant over them in Kansas than in Virginia or
Pennsylvania. This is true freedom and for this
we contend. 1t isthe substance not the shadow,
it is the thing not the name that advocate.
We leave the shadow and the name to Fremont,
who would mako white slaves in. the territories
and freemenO of negroes.
suIcrDE OF A PnYs1cIAx. Yaletti, ofNeyr
Orleans, lately committed sucidcin Paris, width
er he had gone for the benefit of his health. A
letter in the Bee says:
He informed DR.. Beugnot of his resolution
That gentleman was an old friend. He endeav-
orcd, but in vain. to alter DR.. Yaetti's deterni-
nation. HefinAlly succeeded in making him pro-