Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-15

WHEELING, vA:-
WEDNESDAY, MORN: OCTOBER 10, 1856.
THE SPEECH OF PRESTON S.
BROOKS
At Ninety -Si1," South Carolina, the people
Of Western Virginia, nor indeed the moderate
ones of the Eastern part o. any other part of
the South, Sianeycr endorse. Wet urned from
the rcailEng Of that speech sieScned and disgust
cd. We talk about traitors 70 the South; Why
what do W. nesng a raan cannot be traitor
to the South unless he isa ;rsitor to the North;
traitor to the federal Union In this country
there IRE, nor can be, no such thing as sectional
traitor. Aaron Burr was conspirutor, and
he was arrested and tried by the United
States Court, while it vas only aIledged
against him that his purposes we're confined to
the5southeTn States and Mexico.
We should Ike 10 know what conservatism
means. nowadays in this country. Is Col.
Brooks speech test Of conservatism OF ortho-
do1y among Southern peopief If it is we nor
no considerable number of people in the whole
Soutli-West are ccnseFya.iveor orthodox With
Mr. Brooks, disunion has been foregone con-
clusion; he, as be 4vows in his speech, has stead
lastly refused nuy other opinion Since his
childhood he boastsit has been his darling scheme
Mr. Brooks is now middle aged man, and his
carly years cover quite an important era in our
history, extending beyond the notification at
tempts of his darling Palmetto State. Itfollows,
to onr mind, from Mr.. Brooks speech, that he is
an incendiary-a sectionalist of the worst dye,
and Ike Garrison and Phillips, in ali that conSti-
tutes an anarchist, save the deed, he is one.
Why don't the Southern press take this gen.
tle1nan in hands? We have been waiting to see
it done, but with the exception of one or two
Of our Baltimore contemporaries, the only men,
ton we have seen of it was that Mr. Brooks
-aadea spcsch ct Ninety Six" and was greatly
sloriied and toasted BY collection of his dis
union and unpatriotic coadjutors. Letthe Union
men OF the South speak and frown down all such
infamous attempts 70 foment discord as this
speech of this South Carolina Quattlebum.-
Here's specimen of his small fry spouting got
up on maguiloqueut principle:
- fAOl that my individuality has, in a great
measure, been destroyed, and that from circurn-
stances have been placed in position which
constitutes me for the time being, and in refer
eaee 70 the matter. the type and representative
Of the enrire South. For inaicting the punish
ment upon Nj. Sumner, of Massachusetts,, Ihave
had shOgered upon me applause and commend4-
tiOn Ero;n every part of the entire South.
Bsookz ADMINISTERED forciblc rebukc to tbs
FATHERS:
The first mistake msde by the people of tho
South was made By the patriots of the Rerolu-
ton. That first mistake was made on the 18th
OF July, Ia the year 1871. when Virginia, Weld
ing to the love Of Liberty and of union, mag
nanlInously surrendered her Northwestern Terri
tory, from which Ave States alone were to be
made, bnt from which the Yankees have cheat.
ed Us oat Of another.
BRooks nOurishes 4 feeble distrust even for
the DemocraticParty, though he confesses with
ont any good reason:
The Democratic party say they will stand by
the constitution, but catch any one of them in
corner, and ask him if Slavery be right, and
he will teu you no." tell you man of that
kind Is not always to be trusted. l want man
to go the whole hog on that subject.
BRosKs is in favor Of 'lettihg the Union slide"
and ripping up things generally:
tell you, fcllow-citizens, from the bottom of
my hcirt, that the only mode which think
available for meeting it il, Just to tear the Com
foot, and form Southern Confederacy, every
State of which will be slaveholding State
loud and prolonged cheers. believe it, as
stand in the face Of my Makcr-I believe it on
my responsibility to you ~ your honored re pre-
sentative, that the only hope of the South i in
the South, and thst the only available means of
making that hope effective is to cut asuat2er tho
bonl TINT tie uS together, and tlku our sepGruts
potion in tie family, Of nations. These are
my opinions. They have always been my opin-
ious I have been disunioniSt from tue time
could think.
A P,crCRe OF DrsuxIox Faox GENERAL JACK
soN's FAREWELL ApDRsss-In his farewell adj