Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-08-03


( TuE FgEE LABOR MovENENT IN VIRGINIA
Hon. I'll 4zaysr Addressing ne Land o'one'''.
We take the following from the Gnyandotte
I(ya.) Unionist, of July 25th: ..
Alta large and respectable meetingo OF the CHI ~,
zens of Guyandotte and vicinity, held At tI'e
Town Hall, according 10 previous notlce' O'l
TUESDAY, July 2lst 1857. Mr. A. >; Hee6a' VA"
4 aDpoipietl President, aud DIR. L. e. Burlington"
The President explained the object of the
4 meeting, and introduced Hon Eli IhayeF' .,
I Massachusetts,, President of the Homesteu Al1
Society. who. in p brief and eminently practical
speech, exhibited the object of that Society.
Whereupon, on motion, the Char aPPToSi l 8,
i. G. Wheeler, s. N. Russell, Esq, ana DT' !.
I q Burlington, a committee to draft preamble
and resolutions. expressing the sense OF the
meeting on the subject discussed IN MT: lha!z
er's speech.
The committee appointed to prepare a pre-.
,r,ble and resolutions expressing the sense 81
tho meeting on the subject discussed in Thay-
er's speech, submitted the following;
Vicrsas, The Legislature OF New YORK mas
chartered Company that design, ms we have
been informed by Hon. Eli ThayeF, tne FFeSi-
dent of that Company, purchasing land In Elr-
pnio. md settling the same with intelligent, IN
tinstrious and enterpriSing agricuIturallsts, me-
chanics and miners; and, whereas, few leading
men, influenced as we believe BY wrong con-
ception of the object of this enterprise, have
sought to array tecitizens of this State against
Mr.. Thayer and his company, which we, as Mt
present advised, believe TO he an act OF lnlus-
tice towards them. calculated to initiate against
the interests of Western Virginia, and give to
the citizens Of other States an incorrect impress
sion of the opinions of the people OF this State
on that subject: therefore ..r
RcsoRreR, That we are in favor OF, and viii
encourage, every well-fOunded enterprise that
has for its object the cultivation of the wild and
uncnltivated portions of Western Virginia, the
DEVELOPMENT Of our mineral resources, the es-
adjustment of manufactures, or anything else
that tends in any manner TO make us an lnde-
pendent, self reliant people
Rssolra{. That we will welcome to our State
the good, law.aLiding citizens of any and all
other States of the Union, or the world, who
may choose to cast in their lot with us, TO aid
us in making Western Virginia one of the veal.
thiest sections in the Union, and raising the Old
Dominion, the mother of States and OF states
men, to the dignified and commanding CONNER
cial position which she once occupied among
the States of the Union.
Resolred, That we will defend in the posses
sion of equal rights with ourselves, the pea2ea-
bic, law abiding citizens of other States who
NAV settle in our midst, aud conform to the laws
of the State.
On motion of L. Sedinger, Esq, the above re-
port of the committee was unanimously adoP-
ted. On motion OF j. w. Hitc, Esq, the Secrc-
tary was requested to forward copy Of the pro-
cecdings Of this meeting for insertion in the
Uiioaisi, the New York Herald, and Norfolk
.Irgus [Signed by the Officers