Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-22

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first we read that
The New York Tribune and Post, and papers
published elsewhere of like political predictions
TEEN with Washington letters purporting to en-
brace Douglasiana, in the shape of his decla-
rations in private conversation with the authors
and other notorious enemies of the Democratic
party, of uudying hostility to the position of
the Democratic party upon the question of ac-
ceptance Of the LecomPton Constitution.
The Boston Bees Washington correspondent
tells the following conversation relative to DOu-
glas' late demonstration:
The day after Douglas made his speech, a
democrat said to Mr. Banks, care you Repuhli-
cans going to take Douglas in
Eyes, SIR replied the Little Iron Man, "we
will take all who want to cone-the church is
large and the door is wide"
Every well" rejoined the Democrat, ''but
are you willing to make him as your leader1"
ave are willing, after they all getin, replied
Banks, sto let the smartest man lead the col
umn "
THE UsrEaalvEEu-LOoking to the west we
see the Ohio Statesman publishes a list OF Tor
ty-ninc Democratic papers in that State which
have manfulIy denounced the Lecompton
convention and its constitution. The States
man does this in order that the Democratic
representatives in Congress from Ohio "may
learn beyond all peradventure the sentiments of
the Democracy Of the State" The list is sig
nifcant.
PoLrrrcAL Plans FOR 1s6O.-AccOrding to a
Washington correspondent of the New York
Times
a strong combination of politicians has been
recently organized in New York, to make Dan
iel s. Dickinson the candidate for the Democrat
ic Party for the Presidency in 1s60-Fernando
Wood Senator, and Augustus Schell Governor.
The heads of the combination are ID. S. Dickin-
son, in Binghamton; Fernando Wood and Col
lector Scheil, i'll New York City.
And upon this same subject the New York
Mirror has the following as a comment on the
Fernando Wood meeting, held in that city the
other night:
Tho fact &c. -a.ere is a strong party getting up
under one guise and another in this city, to make
Daniel S. Dickinson the next President. We
consider the movement premature, and we are
prepared in our humble way to do all we can to
secure the reelection of James Buchanan from
this day fOrwred.
Again, at the same meeting, we notice the
following from that inevitable New York poll
tician, the Hon. John Van Buren,:
1t would give me great pleasure to express
even a more general and broader appreciation of
BTeSluenI BUCHANAN I0an the one you propose.
a careful, and, | believe, dispaSsionate obserra.
ton of his whole Presidential action, with some
knowledge Of his personal character, has left on
my mind n deep conviction that he acts from an
earnest and unSellfsh desire to promote the best
interests Of the whole country. He has great
ability and experience to aid him in accomplish-
ing this desire, and it seems to me the duty of
every patriot, under such circumstances, to give
his administrator a cordial and generous sup
port. 1T the same time, I eOuH not only tOLe-
rate but inUite Il full and free discussiOn, through
the press anI LegisLatice and popular assemblies,
Of all his acts and TecOmmendatiOHs.
The N. Y. Express, noted for its strong anti
Catholic anti Fremontism, seems like some
other Journals to be disgusted on the Lecomp-
ton business. Speaking as to its former course,
it says:
We could have, and would have, supported
Judge Mclean, for we knew what he was,-his
life, his memory, his past, which were all
pledges for tine future,-but from that Fremont
abyss We shrank,-an abyss without a bottom,
and full Of all sorts of uncomfortable things
We knew what Buchanan was. We could not
even guess what Fremont might be. Fillmore
would not have been in McLean's way,-and
Mclean, if nominated, would have been Presi-
dent of the United States,-with every North
ern vote, and with Delaware, Maryland, Ken
lucky, and probably Tennessee, and North Car
Olina, from the South.
DEATn-BED FoLLIEs is what the Charleston
Courier calls the will of the late George W. P.
Gusts directing that all his slaves, some two or
three hundred, shall be set free within five years,
leaving it to his executors to provide the neces-
sary funds from his estate to remove them from
the Commonwealth. We quote:-
HisAigh tame Virginia hal o Der on her
statute boOk against tbs destruction or PROPERTY.
There are no more slaves in that State INV than
she has use for, and to say nothing of rendering
so many negroes worthless and tniSeTabi, for the
remainder of their lives, the power Should be
taken away from men, in their second childhood,
of removing SO much labor from the industry of
the State.
ukSEHAr HoesrnN--From the Washington
correspondent of the New York Post
General Houston arrived last night, and made
his first appearance in the Senate this morning,
where he was occupied most of the session in
exchanging greetings and receiving congratula.
tons upon his improved health and appearance.
The General has cultivated, during the recess,
alarge moustache, which, uniting with his curved
military whiskers, gives a still more martial air
to the soldier-like appearance of the old hero.
He looks forward to the end of his political la
bOrs, which close with the present Congress,
with cheerfnlness and a satisfaction sustained
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