Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-07-25
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IyrTrR YI,oN ELInU BuRRlTT.-Ne nave U'Ae
honor to-day to publish letter from Etl''h
Rurritt the great scholar and philanthroP's'
rnon his plan Of Compensated Emancipation.
The Convention which is to deliberate upon
This nroposition, is, as is well known to our
readers. to meet in Cleveland on the 18th, s'th
and esth OF August next. 1t will be composer
Of representatives from every State in the Union.
The Convention will not be confined TO thls OF
ANY other method Of compensated emancipation
hut will review and deliberate upon the whoie
sub;act both as a matter of history in times
mast and rs a matter of sound philosophy and
exnodiency at present. The Convention Is IN
tended to be. IN the broadcast sense Of the word,
n National one-One in which the people oil I'LL
parts of the country will come together as breth
Ten-comc to deliberate for common end anu
provide against n common evil. Whatever any
Of our readers may think of the subject matter
Of this letter; however unwilling they may be to
accredit feasibility to it, yet all will agree that
contamination is intended devOutly to be wished
for-one which is daily desired and prayed for
by good men in every State and County oil the
Union. Should this project fail, and should the
Convention be unable to submit any acceptable
basis of action to the people of the two sections
of the Union the origination and advocacy OF
such design will be nm enduring record to the
honor of the phiIanthropic man who is devotins
the best efforts and wisest years of richly en-
dowed mind to its accomplishment
But is any one ready to say that it must fail
that it is not practicable? Some day or other
this question must be met That it will come
up for settlement we presume nc sane man is
prepared to deny. Itpresscs upon us even now
although we are but in our infancy, and day by
day It grows more difficult Whether or not it
will be settled in this way, or whether it will
violently, in the dark of night, as it did in St
Domingo, and as it threatened in several States
last winter, work out its own solution, we
know not One thing is certain, that we would
not hesitate long in choice between the two
methods of settlement had We to choose.
This Convention will cmbody some of the
best talent in the country, and we hope that it
will meet with that earnest consideration which
it so we'll deserves.
- - IS. s,iil STAR yesterday.
AN UGLY CLUB TO BE STARTED AT MoEGAw-
TowS.-While it is well known fact both Mt
home and abroad that we have the PretIest
girls In the world IN our village and neighb0r-
hood, 1t is also as well known that we have the
lgliest mon.
We took little walk this forenoon, and on
every side we met the ugly evidences of the
act. Red headed men, squint eyed men, cross
eyed men, warped-nOsed men, stooP shouldered
men, knock kneed men, bow-legged men, fiat
Dotted men, seemed to be in every direction. =
we saw fellows in whom all, or
nearly all, of these points conferred. And each
elbow was dressed in most unbecoming style
all men in short coats-short men in tall coats
stout men in narrow coats-narrow men in
stout coats-smalI men encased in voluminous
large men in tight, increased and
Increasable panfalonns--h high mon in flat hats
low men in high hats-broad faced men with
side whiskers-narrow faced fellows with chin
ners dangling down like tassels. We saw fell
lows who looked for all the world as il they
had been dug up for post inoTtem examinations