Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-03

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| When arrived, hand-b were posted about
the town, calling meeting to reply to those re-
solutions. w. Z. f.
CEREDo, October 10, 1857
The meeting held last night to reply to the de-
mandatory resolutions passed at Guyandottc,
was called to order by Jeremiah Wellman, Esq,
and on motion, Esq. Levi Mccormick was chO-
sen President; MeSsrs. Thos. Lee Jordan, John
Roberts, Isaac Mccormick, and Uren Walker,
we're selected for Vice Presidents; w. Boyd
Wilson, Levi Wilson and c. B. Webb, were
chosen Secretaries.
Eli Thayer was introduced to the audience by
the President, and proceeded to show that the
denunciatory meeting at Guyandotte was sprung
upon the people at thirty minutes notice, and
did not reflect the sentiments Of the residents Of
that county.
He alluded to his former speeches among
them to his cordial welcome, to the promise of
protection, &c, and declared that had they Sc
iected Guyandotte as their headquarters, the
cry of "abolition" would never have been rnisnd
against them: No.. put after all, there are some
op63ogies to be offered for that demonstration,
which the actors i'll the scene shall have the
benefit Of
They claim that the meeting was not intended
to impede emigration from the North, but was
only designed to conciliate the politicians of
Eastern Virginia, by showing that Guyandotte
was sound on the goose" 1t was urged that
Eastern Virginia was opposed to granting any
railroad facilities to infected districts and that
if the Virginia Central Railroad should ever be
completed this fire-eating action might secure
the western depot at Guyandotte. WE'LL if this
is so, | have no fault to find; for it is a very
cheap way to buy depot, by getting up an
"anti-EIi Thayer meeting" [Laughterl
Another apology is offered by others, which
is, the apology of revenge, based upon the fact
that Wayne county was selected as the head
quarters of our movement, and not Cabell. 1t
is affirmed by many prominent and ;"HueItiai
citizens OF Guyandottc, that, had that place
been selected instead of Ceredo, not one sylla-
bic of hostility would ever have been tolerated
in CabeIl county.
There is yet one more apology for the pro-
ceedings of the meeting at Guyandotte-the de-
fence Of 1.-THE institution"
It may be that the little meeting considered
itself for the time being the champion of the
institution of slavery in Western Virginia Now
if you hare such an institution, who Of us hns
Illegally intcrfered with it? Who of us has in
terfcred with it at ali? Who ofus contcmplates
any interference? Is it not enough to pun
ish us after the crime? at is good paymas-
ter that pays after the work is done"
But all this loud talk in Western Virginia
about " the Institution" is only tdlk. The fact
is UOu hare not negroes enough here to make an
Institution. The negroes in Wayne and Cabell
counties will not amount to one for every four
square miles of territory. You have no labor,
either slave or free, at all adequate to Your re-
sources OF your wants. You have the curse of
the name of slavery, which sends emigrat III by
yau, without even a side glance towards your
mighty resVu-eas and on they go, to MINI. I$ota,
Nebraska and Oregon. n.af as the Dun,ter of
slaves is diminishing, few fanatics cry ..>are
loudly than ever, keep off" do not ucddle
1T. -,
got up the late meeting in Guyandottc to mis-
represent the position and sentiment Of their
fellow citizens, shout must Justify for the EaSti-
tuition to let their masters at Richmond know
they are "sound on the goose.
Here, then, we are, among the good people of
Wayne, in spite of hemp and grape vine; aud
what is more than all the rest, we are every day
better understood and appreciated. However
much others may have changed their opinions,
we arc sure, Mr.. President that you and the la
dies and gentlemen of this assembly, still ex-
tend to us the same friendly welcome which YOU
at first SO frankly and sincerely preferred. You
have no reason to complain. The real estate
which you own in the vicinity of the thriving,
busy town of Ceredo, is every day becoming
more valuable. We are erecting hotels, stores
and machine shops. We have established a
paper-the "Ceredo CreScent"-which will be
issued the oath day of this month, and weekly
thereafter, to advocate all our interests, and TO
aid in developing the resources of the State
This is the frst paper ever published in your
county. We have contracted for the erection of
a school house and church, and have provided
for the Immediate establishment of Sabbath
School You are all richer here than you were
before the inception of this movement You
have better markets already for your produce;
YOU have now, or soon will have, better oppor-
tuuities to educate your children, Your proper
ty is rapidly increasing in value, and everything
is promising well for you and for u.s.
who shall break up this harmony? Who
will destroy this prosperity? The sword of
States think not. The sword of State is for
the protection of honest men, and not for their
destruction. An incendiary meeting, subsery-
ing the purposes of disunionists? Not at ALL
We laugh at the impotence of such machinery
Let us then proceed and build up the city of
peace and plenty, hopeful yet and resolute.-
An order will be passed tomorrow at the Goun-
ty Court to build two roads, by which the eS-
IRENE southern portion of the County viii be