Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-22
fFor The 1ntelliEenoer.I
On sHnRRARD CLEMENS AGAIN.

| flor the IntelhEencer
E4oN. sHHRRARD CLEMENS AGAIN.
ON the sth of March Inst, voter of the 10th
District addressed q rernonstance to the Hon.
lSherrard Clemens, in regard to his support OF
| the Presidents Kansas policy. His labored eff
fort to force constitution on people alter they
| had overwhelmingly defeated it by popular vote;
unanimously protested against 1t through their
| legislature and strenuously opposedolt through
/ their delegate in Congress; involved principle
| in Democracy requiring explanation. A voter
could neither reconcile it with the Kansas Ne
hbraska act nor with Sherrard's view of popular
sovereignty as manifested by the election of our
present Postmaster. His course appeared mon
erchial, and calculated to subzert the funda=
mental principles of republican government,
and voter only designed, in arespectful way, to
give him chance to yindicate his course and
| reconcile these seeming inconsistencies, or adj
| nit his error, No response has yet been re-
ceived; but in lieu thereof, q writer for the
Times, on the 18th inst, whosays he lives more
| than thousand miles away, affects to ridicule
without attempting to reconcile. The only SEN
tence he quotes to criticise, he says reads thus:
THE speech is generally conceded bold argu-
uIent in favor of monarchy, and death blow to
popular sovereignty" He then goes on to say ::
"If it has given death blow to popular sover-
eighty, it is impossible that it should be any
thing else than the most powerful, able and
extraordinary speech that has ever been
delivered in the United States" He calls
the voter many hard names, and contends
he never saw the elephant until he saw him
in the Ittettigencer, with his keepers marx
on him." which he describes as raw
headed and bloody bones ghost" and con-
cudes by expressing great fear that freedom Of
speech and popular sovereignty will destroy the
constitution. Now let US see who has got his
keepers mark on him. The Lecompton COnSti-
tuition has been proven, beyond contradiction, to
have been conceived in fraud and violence,
brought forth in corruption, nursed by Execu.
tive promises never to be fulfilled, protected by
Federal bayonets under false pretence, and sup
ported in Congress by a speech from Sherrard,
commencing about the armies of England and
liFrance, on the evening of the bloody battle OF
Taliyera. He labors with the ingenuity and
special pleading of lawyer, to prove by vari-
Gus authors and acts, the right of minority to
govern the majority, quotes the advice of Napo-
leon, and winds up by browning the bramble
king ofthe trees, and finally, votes to make Lee
compton King of Kansas.
Now If this far off writer has based his re-
marks MISREPRESENTATION, he has "his Keepers
inarkn of Lecompton on him. By referring to
the sentence he has quoted, / findi rendS thus
! 1t is generally conceded bold argument in ia
vor of monarchy; aimed as death blow at pop
ular sovereignty. He has changed the words,
| aimed us, for and, thus proving himself COLI
sistcnt Lecompton man caught in his own
trap" Of misrepresentation, where / must leave
may Stay him, while quote few more senten-
ces.-and then, if he survives leave him to his
Idols.
He says '.a voter of the 10th district is only
one of the thousands who never read about
popular sovereignty" But, Sir, voter is one
of thousands, who learned in his school boy
DAYS that the first article of amendment to the
Constitution prohibited Congress from making
any law abridging the freedom of speech or the
press, or the right of the people peaceably TO
| assemble and to petition the Government for a
redress of grievances. He is one of thousands
who, had the Lecompton; OF any other Consti-
tuition, republican in form, been ratified by the
popular vote of the Territory, or embodied their
will, would have called it monarchy TO impose
any other upon them against their will. He is
one of thousands who now PROPOSES to make re
Boosting of earning his bread by the sweat of
Ills brow, at the imminent risk Of being called
mud silC and slave. lie is one of thousands
who claim right to express candid opinion
of public measures, though it frightened "a Lee
compton man, "more than thousand miles of,
| into belief he is being devoured by "a raw
headed and bloody bones ghost" He is one of
the hundreds of thousands who will vote at
succeeding elections against the monarchial fea-
lures of the present administration.
| Once more he says, 'thc speech has not been
sown on barren soil" admit Mr.. Clemens had
II beautiful and fertile field to work He could
u La NblbS
population than any other member from Virgi
mia. He had fair field to display his fine talent
for the protection of white labor. His position,
the occasion, and all the surrounding circum-
stances, combined to facilitate his march to
fame, by espousing the cause of freedom and
popular rights. But alas! he speaks and votes
rs if standing exclusively on negro basis. He
hears his constituents called Inud-sills and slaves;
silence gives consent. fear he has sown this
fertile field with tnrcs and brambles that will
give him an awful raking in the next Congress
sional race. Many prominent Democrats who
were active in securing his nomination and cleo
lion, will be found piliDg up brambles in his po-
litical path; and numerous bands of working
men will be found with
a VoTER OF THE 1OTH DISTRICT.
MR EvEnETT's TR1nuTR TO THE Southern
MArRoN."-In reply to Mr.. Yeadon's welcome
to Charleston, Mr.. Everett paid the following
touching and well.deseryed tribute to the origi-
nator of the Mount Vernon Association-now