Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-27

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81 LARGEST OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES WEEKLY
CIRCULATION, ANYlPAPERi IN WHEELING.
Tag sudden and expected manner inEwhich
NO exposed theIcowardlY u; Oyster. traffic into
which the Democrats, insdisguise, of the Times
had commenced to turn, the Harper's Ferry riot,
operated as quite sumner on their minds, and
brought out the slightly literary editor in the
new phase of a War editor, in his yesterdays
paper. BE quotes the Boston Atzas, Paul to
the Hebrews, and Solomon's Proverbs at us-all,
too, with the same point and psrtinancy as he
once before quoted the thrilling anecdote of DIR.
johnson and his fiddle. Tho new War editor
advises US to leave off trying to break up his
"oyster" traffic or else we may suddenly find
ourselves. invited out to ''pistols and coffee"
which he remotely hints at in his closing para.
graph.
WE'LL cal. down, and bring a cold oyster in
chpocket, with you.
-&oOeS-
Qua telegraphic news to.day,i is highlysinter-
esting. Yeahave foreign arrival (the PersiaJ
bringing European adyices up. to the / 9th inst.
We have also more news from the Harper's
Ferry rioters. An immense number of letters
have been -coected,by Andrew Hunter and 9TH
ers. Among them a roll of AZ conspirators,
md 81 receipt from Horace Greeley for letters
=frhD
more than justice to. say, in passing, is doubt
less Tor letters 1--WE mean paid correspondence,
from Kansas, during the time oftke disturbance
in that territory.l
We have also, and moro important than all
the news Of Cooks arrest, near Chambersburg
He has been demanded, it will also be seen, by
Gov. Wise, and.will be sent on by the Pennsyl.
vanians for tria! along with tho rest.
Brown maintains. his lmpurtcrbable stoicism
refusing to confess-and avowing his firm re.
lance on God, who, he says has rescued him
from as great peril as that in which he now
finds himself
OwING to press Of duties, we have not, until
now, had an opportunity of looking into Judge
Black'sappendix to his reply to Douglas In
this appendix he rejoins to replies made by
Douglas in his speeches at Wooster, Gin.
cinnati, and other places, since the appearance
of the first edition of Blacks pamphlet.
The fasity OF Douglas position appears tous
more clearly than ever. Tho position taken by
him in his Harper's easy is, stthat the Constitu-
ton of the United States neither establishes nor
prohibits slavery in the States or territories
beyond the power Of the people legally to con
fro1 If hrt
free to form andregulatc their domestic institu.
tions in their own way, subject only to the
Constitution Of the United States Here is his
position distinctly stated in labored prodnc.
ton, in which it is fair to suppose that no hasty
opinion was expressed.
Nearly any person, we think, would at once
say that this language very clearly teaches the
doctrine of the sovereignty of the people Of The
territories,-their power to CONTROL Slavery
and, in short their equality in rights and pow
ers with the people Of the States Such, beyond
allquestion, was theit Interpretation given To
itby Douglas own.adherents. Indeed without
the Harpet's essay any person at all acquainted
with the numerous speeches made during the
last year or so by him, is ready to admit that
the leading principle of his politics-the sgrsat
PlAlLSlPlS dSOuk5 5IllIN6$ SO uuCuE luSS
lis, the right of the territories to decide upon
and control the questioned slavery.
But so wellhas he been met by his Admins
tratiOn antagoniston this subject, so clearly
have the ifaacies of his position been. shown, so
unsteady has been the ground on which he
stood that he has been fairly compelled to back
down from his old stand. We actually find
him making this assertion, in his speech at
WoOster:-"T neeer claimed that territorial
governments were sovereign, or that the Terri>
tories were sovereign po,oers. Is not this as
tonishing How Mr.. Douglas or any of
his friends reconcile this language with that
above cited and with his well known doctrines
of popular sovereignty In his speech at Gin
cinnat made subsequently, to his Wooster
speech, hcproclaims, in emphatic and unmis.
takeable terms, the fright of the people of
each State ana each Territory, s01ils a Terrific,
ry, to decide the slavery question for them
selves" Judge Black pertinently asks is
not this claiming sovereignty for the Territories