Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-19


on the first page Of this morning S paper will
be found an interesting political document, in
the shape Off speech from the Hon. Thomas
Corwin. The views of the great orator, from
the leading position which he now occupies,
and the still more prominent one thai he did oc-
scupy as once o. S. Senator, and as memberof
Mr.. Filmore7s cabinet, will possess a. great in
terest for his thousands and tens Of thousands
of admirers all over the country. Corwin is
conservative by nature, humble as was his
origin; a conservative by the studies and asso-
Citations Of his professional and political life
and still mores he at this time conservative
by age and hisripe experiences. What he says
is the sober conviction of his great intellect
and what he says on the issues of the day is
entitled to great weight and consideration
Under the persuasive power Of such utterances
ashe alone can give ventto, sremarks.no doubt
went home and sunk deep in=the minds Of the
community towhom they were specially address
ed Weheard him, notlong since, embody, sub
stantially, the same facts-express pretty much
the same convictions, in speech at Columbus,
one of the most mastery and telling efforts in
all the elements Of both logic and rhetoric to
which we.eyer listened.
The report doubtless, does not do anything
like justice to the Speech an ertenso, as, indeed,
the reporter notes-but still, it will serve to
give the readers tolerably distinct conception
OF what Mr. Corwin thinks of the present
phases Of political especially, of the
one great exciting issue. What he says upon
the duties and requirements demanded Of clti-
authorized legislators and expounders have de-
clared to be law, meets our hearty appreciation.
Ever since we have been able TO receive an i'm
preston frotngthc teachings of history, or in
anysinteligent degree comprehend tile principles
which underlie a government representative Of
the ideas of people, who arc at once bothits
subjects and its .sovereigns, We have thought
thatradicalism was. Of all isms, the meanest and
most unmeaning. Radicalsm in a government
like ours is revolution, and revolution with us
must be the event of Generalization. We have
no stronger conviction than just this Rad.
icalism in popular government, where the pco-
plemake and unmake their representative law.
makers every two, four and six years, is. nearer
akin to despotism than ii TO any practicalnnd
yirtnous liberty. ''Yyell regulated liberty is
an expressionof Mr.. Buchanan's, and despite the
odium which, he has put on the expression, it is
agood one, and to our mind defines the only
kind of liberty worth having. Such liberty
cannotexist without the appointments of law
such our. organic provisions for the proper in
terpretations oflaw, which interpretations must
he respected and ocqniesced in US long as they
remaingin force, that is until such times as By
the same organic law it is provided that we
may change them. There are but two meth.
DDS of taking exceptions to law under a popu-
lar government: either by the ballot box or the
cartridge box. The former is conservatism; the
latter is radicalism The former embraces nil
that beauty, equity and divinity that is en-
bodied in the highest conceptions of seIf-gov.
eminent, while the latter bctokens, as it is the
product of that abasing jacobinism which nei..
Their appreciates respects right.
acknowledge the receipt Of a copy OF the
Preamble and Constitution of the Free State
Organization of Kenton.and Campbell counties,
KY, from which we learn that meeting Of the
Free State party, who are opposed to the cleo
ton Of either Bell or MagofRn, the two Slavery
extension candidates for Governor, was held on
June 30th last
The preamble reads as follows:
Believing that the prosperity and glorious
future Kentucky is dear TO the hearts Of our
people, and the Development of her immense.
agricultural and mineral resources IN object
highly interesting to every well.wishcr Of our
State and Country, and that tits to the para
mount interest of Kcntucky,if she would Keep
pace with the growth and onward career OF her
sister States Of the&TTest, TO foster and encour-
age free labor, free schools, and the mechanic
arts.
That to maintain the rights and interests Of
the people, and protcctth the industrious laborers
who toil.ond produce, the laborers also should
be represented in the Legislative councils of
our State.
And, whereas the leaders Of the two prin.
cipal political parties now in our State are
contending as to which shall serve the Interests
of the Slave power best, paying respect only to
the interests Of a class; We hold that our long
submission TO the aggressons Of slavery and
the slave power has brought disrespect uponthe
hone and sinew-the industrial interests Of our
State.
That while we are willing to maintain the
Union Of the States and the rights Of the States,
we shall resist the arbitrary Influence Of Slavery
within our own State, and use all moral and DO.