Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-24

AuSSuay NtO'uayJ At D D CLOCK, ne would speak
last night Hand bills were struck, the town
posted and everybody made acquainted with
the fact that Mr.. GOggin was to speak at the
Court House at o'clock.
The Xix of course became general, as it natu,-
ally would, and everybody, friend, foe and il
different people, were anxious to see and hear
the gallant and gifted Goggin," the man who,
as Bob Ridgway, Of the Richmond Wig, says,
"chawed up" Letcher so often and spat him
out, to the great disgust of his (Letcher's)
friends
Before the hour appointed for the speaking to
commence had near arrived, the Court House
was pretty well filled, and at the first toot or two
from the brass baud stationed on the steps, the
remaining available space was taken with the
pell nell rush of Wall streets fancy stocks 1t
was, in short, the biggest house of the season
such an one, We opine, as would have done
Mons. Henri's heart good for a month, could
it have been transferred down to the Athe.
haeum at half dollar par head.
Mr.. Goggin, preceded by ~. B." of the
Times, soon appeared, also escorted by Messrs.
Caldwell "a. b. and Woods. Cheer upon
cheer went up for the nominee as soon as it
was known that he was coming through the
rye"
When all hands were seated and had blown
a moment and the noise and confusion had set
tied down to whispers, Mr.. Caldwell arose and
introduced Mr.. G. to the audience, who hay
ing made his salutation. proceeded very slowly,
composedly and EXPLICITLY to rehearse the facts
and circumstances of his nomination and the
ups and downs of his three months campaign
over the .'hills and pillows" las he said) of the
State. The lameness-the shyness-the cum
ningness of Letcher in making up a list of
appointments for the west with most indecent
haste and never consulting him (GOggn) there.
in, were duly set forth. So also was the weak.
ness of his Letcher's) Lieutenant, (Montague)
who when Letcher's throat got sore at Norfolk,
came to the rescue, but who ere he got half way
through the Valley of the State, also cavcd.-
Mr.. G. was sorry twas so-'twas not his fault
that he had no more giants to Stay for he was
as ''willin" as Barkis ever was to marry Peg
otty.
He considered it great advantage Ito have
Letcher and his Lieutenant along in order to
get the benefit Of their compulsory testimony
against their party. Mr. G. said much more of
the same sort by way of preliminary, which
tickled up general good feeling and general
merriment TO the extent of about a cheer for
every fifteen OF twenty words for awhile.
As we expect to refer to the subject ere long
again, and as our space at this writing is quito
limited, we are obliged to content ourselves
with simply an opinion, which is our candid and
truahful one, upon the general merits of the eff
fort 1t was tOIerable speech and it was
nothing more. We were neither amazed
at its logic nor dazzled with its rhetoric
1t was more to compare with the speech
that John NJ Bolts made in the African Church
at Richmond, during the session of the convcn-
ton, nor with one that Robt. E. Scott made on
the same occasion, than cotton mixed"-in
commercially phrasc-is to the silk warp and
| woof."