Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-16
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e'!es we should generally
.and=,6ornsa hErnin that there is to
soessapsS S OPPOSITION State G6nvention bold =
lenmond7onst stheE1 4th gdaysof next December
5te&has also been suggested thatstse .sbonld toko
an earnest part advocating In, nronrio-
" OF sending delegates from Nortbwo,t
counties to that and a q General
way 90 lies The rood
cause. cause OF rcdeeming the State%fro,a its nrsson+
style of government. Iii, not particularly in.
1.sl1ep 70 US what is-1to be the object of that
convention, :, or what, intal likelihood, will be
sne upshott t Of its deliberations. 1t is enough
SIMPLY itsseems, to knowa and l6SmndEes0ob1ic dEse0
mention thottt there 2tosbe.an' Opposition Con-
zventlon convened at Richmond, and that itthon
and there will devise some ways and means
tor doing something THAT viii t6rn out Yto
,t,s oe a substantial good TO the people Of tho
commonwealth @ IN So far, as We. haze bsrnk ih..
formed, and so far as we can find out from tbe
of information, ,stbe o1i6stand end
OF the call is as yet quite clopdY.y We have, to
oe sure, seen here and there hint or a guess
IN some newspaper, friendly or unfricndly, we
don't recollect which, that thelconvention vas
mainly to lnauguratc movement for the
union of the Opposition allGovGr the ,country-
ana that, rs incidenta. and anxiliary to snchhnT +
end perhaps the good Offices the presence m and and
probably the name of distinguished politician
OF this State would fg0rc quite prominently.
We mean Hon. John Al. Bolts -.
So far rs the call for d convcntion,is concerns
ed we confess to having no paiticular feeling.
either pro or con. We do not say that We. are
quite SO stolidly inscnsitivc and Indifferent as
the boy was, who didn't care ''whcthcr school
kcptor not" but still, VIC are notsparticnlarlvS.
worked upon by having seen an announcements
that such a call as we have now given notice Of,
has been issued. We went to Richmond last
winter, indnlgins the expectation that we
might see something that had-a. goa,l, healthy.
redeemng set of features. 5Buts when wc-sa,ys
all that was done, and ali that was marked, out
to be done, We felt good deal like as five had
been out into the wilderness to see a reed
shaken with the wind, as well as the conscious
ness of having seen some fine looking old oen-
tlemcn clothed in soft laincnt. AT that cons
Ventlon we had the honor @nd we areslrcc to
say that nc considered it rs such, and onesun.
deserved, too as it was unsonght on our paftl
to receive the confidential views Of s6nie
Of its leading members. They tolds as what
they thought, and we in turn told them
what we thought 1t is needless to saw.
that we differed from most of those who thought
it worth while to talk with us, as to the plan
of the Gubcrnatoral compaign They consid
cred that a good point could be made by PRESSING
the Democracy severely on the slavery question
that is, that it wonld make votes, defeat the
present dynasty and leave the differences of
the Opposition on that questionso for fair
settlement afterwards. The idea simply was ).
to defeat Letcher some way or.other eitsdidn't /.
matter much how. To this view We had two
objections. In the first place, wc expected no
victory upon any grounds whatever, and in the
next place we didn't want one on the programme
laid down. We looked upon victory won on
such platform as barren Of all good results,
and astlikely to leave the vi,alinterests of the
State in the if not in /. worse condition than
before
But VIC have not space, ncithcris it necessary
here for us to elaborate afrcsh orr reasons for
SO thinking speaking. We have done
that scores of times already in these columns
They went FOR nothing then, whether they did ,
afterwards during the campaign or not And
this brings us 10 say that we have muny5tnis!t
givings that anothc" Convention would be but.
lepctition,of the last And ii is because. ,sce
have so looked upon it that We have not laid
any particular stress upon the call If we saw
anything practical-anythng even promising
Theoretically, likely to conc oc the convention
we would say by all means let US have it, and
in it let Us have full attendance But docs
anybody really think that SUCH would be the
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