Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-11-23


AND MIssoCRI--TMEm PosIrIoNs AND
CHARACTERS.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Nov. lG, 1850.
The Tennessee Opposition would un-
qucstionably support Hon. John Bell, rs
the eandidatc>of the National Opposition,
and they have more than strength enough
to carry their State for linn. Hon. Edward
Bates, on the same ground, might enlist
the vote of Tennessee, rs of his own State
and Kentucky. Either of these statesmen.
on national platform, might bring out
on his side the popular majority of more
than half dozen SlavchOIding Stntcs-
The Southern Opposition, with the Coop
Grafton of their Northern brethren, can
elect either on Gnion0md National grounds.
Their active and reserved forces, under
discipline, arc ample for all the feints, and
wilcs, and coup TetHts of sectional Marty
ism. There arc indications that all the
OppositiOnists, i'll all these parts, will he
ready to stand by any candidate of the
John Bell or Edward Bates stamp.
The Opposition of Madison County, Ky,
have set the ball in motion here. They
held meeting on the 7th, and passed res
olutions. which are commended by the Lou
lSvlllc J"Wrndt lin consonancc with its
more general tone for the past three
months) to its 'political friends in the
State generally" These Madisonians ig-
more tile StdrCrY hobbies. They resolve that
they arc opposed to misrule, to disunion,
to Aholitionism, and to fnnaticiSm in ali
its tnrmSi that they stand equally aloof
from Northern Abolitionists and Southern
nulliicrS, fear neither and dcSpisc both;
that the frauds, corruption, extravaganza,
and general mismanagcmcnt of the Buch-
anicr Administration merit universal con-
uemnHtinn. l. e..
ward to the day when the General Gov
ernmcnt will pay some regard to American
labor, to the development of the immense
agricultural, manufacturing and CONNER
cihl interests of the American people, 10
the restoration Of those national and ''an-
cient principles taught by Washington
and Madison, and consecrntcd in our own
age by Webster and Clay" and that Sin
this good object and work the Opposition
of Kentucky can count upon the coopera-
ton of their friends in Tennessee, Virginia,
North Carolina, Maryland and Missouri,
banded together under the leadership of
patriots like CrittcnLen, Bell, Botts Ray
nor, Davis and Bates"
Edward Bates position is well known.
lie has always kept aloof from the party
contentious of the times. Like Henry
Clay, he would never lift finger to extend
of Territory. The Constitution, in his
judgment, does recognize the institution
outside of slavcholding States. In ac-
cordancc with the compromises and guar
antccs Of the Constitution, the slave rep
rcscntation, and the other rights of such
States, within their respective limits must
be protected so long as they choose to lc-
galize and retain Slavery; and iugitivcs
must be returned to their masters. But
SlHvchOlding is entitled to no Federal pro-
lection in the Territories in the United
States. Congress will never intervene to
protect it there. lie mnniicstly regards
this question of Slavery as practically no
longer before the people. Now and hence
forth it is an abstraction. The Territorial
policy inaugurated in 1854, if carried out,
inSures the Territorial settlement of it III
all cases. It will be carried out. If the
people of Territory choose to present u
Constitution tolerating Slavery, Mr.. Bates
would, no more than did Mr.. Clay, oppose
their admission on thnt account The
Federal Government, under the Constitu-
tion, should protect it where it is, and do
nothing to extend it where it is not 1t
will and can do nothing to extend it
Other subjects, he declares, demand and
should absorb the attention of our lcgis-
lators at Washington.
John Bell, likewise, learn authoritative
~, is Setagainst all this Slavery agitation
lie always has been. He AYERS that the
worst enemies to the South arc some of the
Democratic" Slavery agitators in the
South, and that their charges against the
Republican Party are most calumnious.-
lie believes that the great body of Repub-
licans are disposed.to waive all sectional
issues and unite with conservatives of
every section to put down and 10 away
with Democratic" agitation and misrule.
lie would discountenance anything design
cd to prevent this union. Congressional
protection, /" to his view, is just as sectional
ms Congressional prohibition" Both
these dogmas should be resisted by tho
South. They arc, in effect, mere abstrac-
tions. The agitation of them breeds mis-
chief, and only mischief, continually. Mr..
Bell has always resisted anything looking
or tending to this. The Opposition Of
tennessee, its organs, leaders and masses,
arc with him. The Conservative Opposi-
tlon ofthe Nationare withhim. They will
unite, under him, or any trustworthy man,
to forward movement which shall have
for its objects, "the restoration of the Gov
ernment to its original purity, the strength
enlng OF tile bonds of Union, and the pro-
motion ofthese moral and material interests
by which alone, as nation, we can be
made prosperous and happy"
There is less of the mere partisan ahont
John Bell, of Tennessee, than almost ony
public man in the country. His record
demonstrates it. This is the general onin-
ion in our midst. The first, men Mt Wash
ington, of all parties and sections. have
often acknowledged that no moro candid,
y