Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-15


ave irnpeach him Oetcher) of seeking TO divide
this Glorious old Commonwealth into two distinct
and hostile parts, and we impeach him OF trying
To Abolitlonize the Western half! We impeaeh
him of ,waring upon the foundation interest Of
the State-up0n the Institution 81 stdrery itseLy
and of endeavoring to externinate 1t root ana
brancnl Weimpeach him Of hundred other
grave political offences, and we call upon the
people to return a verdict, in accordance WIN
the facts and the testimony"
The above extract is from the Richmond
Wig, which paper, in common wiki some 9TH
ers, is putting itself and the people to great
deal of unnecessary excitement, turbulence and
trouble touching the election of delegates to an
opposition convention, to be held at Richmond
some time soon, when, every Intelligent
man, woman and child in the State knows 1t is
as hopeless piece of business as ever was at
tempted. Nevertheless, il it was good cause,
if there was in it anything of good to our Peo-
pie here or elsewhere in the West, we should,
hit or miss, succeed or fail, give our heart and
hand to the work But, as the old Roman phi
losopher so forcibly asked, Cai Bonol What
is to be the result to US, here in the West? We
have purposely UNDERSIGNED GtaliciseD this sem
tence in the above quoted extract: ave impeach
him of waring upon the .foHndation interest Or
the State-upoa the Institution IF sLdrery itssg
and of endeavoring to exterminate it root and
branch" 1t is more particularly that part Of
the sentence which speaks of slavery as 1.-THE
foundation interest of the State" that we have
singled out, and it is to it in particular that we
call the attention of the white working men of
Western Virginia. We ask them if they are
prepared to enter into an opposition contest upon
this issue with John Letcher? Do they for this
reason also impeach John Letcher? Do they,
high as heaven above us, raise aloft the
niger interest, and to it and under it sub
ordinate all the other ten thousand interests,
all the countless capacities, wishes and ex-
pectations of the quarter of million whites
of the West? Let those who will, enter into a
contest of this kind. Let those who are willing
to pass under this yoke Of niggerism, agitate
and nominate an opposition ticket. For our
selves, feeling as we do that the triumph orJohn
Letcher despite his discredtable retraction of
the Ruifner pamphlet will be considered as
somewhat of modification of the ultra senti-
ment the niger question, we infinitely
prefer it to the success of an opposition ticket
that shall make his pamphlet antecedents an is
sue. We shall never vote or advocate such a
ticket. In saying this much we do not stand for
John Letcher. On the contrary, we are ashan-
ed of him-ashamed OF his moral cowardice-
such inglorious. Julianism rs he has exhibited
inAhis all.absorbing desire for the Gubernato-
rial nomination. 1t is only because that the
success of ticket opposed to him would be
construed and claimed us visitation upon the
manly stand he once took, that we can bring
ourselves to contemplate his election with any
degree of satisfaction. As yet, there has been
no election for delegates to the projected oppo-
sition convention, anywhere in the Panhandle
COUNTIES. We hope there will be none. Let
the white lab1ring menof Western Virginia re-
fuse to have any hand in such self imposed
degradation.