Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-31


THE WAsH1NGToa CTTY REPUBLICANS OPENING
uPTnE CAMPA1GN.
Especial despatchit to the Oineinnati Gazette.l
W5AsnlEGToN, Oct. az, 1869.
In answer to the assaults of the Administra-
tionzorg the Repub licans of this city have
adopted the following resolutions which speak
for themselves:
RtsolCed, That the Republican Of Washing.
ton repelEwiths scorn, tho imputations of their
being in connectionsw with the Harper's Ferry
tragedy, cast upon them by the reckless parti-l
san sheet in this in the interest Of Senator
Resozce1, That the assertions of that paper to
the effect that the Republicans of this city had
any connection with the mad, wicked and alb:
surd schemes of the handful Of invaders that
seized the Government Armory at Harpers.
Ferry, or that they had the faintest idea that
such plot was on foot, prior to its occurrence,
lis false and malignant, and instigated with
view TO manufacture Democratic capital.
Resokred, That the allegation that Brown had
confederates orssympathizers in his reasonable
folly, onong the Republicans of Washington, is.
aslander for which the author should be visited
with the heaviest penalties Of the law.
Resolvcd, Thatthe memoers the Republican
Association Of Washing onndhere to lhepatfortn
Of their party, as adopted in june $50, in
Philadelphia They believe that Freedom is
national, and that Slavery is sectional, or local,
and while they would restrict Slavery to its
present limits by Congressional prohibitions.
I they deny all srighto the part of the Federal
Government to interfere withtit in the States.
ResotUed, Nevertheless, that We as Southern
men by birth, oradoption, claim the constitu.
Etionalright, freely to discuss Slavery, Uncommon
with all other matters pertaining to- the public
welfare, and to urge upon oul. fellow.citzens Of
the South the duty and policy of emancipation
by wise, peaceful and gradual means.
ResolOcG, That, in common Washington
Jefferson, Franklin, Jay and Madison, We regard
Slavery as morally and politically wrong; chat
we mean to maintain these views, and urge
them upon the attention of our fellow.citizens
spite OF the brutal and cowardly 5menaces of
the organs of a spurious Democracy.
ReSotucd, That we adhere to the State rights
doctrine Of Thomas Jefferson, and that while,
with that great Apostle OF Republican liberty,
We dislike Slavery, and will never cease. laboring
FORTS removal, we stand ready to vindcate tho
Iright5ofs the Southern States TO controzal their
domestic affairs for themselves, unawed by Fed
eral urpation, or by5rutian= invasion.
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ISthe Buffalo IN. " papers, ne see that a
Mr.. Rollin German is announced to speak upon.
his new=inventionz Ocean navigation. lie
promises to demonstrate the following propo.
sitions=:
First-That steamers may be constructed that
can be made to run more than one hundred
milcsthc hour.
Second That they. will be so strong and
steady, that the greatest oceanic forces will not
ondanger their safety, nor much disturb their
Equilibrium. Sea sickness WILDE impossible.
Third-That the economy of their movements
will DO such5a tosroduce the cost of travel and
Transportation thereby to less than ono fifth Of
thelrzprcsent ordinary rates.
\ FOnrth-Yhnts 8tIoyy noa1 rot II ~,
more than fourteen feet; and IS hen loaded with.
a very large amount of freight and passengers,
and withheld enoughfo for asYoyage around the
world, they need not draw more than about %
feet.
Fifth-That as a war ship. one Of these would
be an over match for all existing navies.
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IT5is=a well known fact that Lady franklin
has expended nearly every shilling she poss
sessed TO The atnountsof $50 900, in her. various
cndeayors 10 ascertain her husbands fate, and
that she appears destined to spend the remain.
der Of her lifein perjury. It5has been suggest
ed that the women Of Epgland and America,
who appreciate the unwayering heroism and
constancy which have uarked her search for
records of her husbands fate, should.unitei in a
Subscription to raise arund for her future sup
lport
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TnE Eutaw Is o. Observer, Of the 18th,
makes mention s.of.the almost fatal duel which
took place last week, across the State line, be.
tween 9. Randolph and II. q. Childress, of
Greensboro, in which the latter MAS severely,
ii not5rnortay, wounded in the head, at tho
first Ere. The original challenge was sent by
Hill, but Mr. R.refused TO recognise him as a
gentleman, and the inexorable code forced Chill
dress, between whom aud Randolph there was
no enmity, to take his place.
How carefully New York paper enumorotes
Mrs. oyiedo's wedding supplies is shown by
til. following, included in tho list of dresses,
bonnets, Ssc.-six short robes de mutt, made
very handsomely Of 5ine liner. cambria and Va
lenciennes lace; six short=robcs de mutt, en-
broidered and tucked. Among the handker-
chieiszwere twosof point 1Alencon lace, valued
at. 5000 each, and one Yalenciennes worth $3.50,
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