Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-02-15

r.. md Walter Preston-Botts great Speech
THE RESOLUTIONS -A55ournment Of the Con
I UsntiOn. ,.L
Another most beautiful day has dswned upon
the face of the earth hereabours, and as take
nv seat at the Reporters table, ere yet the hour
If organization has arrived the delegates are
swarming in Mt the door, looking really genial
and benignant under the grateful influences oil
the scene within and without. AS lift my
ewes for moment from the paper and cast
them over the vast concourse before me, can
no, but remark the general personnel don't
think 1 ever saw so large a body of men, pre-
seating, 50 uniformly, such an intellectual, in
tel,;cent and unsenSual appearance. l see
among them ever so many silver haired men,
with faces neither wrinkied nor contorted with
possion or indulgence, such as you so generally
see among like number of men. SO lar as
I have noticed there has not been drunk man
among them This is saying great deal Tor
! thousand and thrty-six Delegates, winch,
/ learn is the number reported this morning
Just now / see the President (Wm. Ballard
/ Preston) coming in. / could not help noticing
( this gentleman yesterday when ne was being
waited upon and formally conducted 10 the
chair. He q satin stock OF the OLD
fashioned height, with linen pTojectives above
! il of uncxceptionable stiffness and wilderness.
( His head seemed immovably encased therein,
aud in his triumphal progress to the chair not n
I muscle of his face InoTed-not single relaNa-
| ton Of fixed eXpTession-nor move oil the
person, except in fixed mathematical lines
! Thinks J. sure enough he is a Zine old ' IT.
ginia gentleman" Of the old school. learn
from one of the reporters, that he Is one OF the
wealthieSt men in Montgomery county-owning
about hundred niggers. Notwithstanding,
/ however, as | said yesterday, he made lame
I effort at a speech. The great event Of the day
{ is to be Bolts speech, and as the President now
raps his -gavil for order, inquiries buzzing
! around for Bolts. l notice before me, and also
noticed Yesterday at the hotels, vast quantities
of the "Ruf'ner pamphlet" published by the
| opposition in Norfolk, who send II out with
! their greetings to the opposition OF the State
/ inscribed on the back Of it. On picking one up
and examining it, / find that the address is only
s! published in part, and only that part most OBJ
noxious TO the East-the other part of the
/ pamphlet being taken up with the fervent com
ments of the Norfolkers on the heresies TO
which ''nonest John" set his fist
THE NoMISATIoHs
| The convention is now organized, and Mr..
J Scott, Of Fauquier, is ready with report from
| the committee on nominations He prclaces as
! he did Yesterday, with little speech. But now
! he announces as the choice of the committee for
/ Lieut. Governor, Mailman Z. Willy, Of Mononga-
| la. Three cheers for Willey.l Next for At
torny General, Walter Preston. of Montgomery.
| Three cheers for Preston1 Three cheers were
loudly given for the ticket, Goggin, Willy and
! Preston RI learn from one of the committee on
/ nominations that Mr.. Willey's name was propos-
I ed by Mr.. Bailey Of the Petersburg Gdzette, and
was received by the cOmmitte without dissent
1 ing voice 1t was tribute to deserving intellect
! aud moral worth.
Hon. NJ John Bolts now in response to long,
| frequent and vociferous calls is mounting the
stand. The enthusiasm is perfectly immense.
| The old fellow, as be draws off his Dig farmers
sack coat and takes his seat TO catch his breath
and wipe his brow, looks the picture of in
| ward complacency, and feels, | venture, every
inch Titan among the people. He has com
menced, slow, deliberate and explicit. The at
itenLion is breathlcss. Every body seems full OF
expectation and every body is apparently scruti-
uizng every word. He stops moment and
looks down at US reporters seated below him
and says, gentlemen, do not desire you to re-
port my speech on this occasion. attn to mako
a speech on the 22d Of this month, before the
order OF United Americans in the Academy OF
Music, in the city of New York, and shall
necessarily trespass somewhat upon the subject
matter Of that speech. And in addition, desire
to have only full and perfect report when l
am reported, for have often. by accident or
design, been miSrepreSented, that ii has made
me sensitive on this point" AT this juncturc,
the New York HerHM reporter, seated on my
left, looked up kind Of taken back" like. He
suspended MS nervous pot io"hS anu nSN NUNS
stenography for moment and looked puzzled.
Bat he knows full well that the Herald never
stops on such requests and as the Hon.
John again proceeds, he also proceeds and is
now throwing Off the crooks at "two forty"
rate.
Mr. Bolts is now saying that be thinks that
the prospects Of the opposition in this can
vass are Of the most iattering character
He means that if the people who now compose
this vast convention and their sympathizers and
constituents at home will, with the same enthu-
siasm which they have manifested during the
sessions of this convention, throw themselves in
to the canvass, having 50 much in their favor
and so much against the enemy, they are GER
tain to triumph Immense cheersl 'My
friends" continues Mr.. Bolts, looking around
him scanningly and boldly, 81 do not, some
here have suggested, regard the slavery issue as
the one upon which this canvass is to be con-
Quoted. Mr. Letcher's emancipation antecedents
arc not the points of attack" Your reporter
noticed that this declaration made some of the
faces before him look curious. Mr.. Bolts leaves
this point, and it is evident that ne wishes to
pass as lightly as possible upon this subject
He now goes to deal with the relations, foreign
and domestic, Of the country and launches out
most scathingly upon the democratic party.