Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-04-07
ME MIAATING LNST NIIHTi

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THE MEETING LAST NIGHT!
Last night, according to announcement, Wait
man I. Wiley, the candidate of the Opposition
for Lieut. Governor, spoke at the Court House.
The house was filed, and there was present
good mixture, we observed, of all shades of
political belief Mr.. Wiley made his first
speech in the canvass, and although not of any
means an extraordinary effort, was very fair
one. In point both of oratory aud argument, it
fell largely short of some speeches that we heard
lin make in the Scott campaign of 1852 This,
however, may be accounted for in the fact that
his present sphere of action as a stump speaker,
is again new to him-and that for n long time
past as he took occasion to state, politics had
been almost dismissed from his attention
lie commenced by stating that some years
ago he had expressed the desire and the inten-
ton never to allow his name again to be used in
connection with any Office; that his present po-
sition had been rendered not only unsonght but
against his expressed wish, made known to the
body of men who had conferred the honor upon
him. He, however, held that every citizen was,
ia some sense, at the disposal of public cali
of his fcllows-and his own call, coming as it
did from so large and SO respectable body Of
men as had assembled at Richmond on the 10Th
Of February last, he considered as forming a
demand upon him which he was not at liberty
to disobey.
Some of his Democratic friends up in the
mountains had told him that he need have no
lear Of being troubled with the duties of the Of
fee for which he was candidate He had re-
piled TO them, that perhaps they were correct
but whether they not made differ
cnce to him. 1t was one and the same with
him, whatever might be the event of the can
vass-and he would esteem himself unworthy
of the position he occupied did he stop to count
the chances of success 1t was because that lie
believed in his heart, that the principles which
had been enunciated at Richmond, and which
ne cordially endorsed were correct and that
they would make for the best interests of the
State and the nation, that he accepted his pres.
cnt call to to their public advocacy.
Mr.. Wiley then, after discIaiming any desire
to give personal offence in what he might say,
or in any way TO treat uncourteously his oppo-
ncuts ON the Democratic ticket, went on to con.
slider the action of the Petersburg CDemocratic)
Convention in the matter of their endorsement
Of Mr. Buchanan's Administration. He next
instituted an inquiry into what that administers
ton had done, and in enumcrating the short
comings, errors and extravagancies, stated that
inasmuch as the Petersburg Convention had en-
dorscd them, and made them rs their own, it
was his intention to ask the people how far they
were willing to endorse the and the dcings
of that Convention. Mr.. w. here proceeded to
go over what has already been fully set forth in
our columns concerning the reports of Demo-
cratic Committees denunc,ations of Demo
cratic members of Congress, touching the
acknowledged abuses and cortupttons which
had crept In upon and fastened upon the unfor
tunate Administration of James Buchanan.
Mr. Wiley had on hand quite good sized
Scrap book full of chips, mostly from some outre
sources, whcrewith to substantiate each heavy
charge which he would make. He drew quite
frequently upon these chips for data concern.
ing what had been the comparative expendi
lures ofthc government in times proceeding Mr..
Buchanan, and compared them with the reports
of the Secretary of the Treasury, as to what
they arc now. He adduced, among other things,
the balance of trade items which we gave tie
other morning.
The conclusion of his speech was devoted to
the consideration of the tariff and the distribn-
ton of the proceeds of the public lands-n
illustration of the benefits of both of which,
the old stand by arguments-facts and figures
of other days-were gone over.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Willey's speech,
James B. Bingham introduced a quantity of
resolutions, of various kinds and sizes, which
were passed ina heap.
FANNY FERN is getting to be more Belle Brit
tainish than ever. She writes for the Ledger a
chapter about the influence of calico over cor
dmroy:
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