Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-29
so4E aarg ago tbe eincinnati comaIILssrI.

SoNE days ago the Cincinnati Conner
cial had a very. clever tpavesty, comnilni
Gated. to it, under the head of "Grand
Mass Convention. of distinguished men,
called for the purpose Of hatmonizing the
politics sof the United States This
''Grand Mass Convention, Y was called to-
meet at Croton ReseryoiE,eNew York, on
Christmas day, and the proceedings of it
that is, its deliberations, were sent
through TO tue. Commercial by Spiritual
knocks" several days in advance of the
meeting. From the reported proceedings,
we make the following extracts:
THE CONVENTION.
1 The immense concourse having assem-
! bled it was noticed that everything seemed
to be ready except platform for the pre-
siding officer, clerks and speakers, which
I the committee had probably forgotten.
\ Z Hon. Mr. Yancey, of Alabama, said that
nothing had been forgotten; that the peo-.
! pie. of the free States had shown their
fraternal feelings and done their full share
i in getting up this splendid convention;
/ that the South did not wish. tosbe behind
hand in matters of Cancellation, and con
E.sidered it not only her duty but her priv
4 lego to do something to further so desira-
BILE an object, and had accordingly AN
4 early day demanded, and received per-
mission to prepare n.platform, then being
brought i'll. The Convention need not be-
/ stow moments thought omit. 1t was all
fright. They might get on it as soon as
they pleased. ae 7.a
| Hon. Mr.. Keitt, of South Carolina, said
the object of this, grand Convention; this
more than magnificent and awful assem-
blage, was to cast halo around the brow
of peace, and it would, he hoped, be con-
secrated to the purposes of good neighbour
hood, and Cancellation. For one, he came
4 prepared to lay down everything on the
Altar of his bleeding and heroic country.
He would not, under any circumstances,
permit himself to utter aword or harbor n
thought that could offend the feelings or
the prejudice of n reasonable mortal. But
whoever should attack his opinions would
attack him personally. He hoped the sub
lcct of slavery would not be SO much as
alludcd to- Slavery is an institution be-
Eloneine exclusively to the South, but sane
tilted and upheld by the Constitution. 1t
Ibad its origin in the natural wants of So
ciety, and was q far better condition OF
things than could exist i'll any Free State.
Slavery was the natural condition of labor.
The Constitution secured TO the South the
to extend it into all tile territories and to
conquer; more territory if wanted This
was the true. state of the case and the
North had nothing to do with it. He
begged to reiterate his hope that the topic
might not be 'alluded to i'll this convcn-
ton. If there were any sncaking aboli-
Zionist present, he hoped he would retire or
keep his mouth shut. On his own part
nothing should be wanting for peace and
harmony. But he would just remark be-
fore sitting down, that lie had an instinc-
tive forcboding that the rights of the
South were TO be attacked here as they
always had been, by a set of anti-slavery
agitators, traitors and scoundrels, no bet
ter than niggcr8 themselves. He could
have nothing to DO with such men. Hay
ing plainly stated the facts in regard to
slavery, and the duties of the North, lie
should consider any attempt from any
quarter to controvcrt that statement,
| Shaking his head,) as an attack on his
personal veracity, which he would resent,
so help him God and would put any man
attempting it, out of the convention.
We said that this was travesty. OF
course it was intended for one, but after
taking up late number of the Petersburg
Press and reading the following paragraph,
we could hardly tell the difference between
the genuine thing and the burlesouc@it
burlesouc indeed the above mipbtb e called
Says our Petersburg cotemporarv:-
We care not n straw about anti-sIavcrv
sentiments in the abstract. The people at
the North are welcome to think that the
tbat t9 is wrong or an evil. we know
opposed to it. WHAT the South w5n dss o nd
tasks is that they will leave il 10 hc dealt
with by her o,yn people in her o,r1 7,gv mr. N~'N.s
Nov. +l,cro won ,,o- ,o.,oa4 ;:c.