Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-06

The following is an extract from the
able and eloquent speech of Henry Winter
Davis, made at Baltimore, on Thursday,
the 9th ult:
Well, gentlemen, how are you to judge
of the purposes of n party? BY hunting
up the speeches of small men WHO want to
carry a neighbOrhoOd vote? BY extracts
from furious editors of small papers, who
think they are never safe unless they
are beyond the most extreme in their
neighborhood? Are We to judge of mems
opinions by the imputations of their enc
mics and their eXaggcrNtions for pur-
pose? Arc we to suppose that our friends
are black because their enemies dunb them
black Or are we not rather to look at
the facts and to remember that among the
millions of the North there are men rs
wise rs we are, as honest asvwe arc, as
well educated as we are, having as great
Interests at stake in the perpetuity of
the Union us we have, and ns earnest
ly and honestly devoted to the integri-
ty of the Constitution as we are, and that
they are not likely deliberately to invite
civil war, deliberately TO moot questions
which are wholly needless whatever their
opinions may be ON them. Let MS ut least
give them creditor common sense and take
IAASAA 'lttIAOhS lIItlu Tue uSCItlTiL-
tions OF their enemicsnnd Other enemies. Is
aDemocrat's a impeachment evidence against
anybody on IL question OF politics? Laugh.
ter and cries 'of "No, nor Now we all
know that there are men who are furious
at the South on the negro question, and
there are men ut the North who arc furious
on the negro question. am thankful that
they are i'll am equally small minority in
both sections. Their power is clamor.
DO not believe that between them they
could set regiment in the field, even if
they desired to do so. And, gentlemen, if
h collateral proof was required, of now
far the conservative masses of the North,
the conservative leaders of The Republican
party, or rather of the whole body of the
opposition in the North to the democratic
party are misrcprcsentcd, there would be
no better or more convincing proof than in
the fact that, whilst the whole body of the
Republican, party are denounced as nboli-
tionists, the abolitionists themselves have
very quietly refused their support, and are
organizing separate tickets for themselves.
[Laughterand applause. Can Mr.. Breck-
lnridgc's friends say rs much of the dis
unionlSts? Why are not the abolitionistS
satisfied with the representations Of our
southern brethren? They cannot want
anything more than to invade the South;
they cannot want anything more than to
disturb our fresides; they cannot want
anything more than to break un the slAye
trade between the States; they cannot want
anything more than scenes of blood and de-
struction throughout the country; they can
nOtwant-Nnything more than to repeat John
Browns crazy and bloody exploit by the
thousand timesa year. That is whatweare
taught by leading orators OF the democrats
to expect, if not the result of a set purpose
the tendency of the conduct of the cOnser-
Tative millions of the North. And that,
in the face of the fact that, great as was
the storm raised by that insanity of John
Brown, and reckless as were the imputa-
tiOns upon gentlemen of certain political
opinions, throughout the whole North,
yet, with all the powers of the United
States to rake evidence from one end of the
country to the other, with q diligcnt ex-
animation, extending through months, by
the Senate of the United States, by an
able and honorable committee, headed by
Alr. Mason, of Virginia, and, after q care
full examination by the legislature of Vir-
glnia, there was no evidence found that
implicated any body of confcderates, or
amy man holding political position, or
aspiring 10 hold any position, anywhere
in the North with that insane performance.
1t is, as have said before, instead of being
Il sonrce of disquietudes the most quietiug
! of all the occurrences of the last half cen
tury 1t has lifted the veil of misreprc-
sentalion, and enabled us to see what
men are doing. Till that event occur
red, and till these investigations were
had, such was the uniformity of the i'm
putotion ofextrcmc anti-slavery opinions
TO great body of men ut the North. and
of an cnrnest determination to intermeddIe
with southern institutions to their damage
that gentlemen, even of calm minds, were
perhaps justified in having n doubt, or
even perhaps in forming opinions, adverse
vestfg"tions were made, after that occur