Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-24
ROGER A. PRYOR.
His Past Position towards Douglas
and DOugInsism.
COMPARE THIS RECORD WITH MS SPEECH,
LAST NIGHT, IN FAVOR OF BnECKINRIDaE.

COMPARE THIS RECORD WITH MS SPEECH
LAST NIGHT, IN FAVOR OF BRECKlNRIDGE.
! AS our readers are aware. few men ex-
press themselves more frankly or more
fOrcibly on the variOnS questions of the
day, than the talented gentleman whose
name forms part of the head of this ar
| ticle.
He was, rs the country knows, recently
elected to Congress, the nominee of a
| Convention in which the gallant and infiu-
ential aud thoroughly Democratic county
of Mecklenburg was not represcnted; but
we do not remember that he considered
the absence of Mecklenburg q fatal defect
in the regularity of his nomination, not
withstanding the fact that she cast about
one-ffth fthc whole Democratic vote of the
! District. During his canvass for Congress
| he took occasion to combat the position of
| his competitor, who was land in view of
! the odium which might attach TO the sim
| lie We protest that we intend no diSre-
sPect to Mr.. Goode) Il sort of SecederS
candidate. Among other things, he made
it an effective objection to Colonel Goode
! that that gentleman was unalterably op-
| posed to Judge Douglas and his political
! principles. Mr.. Pryor showed the Injustice
I the ingrHtitudc and want of Democracy in
/ his position, and while avowing that he
had two or three preferences for Mr.. Dou-
| glas, he declared his entire willingness to
support him if he was the nominee, and
| paid the most eloquent tributes to his pat
| riotiSm, statesmanship and Soundaess. We
know of our personal knowledge that this
fact alone induced some Democrats to vote
for him who were rather disposed to pun
ish him for those trcnchant ASSAULTS on
| Mr.. Buchanan, of which we have heard so
| little of late, and by their assistance, and
the votes of those who stood by old plat
forms and practices in opposition to all
sorts of boiling, Mr.. Pryor was elected
From that moment until after the meeting
of the adjourned Convention in Baltimore,
| Mr.. Pryor was considered II peculiar friend
of Judge Douglas, by, we venture to affirm,
! the great bulk of his constituents, on what
grounds we may have occasion hereafter to
inquire. Indeed, we have reason to kRoW
that lie was considered n particular friend
of Mr.. DouglNs' nomination by parties in
Baltimore after the Convention had been
some time in session.
Such were his personal relations to the
present nominee of the National Democ-
racy. What were his relations to the
principles of the National Democracy, we
shall eudeavoT now to show by extracts
from speeches and editorial articles of
Mr.. Pryor's, all of which were issued after
Judge Douglas opposition to Mr.. Buchan-
an on the Lecompton question-Gfer the
celebrated contest with Lincoln-qtter the
much abused Freeport speech.
What personal or political objection Mr..
Pryor now has to Judge Douglas, we have
not the means of knowing, bat this we do
know, that every objection we have heard
or seen advanced by the Breckenridge ora
tors or press, finds abundant refuta,ion in
For convenience of reference we arrange
them under appropriate heads:
l. Mr. PRYoR's REASONS FOR SUPPORTING
JUDGE DOUGLAS.
l. Judge Douglas affirms the original
and essential inferiority of the negro.
2. He denies that the negro was intend
ed to be embraced within the distractions
of the Declaration of Independence, and
asserts that the right of freedom and
equality was predicated only of the dom
inant race of white men.
3. He denies the privilege of citizenship
to negroes.
4. He arms the compatibility of con-
federacy of free and slave States, and the
possibility of their harmonious co-exist-
ence under Il common Constitution.
5. He afFrms the absolute sovereignty
of the States in respect to their domestic
institutions, and denies the authority of
the Federal Government to discriminate
against the interests of slavery.
6. De inculcatcs the policy of non-inter-
vention rs between the free and slave
holding States, as well as between the lat
ter and the Federal Government.
Z. He supports the. decision of the
Supreme Court, and asserts for slavery
the right of colonization in the Terrific
ries.
8. He upholds the guarantees of the Fed
eral Constitution in respect TO the rights
of the South.
.. He maintains the dignity and inde-