Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-29


been distinguished, While men in the
Northern States, for party purposes, are
manufacturing public opinion, slandering
their ncigbbors aud fellow citizens, and
pandcring to the disuniOn and slavery
sentiments of the South, Mr.. Bolts rem
ders justice to the Republican party, al
though he opposes it, and tells to the peo-
iple of Virginia plain truths that are
wholesome, however uuPalasable. A cor
respondent of the New York TrTes says
that he is listened to by large crowds. aud
is producing profound suppression wher-
ever he goes. The same correspondent
furnishes tue following sketch of some
of the points of one Of these speeches:
''By way Of preface, Mr.. Bolts observed
that such was the tyranny OF the Southern
press aud Of Southern public opinion,
that few men dare speak their sentiments,
but that he had no f:,vors 10 ask-ihat lie
was a freeman, and should fearlessly ex-
crcise his right to say what he pleased,
and upon any subject. They might call
/ him an rbolsiionis1, but his shoulders were
broad, aud could bear heavier burden
than even thAt. And he do say what he
. tItSHSSNs rAhA a a Stut2 NAuiSbNC paul
cd doctrines novel TO their ears, and which
might have been regarded as highly often
sive, If uttered by other lips.
/ He showed his disbelief in Mr.. Sewari's
Z s'irTepressible conflict" doctrine, but he
swept away the calumuies by which his
name in the south has been rendered infa-
nous. BE read an extract from the Ro-
( chester speech, embracing the obnoxious
/ irrepressible conflict paragraph, and then
/ showed that the idea did not originate
! with Mr.. Seward, but that Roger a. Pryor
and Senator Toombs held the same doc
triRe, and had enuuciated it previous 10
Mr., Sewar,i's speech. Pryor and Toombs
/ believed that there was an irrepressible
conflict between free aud slave labor. but
that free labor would finally give way to
slave labor, while Mr.. Seward held that
slave labor must gradually retire and final
1 ~ die before the triumphant march of
/ freedom and of free labor. But Mr.. Bolts
did not agree with either of them-he did not
| believe there was any sach conflict that
| soil and climate regulated both systems of
!abors, and that both would long endure.
In case of Mr. Lincoln's election it was
predetermined by some of the southern
/ States to secede, and inasmuch as Virginia
would be invited TO join in the reasonable
crusade, it was right that the people
should understand the true position and
sentiment OF the Republican candidate,
and for this purpose Mr.. Bolts read copi-
Gus extracts from Mr.. Lincoln's speeches.
all tending to show shat he was quite con-
servative, and not the terrible, bloody
minded, hre-eating abolitionist the south
generally believed him to be- He did not
desire TO be understood as advocating Mr.
Lincoln's views on the slavery question he
merely wanted TO present historical facts
so as to disarm the enemies of the Union,
by showing that they had no cause to re-
bel against Mr.. Lincoln or his administra.
ton, because of his views upon the slave
~ question.
The southern Democrats claim that the
eQu0Hty of the States in aud to the terrific
ries can only be preserved by their being
allowed to carry their property slaves
into them, and have their right to this
property protected by law. Mr.. Bolts said
the States had equal rights in the terrific
ries; that the northern man could carry
! eER l1 PF9RsrtS there that the southern man
ern man could, and, therefore, thew stood
upon 6qudt grounds; but if by cguaiity they
meant the right to carry SLAVE property
INTO the territories they had mistaken their
rights; that they had no such right under
the constitution, as that instrument did moi
recognize them as property in a national sense,
ana that they nCeTe not property erccpt orAcn
they 'reTe made so By local Lqa
In the early history of slavery in Tho
as propertT. bnt q, 1ost Nv were recognized
testeJ I =, ~ Uut AZ iaSt me question was
in which Lord T"nsfield 501 deridS case,
slaves were not pronar1S 80 JeU'1 leu .na'
mon law. and from ihat hon. 81 ~; me con- ON
have been so regarded in nj. r ~ uuiS, 'neS
horse is property eyerywbc .r+ sOu~,n a
ed by The common Iswond , ,soost.-
neeeds no protection. bpt bumsn 1"g l,eio
law and thew cannot 20 P be Seg oy special