Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-29
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The Republican Convention to be
held ia this City. -
Yesterday morning we published the
call for Republican Convention, to meet
in this city on the I'd day of May next,
one of the objects of which viii be to np-
point delegates to represent this State in
the Chicago Convention, on the 18th of
June. This is the first call that has ever
been issued for State Republican Con-
vention in Virginia, and next to Missouri,
the only one that has been called in the
South, although Maryland aud Delaware
will soon follow with their calls for similar
Conventions. It is not reasonable to sup
pose,that this Convention will be q very
large or imposing demonstration, although,
we doubt not, it will be very respectable,
both in point of nnmbers and of charac-
ter Good sized delegations will be in at
tendance from the four Panhandle couu-
ties, especially from our own and the two
upper ones, besides scattering numbers
from here and there and everywhere
throughout both sections of the State
We desire to see good Convention. We
do not care about its numerical strength
particularly, although that is desirable;
but what we most want and what we fully
expect to see, is an assemblage of hesrty,
sincere, intelligent men.
The. Republican sentiment in Western
Virginia is great and growing sentiment,
and every sun that rises and sets secs new
accessions to its strength. And although
it is yet, to a certain extent, in an IN
developed and uuorganized state, yet,
nevertheless, it has an abiding place in
the hearts and convictions of the peo-
pie, and is each day more and more loom
ing up into formidable proportions. We
have no more doubt of its final prera-
lence, than we have of the historical
fact that the gradual emancipation senti-
ment begun, took root, expanded far and
wide, and finally triumphed in our sister
State of Pennsylvania. Not bit more.
1t must triumph. 1t is in the order
of nature, and in harmony with fate
itself that it should do so. Those
who oppose it make their contest with
Providence, and fully impressed with the
fact, we are simply content to do our
duty and abide the issue of events.
This convention is but one of the small
opening wedges that will begin to develope
the existence of this latent sentiment, and
however insignificant those who look
specifically on it may esteem it, yet those
who will comprise it may well afford to
recognise tas that little cloud, no bigger
than mans hand, that grew in size until
scarcely anything else was to be SEEN
It would be strange, aud we may say
an unprecedented thing, were this con-
vention to be an immense gathering of
people. We do not expect anything of
the kind. We expect only a, convention
in keeping. with the circumstances which
environ the daily life of its invidpal menu
bers These circumstances are familiar
enough to any observant intelliEentman,
who has had opportunities tO.know the
state of. society in the more remote
counties of this and other Southern
States. In illustration of what we mean,
by saying that We expect convention in
keeping with the circumstances that
environ the daily life of many of its
would-bs members, Eve may. state the
fact that almost daily we are in the re-
csipt of letters from different parts of the
State, especially our Western portion
oft giving US not only the political views
of the writers, but of their respective
neigbborhoods, and revealing in the eggre-
gate an extent of suppressed breathing that
no persons save those who, like ourselves,
have month after month and year after
year received and read such letters, can
Justly appreciate. Many of these let.
tiers, either in whole or in part, We have
published from imeto time, bpt the greater
portion Of them have been strictly private
aad,thersfore their contests were known
only: tosonrselyes. Some Of these letters
have contained subscriptions to our paper,
not to hes5ent to the writer's; but to some
friend or relative In some other part of
LhsfeEu;rT writer's eaadidly confSss-
Ing that their business associations were
sreh that they eould-not- aFord to risk the
prejudice which some evil dfsppaed and
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