Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-03
10 tllc Editors of the Wheeling IntclIigcncer

To the Editors of the Wheeling Intelligence.
III tue spirit of candor aud frankncss
wish to ask you n plain question or two,
with the request that you will give eSpla-
nations. .r.
Do you approve the tone and principles
of the speech of the Hon. Thomas Corwin,
which was published in your paper of the
LIST instant.
Secondly, Arc you in favor of the Will
mot ProviSo, and opposed to the admission
of new states which allow African slavery?
Thirdly, Are we to regard you as
member of the party called Old Line
Wings, which assembled at our Court
House u few weeks ago, and OF which
Thos. Sweeney, Esq, was President, and
Chas. Marshall, Esq, Secretary, or are we
to regard you as a member and advocate
of the present Republican party, which is
to meet in the present year, at Chicago, to
nominate candidates for President and
Vice President y WING.
The above appears as a communication
in the Union of yesterday. It is our rule,
and we have often stated it. to hold no
Communication with a man of straw, or q
man in the dark. When we controvcrt,
we want our opponent out in the open field
where we are ourselves. Every fellow
that loafs the streets, i'll every number of
the paper, might claim our attention in
this way. if we did not have a rule of this
sort TO protect ourselves. To show, how
| ever, that our rule is based upon principle
and on necessity, we will depart from it
this morning and answer these queries, al
though we do not believe there is man
or woman in this city or elsewhere, who
has read our paper, but knows very salts
f!.ctorily what our political tcnets are.
First. then, We do approve of the speech
of Mr.. Corwin, alluded to, and Of all the
speeches we have seen from him on the
subject of slavery
Second, We do not believe that the Con-
stitution- of the United States carries sla-
very into any Territory; in other words, we
believe slavery cannot exist without posi-
tive local law to support it, If the people
Of 81 Territory, when they come to take on
State government, want slavery, we
would not hesitate q momcut to vote for
their admission as a State.
Thirdly, Ton can regard us Old Line
or New Line Wings, just as you please
You saw what we said about the meeting
referred to, both before and after it was
held, and if you don't understand our po-
sition, you never will, so far as any waste
of time ON our part is concerned.
Tnr Legislature Of Pennsylvania has
under consideration bill securing n better
class of men as engineers for locomotive
and stationary engines than those gener-
ally employed in this vocation. Tie bill
provides for theerection OLA Board of En-
gineers to examine applicants, two of whom
shall be practical machinists, and the third
a practical5locomotivc engineer, to be ap-
pointed by the Governor, and hold their
Office for three years. Any person acting
as an engineer without a certificate from
the Board of Examiners, is to be subject to
fine of $500, and the corporation en-
! ploying him, to fine of 5000.
SickIes fights hard for his seat, knowing
that the loss oft would reduce him to ut
tier contempt What an awful condition
that man must be in. whose sole hold on
irespectability is seat in Congressl ss
The Washington letter writer's describe
Miss Lane as "robust,n meaning, we pre-
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