Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-11
Wednesday Morning, Jan. II, 1850.

who are not our friends, in and around
the village of Warrington, in the county
Of Marion, some seventy-fve or eighty
miles down along the Baltimore road
We perceive by the last number Oh 'he
Fair,nont VTrgin;an that a meeting has
been held in Warrington, announced rs
having been s:large and respectable" as
we have no doubt it was, for we never
heard of any other kind, and at which
meeting six resolutions, several of them
very long. and at least three of them
very silly, were drawn up and put to the
meeting, and ''adopted with entire unan-
unity"
Tho county of Marion, in which these
gentlemen live, contains about onc-third
as many white inhabitants as our county
OF Ohio, and about half as many slaves
that is. some ninety, and that is (for prac-
teal purposes) none at ALL The county
is n grazing county and mining county
tho soil is moderate and the climate far
from tropical A niger can live there II
he is well attended to, and in the sum
mer time may do something towards
earning his salt The country is i'll
no wise different from the neighboring
country over III Pennsylvania, and it is to
this last fact that we would like to call
the attention of the ManningtOnites so
lately in conference assembled. There is
not single bit more sense in three or four
politicians of Marion county calling
meeting to pass political ';blood tub reso-
buttons, about the state of the Union, the
condition of Virginia and loyalty to the
South. than there would be in their neigh
bors of Washington and Greene county,
Pa, doing the same thing about their own
State and their sister States of the North
Not a bit more 1t was all we'll enough
for the people down there to come
together politically, and express their
preference and admiration for his late
"Exccllcncy, Hon. Henry y. Wise, the
intrepid and indomitablc Chief Magistrate
of our Commonwealth but what sense and
what need was there in going on to say
That we cordially endorse the recon-
mendation of his Excellcncy Gov. Wise,
in providing for, and sustaining more
efficient military force throughout the
State. and especially along the borders of
the Notwithstanding States. We ear
nestly hope that the Legislature will make
necessary appropriations for tho accom-
plishment of the same.
Or,
That we heartily approve of the meas
urc introduced by our venerable reprcscn-
tative Hon. Thos. S. Raymond, which is
now pending before the Legislature, for
the protection and promotion of our man
ufactures. While our mountains are preg-
nnnt with the ores of every metal; our
water courses foaming and leaping I'M
trammclled through their channels. I""r-
muir the power to run the sPindles to clothe
the world; our sunny mountain slopes in
vites the gl4tzier; our fertile valleys album
dainty reward the industry of the hUs-
bnndman; our harbors can float the navics
of the globe; our rivers can bear on their
bosoms tile wealth and fairness of the in
terror to the markets of the world; and
ourpress teens with 81 healthy literature, we
see no reason why We should be Deepen
dent in any sense, upon people Gntag0niS-
tic to us, for manufacturers, artisans, doc
tors, or ministers, who, phie they Jattem
and grO,p rich upon our products, seek, by
every artiicc, to poison the fountains of
domestic happiness, and to blast our pros
perity, by sowing the seeds of disancction
and rebellion.
Or to resolve,
That Virginia, proud, patient, and in
vincible as ever, stands like some rock
bound promontory, frowning in silent
grandeur upon the wild sea of fanaticsm,
which lashes its base on the north and
west, saying to their angry waves, thus far
may you roll but no farther.
Now we fancy that most everybody can
see that there is no manner of point or
appropriateness in such resolutions, and
we are very sure that their Righteousness,
Mt best, is not at all diminished by the fact
that they come from few persons scrapcd
together from over the bleak mOors and
grazing ATTITUDES of Warrington, where
ut this season, talk about things "South-
ern," only makes the takers feel more
shiveringly and dissatisfedly their native
blasts. ave sec," says one of these reso-
buttons, sno reason why we should be
dependent in any sense, upon people an
tagonistic to u.s." Now is that not too
snpcrlatively silly for anybody but par
Gel of political demagogues to get off.
We have no doubt that the resolutions
were the product of just some such per-
sons,-pcrsons who most likely are drones
on the energies of the Huntington commu-
nifty, and have ambition to commend
themselves to public attention, with the
ultimate design of fastening themselves on
some vacancy at the public crib. We do
not believe that sincere, sensible men ever
talk so meaninglessly. We don't, of
course, address ourselves to the kind of
men who drew up these resolutions. They