Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-07-21
How the Battle goes In Eastern Wire
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is raging. The Enquirer charges that
Everett is not sound on the gOose-not
fit man to be supported by Shareholders,
and asks the Wing if he did not support
a certain ;sSet of anti-slavery resolutions"
passed in the Massachusetts, legislature, in
1887.
The Wing answers:
| When Mr.. Everett held the views refer
! red to-that is, in l839-many of the best
men in Virginia of all parties were in
I favor of Ema anticipation. 1t does not, thcre-
fore, become the Enquirer, or any other
I Southern journal, to censure q Northern
man for his erroneous opinions on the
| subject of slavery at that early day-and
especially such man as Mr.. Everett.
! whose whole subsequent course public
and private, affords abundant evidence of
a change of opinion on this subject. His
cordial and emphatic public endorsement
of the Compromise of 1850, the feature Of
which looked to the admission of future
! States into the Union, with or without
slavery as the people of the Territories
might determine, in forming their State Con-
situations, shows conclusiYely that Mr.. Ever
EFT is as sound and reliable rs any man in
the land, in regard to the Constitutional
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slavery as a blessing, as we of the South
do, we do not believe and do not assert;
nor should we have much confidence in
! his honesty if he were TO say that he does
for, Northern men with Southern prin-
!.ciples" are generally political cheats and
scoundrels of the first water. We have
no confidence in any man who processes
, himself Il proslavery man; and we have
unlimited confidence in Edward Everett,
because, as an honest man and a patriot,
. he pretends to nothing that he is not. He
IS statesman, patriot, r. philanthropist,
and gentleman, pure and indebted, and as
such, every Southern man and woman of
heart and principle admire, honor and love
him.
Having answered as above, the Wing
| turns upon the Enquirer and asks what if
Mr. Everett did support those Massachu-
sets resolutions-anti-slaver as they were:
! Is it at all consistent in the Enquirer to
arraign him therefor, while it is support
| ing man for President, who, not four
years ago, boosted that he "belonged to
no party that had for its object the extension
| of SLavery,' and who is even reported to
have been a Kentucky Emancipationist
about the year 1S48 or 1849; and this can
didate himself Southern born MANI
Does it become our neighbor to arraign
! Mr.. Everett, Northern born and Northern
educated man, and, therefore, naturally
! cxcusable for entertaining prejudices
against slavery, when it supported, only
a year ago, for the highest office in the
tleman whom the Enquirer itself denounc-
ed, for months, OH account of his Emanci-
patton views, and which gentleman held
these Emancipation views as late as 1851,
and which gentleman is himself native
born Yirginian?
And still further and worse than all,
the Wing reminds the Enquirer that it is
now at this time, with malice prepense
aud forethought
Supporting man for the Vicc-Presi-
dency, who voted for the detestable and
I .l".,--~'.l" IIn,no etno6 Ril1-tha most DOM
prehensive and infamous Abolition meas
ure that has ever been proposed since the
foundation of the Government.
The Enquirer talks a little as though it
was scared at the possibility that Bell and
Everett may carry the State. In speaking
about the two Democratic Conventions
that are called, it observes:
"Thc scperate Convention of the friends
of Mr.. Douglas, to be held at Staunton,
will, doubtless, be composed only of dele
gates representing minoritics of the DEM
OcrNcy in small minority of the counties
and towns of the State. Indeed, the call
Ofthat Convention, under the circumstan-
ces which attended it, constitutes, of itself
an acknowledgment that the supporters OF
Dir. Douglas constitute only minority OF
the Democracy of the State. Otherwise,
there could have been no objection on the
part of the Douglas men to enter into 4
general convention of the party, assembled
for the express purpose of framing such AN
electoral ticket as will be most acceptable
to majority.
What we wish, then, is that the true
state of Democratic opinion in Virginia
shall be fairly represented in the two Con-
ventions. We desire to see assembled in
the regular Convention five times the num-
of delegates, and represented in the regu-
lar Convention ten times the number OF
counties, that will beassembled and repre-
sentcd at Staunton.
With such m exempliication of Mr..
Douglas weakness in Virginia, and the ut
ter impossibility of securing popular ma
Ejority or plurality vots in the state-placed
before the eyes of truly estimable gentle
men who have, under mistaken sense of
partisan obligation, issued a call for a
Douglas Convention, we feel assured that
they will no longer uselessly persist in a
political course, which, if it ensures any
ultimate significance at all, will only
strengthen the Bell and Everett party in
the State.
THE AmaZOnian feat of cowhidinr pby-