Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-29

Immense Demonstration for the
Unton--P"triOtic ResOlutIons--Re-
Organization of the Wtdo Awakes
Tor active ScrvicGS
Prom the Gazette of yesterday.l
1t will be remembered this was an nd :
journed meeting, a former meeting having
been heldat the Controllers office on Christ
mas day, the proceedings of which were
published in yesterdays paper. The same
| officers, therefore, presided, and on request
Gen. Robinson called the meeting to order.
AS preliminary step to business he read
from the Gazette the report of the previous
meeting, after which, by general consent,
the whole body adjourned to the open air.
there not being accommodation in the
Supreme Court room for tithe of those
present. During the removal of the crowd
outside the most uubounded enthusiasm
prevailed, and it was some time before the
commotion produced by such an immense
mass of people could be quieted. This
was, however, effected without much delay,
rs the nssemblnge consisted generally OF
rejecting people, after which General
Moorhead made II short speech in reply to
repeat ted calls.
lie said he was proud of his constituents,
thut he had reason to be proud of them.-
They had turned out MS one man when
they believed their country was in danger.
to consult upon the hest manner Of pro-
tectlng themselves against the recent
movement of the government. lie, how
ever, couuselled peace; he desired modera-
ton; he was unwilling his constituents
should set an example which South Caro-
lima might set up as IL precedent. He
wished, therefore, that nothing resembling
an overt act of treason should be COM
mitted. Letth guns go. He was anxious
his constituents should preserve their re-
putatIon otunion-loving, law-abiding citi-
zens. And when the tug of war does
come, he ndded-if come it must-and
Heaven forbid that it should-I know
my constituents will show the same
alacrity which they now exhibit in
maintaining the integrity ofthe Union, not
only by expressions Cfsentimcnt but by the
exercise of physical force.
General Moorehead's remarks were cx-
ceedingly happy, and provoked bursts of
applause at the conclusion of almost every
sentence. When he had finished, the Hon.
Thomas Williams came forward and Offer
ed the following resolutions, prefucing
them with some remarks which did not
differ i'll sentiment from those of General
Moorehead:
Resolutions prepared and presented BIZ the
Committee consisting Of the folLouing gentle
men:
Thos. William Esq, JOHNNY. Riddcll, Esq,
Robt. Ii. Patterson, Hon. j. X. Moorhead,
George w. jackson.
WHEREAS, AS citizens of the United
States, attached to the Union, and Consti-
tuition and the Laws, we have learned
with surprise and indignation that lurgc
quantities of heavy ordinance have been
ordered from the Allegheny Arsenal to
DOintS whprC mn
cessity for them exists, while other points
where the necessity does exist are left un-
defended, and where they will he exposed
to seizure at the hands of those who nrc
now in n state of actual or threatened re-
volt against the Government; and, where
rs, our remonstrnnccs against this n
have received no notice from the proper
authorities Mt Washington City therefore,
be it
ReSolred, That, notwithstanding the no.
torious fact that our rulers nre disarming
the friends and arming the enemies of the
Union, we feel that its friends are strong
enough even without other arms than
their own to sustain the Constitution and
the Laws and to follow and retake the
guns thus ordered to be removed in case
they shall betraitorously employed against
them.
ResOlved, That we therefore deprecatc
any interference with the shipment of the
said arms under government orders. how.
ever inopportune or impolitic the same
may be, believing it would give color to
the imputation that we have no more re-
spect for the Federal Law than our fellow
citizens of the seeding State of, South
Carolina, and decrease our moral, much
mole than it could increase our material
power.
3. That we profess to be loyal to the
Union of these States; that we regard the
people of the South as much our fellow
citizens as those of tho Northern States;
that we regret that demRgogues and 5trai.
tors have been able to deceive them into a
contrary belief; and that, knowing no
party here, and no North or South, we in
tend to observe our part of the compact,
and shall expect and insist that all others
shall do the same.
4. That we greatly deplore the existence
of such a state of things in connection
with the administration of important de
partments of pnblic service ut Washing
ton as to have shaken tic confidence of
the people of the free States therein, as to
minister occasion for the disturbance which
has prevs lied amo gst us.
8. That TO restore that confdcncc1which
every administration onght to enjoy in a |
crisis like the present, it behooves the
President of the United States to purge
his Cabinet of every, man who is known to
have been giving aid nd'comfort to, or in
any wise coUntennncing and abetting the
actual or rnpprehended revolt of any State
against the authority of the oGonstitution
and the Laws of this Union.
6. That while Pennsylvania is on guard
Mt the Federal Capitol, tits her especial
duty to look to the fidelity of her sons,
and In kInt rfer, = o cn u. mon TIA Ilrnn,