Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-21

can indicate the feeling Of this community,
there is an Overwhelming approval of the
stand which Messrs Richardson and Porter
have taken against this bill. Ohio county
will sustain and uphold her sister Pan
handle counties on this question. That,
the Richmonders may be assuredsof
soxE one has sent US copy of the Fir-
ginta Citizen, published at Harrisonburg'
which contains letter from Mr. Geo. Rye,
citizen of Woodstock, written in an
swer to some resolutions got up and offer
ed by Dr. Mcfarland, at public meet
ing, in Rockingham county. These rcso-
lutions called upon the fellow citizens OF
Mr. Rye to Danish him from the State, in
asmuch as he is known 10 hold heretical
opinions on the subject of Slavery.
Mr.. Rye appears IN print in answer to
DR.. Mcfarland aud his resolutions. His
whole communication is too long for our
columns, but we extract this much of it,
which will show the gist of the matter:
WOODSTOCK; VA, Jan 2, 1860.
DR.. McFdrEdud SIN :-A gentlemen OF
this county sent to me by the hands of his
son, late number of the Virginia Citizen,
a paper published in Harrisonburg, Rock
ingham county, in which l find, that you,
with Others, request my removal, or BAN
ishment, from the State of Virginia.
This is an extraordinary proceeding, and
perLaps, merits a notice. am satisfied,
however, that silent contempt is the beat
remedy for such hlackguardism. Yet
must be excused this once, if it be de-
purture from the propriety and dignity OF
a gentleman, to ask you question or two.
Will you tell me upon what act of mine,
the proceedings of that meeting were
based i? What law have Violated? Who
have l injured in person, property or repu-
tation? These questions are to the pointi
and hope you will have the magnanimity
to come up square with your answers to
the point.
Draw up your bill of indictment in q
tangible form; then, like man, hold your
self responsible for the issue you make
In civilized communities, Punishment is
punishment for some crime. This being
civilized community, have Alright tocOn-
clude that it implies some crime upon my
part, and upon this you have stakcd your
reputation as gentleman.
Should your assault be unjustifinhle, what
y wrong you have committed-look at it
sir. Here is man, atotal stranger to you,
living forty or fifty miles from your resi-
dence, quietly pursuing his own business,
seeking living for himself and family, re-
lying, and having full faith i'll the Provi-
dence that provides for the diligcnt, and ina
country that protects the poorest citizen i'll
his rights; you like n rude vandal, viola
ting all sense of propriety and common
dccency, endcavored to disturb the peace
of his Preside by resolutions and publica-
tions intended to effect his removal from
his family and home.
And more; as your proceeding show, a
gentleman with whom am acquainted,
had said something in my behalf, was re-
ported to your night conclave,-sent for,
and made to disgorgc the last spark OF
human sympathy that was left to his soul.
Oh that you had a mark that the public
could know whose dog you are. And yet
more: Not content with taking the good
old commonwealth on your shoulders,
asserting and shaking off her population,
but her Senate chamber must be Cleansed,
and the Wheeling district made TO know
that she has dictator in the person of DR..
Mcfarland, in the city of Dayton, Rocking
ham county. Brave set of fellows indccdl
l should have liked to have been there, to
have seen for myself whether the gods,
Mars and Jupiter, had come again, with
thunderbolt and forked lightning to crush
out Black Republicans, Abolitionists, Free
sellers, and the rest of hcrctics, or whc-
Their, indeed, it was the counterpart to that
other celebrated meeting of the mice,
where the cat was to be bclled. Aycl
who is to bell the cat? God has allotted
unto man, three score years and ten, and
it will be no interference with His arrange
mcnts, when promise, and swear by the
Eternal, that when you enter upon the
errand you have proposed, you shall see
your father the Devil, before the time ap-
pointed.
Mr.. Rye, in our opinion, comes to the
point, and hits the right key exactly in his
last remark. That is the way, and the
only way, to meet such men. When So
ciety will not protect a pe0ceoble citizen
in the enjoyment of his constitutional
opinions, he has no resource left but to
fall back on himself, and take his stand
with his life in his hand. 1t makes bad
work, always, to conquer peace for one
self in that way, but it becomes matter
of necessity once and awhile. We hope
Mr.. Rye will give these fellows the
promised warm reception, when they shall
see fit to commence the work of his ex-
pntriation.
SAMUEL WooDMAN, an old resident of