Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-02

at Chicags-II, on Wednesday tho 10th day OF May
President d the United States.
Tar address of the venerable Robert E.
Scott, to the late KichmUnd Opposition,
Convention, from which we publish an
extract to-day, was one of great power,
and breathes> throughout that high spirit
of patriotism which has always been
distinguishing characteristic of its author.
Had we such men as Robert Scottfor lead
ers-in our State and National affairs, there
would be little of that sectional feeling
throughout,the country which he so forci-
bly, deplores. Let the North; once be as
suled that such counsels would prevail as
those which he has indicated, and she
would cease to be apprehenstye for tho
:. liberties of her citizens, either in the terri
tories or elsewhere. But, alas it is not
So, The North may sign pledges and
agree to fnalities, only to find that she
has been Knocked and deceived. Such has
been her experience time and again in the
past, and now she is determined that her
protests, her convictions and her rights
that she will sleep upon her arms. She
asks nothing from the South that the one
half of household might not ask from
the other. She asks only that the liberty
of speech, and the press, should be left
free, as the Constitution made them. She
asks that the question of slavery should
be left where the fathers of the Republic
left it. She asks that IN the administra-
ton of the government she and her citi-
gems should not be Disseminated against
on account of their moral and religious
convictions-that their opinions on the
single question Of slavery should not be
made the test of their fitness to discharge
the duties of public Office, while no.
torious ultraists and factionists of the 9TH
err section are taken into the highest coun-
ellis. These rights and dues are what
she asks She has no desire to in
ter NEEDLE with the State affairs of
her sister sovcreignties in the South
She never has intermeddied and she never
expects to. She steadfastIy upholds the
right of each State to make its own laws
and concerns, and from every hustings
proclaims the alacrity aud sisterly attach
ment with which she would lend her sup
port to put down any foe to the general or
seperatc well being of the States. All of
US who live here on the borders know that
these things are so, that this is the feeling
of our Northern friends. We know that
our brethren on each side of US are our
friends, that they are kindly affected to-
wards us, that they neither plot against
or desire anything but our we'll being
We all know that they are just as patriotic
and just as loyal to all the requirements of
good citizenship as we are. They do not
like the institution of slavery because they
know that it is great draw back and
blight, and many of them believe it to be
"a great moral, political and social evil
las Edward Bates has characterized it)
but they do not on that account want to
intermeddle with it where it exists. They
simply say that where it does not exist,
where they have right to keep it from
blighting the future homes of their chill
dren, they will vote against it. This is what
they say, and all they say, and every iu-
telligent man knows and feels, that believ-
iug.as they do, it is not only their right,
but their duty to say and vote so. And
until the written and unwrittcn traditions
and testimonies of the fathers and foun-
ders of the Republic have persisted out of
mind, the North will never surrender this
right, and will never consent that the
blighting evil of slavery shall pass be-
yond its present limits.
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