Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-24
REPUBLICAN, MEETING
AT
VEST LIBE BTY.


r3rHox. ROGER a. Pryor made n speech
.,,be Atheueum, last evening. The house
,r.. full Of people. and among the audi
.,ee were many ladies. The audience
rere somewhat wearied by the delay of
the sneaker, who did not arrive until half
mas, seven o'clock. Meantime, the inevi-
tsble boys yelled "Dixey," "Dixy," when
the uninitiated supposed that "Dixey" was
expected to crate until the band struck up
that popular and enliventng air
Mr.. Russell introduced Mr.. Pryor, and
announced that his distinguished friend
was laborlng under an indisposition, and
that the people would have to bear with
him. Mr.. P. commenced by stating that
there were three candidates claiming the
suHrages OF the people of Virginia. Lin
coin, he said was not sufficiently respec-
table to occupy his time, and that
was about all lie said of Abraham
Blu, Bell and Everett and Stephen A.
Douglas were the unfortunate objects of
his denunciations. He made Bell out MS
vile Black Republican as the blacklist of
tue black could desire. He charged Bell
with voting with the enemies of the South
uPoa the Clayton compromise, the Mis-
souri restriction, and the admission of
Kansas upon the Lccomptou Constitution
He Charged him, in short, with being a
lie long Abolitionist, and said that he
,BeIA NOW occupied a position identical
with that of Lincoln; that he was n
4 Southern man with Northern principles:
/ tl,l he was an arctic animal and could not
flourish upon the mild soil of the South.
lie didn't seem to think it necessary to
Prove EevCrctt IN AboIitionist. He thought
everybody ought to take that for granted,
coming as he did, from State "that null
lfeS Fugitive slave laws and breeds john
Browns Some persons said these opiu-
ions, which he cited, of Edward Everett
were expressed many years. ago. The
speaker thought it strange that persisten-
Cy in an opinion, should destroy it's force.
Time but the impression deeper makes.
Anu stTcaiE5 tnelr channels deeper
He admitted that Everett was a scholar,
and all that, but this was no time for
pOlyg!ot President. 1t was only necessary
to understand one language, and that was
tie plain language of the Constitution.
lie wanted Il man like Joe Lane, who
could vote for the rights of the South and
Nrht Tho baft1ns -
Mr.. Pryor then proceeded to annihilate
Stephen y. Douglas, at which point he
grew intense and vehement. He said the
love now manifested by the Bell men for
The Douglas wing of the Democracy, re-
minded him of the affectiOnate illusions of
lis younger days. He said the Douglas
men were the catspaw i'll the hands of the
Dell Monkey, who use them to get the
c0eSaais out of the fire. He was not sur
F''ed that the Wing party, after wander
ing So many years in the wilderness, with
OIL a ProTideatial supply of mama, should
row cast their longing eyes with such
''Ia'ty towards the Promised land, hoping
mat the waters being divided, they might
march over rough shod. He warned them
not to be too sanguine, for they would
surely realize the fate of Phuroah's wick
ri hUst.
IN this reference to fact of scriptural
history the speaker might have mentioned
mat the Children of Abraham did pass
through the waters.J
During the delivery of the speech some
D'y said something about Potter putting
NJ Pryor through which we did not
s'sCnc'Iy hear. 1t seems that some one
III The font part of the parquettc applau-
e'a' Whereupon Mr.. Pryor ceased speaking
anu gi"Fing down upon the real or imagin-
u! offender said the man who would ap-
F"uc such sentiment was worse than he
"-o uttered it. Turning to the audience
nc SAD that he did not come to Wheeling
"oe openly inSulted, but added that he
el not believe there was manly heart in
'4S room that did not scorn the ruffian who
'1'u perpetrate such an insult. The
'1S'ruPuon was from some rowdy in the
gallery aud had the remark not created a
'aga 1t would doubtless have been quiet
passed over by the speaker.
Nj, Pryor continued speaking some time
..1ge' when he was compelled to stop
, ,.'-, sheer exhaustion, being in exceeding
Tue speech, take it all in all, was the
, s's' ultra and intensely sectional thing of
sIe season Mr.. Pryor seemed to have the
a,.'on"ry at his tongues end, and poured
Ms sentences rapidly and roundly. He
~an Of no common stripe. We pre-
,r'ue We may safely set him down as fair
rs Ps',nen of the combustible gentlemen of
-. south, who are dissatisfied with the
.-'00' He said, during his remarks, that
addressed himself only to Southern