Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-09
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Thursday Morning, Aug. 9, 1850.
OK this day week-the leth inst.-the
two rival wings of our ancient Virginia
Democracy will meet in their respective
Conventions-the Breckinridgc men at
Charlottesville, in Albemarle county, aud
the Douglas men in Stanton, in Augusta
county. The object in thus meeting on
the same day, and SO near together, would
seem to be harmony and a restoration of
good feeling and old time cooperation
especially SO on the part of those of that
wing who have chosen the day appointed
by the others. This idea is strengthened
by the fact that in some counties, as in
this one, the joint wings have appointed
double headed delcgotions-and these del
egations will be fitted out much after the
style that the Charleston seceders were
who had tickets both to Richmond and
Baltimore. They will be given rowing
commissions, and be empowered to take
lodging with any assemblage of Demo-
Gratis they may find in session during their.
travels. They will be accredited both to
Charlottesville and Staunton, and which
ever place they like best, wherever they feel
mostathome, there they can stop. Theprob-
ability is however, that none of those who
have been nominated and spread out so
immensely in the papers here, will go.
1t costs too much money nowadays to
be Democratic delegate, and times are
not like they used to be, when there was
reasonable prospect of getting your money
back. "Old Abe's" election is entirely
too threatening to make the Democracy
here or elsewhere especially DESTROYS to
throw away their loose change on the al
tar of their bleeding country. Unless
some of those appointed have better pay
ing business on hands than saving the De-
mocracy, Ur-unI1Ss tmvJ g. $500.
over the roads, we suspect that some far
off unhcard of alternates will he empow-
cred to cast the vote of this section. Most
likely couple of the shooting editors of
Richmond will chosen, say Charles Irving,
of the hsdsr on the part of the Douglas
men and Obadiah Jennings Wise, of the
Enquirer. on the:part of the Breckenridge
people. The only difficulty in commission
ing these patriots is, that they don't speak.
They might, however, confer by CORES
Pondence through niger GRAND boy
The versatility of our friend, Ridgeway,
of the Wing, is such that in the event of
nobody else being found to serve, he
would undertake to scatter the vote unite
promiscuously.
But to come to the point All these
conventions, and all these appointments
both here and elsewhere, will, we appre-
bend, go tor nothing. There will be no
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ridge men are largely in the asccndauey in
the State over the Douglas men, and being
SO much more numerous will look upon
themselves as all majorities do-the right
full dictators of the terms of Compromise
Or course, they will not compromise
any of their distinctive pcculiarities as
Breckenridge men, for if they do, they had
Just as we'll ground their arms Mt once
And what other sort of n compromise can
be hod2 The Douglas men are not such
tools but that they know that if they con-
semitic a compromise, and Observation-Disclosures
breckenridge, and not Douglas, will get the
benefit of it. Breckenridge will poll more
votes than Douglas = far many more, and
therefore he will get all and the only bene-
hts "ccruIng from compromise The vote
will be credited as great triumph for him
and his principles, and after the day of
election the Douglas men will never be
thought of or heard of more.