Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-15


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Saturday Morning, Dec. Is. 1860.
=3S@T9E USIoy MEETIso baislF NIdafTF.Iz
The sUaion meeting last nighttot the Athe-
naum. notwithstanding the cold weather,
was largely attended, and great unanimi=
ty aud enthusiasm prevailed.
Mayor Wilson was called to tho Chair
and n. wilkinson appointed Secretary.
On motion of James PAUL, Esq, . com
rnittee of six was appointed to draft reso-
lutions expressive of the sense of the
meeting. The committee retired, aud
much to the surprise of the people,
The Hon Sherrard Clemeps was intro
duced. He was greeted with applause
He commenced by abiding to the pnex"m-
pled prosperity of the country, her posses
sion Of an abundance of produce, and all
The elements of greatness, and enquired
the canass Of. tue present political panic2-,
We have passed through a presidential.
contest under the forms Of the Constitgs-
tion. and South Carolina has determined
not to submit. He said South Carolina
had been an uuruly member of the Con-
federacy ever since 1882, and proceeded to
show in the most conclusive manner, the
ilIegality aud the mad folly of secession,
and the disasters that would come upon
Virginia aud her people, in the event of the
establishment of Southern Confederacy.
Mr. Clemens then allnded to the fact
that, because he had seen proper to ad
dress a letter to his constituents, from a.
distant State, favoring the perpetuttysof
the Union, he had been denounced by a
nondescript concern here, (the Wheeling
Umon,) edited by man not yet above the
dignity of tia miserable, puny, tledg-
ling-who had frequently come to him,
1.-THE speaker,) begging him to write edi
torials for his paper. He had done so,
and now, the same editor, or some pusil-
luminous coward snenking behind him,
had reviled him (the tpeaker) for no other
cause than that he loved his country. The
UniOn was the bastard progeny of the.
Argus, and had all the latter's old hatred
and malignity. 1t was established to
foist into power, men who were after a
pair of old shoes that have been wearing.
After relating some Of the evils Of dis
union and the prstcx,s offered for it, Mr.
Clemens said. ..If' to be disunionist, if TO
bea tearcr down ofthe American flag which
gives protection everywhere to every Amer
lean cilizcn-if to be iire-cater, a South
Carolina Salamander, is to be a Democrat,
l am no longer Democrat. EApplause. l
For this shall be reviled and stigmatized
as unsound Gyn set of dirty demagognes-
renegade Wings, who are always catering
to the east, but who never owned mig
ger, nor never will own one, and all be-
cause have refused to be tail.to a kite
tail to tad pole and wiggle inthe night.
Gentlemen, shall be in ut the deathW
We regret that we cannot follow Mr.,
Clemens in his arguments, iu his showing
of the diversity of the interests of Virginia
aud the Cotton States, of the system of
direct taxation that would be established
in case Of tue formation of Southern
COnfederacy, Of the interuecinc wars tbat
must ensue and force the dismembered
States to surrender their liberty to some
foreign power for the sake of repose. The
speech was loudly applauded throughout
and the facts presented were incontrovcrt.
able. His remarks were free from partisan
fheling aud prejudice, were plain, dispan.
siOnate, and ut times eloquent. At the
conelusiOntherewas prolonged applause.
Mr.. Clemens promiselto elaborate his
arguments on the floor of Congress,
when, if we mistake not, there will be a.
terrific r"ttling among the dry bones
Judge Fry, from the committee appoint
ed to draft resolutions, reported set of
resolves frvoring the preservation of the
Union, which were adopted, aud which we
will publish in our next issue, together
with other particulars of the meeting.
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