Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-27
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.3
! Especial Dispatches TO the Philadelphia
soLIolTbbE 5FAErEur. GESERAL SCOTT.
Lieut.. General Scott is here on, official
Sbqsiness. He iSgreatiy concerned about the
cohdit ton of tho country, aud this morning,
spoke of it with tears in his eyes BE said
he was three years old when tho Constitu-
ton was adopted, and was now, thercfore.
:on theNerge Of eighty. He.ditl not wish to-
survive the downfall of the Union. Z
VICE PREsiDENT BEgcKlxTlDGE.
/, This distinguished; gentleman is said, to
think the Union will bclrent i'll twain, and
that Kentucky W lIygo with the South. lie
is.doing his best to bring about a asettlemont.
Why did he not do so before he agreed to
run for resident on the Secession platform?
=THE EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THOUSAND
}. DoELAR AFFAIR. -t'e
It is said tkat Mr. bailey, the agent who
engineered the new Galphin Gardner claim
under Mr.. Buchanan, was born in South
Carolina, and that good deal Of the money
resulting from the transaction was used to
effect the dissolution of the Union. So,
South Carolina goes out of the Union under
the most agreeable auspices.
BIGorRY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. nj.
The haste and bigOtry of South Carolina
arc doing vast deal towards opening the
hearts OF the Southern people to the ,ap-
peais OF their fellow countrymen in the
North and Northwest. With such pio-
neer as South Cnrolinq, they feel that they
will be led into inconccivable troubles Tier
developing system of independent action is
full of Gdm"nftions. Her scheme. divested
of all vcrbiage, stands revealed either as Il
ridiculous farce, or preparation for war.
Moderate and sensible men have no idea of
being made food for laughter, or food for
powder, without Just cause. Meanwhile,
as opposed to, and contrastcd with the mad
cOunsels of the South Carolina newspapers
and politicians, the repeated evidences of
the kind feelings of the people of the free
States for those of the South are doing
rcat good.
THE SOUTH cARoLtNA DisUSIoN coMMIs-
sIOHEnS.
The three commissioners appointed by
the South Carolina DiSunilnists are expec
ted here Tomorrow. Both Houses having
adjourned until Thursday, the President
will have sufficient time to cajole them and
to hear them. It's now stated that his pre-
sent intention is torefuse to recognise them.
and, in order oPrcYcnt b!Oorlshcd, to direct
Major Anderson to Surrender Fort Moultrie
to the Charleston mob.
5.,.a TIE TRUE BASIS OF SETTLEMENT.
M adiustmontacan be reached unless the
Southern States formally agree to abandon
all pretensions, for all time to come. to Sc
cede from and break MP the Union. They
must recognise the Government as n Cow
crnment,capableo of preserving itself How
can they propose to reconstruct a Govern
ment while claiming the right ut any time
to sccede from and destroy it, Senator
Wade, of Ohio, made the overwhelming
point in the Senate Committee of Thirteen
thissluorning, ,.,hcn ho said that he had no
idea of making 81 bargain with men who
might carry their State out and ioin the
common enemy at amy time, or turn tile
forts OF the Federal Government against the
Government itself. Here, then, is the only
platform upon which the Union can be pre-
served No concession to secession, and
when secession is abandoned all the rest is
plain. ~ 70 ~"
TuE- eiALLAxr Gov. HICKS, OF MARYLAND.
themselves that they would S @ be able st1t' to pre-