Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-03-01
Threats OF DisunIon Nothing BIN
Wind.
EFrem nc 81 ZOE P0st.l

Prom the New Nnfk fostJ
Nothing but wind from the driest quar-
ter, and too far from the earth 10 90 any
damage to anybody. ARepubiican SPEAK
CIR OF the-Housc has been elected, ana we
/ hear no pore speeches threatening wreck
"a the Union. The Journals of the Demo-
cratic party, in which the gale whiStied
Ioudest, are as quiet as barks gliding over
a summer sea. 1t is not good policy to be
Away threatening to seize upon the Capitol
and turn out the regular officers of bhe
, government, ifthc Democratic party shoutN
he left in Il minority. AHttle time musk
be given to- the country to forget how ITS
Ecnrs were PLAYED upon, or the trick VIII
not pass the next time. Oar people are
GnicL to learn butas is the case Win men
of a mercurial temperament, such IS our
race has become in this stimulating climate
/ they are equally ready to forget.
Meantime our readers must have oh
served that the members Of both the
I. House of Representatives and Senate,
/ even those who were loud"St in prophesy-
ling the approaching fall of the federal
government, are addressing themselves to
1.-THE functions of legislation as it the pre-
: sent league of tire States was to last for
ever. In the House of Representatives
( thev are struggling to elect one OF their
} own Marty ~ printer for the next Two
wears with as much zeal as If tue Union
was rot to be dissolved next December
/ The Southern members of the Senate arc
giving themselves great deal OF paiernh!
! truuble abou the St. Clair Flats IN MichI-
| gan Mr. Shdell, of Louisiana. is as
Ianxious to prevent the issue of bank notes
! in, the District of Columbia as if that
region was destined to remain the scat Of
government for the next hundred years
/ Ills astonishing how quickly the gale that
! howled'so loud in the rigging of the ship
Of state has sunk to a signing zephyr
! a little while since great preparations
were made for n grand conference OF the
! slave States, with the view of consulting
{ what they should do in case Republican
| President should be elected: in other
| words, to take measures for going on by
! themselves. The scheme made fora while
I n formidable appearance on paper. y
delegate from South Carolina was des-
! patched to lay before the Legislature OF
I Virginia the reasons for the measure, and
| Governor Wises newspaper organ at Rich
\ mond did its best to coax from the VIZ
! giuia Legislature a favorable reception of
1 that first step in the path of treason. The
! scheme kept its large proportions until a
! Republican Speaker had been elected by
! the House of Representatives at Washing
| ton, ndthen collapsed. Virginia rejected
it, it came out that Maryland rejected it,
and that Kentucky would have nothing to
do with it. Texas had already denounced
it; Tennessee kept aloof from it; in short
the only States in which it found favor
were South Carolina, Alabama and Mis-
| sissippi, three States more hopelessly
weakened by the calamity of slavery than
any others in the Union, and in two of
which the black population predOminates
in numbers over the white. The threaten
ed Southern Conference has turned out to
be nothing but wind.