Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-12

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Some ComSIderatIona forlthe At,en-
Slon OF the wheeling Conventions.
lett. F7iI7fT" - -, - - /
[FrUm the Boston Post
A Convention of the people is to be
held on the llth of June, and their action
is perhaps more important than that OF
our armies in NirginiH. The latter, If it
should overawe and snbdue. and put under
martial law the whule people and territo-
Try. would leave only a desert or n t:,mD:
and not State. The yformerl may hold
the State inith Union, may retrieve the
State from its alteration, aud from the ell
ements of a reconstruction of the Com.
monweallh of Virginia under the Consti-
tuition aud laws of the United States!
This cannot be done by accession of
Western from Eastern Virginia. A new
Estate cannot be formed within the limits
OF an old State, without the consent of the
State-and if portion sewers, the sever.
Allce admits TINT the old State exists with.
ont whose consent the new State cannot
Ge formed. just MS the District OF Mime,
which was Eastern Massachusetts, could
never have become II State without the
consent of Massachusetts.
Assuming then, that by the acts Of re-
sistnnce to the Government of the United
States, and the mbrogntiou of the Consti-
tuition of the Union, the present rulers of
Virginia have abandoned lawful Govern
fmrnt, mny not the Union people of Yir-
ginia takeit UP?
| There is a significant precedent in the
history OF Virginia which the Wheeling
Convention might turn TO telling account.
I Lord DunnfUre, Colonial Governor of
Virginia in l7T4-'5 dissolved the House
of Burgesses, and refused to call them to-
| get.er, and subsequently, in order 10 pre-
vent any legislative action by the Assem-
| bly,, the Governor. with his Council, went
ION board the British mau-of- wnr Fowey
The deputies being thus deprived of the.
exercise of Government, assembled in
their private capacity in convention and
HssumSd tue powers OF Government Us one
body ,is-.-----.- =-
Subsequently,, aheih7itati6Hs was given,
without any legislative authority. for the
several precincts to send Delegates IL ~
tllentidHct calling this iConveniion or for
the choice of delegates. but it WAS the
tspontaneous net of the people who were
in tilvorlnf preserving free government.
August. 20, l7T5, the voluntary Con-
| vention made declaration, ''sctti-g forth
the cause of their meeting and the necessi-
~ of immedtHtefy putting the country
| into a posture of dGfenco, for tthesnetter
protection of their lives, liberties and pro-
pcrti"s."
And after enumcratipg thc-acts of the
i-GOlOGial authorities by which the govern
ment and Constitution of the Colony, as
derived from the laws of the Mother COun-
try, had been subverted, they solcmDly
aver, that sin. the present untownrd and
distressed situation of our atfnirs, and the
better TO preserve The peace and good OF
der of the cOmmumitys we are driven to
the very disngreeabie necessity of supply.
ing the present want of Government, by
appointing proper guardians OF the rights
and liberties of our country" And there.
npon they elected proper officers and in
sttuted Government. 5r7
That is the key note for the Union men
in Virginia. Are they not deprived Of
government undcr this Union by the act
of Secession from the Union Are tile
men who are desulatiug the soil of Vir-
ginia, in a conflict with the Government
! of the United States, TO maintain Secession
from the Union, ''rroPer guardians of the
rights and lihertirs" of Virginia Arc not
the people of Virginia, who adhere to COn-
situtiOnal Government, placed in IAN
uutnward and distresslul situation OF their
affairs" by the war now raging in their
land to suppress insnrrection?" .4t,-l
Are they not in as had condition, touch-
| ing their constitutional rights Of slave prn-
perty under the protection of tue Union,
now Withdrawn by secession, as the Nir-
ginians of 1875 were when Lord DunmOre
removed all the powder from the pubic
magazine, stripped the lorks from the pub
lie arms, aud in the midst of ruMOrs of
slave insurrection, proclaimed emaneipa-
tiou TO tue slaves who should escape on
board the feet?
Aud these Virginians in l775, when they
took up the Government thus suhverted
and abandoned, did not proclaim revolution
nor secession from Great Britain. On the
contrary, they said in, their Declnration,
''lest our views and; ;dcsigWs should be mis-.
represented or misunderstood, we publicly
aud solemnly declare before God and the
world. that we do 6eor true tcith- and 1lLe-
glance 10 HIS A6jesiy George Tie Third, our
only tdSctpl aud righLtul Kljng. and we will,
| SO long as 1t may be in our power, defend
him and his government as founded on the
laws and SellskaoWn principles of the Con-
stiiutionn t f asf
1t was only after Virginia had sent dele
gates with the other Colonies to Cont.
mental Congress preparatory to national
Independence of Great Britain, that she
then threw off the Colonial government,
aud established her Constitution the first
and foremost in all the lund.
And these Virginia doctrines and prRce-
dents work to-day against this groundtcss
Secession from Government in which
Yirginis has hitherto had the highest voice,
and in fitvOr of the rights of the friends Of
1.-THE Union to keep the State within the