Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-11

walked around through tile alSles, ana kept
shouting don't make so much noise in
here, gentlemen" and we couldn't tell
whether lie meant the members or the pro-
miseuOus public Two members sat in
their seats smoking, and several persons
outside the bar were doing the same thing.
We thought the House of Delegates at
Richmond conld put the laugh on dignity
above any deliberative body We ever saw );
but we cOLcsde the palm now to the hegts-
lature of Illinois.
Alter amusing ourselves in this way un-
iii train time, we put of for st. Louis, and
thence over the Ohio and Mississippi, home
well satisfied and recruited with our
jaunt
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to On.
trap the WIsest.-SHAEsPEARh.
An intricate game is Politics. rash.
and desperate game, as played in Virginia.
Many who do not care to look beneath the
surface of events, congratulate themselves
that the dead point OF danger from seces-
sion is past. We would glndly believe so;
but while We do believe that the expression
of the honest masses in the late election
was meant for, and ought to result in, the
crushing out of secession; yet we do not
feel altogether secure in the result; for it
cannot be disguised that in many instances
the people were deceived in their men
Very many the delegates to the Conven-
ton, who when canvassing for seat be-
fore the people, were the most earnest, the
most patriotic and whole-souled Union
men in the land, will be, when they get in
to the atmosphere of Richmond, the same
earnest, patriotic Union men,-if-that
that is-provided Hirginid can have her
'!FightS.n Let these men be marked wher-
ever they may be found. They are in
league with secession. They have worn
and will continue to wear the sleeps
clothing ill the time for action is at hand.
Then look out for the wolf. Preparatory
to this disclosure, disunion papers are be-
ginning to say, in the face of their appa-
rent defeat, that, though minority of the
Convention are Union, yet they are not
submissionists.
Well now, in this connection we want to
speak of one thing that looks suspicious,
mud that is the object of those who called
the Peace Conference, SO styled, at Wash
ington. wc do not object to peace cou-
ference if all the States of the Union could
misrepresentation would not even object
to amy peace conference assembled in good
faith, for any such might accomplish some
good. But when We remember that this
peace congress was projected at Richmond
and by whom; ind that it was to meet on
the day of the Virginia election and remain
in session till the assembling Of the con-
yention, and that At the ip4tance of the
Yirgiuia commissioners its dslibsrations
were to be held in. secret sessions, we are
compelled to aver thatit all hooks as if:.the
contsreseol was in.ende i t0ampse the pub-
lie by exciting expectations up to the time
the convection meets Meanwhile these
tUuton delegates 'rh6 are tn fdr0r Of secession
are to be worked mp t., rhslpOiat of secod
ing il some extreme ultimstum. will not
BE immsdiAtely accepted by The North.
When all things are in readiness, the
Southern Commissioners will present in
the Conference some extreme demand
which viii not be complied with, and,
presto the Peace Conference is dissolved,
aud the Virginia Convention, assured that
the final effort at adjustment has been
made, and that there is no longer any hope
that our rights can ever be obtained, will
be pressed, under excitement, to pass
without delay, an ordinance of secession,
or, At least, to adopt some ultimatum that
would be an equivalent.
Now, ne may be mistaken; if so, We
shall be aErseably surprised. 1t may be
said that such man as Summers. who is
one Of the Commissioners. could not be a
party to such scheme Such men as
Summers ebnld not, II Is true; but such
men as he, are in the minority in the vir-
GINA Commissioners, and are only made
use Of The more eHectually to blind the
public. If our suspicious are unfounded,
We shall be glad TO ind them so; but We
would say TO all men who are, and desire
to remain true to the Union and the FEEDER
Il Constellation. we would say, RsWARE,
lest re be betrayed with a kiss.
TuE National IatengtResr, in an able