Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-08
ONDAY MORNING, JULYs, 1861. .

inducing this very course of conduct in
the organizing OF this Stnte in the West in
/ order 10 saddle you with this intolerablp
T, debt, 80 as5o secure i,s mortgage on the
young, growing and prosperous portion OF
the Stite,-the Wall Street bondllolders
knowing that Old Virginia., lla.us5ej b.
war and exhausted in her resources, could
not meet the responsibility, and this be-
caase I believe thHt an agent of these Wall
Street boudholders was. during the sittings
of the Convention, in Wheeling, promoting
this scheme for this nud other purposes,
and with the countenance and support of
the Administration, whose confidential
communications he bore, and who, upon
his arres, in Western Virginia, was dis
charged on the order of highfUuctionary
at Washington.
refuse to touch the taint and CRIME OF
ths-oath, also, BECAUSE the olig;trchy at
Wheeling is, in the min, composed of the
drippings and leaviugs OF the old party, 10
whose very heart the Offices of the repub-
lie had become Il corrupt, degrading and
Il constant desire in their life pursuit of
them through all forms of party and all
changes of name and ali bargains and cor
ruptious in the combinations OF Gisapppiut-
ed and greedy place hI.uters TO that lust
act of inisiuy and dIsloyRlty TO integrity
and worth the trade and sale of body aud
soul to Aboli,iouism and the iustnuration
of negro equality on The soil OF Virginia,
that this is so aud that the usurped, law
less and uuco7stitutiouNlr rule at Wheeling
was the suggestion of northern Nenality,
northern ftnaticistn, northern policy and
northern Hvarice l verify believe and for
the reasons given, and for others; the argu-
memt upon which it, is based is the fall
lacious and incUnsequeutiul production of
the Major Dalgetty, Uf Massachusetts poli-
tics, the man who has ever had nn argu-
ment and coat for that presidential ran-
didate who was most likely TO succeed.
Because the money of the North has
been rendered to these men and the Minnie
muskets of Massachusetts have been re-
ceived at Wheeling.
Because know that the plan suggested
by Hoadly, of Massachusetts, endorsed by
Sumner, of the Senate, and placed in the
the hands of Postmaster-G Blair,
was forwarded to Wheeling to a well-kuown
agent of the Government, and has consti-
tuted the staple of the argument on which
these most wrongful proceedings have been
instituted and cnnSummated, in the viola
ton OF constitutions, in she overthrow of
well-settled forms proceeding, and in the
initiation of despotic powers.
These things, men of Western Virginia,
may, perhaps, have your present concur
renee; but believe one who has fifty-tive
years of practical experience and knowl
edge of the human heart and human af-
fairs, and pause while tell you that there
is fearful day in the future unless you
get hack to ancient forms of proceeding,
and to the love of that order which grows
ont of obedience to law and to that obedi-
ence which is AN enlightened regard for
private conscience aud pubic interests,
based, rs MIR. ynn Winkle says, on the
Constitutional integers of society.
The sacrifices which have made in be-
halt OF Constitutional Freedom, entities
me, whether it will protect me or not in
doing so, to speak freely in its behalf.
GEO. W. TnoMPsoH.
July -4th, 1861.