Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-18

P'"tSu EeSlsAnce to tile authorities of the
general government, if it should find it
necessary to resort to force in order to exc
cute the laws adopt the mottoofour marty.
together with the candidates who planted
themselves on that platform in good faith
tand with an honest purpose to act in ac.
kcordapee with its professions!
"Question 8. Did not yon aud they re.
commend to the people Of this State the
support of our candidates, upon the ground
OF their superior nationnlity, because they
were known t0.be in favor of the preser-
Walton OF the Union. the vindtcation of the
constitution, and the enforcement Of the
''Qucstion Z. If you and they were for
fsix months engaged in urging the people
OF Virginia to the support of this plnttorln
FAnd ITS candidates, will you inform me
nov what Union it was you we're for pre-
serving, what constitution it was you were
for Tindicnttng, and what laws you were
for enforcing?l lH sG
Question 9. According to your under.
standing, and those who concur With YOU
Ia our present position, was our platform
also q delusion and cheat. or did ne NOT
earnestly and honestly pledge ourssivoe.I 10
each other and to the world that we wonld
contend to the last for tue perpctuation Of
: the Union of the thirty-three States COM
posing the confedCracy which was formed
W our tuthers? was it not the Supremacy
of the constitution which authorizes the
Iuse of force to execute the laws, suppress
tusurrectiOn and rcpcl invasion and was
lt not the enforcement Of all laws upon
tho Statute book or was it only certain
selected laws in certain selected localities
yon were for cnforciug2
"Question 8. II it WIS your intention
only to execute such laws in the Southern
States MS Northern interests might demand,
do you think it was in accordance with
principles OF fairness and common homes
" that you should have asked our friends
at the North to unite with us on the gem
er"l platform, without Informing them:that
you were for using force to execute the
laws among them, but that they should
not be allowed to execute the laws among
ourselves2 -=5
"Questiou 10. After having prevailed
on T4,524 voters of Virginia to stand by
you in your Recommendation to uphold
the Union,tto protect the Constitution aud
to enforce the lnws-and since by their
votes the State WAS carried for John Bell
and Edward Everett, do YOU think you are
at liberty now to abandon these "a, 600
men, very large majority Of whom are
not shareholders, and tell them that tue
Union which our fathers established is not
worth contending for; that the Cunstitu-
tlNn IS toy and a plaything for the sport
of folly, and passion, and resentment; and
that the laws must not be enforced upon
any Southern State that may choose to set
itself up in defiance of ali law and all
constitutional authority?
"Ouestion IL. Do you think you have
right now to plunge this State into all the
horrors of civilwat, and involve the peo-
pie of Virginia in the crime of treason, by
esPousing the cause of South Carolina,
~ tlAe - in:a State Of rebellion 9gNipst tho
General Government, and thereby tFi1sfer
the battle ground from South CIrolinu to
Virginia, and then call upon the non
sIaYeholdtng population of the State to do
all the lighting for slIveholding sympa-
thies only, when their slave property is not
endangered and do you not think the ex-
pertinent is a hazurdons one to the slave
holding interests of this State
"Question II. Don't you think as South
Carolina is the only State that has taken
steps from which war is likely to result,
that hers 10 the soil upon which the war
tf-any comesl should be conducted, aud
! TINT our women and children should not
be subjected to the horrors that will attend
It, By transferring the scene from the rice
and cotton fields of that State to the
hedrthstones of Virginia?
"Question l3. In view of the snbiect,
4 don't you. think it would be more, becom-
ing and more chivrIric ON the pnrt of
Ethose who think Sunth CaroIina is justified
lin her present position, and who recon-
mend resistance to the General Govern
ment If the President of the United States
3 should feel that the obligations of his
oath required htmtO execute the laws and
suppress iusurrectiOn, should volunteer
their services to South Carolina, go down
there and make that the scene of their lie.
rotsu1 aud renown, instead of stirring M,
tho.wOrst feelings of our nature and drag
lging those into the ditHculty who do not
believe South Carolina is justified in what
lshe has done, and who have no sympathy
with the hot haste with which she has act
ed, mad the insulting u:anner in which she
has treated Virginia.
"Question Ia. AS far as South Carolina
can make herself so, Is she not now as
foreign to US tho people of Naples or the
kpeQple of Rome? and if there are sympn-
thizers here. of the Pope on the one
hand, or of Victor Emanuel and Garibal-
4 III on the other, who wish to take part
I'm tue Italian war, ought they not to u.s.
sumo an individual responsibility, and
should they not seek the plains OF Italv
for . display OF their vAlOr and not strive
70 involve their own country in tho con-
itest
"Questton, 10. Finally, do you. think YOU
have rightto find fault with and COM
/ plain of us, who stood by you in the late
I contest, in favor Of THE Uuiou, the con-
! slitution and the enforcement of the Iavs.'I
land still stand faithful to our professions
and our principles, because We caunot
/ stultify ourselves ms We think we should,
i By now declaring we will let the Union
slide, the constitution be trOdden down,
andsthe laws viOlatedswitb impunity.D