Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-03
EVENING SESSION.

Governor calling together the State Legls-
lature.
ton of Speaker.
Mr. PoRTEH, Of Hancock, nominated
Daniel Frost, of Jackson.
Mr.. ORAXER put in nomination Fontaln
Smith. of Marion.
Dir. WILLIAMSON. of peasants, nominal
ed ]. G.. West, OF Wetzel, but at the re-
quest of that gentleman withdrew the
nomination.
The roll was called and Ir: Smith re-
ceived ten votes and Mr.. Frost thirteen.
Mr. FRosT was therefore declared dniy
elected Speaker of the House OF Delegates
of Virginia.
The Speaker was conducted to the
chair. and returned his thanks for the hon
or conferred, in few remarks.
On motion of Mr.. ZISH, committee
was appointed TO wait on the Governor and
inform him that the House is now prepared
TO receive any communication he may see
ct to send in.
Messrs. linn. Crothers aud Cramar were
appointed the committee.
The committee returned and reported
that the Governor would send in his mrs-
sage in few moments.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth
brought in the message of the Governor,
which was read by the Clerk as follows
GOV. PeIrpoint's Message to tho Som
ate and House OF Delegated
To the Senate and House of Delegates
of the Commonwealth Of HiTyiHiG:
GESTtRuRS You have been convened
IN extraordinary session 10 midsummer,
when, under other circumstances, you
should be NJ home attending to pursuits
incident to this season of the year. The
exigeucies with which we find ourselves
surrounded demand your counsels.
regret that cannot congratulate you
on the peace and prosperity of the coun-
try, in the manner which has been GUS
tomAry with Executives, both State and
Federal. For the present, those happy
days which, rs Il nation, we have so long
enjoyed, AMI that prosperity which has
smiled upon Us, as upon no other nation,
are departed.
Its my painful duty to announce that
the late Executive of the State, with
large part of the State officers, civil and
military, under him, are Mt war With the
loyal people of Virginia, and the constitu-
tional government of the United States.
They have leagueh themselves with pee
sous from other States, to tear down the
benign governments, State and Federal,
erected by the wisdom and patriotism OF
our fathers, and under which our liberties
have so long been protested and our pos
perity secured. They have instituted civil
war in our midst, aud created a system of
terror aronad us, to intimidItc our people.
But while we are passing through this
period of gloom aud darkness in our
country's history, we must not despair, or
fold orr hands uutil the chains of despot-
ism shall be fastened upon US, by those
cOnspIring against our liberties. As free
men, Wko know their rights, aud dare de-
fend them, our spirits must rise above the
intimidation and violence employed against
US and we must meet aud conquer every
obstacle these men are attempting to inter-
pose between us and our liberties. II we
mautully exert ourselves, we shall succeed.
There Is u just God who "rides upon the
whiriwind and directs the storm" Let US
look to him With abiding confidence.
TIE tact is no longer disguised, that
there has been in the South, for many
years, secret organization, lAboring with
steady perseverance, to overturn the FEEDER
al Government, and destroy constitutional
liberty in this country. The various con-
veutions held in that portion of the coun-
try, for some years past, ostensihly for 9th
eC uDlSctSt uhNe Ouly OGeu TUG AACENAS VI
feeling the public pulse to ascertain If
there was sufficient disease in the body
polite for dissolution. The cry of dan
ger to the institution of slavery has been
mere pretext to rouse and excite the peo-
pie. In abandoning the Constitution of
the Union, the leaders of the movement
must have known that they were greatly
weakening the safeguards and protection
which were necessary to the existence of
that institution.
1t has been urged that secession was me-
cessaTy to protect the slave interest Of the
South. As usual thing, those who are
interested in species of property, are the
best informed in regard to their own
rights, and the most tenacious in maintain
ing them. Secession has not originated
among the large shareholders of the South,
nor has il found among that class its BUSH
| est and most ardent advocates. The Sec
tions of the country in which the largest
slave interests have existed IN this State,
have heretofore been the most decided in
support of the Union. The votes given at
the last November and February elections
in Eastern and Western Virginia, will
show that the Shareholders themselves
considered the safety of their properly as
dependent upon the maintenance of the
mentioned in this connection. 1t is, that
IN sections where slaves are numerous, it
is always much easier to introduce sys-
TEN Of mob Law and naturalization TO COM
troll the votes of the people. The constant
apprehension of servile insurrection makes
the master an easy subject of control in q
crisis like the present. Eastern and West
ern Virginia are illustrations Of the truth
Of this statement.
What Affiliations this great conspiracy
has had 10 the Northern States remain yet
unknown. The spirit which has been
reused throughout the North has carried
all opposition before il. But the extent OF
the reasonable plot has not been fully de-
veloped. Before the designs Of the con
suira,ors were made manifest, thousands of
good men sympAthized with the effort as
they regarded il, OF the South to maintain
their Constitutional rights; but these have
all abandoned them when the true purpose