Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-06-07
THE NEWS HERE.
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EN- RouTz FOR THE WHEELING CONVENTION.
BALTIMORE, June 6, 10 p. III.
Editorial CoIrsspondsHcs of Ths S!ar.
left home this afternoon to visit w heelinG, in
order to witness the proceedings of the Virginia
Union State Convention, to meet on Monday next;
the consequences Of which, if wisdom guides the
counses Of the body, are destined to influence,
most powerfully, the future Of the country. am
of the belief, indeed, that next to the body that
framed and adopted the Declaration Of Independ-
ence, on the ith Of July, ITS, this same Virginia
Union Stale Convention il about to initiate meas
ures Of most importance to the people OF all Sec
tons Of this land. The Congress Of HIS origina-
ted the Government Of the United States; and II |
il TO be the work Of this Convention to initiate |
the new order Of things throughout the South |
which Is to perpetuate It, that its existence
Is so seriously threatened It's task Is 10 be that of
seizing by the throat, in his own den, the wolf of
disunion-the party with but two material ends
In view. Viz: To displace the Government Of
the United States and establish in its stead the
government Of aristocracy in the South,
founded on the possession Of slave property, and
the extraditon Of white labor from the South by
stripping II Of all its current civil rights and
surrounding 1t with disabilities as that it must
Zee the South or be content to lapse into the
VI Hcc ucStOcs, sum- oiC surely
designed by the oligarchy to be enslaved.
This convention is to become, through its action,
a nucleus that is to prove the rallying point for
the Union sentiment of the entire South. Its
tion, IL wise and thorough, will be instantly
accepted by all the northwestern counties Of the
State, and by the balance Of the border counties
down to the District Of Columbia, soon as the
nest CT disunionists now at Harper's Ferry may
be broken up by the General Government, as ii
surely will be very shortly. Its example will be
followed by the similar convention already ca led
to meet In East Tennessee; and II will operate to
ensure the fidelity Of Maryland and Kentucky to
the Union past peradventure, with not 1.-THE of
the expense and anxiety to the Government that
would otherwise occur IL will initiate armed
resistance the part Of the loyal men of Wiz
ginia to the oligarchys revolutionists in tneir
midst, and will thus do much indeed to break
the strength and power Of the tsrrorists who now
hold the Eastern Virginia Unionists-at-heart as
completely in slavery as they hold the negroes Of
the State. But Of the convent on-m anon.
From leaving the Star office until reaching
Baltimore, at p. m, everything within sight
told Of the strange condition OF our lately So
happy peaceful and prosperous country. The
appearance Of Pennsylvania avenue, dotted over
It's length with men in habilanents Of war, was
HOT IOfc VI tht power VI tuc uOfcfH-
ment Of the United States, than the hurried and
extensive work Of repairing the unused rail track
through our city for military purposes-the piles
Of telegraph wire and other military preparations
for a campaign. stored temporarily in the Wash.
ington depot, the pickes guarding the whole
length of the road 10 Baltimore, the camp Of the
New York Twentieth at Annapolis Junction
those Of the Massachusetts Sixth and Fig nth, and
the Boston Light Artillery Battery at the Rela,
House, and Of the Maryland First, on the hight
south Of the railroad just as We entered Baltimore
had seen all the camps Of the between forty and
fftv-thousand troops now In and around the Dis
trict Of Columbia, but saw no more picturesqu,
or better ordered one, among them all, than thos
In Maryland mentioned above. learn all are II
good health in them, and am glad to say all tn
volunteers occupying them appear clearly, cheer
full, and entirely satisfied. Col. Jones, Of tn
Massachusetts Sixth, who commands the tire
regiments nrst named above, Ii a competent am
successful officer, II sensible conclusion may b
drawn from the condition of his camps and men
The war was the only subject convesed on i
the Garland IL there was a disunionist In tn
train he was shrewd enough to keep his tongu
between his teeth for disunion sentiment wa
uttered upon IL that heard.
/ End that there exists little doubt here of th
reelection Of Henry Winter Davis to Congress
en- Thursday next, by an overwhelming majorit,
for which be may thank the boldness, emil hasi
and unfaltering nerve with which he has stoo
BY the cause Of the Union through good and ev
report. Tonight have conversed with not
few Breckenridge Notwithstanding mechal
les, all Of them-who are determined to vote 4
him for the frat time, as a tribute to his defent
OF the Interests Of white labor at the south In e.
deavoring to ward of from 1t the fate the OLGA
chy had prepared for II in their conspiracy again
the future Of the popular rights and liberties e.
joyed by nor-slaveholders at the South, under Il
Constitution and Laws Of the United States
Maryland will elect all Unionists to Congre
on Thursday next, by overwhelming majoriti.
W.D. WI
DIPLOMATIC DINNER.-The President on Tu
day evening gave a dinner to the diploma
corps, at which the following guests were prese
Secretary Seward Lord Lyons, Minister fr,
England; M. Mercier, Minister from Fran
Baron de Stoeckl, Minister from Russia; Che
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