Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-08
WHEELTNG. WEDNEsDAY7NORN MAY 8 1861.

sdid what believed, aud was ready to
tnke the consequences. (Cheers.) was
warned by members of the Convention
secession meuibers-and by other persons,
that was imperilling my life. Thought,
| If l died in that cause, so be it. lremain.
ed to the bitter end, aud saw the whole
elephant. tApplausel
on Thought you. were going to have a
Congressional election here, hut we in our
wisdom said, no, (laughter) we will do
that for you. We, the sovereign convcn-
tion, had carried you away in spite of yonr
/ 10000 votes, that no act We did would be
valid till you sanctioned it. We had taken
Harper's Ferry ard the Custom House NJ
Norfolk, and were going To carry on things
generally. We established telegraph lines,
took possession Of others, and had thought
to make some railroads over into this
country, bnt TINT would have given an OUT
llet u Western Virginia, and they shut
down on that. Ia coming home had to
come away around by way of Gordonsville
land thence to Alexandria. (.tDtd YOU getu
pass?"l No, sir. Many did have to, though.
But conclnded so long rs was free.
white man Iwonld not travel like q free
tnegro. (Great cheering) ] WAS told I
could not get away without pass. told
them | could start without one. (Ap-
! plausc.)
But was speaking of your Cougressiun-
al election. We concluded to hold that
election ourselves. We held it and elect
ed five delegates TO Montgomery. (tsThnt
knocks Kidwell out.'H Was that right?
Are We ont Of the government? no! Nn!)
! Are NC TO be represented down there be-
fore you say whether you will ratify this
ordinance of secession? thought not and
! i voted against TINT thing. told them
they had as much right TO send delegates
to Japan as Montgomery The first one
elected was Hunter. The next nominations
were Seddoa and VIM. c. Rives. The
vote was taken aud resulted in Al tie.
couldn't resist tile temptation to hit Seldom
the old srccssionfst with a brickbat. So II.
cast my vote for Rtves and lie got it by
one. Senator Mason was next md Brock
en6rough beat him. Then John S. Pres.
ton, in the Southwest, and Samuel G.
| Staples beat him pretty badly. Then they
nominated Charles Russell and Judge
Camden and their vote was just equal /
| couldn't resist The temptation 10 vote again.
! So got up and hit Charley with brick
! bat, though should. like to have had one
for both Of them. Il may not have been
right for me to vote at all on - thiLg pro-
/ tested against, but could not resist the
! temptation in these two cases You are
/ now reprcsentcdia the Southern Congress.
I DO not kLOE how soon the dclegat1si pro
| pose 10 go; but he assured they will lake
iyou South as fast ns you can stand it
! ('Nevcr! NeYerl,'
| eshad, on reeollect, q pet-measuF0sOF.
I ftitN1Ltons We brought that question u,,.
at an early day. We did all we could up
/ until ntter the ordinance pnssed. They
satdsitsw We 5taxed.the negroes it would drive
them all out Of the State. told them If
/ fhnte tt-oR ne
them go. (ts Soundl /" "Good ny Yon re.
! member the charge of tile Richmond M
pcrs that there was n bargain to give us
taxation if we would give them the ordi
lnNnre Of secession; and that prince of Sc
cessiOnists, Mr.. Fisher of Northampton.
! did make the propOsnl. Some Western Sc
cessiWnists said it had been made $ n Joke.
Finally they got the ordnance of scrcs
sion, aud ii number of the members of the
| West came home. They came home under
emergencies that compelled them to come:
aud said 1t anything occurred by which
they again could do anything ns members
OF theConyention TO telegraph to thcm and
they would return. They were denounced
as traitors, and all sorts of cpithrts and
| indignities shOwcrcd mpOn them Finally
| the proceedings of the meetings Mt CInrks
burg Nnd MOrgantOwn got there, and they
began to open their eyes. They had been
told4that the West was ns ripe for their
schemes hs the East. They began to think
may be it was not so, nnd they said, we
have got to Puss this tax hill to sIve tine.
Northwest. (.'It won't save it.f'J They
said must pass this tax bill us n reward
for 0Wr noble brOtherS from the Hesg CJpers
and lhughter.)
Some one asked Mr. II. how many voted
for the Ordinance of Secession from the
AS Ia ls..I
personal matter, TINT he did not think it
would he right for=him to sny. He con-
tinued-
had told them, in the early discussions
on the tax question, that we people in the
West were not cattle. When this promo
sal was made. Obtnined the lOor and told
them so again. (''Good.") Thcymight boil
ster mp the Secessionisis in the West with
that If they chose, but we demanded the
equalization of taxation as a right; We did
not beg it, VIC demanded it, and would
take it on no other conditions. But thew
did take the vote, when the leading and
most efficient advocates of the bill had
gone bome, mud think thcrc was only
about sixteen votes against it.
Why did they make the proposition7-If
yon will give usnn Ordinance of Secession.
we will then give You this tax bill. WLv
because, wheh The Ordinances has passed
aud gone into effect without vonr rafiisS- Eiiis
tion, aud you have been made The tail cad
and hcel-tap of a Southern Confederacy.
they knew that nll the tax bills that could
be written would not avail you any thing.
Butt rhins'too hard. (.tGo ont 20 on!oI
There is a great deal of excitement.-
Let me beg you TO avoid every Thing like
personal difficulties and chickering's. Allow
every man his opinion. and deiaaud the
right to yonr own. am not going TO suf-
fer my mouth to be shut, and want .you
to let everybody else do the same. Let Us
have It as q fair contest and let me tell
you, that while ] deprecatv the idea of
drawing lines itinouI, ourselves tFr,,,o.s
th. Stltn md Nnttnn- Il. 49,: ."