Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-01
FROM RICHMoND.

FROM RICHMOND.
Especial Correspondents Of tile 1nt.IligSueet.l
The Member from Tvetxsl mot Don.
With Yet---SPeeoh OF mGDoTESII
f1IoOre--Tllness or John s.. Cnrliie--
Indignation Meeting.
GGi. RIcHMoNp, Feb. 25, 1861.
Mr.. Hall, the distinguished member from
Wetzel county, afflicted the Convention
again to-day with some more xpIauations
as 10 his position and that of his collea CUES
from the Northwest. And in doing so
it necessary again to refer to the
in'eiiigeHeer, its editors. and its reporter.
"then sitting on this floor" as he said.-
Your paper of Thursday last evidently
struck very deep into poor Hall. and has
made him feol llrdt tits one thing to sit
in a parlor with lot of Eastern Virginia
seccssionists, deriding his colleagues, and
quite another to fnd himself exposed for
it to the gaze of his constituency. lie
tried to take it all back to-day, rs, JUDGED
he did Saturday; but he made a miserable
botch of it, and for the reason that lie had
to falsify all that he had said in the, par
lor. | hope the fate which he has ex.
Perienced will be that of every mean spfrft
trOm the West, who will come here. and
for the sake of a little flntteryg and wine.
sell out the rights aud sentiments Of his
people. 1t shall be 30, so fur us vuur re.
porter .is concerned, if he cnn7geti wind of
the transaction. And speaking Of moor
Hail reminds mo of the way
in which ths5 Convection set him dowd-
again to-day. lie moved the appointment
Of a sommittes, of 2 lS to hsJeuileti II otti- :,
mittee on tho State Constitution, Etltt 81
dtfts n loaill iti9uitd Whit, II iSF!T77
amendments were neeeSsary TO the c0Iis i ).
tuition. AS soon rs Ills motion was fiJSde
"nother motion ixts made that 1t be laid an
the table, aud the motion unanimously pFeZ
valled,and the GOnVentiOn was .savedsfron
tue parliamentary necessity Of seeing such
a nun as Hall chairman of the most In.
portant committee. that could be- nupnint.,
ed-h position once filled by James Aladi.
son. The snmc motion, in effect, offered
by AlPhsils Raymond, of Marion, was en-.
tertainedi and upon his own request the
following resolution was laid upon the
table nnd ordered TO be printed for the nsea
of the members:
Resotred, That the constitution of this
State should be amended, and that this,
Convention will nmeud the Conslitntion
wherein it is necessary and p roper that II
should be amended, and will snbmit the,
samea Nmendedtto the voters Of the State
for their adoption or rejection. 80
told you, you reeolltct, in.my HFst let
ter, that matters were maturing fofa mo-
ton OF this kind IRON the West. and tlInt.
signs failed, the move would. lie
made At an carly day. And it has sot
u turned out even sooner that I expected. ~,
The Western men feel themselves very
strong upon.the ad valorem TAX and the
white basis, and they are iletcrminsd
that this Convention, called tor purposes
oil secession, shall be turned to different
account. ~
am sorry to inform you OF the severe
illness Of Hons John S. .GSriile; one of ouT
hest aud trnest members from the Vest
He,is suffering frpnu acute rheumnfisno. :
and is Ht this time eonlinsd 10 his bed
He has been looking bad for days past
and, really was not fit 10 .be-in his seat
Such Is his anxiety antlbis energy, how
ever, IN the cause Of'.the Union, thnt he
would persist in coming 10 the hall tp tot
the last moVuent that be was At all at,le! II
trust lie will6e mp again very soon. MI
Clemens suffers no little pain from bisi
limb, and tU-dRy YRssNnabie to leave his
room. His room, as have before .tolds
you, is sort Of II general headquarters
for all the Union men boarding nc tiItE
SPotswood, and, indeed, Is never emptyl
from ten o'elook in. the day up to one ~
two o'clock in the night. e
The session to-day in Convention was
the most exciting one that We IIayei had
yet. Samuel Mcdowell Moore, OF Rock
bridge country, member Of theiConven-,
tion OF "2e-30," made a IonRrspd strong
speech against secession. He prodGeed
the documents Of the fire-eaters for the
last twenty years, showiuF tnat this dis
nui0nr mpEemeuts had been secretly cher
iShed aad fefaeAfsd by them darby All
that time, and even longer. He came
down on them without mercy, and EAfned
the people Of Virginia Of tue snare that
was set for them. his speech eurteed the
aud 70 show you how the
feeling rams over here. h6t note OF an
proval or applause WAS heard from The
gallery during gaheWhOlsstime Of its deliv-
erY. But as soon ,aS JOhu GoOde, in, Of
Bedford, . udtorious secessiOnists, eot Cup.
and vented sOme,yeTy. ultra Recommendations
oft, the galleries broke odEtfu found Of
Apfnuse. i SAW the blood Of Indignation
at once, leap tHlthe face of that noble old
man, President Jlnpey, and rtsinE,lEitb all
thai stately dignity 50 well becomiRe him
As one 0f latnrRis tFnest nOblemeu, Iis com VI
manded the SeFR Arms TO cIefffhe I
galleries. II took half an hour tosxscute
llle order. hnd all remark 1S4s stsSPdnaed
while Il was being done, but the old man
never once took away his Indignant eye
rom the reiFtating and diseqmHtea seees=
sionists. who had come there TO ovGraSEe
and soerte the conEenti6ni by mob pres
sure.
Immediately on the restoration of, ,praer
\ resolution was Offered. that whereas IL
had become apparent that The dtguity aud !
freedom OF the Convention was 20 iSelt tri-