Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-08
Friday Morning, March 8, 1851.
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things pretty much its own way, SO far as
sPeeehifying could so. No straight-out
Union man had, to any extent, occupied
the attention of the Convention, while
hardly day was allowed to pass without
the reference to the Committee ON Federal
Relations Of di5uuiou and auti-eoerciop
resolutions, and long windy speeches in
support of them.
Mondays proceedings-the latest we
have reeeiEed-beguu by Mr.. Brown, Of
Preston, submitting resolution that the
HonorableS Hunter and Mason, U. S. SEN
ators from Virginia failed to represent the
opinions of her people in their opposition
to the reference of the report of the Peac.
Conference TO the States, with view to
the adoption of its propositions as ameud-
ments 10 the Constitution. Mr.. Brown
said he did not mean to press the resoIu-
ton then, but would move that it he ia
bled, and would call IT up at an early day.
After the reference OfresOlntions offered BY
Chambliss of Botetourt, Mr.. Carlile desired
TO make some remarks, but was ruled out
of order. He gave notice, however that
he should have something to say at an
early day. We understand that he had
the floor for yesterday, and we shall look
for speech that will fall like a bomb
among the disunionists in the Convention.
Even in the little that he was allowed to
say Monday, he gives us n taste of what
We may look for. he said the time had
came when this process of firing the
Southern heart must be met, and, If no
one else would meet it, he would under
take to resist it while he had "a voice to
raise or an arm to liFt." He declared that
the retirement of those who had been
feeding upon the green pastures aud ly-
ing by the still waters of official patron
age had caused the undue excitement of
the country; that the great body of the
people had no interest in that patronage,
but they had an interest in the perpetuity
of the government aud the maintenance
of their liberties, and they would preserve
the one and maintain the other. He said
the haste with which action looking to
secession, was taken, before the official
report of the gentlemen who had been
appointed By our own legislature to the
Peace Conference had been made to the
Convention, was an Indecent haste, unbe-
coming the dignity of that body. He be-
lieVed the people Of Virginia would COM
mend the action of the Conference. He
told the SseSsSiOnists that when they called
n Convention to get Virginia out Of the
Uniuu before the fourth of March, they
got more than they bargained for, fact
which We think few days will demon
str0te
One of our representatives did good
thing, which was this; Mr.. GoOde, of Bed
ford, moved TO print 10, 900 copies Of the
addresses of the South Carolina, Georgia
and Mississippi Commissioners, for circu-
lation among the people of the State. Mr..
Hubbard said, promptly: 81 move to lay
that resolution on the table" Mr.. GOOde
begged that he would withdraw his mo-
ton Said MIR. Hubbard: '.No, sir ~ Mr..
GOode called for the yeas aud nays on Mr.
Hubbard's motion, and the resolution was
tabled by 81 yeas to ~ nays. Thus the
State was spared the shame of seeing a
Convention of her delegates voting money
to scatter among her people the poisonous
illusions of Southern fauaticism.
Mr.. Wiley delivered an excellent speech.
of which We publish report from the
DepGted, the Enquirer having laid it over
to make room for more cOngenial matters.
Its sound in its assumptions and able in
argument, aud yet, We would suggest, hns
little too much of that 'deplorinsp of
the election Of Lincoln, and that loyalty to
Virginia, and her ahonor," that out-loyal-
ing of the "State-rights" seeessionists.
which is SO fashionable among many of
the best men in the Convention. To all
such We would say your friends know
you are loyal and true; so do your enc
mics. There is no need of apology for
being true to the Union. Stand by the
Constitution and the laws. That is loyaI-
y enough Tor any man.
Ar. Wiley dealt secession heavy blows.
He is one of the most efficient men in the
Convention. His constituency will en-
dorsS. and sustain him. So will Mr.. Car.
lilies II he pupues the course he has in
dieated.
1--we are not deceived by present pros
poets, the seeeSsionists in the Con-
vsRtioa will have heard Union thuudsr
before Saturday night. And when the
crash comes, may 1t strike dumb the tongues
that rail against the Union of our fathers,
and paralyte the arms that would tear
down With Sacrelisious grasp The Stars
and Stripes that fiOated over the darkest
hours of the Revolution, and which, on