Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-06

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NJ nrrlaGeS, Notices Of PunsrRls and annopnrkynr+,
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Great Union, Meeting there on FRI
dfey 4aat.S1nlimenSe OutponrInE q 01
pis.5sss 5psSoPls.TTElhts s.eP Gallant Frank
slklng and FIays the TEaftofs, is!
l RsciolIy Judge Camden and OLD
| 4eS says. he Will die under tho Stars
ana -stripes-eGo0d iReSo10tions..
The FeslImg Throughout Iiarrisnn
i S0nn1y y..Vhe Popularity. OF CnrIIle
q N--Diyieionio OF the s tat q Dem ana CO..
GA3rEsburS wants to be Ihe Capital
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tFrOultbe Special Reporter of the InteiEepccr.,5
CLARKsBunG, May 3.
Tue day for tue mass meeting here
idaTned gloomiiy. By daylight the rain
was pouring down in torrents. In short
time it turned to snow, and for two hours
looked more like JRpuaEy than SIuy.-
Then it turned to rnin again, mud all This
day It has rainerl Increasingly. 9ftcourse
everybody predicted that the meeting
WOnld prove almost a failure. No doubt
the secessiOnists. what few there are here
chuckled to themselves at the prospect of
the discontinue of the Union Inen-but il
my OF them were in the Court House this
afternoon. they certainly changed ,bcir
minds, and took the discontinue to them
selves. For the mnss meeting was not n
failure. In spitcsof the rCnaclcss torrents
that Itouretl down all tldy-cnough. to
cheek the qrdor of any but a Western Yir-
g. ~ Union man, who knows his liberties
are Observation-Disclosures people from the coun-
try came in. They came through rnin and
mud, on horseback, and in wagons, dele
cations from all parts of the country and
when the Court House bell, after dinner.
summoned them together, they crowded
the Court room ana hull till there was not
room for one more to set or stnnd-cer-
tAiolY there Could not have been less than
900 or 900 people present. Iun additipn
to the7untnvornblec condition of tile weaih.
er, they were disappointed partimlIv in The
spcakers-Alessrs Wiley, pierpoint and
Chrlile. Mr.. Ghrlilc was necessarily. nb,
sent, Mr: Wiley was taken i'll Mt Fnirmont
and on Mr.-PierpOinte alone, devOlved the
task OF addressing tile crowd. How ad-
mlrnbly lie did this, can hardly tell YOU.
for the grcNt length of his spccch forbflls
That. should attempt 10 give you an px-
tended report of it. For at least two
hours and u half, he held the crowd in a
speech of greater ability than have ever
heard him deliver. He wRs full of fire.
perfectly fearless and determined, and his
elcctrifying appeals met with an euually
clectrifyinE response of thrilling cheers nj
GTery sPoint, from the most enthusiastic
and determined crowd of men ever saw.
lie traversed tile whole ground of seces-.
sion. &c examined it at all its points
showed up all its weaknesses and falla-
cies: lie denounced in unmeasmred terms
the infamous usMrpntion at Richmond, and
Mt every point be made against the trni-
tnFe n O. tI, a..
er lid l hear secession, in all its phases.
so completely skinned, so literally llaycd,
alive, as in this two hours and n IInlf
speech of Pierpoint. Nothing but u YER
batim report of the speech and the re-
spOnses of the enthusiastic men WHO filed
the Court House, could giveyou anv con-
cePlion of the irresistible Union feeling
that pcrEaded every breast and burst
| from them in uncontrollables exurcssion.
HE scored keehly the Marion county Sc
cesalonists, kidwell Necson, and Mai. Gen.
misunderstanding the latter-and all
mlnisteTed aisevere and merited rsbuke to
Judge Camden, who was then present, for
having gone tO5 Richmond aud got himself
appointed a5COrnmissiOnerIto Montgomery:
and, judging from the .wild5ycH OF lappro-
val that went up from the sentike crowd.
the Judge nliy wtH conclude TINT he, II
probably better suited TO the latitude foF
Ntchuomd than ClGrkshurg for there was
no mistAkiOg this expression. He told
them that-wheu the war was, over, ttEich
sUer party tras tietoFioRz, gOnLd hang the
leaders Of The Other, and the strongest purity
was sure to triumph, and the EniouipArty
was the strongest. The conclusion to fbe
drawn wasn't very satisfactory to the two
or three sccessionists present,
He. reminded them that every officer of
the State-Jndges, magistrates, lawyers,
consta6les1 Common wealth 9 attofheys, had
all, on assuming the oath of office, tnken
an oath to support the Constitution of the
United States-tiad' sworn allegiance 10 the
United States Government, and that the
Constitution expressly declared that levy
ing TariRgainstSt the United States, or Civ.
ing aid and comfort to its enemies, was.
treason, and merfted punishment rs sueh.
He spoke of f-yPestern Virginin-of what she
had suffered Nnti whut she was dbSy asked
TO endure, and he predicted tERt in less
than two years a brond dome would rear
itself in tile town OF Clarksbnrg, under
which the assembled legislative wisdom of
Western Virginia would hold their sittings.
This prediction was greeted With such tre-s
mendons cheers rs allowed how well tile
suggestion was relished by the Harrison
sounty men, who eepR pRdehfly expect tbEt
this Rill be the Capital Of Ibe new SStatai
lnteoneludi1g, Mr.I p srefeFred to Mr. Wit,
/ ley. and the ftm0rs thdt DE had hdt proved
Faithful lHH SaitsnalessRrh Imports tyere
snurely Unfotnd edaL there was ti6E ole,
Tprd vt ttHlh In them BE had asked Mr..
~ Hley what.Were his inieptiO4s for the fu-
t9ree, Me- Wille&r plisd that he intended
/ TO die 1nder--tb tbe Sins and Stripes in his
own homesiH = trginias or. it1n06 there, on
s6Ips S6fthefh'Suil. Said he, IansVHr win
J live in 2 Southern Confcderacy, htt is car
Red on Under i flag that his ti9 better
motto tlian a.rNttleEnake.p That Eas The
,yFy,. he said, Mr.s,Ng gtgleystduds q
7Thc- ereSt am and poinl of Mp. wy