Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-08
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JUDGE THOMPsoN,s PRoNuNCIA.
HENTO.

MENTo.
The State of ThIngs in North weIt
Virginia,
To Tie Senate Of Ms United Statets; Tss s:t-
prsme Court of the Uaitsd States; The
People of North Vest Virginia.
The present usnrped and tyrannical des
potism in y, rthwestern Virginia has de-
Clared my Office of Judge of the goth Jn-
dicial Circuit vacant; and this, notwith-
standing | have ut all times, in season and
out OF season, on the bench, and in pub
lie discourses, preserved, protected and de-
Tended the Constitution OF the United
States as the supreme law of the land; not
withstanding l Was the first man in North
western Virginia to take ground for the
determined support of the Union; nOtwith-
standing that for this, my firm and con
slant support of the Union, the Convention
ut Richmond have instituted an inquiry
looking TO my removal from the same Of
fee, because OF this, my loyalty to the Un-
/ ion; notwithstanding have in every net
and sentiment. publicly or privately done
or expressed, maintained tue supremacy Of
! the Constitution of the United States and
the perpetuity of the Union in its moral
! integrity; us the great representative OF ma
I tional Repnbiicunism in the world; not
withstanding have maintained all this by
my solemn acts of Office declaring the doC-
I trines of secession lawless and unconstitu-
tiouul; notwithstanding ! have thus de-
! clared the Ordinance of Secession passed
| By the Convention of Virginia, and all its
acts, laws and other proceedings intended
or used to carry such ordinance into vf-
feet, void, a being against the Constitu-
tion of the Union, and inimical to its in
jegrity; Notwithstanding have in my sol
emn official acts, declared the officers and
soldiers of the United States, who are on
the soil of Virginia, for the protection of
national property and to execute the laws
ofthe Union. to be here in the peace of the
Commonwealth and under the protection
of its laws.
Notwithstanding all these, this usurped
and laYless faction in the State which now
sets itself above the regular Constitution
of the State and prescribes to me an oath
above the Constitution, and seeks to i'm
pose upon me an er post tacio qualification
unknown to the Constitution; notwith-
standing that this faction cannot place
their touch on n single expression of senti-
ment nor single act of unkindncss, or
hostility to the Union or to the movement
of the Union so far us the Union has ta-
ken ground for the defence of the Union
sentiment in VirginiH or elsewhere; not
Withstanding that they cannot point to n
single expression which connects me iu
principle or sentiment with the Secession
movement, farther than once in a private
conversation with A. w. Campbell, now
Postmaster at Wheeling, and before the
Administration had manifested any inten-
ton TO resort to arms for the subjugation
OF the South, and when there was no rea-
son to believe that it so intended, other
than what could and did gather from him
in that conversation ms an agent somewhat
in its confidence, that on that occasion
said I was opposed to coercion in the then
existing state Of things; although in the
inception OF the matter was in favor of
stringentan and somewhat decisive measures,
as the late Attorney General of the United
States (Mr. Slantoul can bear me witness
in my fidelity 10 tue Union. then believ-
ed that the attempt to coerce would bring
on the country all the horrors of civil war,
as believed it on the 3lst of October
1860 when l warned Mr. Lincoln of the
very present state of affairs and bcsought
him 10 save the country. | believed theE
IN March as believe now that coercion
was only another name for subjugatiOn and
that subjugatiou, nor on his day only
means an application of she principles and
tho private reveuges of Sumner and Will
son, and that this would bring on the CUun-
try all the horrors of civil war aud the
overthrow of constitutional liberty and
the establishment of despotism, and before
God believe it. as expressed it in tones
of sorrow in the middle of last january
on declining to take one of the highest
posts known to the Government of the
United States; Notwithstanding have in
my private life aud public conduct, the
grace Of God assisting me thereto, en-
deavOrad to walk with humility and sin
cerity aud TO avoid all double mtndei-
ness.
And this is 10 be required of me because
they hive acted by their test-oath on the
internal aud dcvilish principle of Couth-
on, which they have transferred here from
the blood and CRIME of the lowest cess
pool of the French revolution, when lie
said in the club of JacObins as the test of
personal safety and qualification for office,
.'What hast thou done to be hanged if the
cOunter-revolution should arrIve2" And
my reply to these and to you is, that Ihave
faithfully stood by the Constitutions and
constitutional laws and public liberty, and
have not lent myself TO faction, to arro-
gance, to imbecility, to corruption for sake
Of office and venality.
They know that it is no fear of couse-
quences whichinduces this course of con-
duct on my part; they know that have no
hope. expectation or belief of counter
revolution. though much life may be lost
and that believe that the government Is
strong enough to protect themi and is
pledged by constitutional principles, in the
enforcement of the laws of the Union, and
not on the idle fnllacy Of the demand of
an unconstitutional and in no legitimate
sense of the phrase, de .facto Governor to
protect them against domestic violence;
and that it will protect them because in
body and soul, they are transferred to it
and to its destructive principles AS l now
believe beyond the sanctity and require
meuts of any and all constitutional oGliga-
tions.
They know that it is no corruption on
my part, for have only to take the little
test-oath furnished BY Couthon and my
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