Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-01-07

biggest thing Of the kind that ever ASSEM-
bled within the walls of the building
The call was not even published in tho
papers, aud was only announced by small
h"ndbills on the street, Saturday forenoon.
let the crowd of .ople in attendance was
immense at an early hour in the evening.
1t was made up of the real workingmeu of
the city-the bone and sincw of the conn
uy-aud not " single politician, local or
national, had anything to do with it.
The crowd became impatient before the
meeting was called to order. The band
struck up the .star Spangled BANNER"
when there was such roar of applause as
seldom falls upon mortal tympanums.-
The Star SPangled Banner was followed
by Yankee Doodle during the perform
ance of which, hundreds of persons stood
up, swinging their hats aud cheering with
the widest enthusiasm.
The meeting was called to order by the
selection of G. W. Mcclellan as Chairman
and William Leonard as Secretary.
Messrs. II. II. weeden, L. t. Dean.
David Greer, Jacob Burklcy, John Bear,
Geo. Harrison and Henry Wallace, were
appointed to draft resolutions expressive
of the sense of the meeting.
Mr.. John Hubbard was called upon and
addressed the meeting. He read the call
of the meeting, stating that it invited all
men to participate in the meeting except
those known to be practical politicians
He said he was Yirginian, but he was
also an American citizen, and a Union
man to the back bone. He was no sneak
er. He could shout the war-hoop over
yoke of oxen as well as ''nny other mani but
making public speeches was not his forte.
"But such as / have, such give you.'-
He spoke of South Carolina, and disap-
proved her action and attributed the cause
of our present dill culties to designing
politicians and wrong doing on both sides.
He spoke of the guns that were being fred
in honor of Major Anderson, from Chap
line Hill, and wanted the reverberations to
be heard over every hill and down every
valley in Old Virginia. He spoke of the
reasonable preparation that had been
made to take possession. of the National
Capital, and said that instead of yirginia's
participating in that business, he be-
lieVed there were men enough in the State,
who would arm themselves and prevent it.
Mr.. Hubbard spoke earnestly in favor of
the maintenance oF the Union, and was
warmly npplauded.
Deafening calls were here made for Judge
Thompson, when His Honor came forward
but announced that he was physically
unable to make such a speech as would
do justice to such cause. His debility
ought to have prevented his attendance
at all, but he would have attended the
meeting if he had had to have been brought
there in his carriage and taken away in
his hearse. BE said both the people North
and South had done wroug-both had vi
Olated the Constitution under which we
lived in common Union. The Constitu-
ton had always been his guide in politics
and he stood by it now. He warned the
working men 1.-THE last time, perhaps, he
should ever address them on public oc-
casion,) to lock- well to themselves. The
masses of mankind must look well that
they do not follow designing aud ambi-
tiOus politicians. Judge Thompson took
his seat nmid loud applause.
Calls were made for Sir. Andrew Swec-
ney, but that gentleman failing to appear,
Mr.. John Hubbard read portion of n
speech delivered by Col. Anderson, of
Texas, at the Alamo.
The Committee having returned, the
Chairman read the following resolutions,
which were adopted with terrific shout
of applause.
WuEREAL, 1t is apparent to every true
lover of his country's good, that the glori-
Gus confederation of States, under which
we las a people) have so long lived and
prospered, is Threatened with dissolution
and tue magnificent Temple of Liberty
erected and cemented by the blood and
toll of our patriotic forefathers is shaken
to its centre, midst the storm of treason
and fanaticism, hurled against it by the
shameless recreants, who, in the hour of
their country's peril, stand perjured before
the nation and high Heaven bY the betray-
al of the high aud Important trusts conf
del i'll them 10y generous and oyer-trnStful
Constituencies.
AND, WHRREAs, The worlds hope of
freedom is centered ia America, to which
we, with becoming and patriotic pride,
have, for over thrcs-quartcrso of century,
looked to us the asylum of the oppressed,
the land of the free aud the home of the
brave. Shall that hope now be lost7
Shall that freedom now be pharmaceutical
and deseernted by the mad lunatics who
rule the bour2 Fanatics who with unholy
zeal would plunge their country, their
brothers, aud kindred into the dark aud
fearful byss of dtsuuion and civil war
God forbid it. Frcemen, working men,
brothers, patriots of Virginia, resist it un-
to the hitter e1dl Therefore
Resolped, That the doctrine of secession
of a State has mo- warrant in the Oonstitu-