Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-27
VIZ lay before our readers this morning.

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Wednesday Morning, Feb q, 1851.
VIZ lay before our readers this morning,
on our first page, an interesting letter from
John Minor Bolts, written 10 reply to an
inTitatiou.from Troy, N. T., TO attend a.
celebration Of WaShington's Birthday. We
have been favored by our special reporter
at Richmond with manuscript copy fur.
aishea 10 him by Ar. Bots, after reading Il
70 anumber of friends; and We thus print
itin advance of It's publication elsewhere
Il viii be found To contain the same manly
and ineorrnptible sentiments for which
Mr.. Bolts Is noted. expressed. il, bis vigor-
: - Gus, characteristic style. Bat in saying
this we are not TO be understood
As eudorsug all the positions taken
in the letter--we join heartily in the mo-
- BILE sentiment with which be -conclndes;
= -butthere may be points.of his argument
wherein We might beg leave to differ, mod
- eGtly,of- course.
.7ao For instance, in speaking OF the deplora-
Die condition Of things in the South, Mr..
BOtts charges home upon tho Northern
Press and says they shave caused 1t all. ;,
We know, mad. every candid man will ack-
n4r sp6plsdgs that The interruptions course of
senting TO the South the feeling aud In.
feptaious of'the Northern people, has done
much TO exasperats aud ALLEVIATE that por-
fton Of the country from their Northern
brethrep--but to say that it has Gcaused
il ALL is going further than the record
of the every day events of the past year,
or years, viii justify. The licenttOusueBs
ems OF a portion Of the Northern Press has
done very muehto corrupt the political
morals Of the people, but at the same time
~ thlt press has acted tn.the interest, or at
least Ia accordance with the wishes, of bad
men at the South, to whom the crisis Of
the hour is but the "beginning of the end
which they have laborsd to compass, in
conjunction With Northern accOmplices.
This corrupt press gave tho cue to South
srn demagogues, it's true, and became in
their hands powerful engine for rritat-
ing the ignorant Southern masses but
itmust not be forgotten that the men at
the South, who have inaugurated and
now direct this revolution, are men of
intellect, of standing. of Intelligence
They are not Imposed upon Thy know
that the NOitherupeopls have done them u o
wrong and mediate none, and yet they
have In cool, subtle reflection laid tho
plan for the establishment Of a Cotton
Confederacy. They understood all these
Northern dough face shams, and despised
them; but they were too shrewd not to
turn them toRdvantage And these men,
the DaTises, the Yanceys, the Rhetts, and
ToombSes, ''are tho faction" They ure
the embodiment of this secession. From
than GPruuE revolution, and By them is
existence peFp hated, This revisit did
not grow out % any exlspsrsted feeling on.
the ipaEtnii the Southern people. The con-
~ spiraty was conceived By. Southern states
INTENDING ago. aud the popular feeling was
worked on afterward until 1t was batched;
and BY increased appliances, North and
South, the popular mind has been fomeat-
cd until full aedged accession crowns their
efNerss.
Viewing this matter We do, we cam
NOT see that Mr.. BOtts appeal to the Norti,
to yield freely and uugrudg:ngly," all
that the South may think necessary to in
sure their security, will avail anything
practical. II they believed that the trouble
bad grown out Of Misunderstanding at
the South, Of their feelings aud intent,
they would We doubt not, do everything
ia their. power, to disabuse the Southern
mind But they do not believe SO, aud
hence they do not want TO perpetrate the
nbsurdtty of repeating the ssme.old story,
only IN different shape, for the thous.
andth time.
Mr. Bolts plan of Saving tie consti.u.
tionai question: by amending the Constt-
tuition to suit the purpose of the secession.
iSts instead of making them live up to /,
win not be likely to be acceptable to any
section. The Constitution is not SO light.
" regarded that it shall get out of the way
Of the secession faction. Mr. Bolts says
that the right Of secession never will be
:, Eesogplasd updsr any circumstances. yet
he tavors changing the Constitution SO as
70 recognize it, just to satisfy the faction,
BatW arc warned that this article is al
ready too long, aud can only, in cOuClud.
ing thus hastily, refer the reader to the
letter itself.
TAKING TINS ny TnE FORR1ock.lTh.
snSioined was offered in the State Senate,
on SATURDAY. by Mr. sFiuney asa i6int