Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-23

are great contrasts brought round by q
single year. Who knows how much
greater the aext may. exhibit!
No man in recasting public events has a
memory that will preserve II 1.-THE OF Them;
but only look over an old file of uewspa-
pers, aud they all come up fresh and vivid.
As we turn over last years file of the In
tslhgsneer we End many things We should
like to reproduce if space aud time per-
mitIed. Away back in last May we find
accounts of speeches ont in Marion coun-
ty by old Tom Raymond aud others of his
stripe, teaching treason to that people,
We iud an account of the Convention in
Clarksburg, and the resolutions passed by
ii, That started the Western Virginia move
ment. We find letter about speech
made at tirat place on the third of Nlay,by
Frank reirpOint, then becoming promi-
nent for his hostility to the schemes, of
Wise, Letcher / Co., in which he used up
secession badly and skinned Judge Cam
den without mercy; and smother reporting
= great speech by s'Ephe7 Hall at Fair
mOnt, on the following Monday, with the
remarks Of PeirPoint and John S. Bullett
and the big row that accompanied them /;
also the great meeting at the Court house
+ here The day after the one Al CIarEsburg,
AT which Petrpoint, Porter aud Others
made speeches, and the straightest kind
/ OF resolutions were passed OF the
meeting of the merchants of Wheel
ing and their resolutions rcpudia-
ting the payment of taxes 10 John Letch-
er's government; aud the great Working
mems Meeting, at the Atheneum, January
:, at which John Hubbard. Mayor Sweeney
and Judge Thompson " made Union,
speeches, and the Judge, among others, got
"Ihree cheers before the breaking up of
the meeting.
\ year ago the Wheeling Eni0n newspa-
per was 10 the last stage of being played
ont, as was the element III Wheeling whose
representative it was. In looking back
over an old Tile of the Uajon now, we can
see many symptoms of the disease that drank
uP its VEINS aud consumed its marrow,
long before the final catastrophe. From
the present posi- morIwm examination we are
more than ever convinced that the Union
died of secesh. disorder fatal in itself, but
uncOmmonly so On account of having been
contracted from Charley Russell and 10
Pendleton. In its last days the L,nioW,
never robust, became more nnd more fee
BILE. Its sands OF life ran away to Rich
nOndj very fast, and the flame of its emas-
cu!sted existence hickered lower aud low
er each day Ia It's last hours it desired
nothing so much as 'peace and harmony
and when the returns from Ohio county on
the ordinance OF secession came in, coG-
WINGED that even its existence longer was
an offence against good order, it meekly
gave up the ghost. he mortms na niI DO.
mum is very well, and We do not intend TO
say any hard things about our deceased CO
temporary now.
We may, however, without disturbing
the sacred precincts of the dead, mako a few
excerpts from the record OF it's life, just ITO
show the age aud body oEll,e limes.p
In the Uaio" OF May /, 1861, we find.
copied from CoopIF's Register, "a account of
the notorious Estates Rights" meeting at
C!arksburg in response to IL call supposed
to have been written by James NJ. jackson
OF that place, aud circulated throughout
the county, and signed by about sixty, we
believe, many OF whom have since taken
up their abode in Dixie, and many others
of whom are ashamed they ever had any
thing to do with it. OF this meeting Ex-
Governor 10. Johnson was President; Bev-
erly Lnrry aud James McCally, vice-Pre-
sidents; and James NJ. jackson, Nm. p.
Cooper Editor of Reyistrrj, Norval Lewis
younger brother of Chas. 81, and WIN.
F. Gordon CLERK OF the House of Dele
egates it We are not mistakenly, were Sec-
retartes. The Committee to draft resolu-
tons (Which we're, of course, ready cut
and dried were John s. Hoffman Cmem.
her of the House of Delegatesl, Rob.
EFT johnson tquitc well known as pub.
lie man, James NJ. jackson, Aaron
Criss, Eli Marsh, James Y. Hornor, Isaac
F. Randolph, Abel r. Bond, Jacob NJ. Eib.
Elias Bruen, Alexander NJ. Austin, Win. NJ.
Late, Uriel NJ. Turner, Jefferson i. West
imember OF the House of Delegatesy, and
Augustine J. Smith. We copy the names
that pOs'erity may know who were prOmi-
nent in the effort to gerymauder Harrison
county into the Southern Confederacy. OF
the above, Messrs. Hoffman. johnson,
Smith, Cooper, Gordon. johnson (Ex-
Cow and perhaps some others have taken
their stand in Dixie's Land, where they
mean to live aud die we take the liberty of
suppOsing (aud hOping). Mr.. Jefferson B.
West was recently an inmate of the Athe-
ueum, but is now, we believe, resident at
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