Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-06
WAR MEETING Ar FAIRMoNT
NIonday,August a. 1862

Monday, August 4, 1862
Speeches OF senator whey and Gev-
ernor neutrality-suspicious. Res
oluIIons--AnoIher Request of Mr..
CarIIIe-
Tax meeting n Fairuout was quite re-
spectacle. though it scarcely eq1alled in
numbers or enthusiasm that Al Manning |
ton. The day vas very hne, and many of
the farmers who had not finished up their
harvesting Wereinducedt 10 remain At home.
The Seeessionisis generally did the same.
Cout, business, however, brought in
good number of the substantial men of the
county, aud when they we're assembled in
the court.honse after dinner the building
vas quite full. 4 number of ladies were
ont
Hiram Raymond nominated Leonard
Lamb, Esq, for President, Vice President,
Col B PiiIer, aud Secretary, John a.
yanz4ndt The nominations were con
hrmed.
a Committee on Resolutions, consisting
of one from each Uagisterial district, was
moved and appointed as follows: A. E.
Coon. 4sahel Hasr. Robert Moran, J. T.
Ben Cough, Aaron Hawkins, Vim. Fox,
aad A F. Richie.
Gov. Peirpoint then came forward and
addressed the meeting. BE began bT re-
viewing the eauses OF the war, depicting
the state OF affairs throughout the country,
and especially The coalition of the section
aad community in which the people he
addressed resided. he showed who were
the enemies in Marion county of popular
rights and the public peSee-sueh men as
EIdWeil, the Haymonds, NeeSon, Drinksrd,
and so on !; and were the loudeSt in their
defamation about hghtisg I'LL an oPPortE-
nity offered and then ran away Even to-day
they had men amOngst them who were
enjoying the protection of government
to which they were hostile, sending infor-
nation TO the enemy az every chance, and
rejoicing at the reverses of the Union arms,
even threatening peaceable Union men
that the rebel armies woald be in TO over
run them. We're these men American cit
iEensE A voice-"Tories !T--Another
roiee-"Is there ne remedy2Hl He WAS
going 70 tell them the remedy before he got
| through. he alluded TO the policy of the
| Southern leaders, and said that they had
| levied whatIhey called an effective, iume-
jiAte force by drafting every man betweeo
the ages of Is and %. Then they had
drafted sort OF second corps, Of every
boy between 10 and Is, and every man be-
! tween 35 and %, all liable 10 go into the
deld at i've days notice, at furthest. They
put into the hands OF those men every
thing with which they coald kill man,
/ whether shotgun, rifle, pistol OF pike
| They had pressed all the able-bOdied men
IN their country into the ranks, aud were
using their able-bodied negroes, TOO. to
strengthen their army. he compared this
state of things with the present condition
of affairs aroupd them. where citizens
were unmolested, ana had ample security
for life and property Bat surprising IL for
say reason the armies of the United States
had % give back how long would their en-
yiabie situation last2 Why the CONSUMPTION
would take every man IN that crowd If the
rebels could get IN there Snd have foil
| swing as they had beyoni orr lines 40
miles 10 the south The rebels who had
| gone from among them were urging AID
those LETT behind were secretly inviting
their armed allies 10 come in. TSome one
IN the crowd said send them over too,
every last one of them He then psoSeed-
ed 10 speak of the late action of Congress
and the President looking &c vigorous
prosecution of the war, and said the Pres
idenI bad ordered Ihzt as the Amy adTau-
ees sill persons remaining al home shall oe
required TO take the oath of allegiance and
give bond aud security for their good be-
baTiors and il they do not do that Ihey are
10 be sent forward into the rebel lines
Applause. That same order he said, is
going TO reach somewhere down in West
srn Virginia Il is going 20 take the old
men and women who are so attached TO
Dixie aud send them TO Dixie Applause,
aud take the Young men and send them Of
to an island in Lake Erie where they viii
be taken care of. lAPplause- he assnr-
cd them that IL WAS coming 70 :his, tiIai
these men in our community. as erery-
where else, must take their sides II Their
are for the government of the United States,
they are for Us If they are for the govern
ment OF jet Davis, they are entirely TOO far
from il and must be sent to IL TApplauss
Ia voice: that's the doetrine
The Governor then proceeded TO scAth-
ing review of the constitutional peace par
" Of Yallandig5am j Co., which elected
frequent aud hearty applause. He disseet-
ed the whole movement aud its leaders ia
his most vigorous style, showed how hypo-
critical the can't about the Constitution
Was, when the men who moutheL il were
in close alliance with jet, Davis couspJra-
ey-thSt rebels IN arms had no rights I'M
der the Constitution they had violated and
attempted TO destroy BE took mp the ery
about ''Abolitienists 70 and showed that il
meant nothing bnt the maligniiy of the
rebels who used the term. With then
everybody who Was not for breaking I'M
.he Union Was = Yankee and an A bolt
ZIONIST The people of the North, except
The traitors IN their midst, were a unit for
prosecuting the war. There Is no Law of
Congress that permits the slightest inter
ference with the rights in slaves Of aay
Union man, or their right in any other
properly. The war IS made against the
rebels alone, and they alone are 70 be pun
ished- For his own part, he 6smly believ-
ed that negro slavery Was the cause Of the
var Many would sAy 1t grew out of pc
euliar notions about society, but slavery
both created and fostered those notions,
and in one way and another is responsible