Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-10

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The Butternut Meeting at st. clairs-
In company with several ofsour citizens
we went over the river on Wednesday last,
to St. ClajrsTille, 10 see and hear the pro-
ceedings of what is Union among Union
peoplsl as BntterInut meeting, or, as such
meetings call themselves, Democratic
meeting The HON. John S. CArlile was
among the invited speakers, but was not
on hard, being Reluctantly 'detained as the
chairman annodnoed, at his home. Seated
Optbe speaker stand was. the editor tthe
Wheeling Prsss, and several other dis.in-
guishedo gsatlemee, Wn. Keppop5 was
made p6airn4g OF the meeting. BE intro
duced the two speakers of7tbe OCCASION
He FIRST introduced the candidate for Con-
gress, Mr.. White, lawyer of Cambridge,
Guernsey county, His Introduction was
short but as Bulternntish as Butternut
could we'll desire. He alluded to the Presi-
dent OF the United States contemporary,
as Lincoln, aud the war as an Abolition
war, and sat down without saying a single
word in the slightest degree derogatory to
Jefferson Davis or his Gonfederacy.
Mr.. White, the candidate, was led for
ward at thelclo of the introduction and
put in position before the crowd, which
numbered as near as We could calculate
about two hundred and fifty people, men
women and children. Mr. White got him
self under. way by making the remarks
upon the state OF the country common to
all speakers these times. BE observed
that the country was in trouble-that a
war was raging-that prosperity had given
way 10 sdyersity-which was all true
enough and all we'll enough known. He
then proceeded to say thathe was candi-
date for Congress versus John A bingham,
aud thai he should tell the people his prin-
cipIes and next compare them with those of
hiSoppohent. His principles he said were
those of the aigood old Democratic party"
the party of JeRerson-the party that
had SO long. and so-advautageousiy admin
istered ther government. They were COM
servatiyet principles and opposed to all
fauaticism sudi fadieaiism. He went in
for Observation-Disclosures is and the Union
as 1t was.
Ifthe reader understands from this what
were the principles of Mr.. White, he enjoys
an advantage over the writer ofthis arti-
Gle. We could not but think OF the mans
creed who, when asked what he believed
in1he matter of religion, said he " believed
what his church believed" Aud what
does your church believe2' asked his in
terrogator. "The church believes what /
do, answered the man. 'tAnd what do
you and the church both. believe, then ~
still asked the questioner. ave both be-
lieve aiike.p
Just SO it was with Mr.. White. The
principles of the Democratic party were
his principles and his were the party's,
aud both of them were the principles of
Jefferson. Both he and the party were
opposed to aboliiionists, aud believed in
'.the Constitution as it is aud the Union as
it was"
After tHisegnfession Of faith, Mr.. White
went into Mr.. Bingham. Bingham was an
Abolitionist-uot Republican. For Re-
publieapsl who. were conservative, Mr..
White had charity. he meant to spare
them, but 1t was such fellows as Bingham
he was after. Aud SO be spoke on the sub
jeet of Bingham for, we should say, about
two hours. In this time much was said
about negro equality, with here and there
at great intervals sentence about the war.
wenoted the fact, that twice in the course
of his speech AR. White used the word in
famous in speaking of the rebellion, but it
sounded strangely in connection with the
drift or his speech. bis argument was that
the Abolitionists-such men as Biugham-
brought on the war; that it was not the
Soathern.People. He gave what he called
history of the rise and progress of alb
olttionism., The progress of it was what
had done the work. AT its door the sin of
the war lay, And the nbolitionists were
now at work trying to level down the
white man, to the grade of theynegro. g
This. was the burden aud refrain of Mr..
Whites speech. Aud this was what made
his allusion to the rebels as .'iufa-
nous" sound strange. The a6tnas of
the speech was all favorable to the rebels.
They hadn't brought on the war: Aboli-
tiopists had. The Abolitionists were in
famous for doing so, aud the rebels were
iniamOus,tori protecting shsirl rights, We