Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-07

Union Meeting at bethany, in Brooke
CounIy.--Ses0lntl Conoernlng
and Il 81 New stSTe.E enns"t
Ala meeting Of the Union citizens of
Bethany aud vicinity, held in the Bethany
Church, on Tuesday, the 9Th Inst, the fol-
lowing preamble aud resolutions were
unanimously passed:
WHEREAS, 1t is always the right, Il is
in times like the present, the duty of Amer.
lean citizens to assemble in primary rect
ings, and make declarations Of love and
loyalty to the government of tbeiri own
fouudiug aud choice, aud 10 encourage and
support their agents in every constitutions
al effort TO preserve its integrity, or to cen
sure and animadyert upon the conduct and
acts of those they have entrusted with the
guardianship of cherished interests there
fore,
RtsOlpsd, That we endorse and highly
approve the policy OF the National Admi n
istration in subduiug this uuholy rebellion;
aud that VIC win render it all our moral
and material support, until the Star Span
gled Banner, the loved emblem of our lib
erty and unity, shall foat triumphant over
every fort, arsenal, dock yard, mint GUS
tom house, or other national property in
each and all of the thirty-four States rep
resented in its glorious galaxy of stars.
RsSotred, That we warmly applaud the
course of such border State Senators as
Hon. Andrew johnson, of Tenn, aud Hon.
Garrett Davis, of Ky, and especially do
We heartily commend their patriotic
speeches and votes against the traitor
Bright, and We trust that in future our
two Senators, Messrs. Wiley and lCarlile,
will try to emulate their patriotic exam
Piles.
Resolved, That the State Convention r..
Gently in session at Wheeling, in charging
the original proposed boundaries of the
new State, transcribed not only their au-
thority under the ordinance calling the
members together. but logically paved the
way, in oar belief, for an entire defeat of
the new State and that in refusing to i'm
corporate in the Constitution a clause
looking to the gradual eradication of
slavery from the soil Of the new State, and
especially in refusing to submit such a
clause In the schedule appended to that
4 Constitution, by means of which the peo-
pie could have voted yea or nay upon it,
without detrimeut to the other parts of the
Constitution or jeopardy to its adop-
zion, were dereliet to their duty, and have
but simply re-inauguratcd the Lecompton
stratagem, of infamous memory, by which
the people Of Kansas were forced to the
alternative Of either rejecting their Consti-
tuition altogether or adopting its obnoxious
prO.Siavery features.
RssOFpsd, That in voting for a new
State, an object of paramount impor-
lance with US, was the gradual extinction OF
slnvery; because, first, in our opinion, such
a policy is our only hope for future pros
Perity, and because, second, it is the only
rational hope of our admission as new
State into the Union.
Rcsoirsd, That the resolutions offered in
the Convention by Gordon Battelle, mem.
Der from ohiocounty, have our unqualified
approval, and we here take occasion to en-.
press our cordial sympathy with the an.
Rssolred, That the packed resolution.
prepared and submitted by ]. D. Picker
and others to packed meeting, held In
this village aud in this house, on the frs
day of January, 1861, were not represent.
alive of the opinions of the people of thi,
community, and We deem it due to oul
good name abroad to announce that the,
were passed by tie votes of non-residents
students at the college and others, aut
that we utterly condemn their spirit aut
tenor.
Rssolred, That the foregoing preambl,
and resolutions be published in the Whee
ling LRtsltgeRrer, and that the papers o
Western Virginia be requested to COPY
them.
COMMITTEE:
X. Il. JONES, A. CORY