Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-03

cases at full rates. :
OF sermons, 90 cents each. nouvll-'59
War Mass Meeting In PhIIippi.
Editors Lntelligsneer:
The largest meeting oflthe people of this
county that ever assembled, convened ia
the Court House on Wednesday, goth inst.
The call for the meeting was short, but ir-
telligence that war meeting was to be
held on that day spread rapidly over the
county, and early in the morning the peo-
pie began to come into town in crowds, all
manifesting deep interest in the moment
gether. The conviction seemed expressed
by every mans face, that we were in the
midst of a terrible rebellion, and if we
would maintain our benificent Government
and secure protection and peace to our
selves and families, We must fight for the
one and defend the other.
The meeting was organized little after
IL O'Clock, NJ, by calling the Hon. John
II. Woodford to the Chair, and appointing
George N. Teager, Esq, Secretary.
On motion, committee, consisting of
Nathan H. Taft, Spencer Dayton, Jesse
Teter, David N. Myers and G.. A. Compton,
was appointed by the President to prepare
resolutions for the action of the meeting.
The President then introduced to the
meeting the Hon. jacob B. Blair, who, for
the space OF two hours or more, entertained
the meeting with an able and eloquent Rd-
dress.
Mr.. Blair, during the progress of his re-
marks, was frequently interrupted with
great applause, aud ut the conclusion was
| saluted with three hearty cheers. 1t is
sufficient TO say of Mr. Blair's noble effort
that it was just such speech rs the loyal
heart and mind of Barbour desired. One
especial reason why the people were so
highly delighted was because Blair was so
much like Senator Willey's preacher, who
always would preach against the bishops,
no matter what his subject was. So it was
with Mr. Blair, no matter what subject or
point OF subject he started on, he was
sure to get back on the subject of crushing
the rebellion and establishing the new
State; and that's the kind of talk the true
Union men in this section like to hear.
After Sir. Blair had concluded his admir-
able speech the committee appointed to pre-
pare business for the meeting, through their
Chairman, reported the following preamble
and resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAs, We, the people of Barbour
county, Va, believe that the Southern re-
bellion was instigated tor the purpose of
oVerthroWing the Federal. Constitution
and subyerting the rule Inherent In
our plan of Government, that all men are
| to be held equal, because SO crested, aud
to establish In place thereof n constitution
in which negro slavery shall be made u
Fundamental principle of government, and
| property in shares be made alike the basis
of civil preferment, of elevated social po-
4 sitions and distinctions; that in. order to
establish, deyelOpe and perpetuate such a
government, it is thought by the Confsder-
| ate leaders to open aud maintain the Afri-
can slave trade in all its barbarous cruelty
and injustice, aud with all its abhorreut
and repulsiye features as a rule Of5southern
eiDili=afioH that Offices civil authority,
| public employment and emoluments, to-
( gether with the inestimable right of suf-
frnge should be limited, exercised and trans
1 mitted among hereditary and privileged
class of citizens aud rulers, for whom in
deed (they maintain) the laws should bc
framed, without reference to the distribu-
ton of the greatest happiness to the great
est numbers; that the general difnsion OF
| knowledge should be discouraged and re-
Isuicted in order that the contrast between
the abject and ignorant many, in favor OF
the educated and eulighted few, mightth
by be made more obvious saudimposiug; that
the enslaving, tasking, and depressing the
masses, should be held as just means of
enriching, enuobliug sud sustaining the
privileged class, whose exclusive title to
distinction consists solely in artificial and
unnatural determinations, created by such
unjust and oppressive maxims and laws,
that, to perpetnate and maintain these OBJ
noxious ard anti.republican principles, q
standing army should be maintained; that
negro slaves, which as between themselves
and masters, are treated as mere chnttels,
are vet made subject of discrimination in
favor of the latter over other property, in
respect to representation, taxation, and a
oualifed exemption from distress and exc
cutiou for debt; that an increase of free
white population should be discouraged,
and that immigration, which has made our
country au asylum from tyranny. and a
home for our foreign brethren, should be
reptessed, by entailing large tracts of vir-
gin soil to the use of ostentatious, sloth-
fuI and arrogant lordlings and mas
ters: that commercial enterprize aud
lin,ereousse with other nations should
become merged in an isolated and
exclusive selRshness, such rs of late
nervaded the dominious of the Celes-
ltiRI Empire; that it should be ineul-
/, Gated as one of the first of human virtues,
TO rebel and secede from the decree oi
Il Providence, whereby it was enjoined upon
man To- obtain his subsistence through the
ygboIesome arts and exercise of industry
aud toll in short, believing as we consci-
entiously do, that the whole scheme of tue
! Gonfederates isgcalculated' not only to ruin
our beloved country and all our hopes OF
human liberty, and to roll back upon this
era the tide Of the dark ages, aud is in di-
rect conflict with human liberty and the
welfare of mankind. Therefore
ResoIved, That the Southern rebellion