Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-01
One oftho best Articles Of the Season.

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One ofthe best Articles of the Season.
A Pungent and ForetbIs Expose Of
the Scheme to get mp a ValfandlS-
ham Party.
We trust that our neighbOrs Of the whee.
ling Presswill allow US to call their atteu-
tiOu to the following take.o of from Harper,
Weekly, on the proposed new party, at
which they hinled so atiectiOuately the 9TH
er morning:
We have obtained information Of very
important political movement which has
lately taken place in this city, aud which il
likely to exercise no small influence upon
the destinies Of this State aud the Union.
II seems that, few evenings since, a select
party Of bankers, shipping merchants, pol.
iticiaus, lawyers, and editors met in pri.
vatc room at one Of our hotels, and resolved
to organize new party, to be known as
The ANTEDlLuvIASs.
A Prominent Merchant observed that, in
his opinion. things had been going from
bad to worse Tor many years. The en-.
croachmeuts of the executive were becom.
ing intolerable: witness the execution Of
the martyr Gordon! For his part, be be.
lteved in leaving trade entirely free, and il
man chose to import negroes from Africa
he saw no objection; 1t was notorious that
the spiritual condition Of the slaves in
South Carolina Was far superior to that Of
the negroes in Ashantee or DahOmey. He
went in for saving souls where he could.
He thought the legislation Of the United
States rotten, and advised recurrence to
the old colonial laws, under which his an-
cestors 10 Rhode Island had done uncom.
monty well for several generations.
An Editor, in rising, wished to say that
he was in favor of the prosecution Of tue
war. But be wished it prosecuted with
some regard to humanity. He was op-
posed to the shedding of blood, especially
the blood Of our brethren in the slave
States. lie could wish that General Nc
ClelIan should be directed to FIRE several
volleys with blank cartridge iu the direc-
ton ot Richmond, after which a deputa.
tion should be sent to JeiF Davis to offer
hiu the revGrsion of the Presidency on
condiliOn Of peace. His blood boiled when
be thought Of the number Of slaves who
had escaped from their masters during the
present war. He understood that General
Lee, whom he was proud to call his friend,
had lost two valuable slaves. Why were
they not returned2 Was the Government
common thief? He was not church,
member himself, but lie bad friend who
went regularly TO meeting aud who in-
formed him that in Deuteronomy
Here the Speaker was interrupted BY a
boy, who came in with list Of our killed
and wounded at PAiroaks, which the Edi-
tor began to copy for his paper.
A lawyer remarked that the authors of
the war were the people OF New England,
aud that they were real disunionisls. A
popular impression existed that it was the
people Of South Carolina who fired the lirst
gun in the war This was a mistake. 1t
was Massachusetts, winch sought sever
auce Of the Union, not South Carolina. lie
was bound to admit that tue former had
sent few troops TO support the President,
while the latter had dispatched her vOlun-
teers against Washington. Bat appear.
Rnces were often deceittul. The South
CaroliniAns were a whole-sonled people,
incapable Of dishonest dealing; whereas
he knew from experience that New Eng.
lAuders were rogueS. He bad case
Here he was called 10 order by the Chair.
man, who remarked, that while be was glad
TO hear that their friend the lawyer had got
case Mt last, 1t had nothing 10 do with
the object OF the meeting, They had met
there TO see il something could not be done
to stem the tide Of human progress and
civilization, which was sweeping before ii
the time.houorej prejudicSs, abuses, and
wrongs 10 which they all naturally elIng.
He would call upon his usighbor, the
Banker, TO venttlate bis opinions.
The Banker remarked that the great
trouble in this country was the want Of an
established AristocNcy. His friend, Lord
ThingumbOb, had told him SO wheu he me,
him 10 Pail Nall, and be was convinced oi
the fact, Attbe South, now, the large slave.
owners constituted an ariStoeracy not 90
solid as might he wished, be confessed, as
many ofthe young men IT the South were
apt to gamble away their uiggtrs; he lad
himself won yellow girl at poker, and sold
her sIx weeks afterward for $25OO thA
ha y; hut still the South had an Aristocra.
cy, and this was the secret Of the superior
ny Of Southern men to Northerners. lie
wns decidedly in favor Of the organization
OF a new party at the North based on sound
ieadAI principles. He thought the United
States required hereditary Aristocfacy
selected from the-baukets, merchants
bankers, lAWyCts-bAnktrs, men Of prop.
erty, aud so forth. liza plank TO this etfec,
were inserted in the plrtfOrm Of the new
party they might Couut him in.
A politician congratulated the meeting
upon the sOundneS5 OF tue views expressed
by the speakers, and the firm lront they
proposed to present to the peruIeIous here.
sizes Of the day. 10 the present disastrous
crisis Of the county be had taken bis side
some time since, and proposed to stand by
It. He was in favor Of the war ButAftst
the war, be wanted the tIatn quo ante bsilum
absolutely restored. HS hoped TO see hil
friend Senator tuow GeuerAl) ToombS, Of
Georgia, in bis place Ia The Senate; his
friend and correspondent Senator Mason
now absent 10 Europe, at the heEd Of the
Senate Committee on foreign relAllonsi biz
old acquaintance, NJ, Jefferson Davis, re.
Htored 70 the control Of the Committee ou