The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-09-16


o in his pro- slavery opinions he would nc
n have had seat in that convention. Th
: scathing rebuke which is administered {
t this old demagogue by his new leader i
the paragraph quoted from the Intelligence
t is Justly merited. Brown, after havin
5 spent life time infawning upon, and toady
| ing to the ultra pro-slsvery school, afte
, protesting to be Democrat of the Calhoun
wing. that he might obtain an outside sea
, in the State legislature with reversionar,
right to a similar place in democratic Con
gress for four years, where he made that speec
announcing the startling fact that "Man
kind have always been and always will b
until the millennium arrives, divided int
two political divisions. They are that i
mankind now to be found in France in Eu
rope, France, of course, is not in Europe
in all the old world, and in this country,
now declares that at the time he made tht
declarations referred to in the Richmond
convention he was opposed to slavery. L
Brown now speaks the truth what are has
admissions and what infamy must be his
Remember that before the meeting of the
Richmond Convention ''the dawn OF the re
bellion" was matter of history, for South
Carolina seeded in December, 1860, fol.
lowed by several other States be-
fore the meeting of the convention
which assembled in February, 1861
The Montgomery government, if We are
not mis- staken, had been organized before
Brown declared his belief in the divinity Of
slavery. Yet in this card from him be
states "that since the dawn of the REBEL
ion" he has been with the Editors of the
Lateliigencer. If this be true, what other
explanation can be given to his speeches,
and votes in the Richmond convention than
that he was willing to see his countrymen
slaughtered by thousands, his country de-
luged in blood, and the land made a ruin
and waste; to the end that an institution
which he professed to believe was ordained
of God nigh be destroyed. For, be it re-
membered, Brown voted with the seces-
sionisrs in that convention for most of the
report of the committee of twenty one
which asserted the most ultra secession
doctrines, and against the acceptance of
the peace conference propositions which, If
they had been adopted, would have saved
this people and our entire country from
the terrible civil war IN which we are now
engaged. Can it be possible that while
Brown was thus protesting his thorough
belief in the divinity Of slavery and his de-
voted loyalty to the peculiar institution
he was, like the Editors oil the Lntelligen-
Ger, for crushing out slavery as means of
crushing out rebellion, We cannot in char-
ty believe Brown the guilty criminal, he
would make himself il we believe his card,
but rather think with the Editors of the
mteliiyencer, that his recent conversion to
aboltionism is the result Of his 'easplring to
public position and as Calhounism is now
undermost, and Wendell Phillipsism upper
most, he adopted such platforms of prin-
ciples" as will best serve his purpose
Three years ago Brown was politician,
and the Mtellfgencer, even while congrs tu-
lating itself upon tho conversion, cannot
refrain from calling attention to Browns
"new tongue" or to the very dffsret pur.
pose" he is now using the "old one."-
Brown, true to his old political instincts,
seeks in this card Of his to pluck from his
co -laborer in the abolition field, the Hon.
Waitman 7. Wiley, the anti-slavery lau-
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the old State in the Senate Of the United
States A few days before Browns solemn
assevel alton of his belief in the divinity Of
African slavery, to wit, in March
1871, Mr.. Wiley in "A speech in the
Richmond Convention, denounced Mr. Lin
coins election as fraud upon the American
people, and declared his readiness to resort
to war, if Congress should by legislation
exclude slavery from the Territories. Yet
if we are not misinformed this same Mr..
Wiley, few months after this declaration,
voted for the numberess bills that passed
the last Congress excluding slavery from
these very territories. Nay more, Mr..
Wiley in this same Richmond Convention
in a speech delivered by him on the 2sth
day of March, 1861, pledged his mountain
people of West Virginia to fight he bat
ties Of the secessionsts against the Union
as will be seen by the following extract
f1om his speech:
"Why, sir, we Of the West willingly pay
our quota of the taxes; but if don't mis-
read the signs Of the times, there will be
another kind of demand made upon Us; and
| take pride in saying that whether you
grant US this right or not, tins HeW demand
wiN be metto the fullest ertent. If these war
like demonstrations mean auything-if we
; are to be involved in war, as fear We
shall be-where are you to find the men to
fight your battles? Where will you get the
strong arms to defend your slaves? From
our glorious mountains Of the West. There,
where the white man lives with true and
loyal heart, you will find men now, as afore
time, to defend your institutions and yol1
| firesides"
What beautiful pair Of chameleoDs are
Brown and Wiley, Wiley aud Brown. In
the Disunion Convention at Richmond they
partake Of the hue of the secessionist in th,
Black Republican Congress at Washington
they are Of the color of the Abolitionist.
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