Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-02

ers should he entitled to the RICH. of snf-
frage-a sort Of oligsrchy, an aristocracy
IN which men that are wealthy shall
be everybody aud everything, aud men who
have not had such advantages shall be
nothing and nobody. Now, to show you
the great difference between you and those
people, would call your attention TO two
speeches made in the Congress of the Uni
ted Sta'es at the beginning of the rebel
lion. One was made by Mr.. De Jarrett,
of the Richnond district. and the other
by Mr. Garrett, OF the ESSEX district.
congressman are not likely to make speech
es containing doctrines which they do not
believe will be popular in their districts,
especially when they are candidates for re-
election, as both these gentlemen we're
and elected, too, to the rebel Congress. De
Jarnstt says it is only in a country where
labor is owned by the capital OF the couu-
try that republican form of government
can eItst-that republican government
can only exist where the capital of q cOuu-
try owns the labor of the country.
Mr.. Garrett says the great cause of the
failure of free society in the Northern
States has been that they have been devo-
tedly attached to a democratic form of gov
eminent. They have believed in represent
tatiOu on mere numbers of the people !;
they have believed in universal suffrage;
and in every country where universal suf-
frags exists the balance of power lies in
the bands of men who have to work too
hard to know anything about the govern.
ment. Now you cannot forget that so long
as we are the whole State, and you have
every part OF the State represented in your
Legislature, you are in the hands of these
men. If you do not get new State now,
| aud you go on recognizing the State I'M
! til all the State is represented, they will
no more.:consent to your being 4 new State
| than they would to be forever deprived of
the offices of tue country. What do you
expect to accomplish by continuing TO be
! united TO Eastern Yirginia2 Do you ex-
pect your condition to be improved IN
any way2 Do you want TO be down
upon your knees again before the
authorities at Richmond? Do you want
| to continue united politically and intimately
with those scOundrels who have brought all
this trouble upon the country? Do you
want to send back your delegates and re-
representatives. to the city of Richmond, to
oe run out of there by set of negro ira
| derS! Do you want to have your people, your
gentleman like my friend on my left (Mr.
Hubbard) insulted by a set of rufIiaus and
! scoundrels-[ nlluding to the treatment of
Western delegates in the Convention that
passed the secession ordinance1 tainted
with being told that he represented the
"white trash" of Western Virginia Cen
tiemen, have frequently in my life been
considerably aggravated. Ooe of those
times has been referred to by the gentle
man who introduced me to this meeting
| They were getting up u scheme in the
| spring OF 1860 which thought was de-
signed to aid those who were trying to
break up the Government, long before the
Presidential election, to appropriate about
half million dollars to a gun factory in
Richmond. 1t struck me if we were going
to have peace III the country there could be
no prOpriety in it. ! took OCCAsio: to NAL
some remarks against the passage of the
bill. Some gentleman had said dissoiu.
ton of the Union might come, and the
State was not prepared for anything of the
kind. took occasion to say that beiev-
ed the people of Western Virginia would
fight for the Constitution and the Union oil
the country whether assaulted by North OF
South. had no sooner made these re-
marks than delegate from the city oil
Wheeling-there is no mistake about it
rose in his place and said that l entirely
misrepresented the people of Western Vir-
GINA. He said when the time came'for the
people Of the South to take their stand.tht
people of the border would be with them
That gentleman WAS Mr. Kuote- John
KnOte-eud he is "With them, sure enough
| Laughter. Well, fellow citizens, for making
that declaration, great many men would
not speak to me for long time: and fol
making that simple declaration I was cou-
sidered an Abolitionist My acquaintance
WAS cut. Men did not like to be seen talk.
ing to me. [Gov. Peirpoint-Democrac
should have saved you-inughter.7 Moth
ing saved me. Gentlemen you sec now
which represented the people of this coun-
ty, Mr.. knote or myself No delegate you
can ever send to Richmond hereafter can
ever go unless he goes as political dog.
No man with any respect for himself-with
any sense of pride,-any feeling of honor
whatever, would have anything to do with
the position of delegate at Richmond from
Western Virginia. But, gentlemen if the
people of Western Virginia should ever be
guilty of getting down on their knees to
those men who have brought all this
trouble on the country, should never want
to have it said had ever lived in the
mountains OF Western Virginia. But l
think better of our people than that. be-
lieve they have some pride. l believe they
have some ideas of progress. believe
that they are going to be truer to them
selves than tOallow a set of renegades TO
defeat them in the laudable efforts they are
now making. Aud can tell YOU, fellow
citizens, just so sure as the sun rises on to-
morrow, that sure will the people ratify the
amendment to the Constitution. AID.
plause. We have in the House of Dele
gates men from nearly all the counties,
elected last spring year ago by numerous
majorities. Scarcely man sits in that
body elected then who did not receive a
majority of one thousand. And there are
but four men in all who are opposed to the
new State, and they all represent their
counties as overwhelmingly in favor of it.
But it don't make any difference what eff
fort may be made here-it don't make any
difference how much misrepresentation
may ha rnsortej m hare 1.o,, 49, -,