Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-25

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Repeal the iRGsIiixS SIavstL6ft.e
The reporter foA the associated press
furnishes the tolloainE outline of the re.
maFks'of AE. ,YAnI WipklS Ytnilths o. s.
Senate on THURSDAY, last, on Mr. snmasr'a
RRgs's fsPeSE} gltivs SFye fR
eMrSVau WfnEle said the rematk aht
would make, though not particuiarlyiap.
plieablstto tRe5hili under HG06sideration
would not be tinAppropri4te. The burden
OF the war, IN ,eontributions of men aad
mohsyS shadi been botl byl DE Scales Of
the North Set they hat eSeA ped the tFuin
aud bich the Border States
had been s9bjsetsd. 10 the States near,
est the seat OF var, loyalty TO the Union
had a meaning (which did not attach 70 it
else where. Hsidld not deprectate the ster.
log pstEiolism Of lhs North, but yindica.
i ted THAT t5ths Rnrier States, byipt6fing
that iA5iaFge NE n Of thetr inhe6itanis
had Fenleiued r1hsi4nt under The most
| trying circuul tArs a. For himseif; he
Wo1ldnot eonesd ohe j5t 5F tittIe 10 those
WHO were ID artla aSaiatf But the
day would come 10 the pleasure of PtoVi.
deuce, when every right; minded man
would desire to take by the hand in all
cordially and affection those who bad re.
peuIed of the evil thsy AohSht to do US
he condemned the class in the Northern
aud Border States who, while protesting
horror Of secession aud love Tor the Union,
constantly denounced those who are carry
log on the war. Wasfit just, 1T errors,had
oeeu committed, to accuse the adminislra.
ton OF un1orihy motives The GOVERN
msnt might deserve rebuke; but need the
rebuke be augry2 He then, proceeded to
nFOVB That WHaI fnia
constitutioually one OF tbs Uniled States.
aud coutroverIed the ground taken by Mr..
Davis Ou this subject, ComiuE from him,
the attack was peculiarly unkind,. RSSthat,
State bad less right than auy other to
be over \ particular on that score.
Kentucky bad been erected within the ju
rIsdicIiOu of Virginia, aud before she ob.
tanned the consent Of Virginia.s = She had
in defiance Of her authority, assembled n
Legislature aud organized an army With q
view of fighting her away iuto the Union
IL is lllUe quser,IhAt the elder sister, Wh o
mad herself snubbed the old lady, aud, Te
sistihg the maternal Establishments, had
Insisted upon setting up housekeeping for
herself, should De tart upon the younger
for following at q moderate distdnUs 10 her
footsteps. Toe only question 10 be deter.
mined, 10 orier to establish the cuuslitu
West Virginia within the Jurisdiction of
Virginia as one Of the United States, WAS
whether the Legislature ZWhieh- RaFe its
eopsentS - ue err elton vas Y fr4s Lee
gisiaIute OF ViEg giuls- y z quoted Article
Nv. OF The ConstitntiOnt which, aeeqrding
to Mr. Madison, permiIted \ new State TO
be erected wlthinthe jurisdiction of 9noth
er State; and bis Interpretation was coh:
frmed by the fact that Vermont, Keutucky
ana Name, each pEevioHslY within the
1utiSaE Eeitea of feu63 lst IS tate, hkve ~ dtfet-
eutPeri0ds been ladmiiIed into the p1ions
1 ID prqq ti1pG Die that the sfeig ~
6edy Of Wheeling E4Ietbe c6bseht re4dfr.
ed by the Constitution for the formation Of |
the new State, and that that body bad been
recognized as the true Legislature of Vir-
gluia by the Executive of lhe United States
aud By Congress-. He recOunted the cir.
cumstAnces thai jpsIi6sd, the reorganization
OF the Virginia State government, and detail. |
ed the history of the secession, movements
which rendered it necessary. II was said
that the Legislature which gaye the consent
to the erection Of West VirRinik did not rep
resent majority of the counties OF the
mother State. CounIies were not compo
nenL integers OF State, as the States we're
OF the Uoion. In every STATE they were
diverse in size aud populations; aud to say
that majority OF counties favored ameas-
ure is not to say that majOrity of the
voters approved of it. But would any one
contend that under circumstances such as
those in which the loyal people of West
Virginia were placed at the time that they
should wait until they were certain tharl
their number was equal 10 u majority of
theIwhole people, for could not a minority
resist apprehension, aud provide ne w guards
for future security. This was resisting,
not creating revolution. He Goutendei
that the loyal people uf Virginia only re.
sumed the Administration OF the Govern.
ment which had been Ins;diously'Wrench
from their control. This was no insurpA.
'tion of the rights of others. for should they
have prostratedi themselves in the dust, aud
licked the feet of their oppressors, justify.
iDg such humiliation by the plea that they
were mAiutaining their allegiance to their
State. The loyal men OF IVirginia fully
justified themselves in the eyes of mankind,
aud best maintaiued their allegiance when
they adopted the only course by which
their State could be saved to the Union.-
What might have been the consequences II
the men OF West Virginia had auccumbed
to the Richmond oligprcby. She bad bent
more Than twenty lbouSand meni ID aid the
UUion cause. II these men had espoused
The other side, the Confederate army re-
joicipg in their additional strength would
have occupied the: Valley /, Of The Ohio. .ioclu-
ding Western. Pennsylvania, long before
The fEssbA,tlsot Bay iRPu, TAs edhsEf4esi
Of these Stttdy noun tli6eets 10 tie Uhioh
has dopbtless tseoprsF many aWell laid
rebel plan ID Jan ID porla1f crisis 10 the
troubIea5of tse senptry., Nc. Van WipkIe,
said that he believed ,the aInendmeltl 10 The.
Consultation abolishiug q Slavery would.
meet the approval Of the people OF West
Virginia, as, in his opinion. the great ma,
joriIy OF his constituents would at any
time tsiHsee 1882. have, voted tor gradual
emancipation by the 4GoVetnmsift, f il had
been presenIeI to them as an isolated
questiois ID aaEga[ aud eousiitntioual way.
While lhts y9s The eass he was opposed 10.
the pressing upon the people the repealiof