The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-06
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The Late Meeting in Capitol square.
\ PFesIdent johnson and tIie Virgin
ihns-.TIiey want % see hlm.-.RePu
dlatlOn Of ali Debts Contracted II
4 Confederate ''tFuck,"
(CoTsIpORdSsos q ne AltslliOeueey,)
RIcHXoND, Sept. lst, 1885.
The mass meeting Of the citizens o
Richmond, on Tuesdhy afternoon, wai
u brilliant success, and from 1t, we have
every reason 70 anticipate most salts
factory results, In point OF number
and IN TespectAbIlity Of It's elements
the HssemblRge was all that could bC
desired, and / venture the assertion
that In no cityiof the South cod Nor,
[ genuine 6ni I'M lhNiu hlIrb fbtVi q 3
nom d popular assemblage, or n mort
| patriotic spirit have been displayed
than In the addresses delivered on Cap
itOl Square Inst Tuesday afternoon.
A noticeable feature Of the affair was
the prominent appearance OF several
gentlemen but recently conspicuous as
Jealous cOnfederAtes, and In every In
stance the addresses Of these gentlemen
were calculated to foster tie rapidly
growing feeling OF genuine loyalty
among the people Of Virginia. Judge
William II. Lyons his fither, James
Lyons, Esq; William ii. MacfaT-
land, and Il. v. Daniel, Esgs., were
the speakers. The address OF 1Ir.
Lyons, WHO has been so long promi-
nent in Virginia politics, and who is
doubtless also Well-knOwn to your
readers us an able lawyer, has been es-
pecinlly commended for lis manly elo-
quenCe, ttnd the ffahliness with which
no acknowledged the overwhelming de-
fGat of tile South In all the issues which
they Hiade In beginning the late revolu-
ton, and advised cheerful acceptance
Oftheir present situation by the SOUTH
ern people, and firm adherence un-
der any and all circumstances TO the
Union of their inthera. The resolutions
offered by Mr.. Daniel, and adopted by
the meeting, We're IN NIL respects NpprO-
PIRATE, and we hope for good results
from their publication throughout the
North, aS u vindication OF our people
from the unscrupulOus misrepIesenla-
tons OF mend1cious correspondents,
who are more numerous than profitable
among us. Tho committee Of gentle
mon appointed by the meeting, to extend
an inVltntiOnto to President johnson, to
visit Richmond, will, in pursuance of
their instructions, visit Washington in n
few days, and II they IRE successful, in
n short time our people Willlhaye the
good fortune to enjoy an opportunity
OF making known 10 the President their
real feelings, nnd Of testifying to him
In person, their respect for the great Of
flee which he fills.
There can be no question that the
South Will rally to the support Of An
drew Johnson, and that whatever moral
lid he cln derive from their enthusiasts
tiG gtilhafhy, viii 10 heDCeiorth given
lifHs iii 6YidenCo OF thih, We hear Of,
popular dom mOnAtr tratlO1s throughout the
Southern States, indicating the purpose
of. the people 70 sustain the President
in his liberal and enlightened views to-
wards them. The conviction is fixed In
the Southern mind, that its only hope
rests in Andrew johnson, and that from
his policy tho South mny expect
everything tn which size Is Gnti-
tied and from this conviction arises
the encouraging assurances which the
people begin 10 realize.
In soine OF the Surrounding counties
the C9IpVHss for Congress and tile Leg
stature begins to wax warm, and from
the combined influence of n ntultipllci-
ty OF candidates, and an endless varle-
~ of issues, national, state, county,
corporation, political, religious and per-
sOnal, tho people are likely 10 witness
u plost interesting hubbnb. SO many
gentlemen are In thasltunLlOn Of Othel-
10, without an Occupation, that cHndi-
"grcenbHCks, y no matter how few, are
necessarily very numerous. am told
that in a discussion at Halifax Court
House a few days since, one of the can
didates placed himselffully and square
~ upon the platform Of "repudiation,n
rs applicable to all debts contracted
when Confederate "tFnck" was the
circulating medium. The people OF
New Kentin public meeting have In
dignantly protested against the adop-
ton OF the policy OF "rbpudlhtiOn,"
and doubtless u large majority Of the
people will be found in opposition to 1t.
nm glad to hear Of the probability
Of the unnnimous election Of Robert
Mayo, ESQ, In the first congressional
district. Mr.. Mayo Is nm old line whig
Of anti-seCession antccedents, and was
in no manner Identified with the rebel
lion, Messrs. Douglass and Taylor,
his opponents, are ineligible in cOnso-
qucnco of having been members of the
Virginia legislature during the war.
The statements published In various
northern journals concerning General
Robert f. Lee, to the effect that he was.
about to leave the country, &C., re-,
are all entirely unfOunded. have
late information from the Generals
temporary residence IN Cumberland
county, where he Is quietly reposing in
the midstof Instantly, retired from the
world, making no prctentious display
and seeking only to avoid notOriety,
while he counsels with NIL his friends
who seek his advice, a ready and cheer
full loyalty to the United States, and eX-
presses his determination to share the
fortunes OF Virginia, and exert him
self fearnesAy and constantly for her adj
Vancement. His son, VIM H. i. Lee,
late a NIaIor- General In tho Southern
army, and very prominent IN most OF
the cavalry battles in Virginia, is ut
worl; on his farm near the White House,
on the Pamunkey river.
Business Is still improving, new build
ings rapidly going up, new firms open
ing stores, and even additional news
papers talked OF. WehHye four news
papers already, and all claim to be do
ing prosperous business. Weather
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