The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-10
We have suggested on one or two oo-


Wa have SUCCEED on one or two Oo-
casions that orr conservative friends
in West Virginia are rot altogether
'tharmless as doves" i would also
seem that they are not rs sswiss rs SER
penis" although they. may resemble
Them In some other respects They
have not managed their public meet
ings even tolerably well Indeed they
have been quite unfortunate in there
suits ofthem. They have been entirely
too Iatitudinous in their invitations
having called upon Union men with
out distinction ofparty'' to attend. For
example they had meeting not long
since at Ringwood, at which the hon
orabIe VIM. C. Brown was chief orator.
We learn that amer Ar. Brown had
spoken his piece, the people. whose APP
petite for political pabuIum was not
satisfied by his vague generalities,
called out James C. MeGrews Esq, who
amer repeated calls got up and made
speech OF about two hours, ut the end
OF which there wasn't much len Of the
conservatives or their orator. Amer
Mr.. MeGrew had finished, the resolu-
lions, which were all ''cut and dried"
OF the regular 'tcopper-eoloped strips"
were offered, and OVelehetMfa0iy roted
dolea.
The meeting at Morgantown, held
week or two since, although called in
the interests Of the coPperheads, ito af-
ford tbcm an opportunity Of endorsing
n President they were denouncing few
months before, was found 70 be at the
mercy Of the Union men before it was
over. The Union men present,
being in abe majority with view Of
casting ridieule ON the meeting, called
out man who had but recently re-
tarned from Dixie, and who feeling
complimented by this mark Of esteem
delivered himself at considerable length
much to the ehagrin Of the original
managers.
We learn that a Conservative +"
meeting was held a week or two since
At Jackson c. Il, which was addressed
by Colonel Ben. Smith OF KanaEha-
me resolutions in the regular form
were offered at the proper time and
voted dora by a deeded voiccI
The conservative Mass Nesting Al
Fairmont last week was another case Of
The same unfortunate kind. On that
oecasion the invitation WAS especially
board-''Union men, Republicans,
wings, Democrats" men. Of all parties
so We are followers invited. And
they vent, II appears. "a letter which
vrs Publish this morningshoEs how the
inst appointment for this meeting fail
ed on account of its having been set for
sunday. and how squire Tompkins got
into the wrong pew" After the Con-
sentative speakers had recited their
pieces, the committee reported the Ieso-
buttons (which had gone out from this
eitv on the morning train) and when
they were read and put to vote they
were decidedly pased dorm by The Union
a.ea composing a majority 81 tie meet
We don't know whether any other
Conservative meetings have mIscarried
in this way rnot. We trust our Union
friends will keep Us advised of all such
cases.
These things are easily explained
The conservative calls set forth that the
meetings were for the purpose Of sus-
tanning the President and the Union,
against the a'malignants" and ''destrue-
ives and s'disunionists.D These OBJ
jects are just what our loyal people de-
sire. They desired them SO much that
ihirty-one thousand OF them shoul-
dered their rnuskets 10 promote these
objects with their lives. They there
fore attended meetings called apparent
Is to make good what they have fought
for through the rebellion. But when
they came together and listened TO the
Insidious and dIsloyal and reasonable
harangues with which the copPerhead |
orators sought TO beguile them, they
saw the viper beneath the hower-and !
thew put their foot on himI
And fhey win put their foot down
sin more firmly on the fourth Thurs
day Of next May and still more firmly
next October.