The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-02
A West Virginia Ornter on His
Traveis-IIe Sports Title-Hc
says n specch-He Prophecies Con
cerning the Past-He Meets with
Misfortune, and Wants TO go Homo.


cerning the Past-He Meets with
Misfortune, and Wants TO go Home.
ENTERTAINING EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE.
We find the following in the Lynch
burg VbyiRian of September 25th. A
correspondent calls it "Campbell's sass"
1t sounds like Balaam's.
THE SPEAKING At LIBERTY, BEDFORD
CoUNTY.--We give an additional sketch
from our notes of the speaking at Lib
erty on Monday:
Col. A. w. Campbell, of Wheeling,
arose and stated, that at the request of
the person who had announced him, he
would address them.
1t is somewhat a novel position with
me. It is the first time in my life that
| have ever attempted to say anything
in the Old Dominion, although / am q
Virginian, but / belong to what is
known as West Virginia.
We of West Virginia, while yOu were
allengaged in war, sat up an independ-
ent Government for ourselves, as you
attempted to do. l don't know that
should say it, but l am rs much graft
fed at our success as you would have
been had you succeeded. We we've one
people before the war, and we of West
Virginia were unwillingto to take up arms
against you, but were not unwilling to
take up arms to defend the flag of our
glorious country. When you arrayed
yourself against that flag, we were
willing to separate from you forever.
ran,,hlinnn form Of
ment. You have the example of our
people, and if it suits you, adopt it. 1
presume to say that there is but one
feeling among the people of the loyal
States, and that is, that the government
shall be reconstructed upon the
plan Governor Perpoint has laid
down to you to-day, and the
everlasting equality of races shall
be recognzed-every man i'll your
State, or mine, where the flag of our
country floats, to use the products of
their own industry. We white mon Of
West Virginia claim to have been eman-
cipated, as we'll as the colored people of
this State. 1t appears that when this
emancipation game was being played,
everybody took hand in it, and these
colored people here turned up trumps,
and so did the white people of my State
we were granted our liberty. The
colored people should never have been
held in slavery. have always opposed
il, and ii was more than dare do to
come down here and tell you that, and
discuss the question. | would have
been mobbed, but that day of gag law
is passed, and you can't play that
game again. Thank God we have q
free country and the liberty of the press
and speech. We claim to have been
emancipated in West Virginia, be-
cause you people of Eastern Virginia
had the monopoly; we were your hew-
ers of wood and drawers of water. You
spent of our money; you monopollZed
all the offices; you built your railroads,
canals and public improvements-and
taxed us to pay for these expenditures,
and deprived us every right. You were
allowed to come to our State and pro-
claim yonr slavery deetriues-you would
not allow us to come here and say any
thing against it. When your candidate
for Governor, Mr.. Goggin, the advocate
Of slavery, came there, he was allowed
q hearing, and / had the honor to op-
pose him in that canvass.
(Mr. Goggin. who was in the crowd
near the speaker, stated that he, the
speaker was endeavoring to create the
impression that he was the pro-slayery
candidate, and advocated slavery in
that canvass, and these assertions were
false and without the shadow of truth,
and he challenged him to point to one
instance in that canvass where he had
advocated slavery
The West Virginia orator was consld-
erably non-plussed at this, and brought
his rambling and insulting remarks to
n speedy close, intimating that it was
the last time he would address that au-
-dienee. tE ~ ,
Mr.. VIM. L. Goggin was then called
for clamorously, and he spoke at some
length, refuting the charges made
against him "by the young man TO
whom be had been casually introduced"
In the course of his remarks, Mr.. Cog
gin said: 81 had no idea, of being called
to the stand to-day, and would have
had nothing to say, had it not been for
the illusions made to me-. Icame here
with my friend, Governor Pierpoint, as
/ choose to call him, and / mean II in
the fullest sense. How else could l re-
gard him, when l remember that when
| was engaged in that canvass, to which
allusion has been made, he was the
first man in that distant part of the
State who took me by the hand and
fought gallantly for my successi He
was no such Phariseo as the young man
who has Just spoken; there were no such
limpediments in his way, that prevent
ed him from supporting me-"
In alluding to the feeling between
the servants and their masters, he said,
"'I recognize before me three men who
were once my property, and if ] needed
q friend in trouble, who I know would
stand by me, i would call ON no one
sooner than that celored man, pointing
to q colored man in the crowd, who re-
sponded ('You're right 'bout that Mars
William.)."
Mr.. G. continued his. remarks for some
time. which were received with loud
applause BY the freedmen, as well as
the whites Of his audience.