The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-13

pie to the last reSort-A revolutions but
that all these questions had been settled
by the sword, never, ho hoped, to be re.
opened. The. point to these remarks Is
made the more forcible, ifhiSlory b cor
rect, In the unwrltten annals Of this gen
tleman, as Il Il said.he travelled Is far. as
Phlllippl with the rebel General Por.
terrified, and when that hero was routed
| by the forces under our gallant General
Kelly, Mr. N. became invisible In o stable
In that town, and that our boys, knowing
he had entered, concluded he must be
somewhere among the hay, and fell to
proddlng rather tlnceremoniously here
and there until an unlucky job Of q bayo-
net brought the quasi soldier to a surren,
dor; and that small touch Of steel, seems
to have satisfied him as 10 at least the
propriety of appealing to the arbitrament
Of the sword. ~. ii.i.
Mr.. Ward again gave US his Fourth Of
July speech denying that the war had set.
tied anything. He believed he was one
Of the happy number who were declared
citizens under the Fourteenth Amend.
ment, but he entertained the same old
opinions, and should do so 10 his dying
day. He wanted to know Of st. Peter
(Mr. Wiley IL the war had settled the
Declaration Of Independence, and II 50,
what was TO DO done for materials hereal.
ter for schoolboy speeches on Fourth o.
July occasions.
Mr.. Wiley said he was ready to answer
the gcntleman's question, that the war
had settled forever, he hoped tho grand
principles enunciated in the declaration Of
our fathers, that all men are free and
equal, and that the undeniable rights OF
man,-lifc and liberty-whiCh does not
float over this hall-was unfurled. And
he thanked God that while these great
questions had been settled, our land was
preserved, and our flag respected by
every nation under the sun.
Yesterday the President presented to
the Convention the proceedings Of the
Grafton meeting, saying he had received
them by mail, without any request, but
that he laid the same before this body for
their consideration, as was evidently the
wish Of those who sent 1t. III
Mr.. Wilson introduced a resolution for
the appointment Of a committee of nine
10 report upon the same.
This morning the President announced
the committee which was found to stand
three in favor Of the proposition and six
opposed. This is contrary TO all parlia.
mentary usage, as the universal rule Is,
that the friends Of the object proposed
shall have majority upon the commit
tee. The hour arriving for going into
committee of the whole, the subject of the
Capital was left unfinished.
The scenes In the Convention for th e
past two days have been rich, and to the
looker.on, are certainly amusing, II not
instructive. The laborOfth Democracy
to do something, without knowing what
that something isis funny. The prime
cause for calling the Convention, to wit:
TO get thd Judgeships, and other smaller
offices will come up in few days, and
they will make short work Of the gentle.
men Of the ermine.
There are some eight or ten printed
propositions already before the Commit.
tee on the Judiciary, and more in prepa.
ration. Mr.. Wheat, from your county,
has one, looking like all the rest, to the
old regime Of Virginia,-and if thOre is
any difference between his plan and the
others, he has gone a little farther back,
10 the time "when the memory Of man
runneth not to the contrary" all Judges
TO be appointed, and taking even the
election OF the Clerk of the Circuit Court
from the people. HENRY.