The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-26

Hlee Oh u SOnNtuIlOil Ou lOIuici oSSaSiOii'
for a seat IN Congress, and had then been
unsuccessful. When he last ran, before
the war, he was then an independ emf
candidate, and successful against hi:
present competitor.
He admitted that his election at thi:
time depended on Republican votes, and
although not himself Republican, he
thought their votes could with great
propriety, be cast upon him in preference
to the Democratic nominee. His appeal
was to the free and untrammeled voters
of the district. Conventions were Ell
gines of party tyranny. 1t was a despot.
ism that should be rspelled by the peo-
pie. In casting their votes for him, the
people would show an adherence of this
system of party drill and machinery. n.
He referred to his own political record
He was in Congress in the momentous
session of '60-6l. He had struggled
hard to save the Union, and had, after
the close of that session, announc-
ed himself as the Union inde-
pendent candidate for Congress
in his district, but when President Lin
coin called for Virglnia's quota of the
seventy-fvc thousand men to enforce the
laws, he abandoned his support of the
Union. and shouldering his rife, had
made common cause with the South. He
had served under Gen. Jackson, and re-
mained in the service of the Confederate
States until the surrender at Appomat-
tox, when he accepted in good faith the
terms so magnanimously extended to the
vanquished.
He passed high culogium upon that
patriot leader, Stonewall Jackson, and
said that he was
'One of the few immortal names
That were not born To die
He then referred to Mr.. Faulkner 5
record; to the speech which he had de-
livcrcd in 1882, in favor Of the gradual
emancipation of slaves in Virginia, and
To a resolution offered and speech made
bv him in the Constitutional Convention
of 1872, in which he declared that he had
not in any period Of his life rctractcd the
sentiments contained in that speech of
1892. He could not well see how any
man could have fairly represented any
district in Virginia during the eight
years that Mr.. Faulkner was IN Congress,
while chcrshing the sentiments Of that
anti-slavcry speech.
He referred to Mr.. FaulknerS aban-
donmcnt of the Wing party in 1877; and
said that he (Mr. b. had voted for Mr..
Faulkner the preceding fall aS tn"
Wing candidate, expecting him to carry
out Wing principles, but that Mr. Fauik-
ncr, to his great disappointment and that
Of the Wings of the district. united him
selfto the Democratic party.
He referred to II vote given by MIR.
Faulkner in 1886 upon the Congressional
Compensation bill, by which the pay of Il
member Of Congress was raised from
eight dollars day to three thousand per
annum. He admitted that Mr.. Faulk-
ner had voted against the bill, but he
might have done more; he might have
defeated the bill by calling for the read
ing of that rule of the House which for
babe members tovote on subjects in which
they had personal interest. Besides, he,
lMr. Faulkncr,) had subsequently ac-
ceptcd and received the pay provided for
by the bill against which he had voted.
Mr. Botelcr closed his remarks by a
very glowing tribute to the mineral re-
sources of West Virginia, and said that if
the whig policy ofinternal improvement by
the Federal government had been adopt
ed and carried out, those mineral riches
would now be source of boundless
wealth to the people ofthis State.
MIR. FAULKNER IN REPLY.
He expressed his deep disappointment
ut the speech of the gentleman who pre-
ccded him. In his printed address, he
had vauntingly announced that he would
meet hlm on the hustingS 10 discuss the
prominent questions likely to engage the
attention of the ensuing Congress; but he
had shrunk from discussion of all the
living issues now before the American
people. and had been burrowing in
the past, for matters that had long lost all
interest in the etes of the public. Joint
discussions would be of little value, il
such should be their character. He came
there tudiscuss public measures, and not t.
engage in references to frivolous points IN
the personal history of Mr.. BOteler or
himself. But this useless debate was
forced upon him: and while he deeply re-
GREETED the waste Of time, he had no al
tentative but to meet it. 60
His competitor called himself an indie,
pendent candldate-a ludicrous misno,
mer. rs we now understand the term in.
dependent; for it is difficult to conceive 4
more slavish and independent creature
than one who now assumes that position
He has no opinions upon public meas
urrS. or if hr has them, he is afraid Ia cN'
press them, lest he may drive from hin
the votes of some, on whose support he
relies. Such man looks for success
alone by pursuing course at which gen
uine manhood revoltS. He Mr.. +. had
never been one of those so-called inde.
pendent candidates, nor would he accept
Il seat III Congress if To- be- elected there
he had to refrain from the frecst and
fullest expression Of his opinions.
He denied that he was an Independent
candidate or Wing candidate wher
elected to Congress in October 1851. In
then announcing himself as candidat,
for Congress, he did so upon tn,
platform ofthe Union Constitutional par
ty of the South. He expressly declared
that he did not present himsclfas Whie
before the district; that he neither eN
pe"ted nor desired any man to support
him AS such. The platforms upon whicf
he was elected, was the fnality Of th'
compromise measure of 1850; The
pledges upon which he was elected would
! have been violated if he had not act"'
precisely as he did. The Wing party
to conciliate the North, threw those com
promise measures overboard; the Demo
cratic party planted itselfupon them, an(
he had no alternative but to do as MI
Clay had announced that he intended t.
do-takc his position with the constitu
tional party of the country.
He did not see where Mr.. Boteler de
rived the right to be the champion Of de
parted Whiggery. He deserted the Viii: