The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-24
To Hon. wai,man r. wiley.

Iafsllsg ~ and other newspapers, that
you pr pposo ~ address your fellow cltl-
asRs II several points in the First Con-
xrusslC cal Eistrlct, between now and
the 25th Instant, Your ls6ors COM
msnCi az to-day At Clarksburg, ana 10
.ud .xt Sa urday evening IN the city
OF Wheeling. For fear that some OF
YOUR personal and political friends have
f,rgoi zen your record MS poll
,lciAn aud statesman, and IN order
That those unacquslnted with
you. who may honor you with their
presence at your several appointments,
shall not be misIed by your willy cunning,
/ sug gost 10 the interest OF truth and the
honest people whose votes at the ap-
yros hing election YOU seek TO infuebce
for the purpose Of continuing the Ills
that are ut present crushing the life blood
uut If the iepublic-that 1t would not
Do olt of place for you TO answer ialrly
and squsrely the following simple ques'
tlun,;
FIrd-Were you not once u pro-
slavery man ANA slave OwnerG Aud
being a Methodist, did you not use your
lus renee with the Western Virginia NJ.
\. Conference, at It's session in Morgan
Town. ia 1859 or 1860 to secure the pas
SAGE of q solution by that body, decar-
an, its Ioy l,y u Virginia and the South?
SsrOad- \ ere you not Jealous IN now
y plhing,' and, m the Gubernatorlal
rHavuss IN rgiuiA in 1855 did you not,
M your p 'eches opposing the election OF
h snry A. Wise, declare yourself in favor
o. the tenets of that "dark-lantern'
prtv-thN Americans should rule Amer
i a-thereby meaning TO exclude all for
s,gn- born citizens, no matter how useful,
honest AMI upright, from any participa-
on whatever IN the affairs of this gov
eminent? And before and since that
sine, hsva YOU not repeatedly, IN your
.smperan e or total abstinence speeches,
made throughout the country, charged
the grow ny American demand for malt
LIQUORS to the presence and steady in
crease of he German population in our
midst2 And have you not objected to the
presence OF both our German and Irish
element society, because Of their re-
hgion2
ILyd. When member of the Virgin
ia Secession Convention, in 1861, did you
NOT. Rgter the Ordinance OF Secession WAS
passed, Ote in that Conventl51 FOR do n.
q. ID. Camden, who was sent - dele
gate from Virginia to the NJ l5omcry
Provisional Congress? And auve YOU
no, since been quahG.! l1-, YOU neve:
sided " abctted tn rrb" IroHt
Fourth, When you lett Richmond. al
ter the passage of the Ordinance Of Sc
ces-;on, 10 pay visit TO your family ut
Morgantnwn, did YOU not fully intend to
return ! nd resume your seat 1t the con-
yention'
Fi,M But before your departure
from Richmond. did you not, in secret
session If the Convention, make speech
immedi ,teiy after the passage OF the
ordnance. in which YOU offered in ex-
cuse fol your energetic opposition to lis
passage "he duty Of representative
Ia carr out the wishes OF his cOnstltu-
ants" and then and there promised that
YOU would go home and exhort your
people To accept the situatlon-that
sVirginiG must be unit
SrtI. &C., W hen en- route for your home,
on ur arrival nj Fairmont did you not
make In en- sgement with the telegraph
operator a. this station for the forwarding
of u message 10 YOU from Richmond
there was then no telegraph line from
10 ID should such message be re-
reiyed by him. And did you not say to
several of your Fairmont friends that
YOUR visit TO Morgantown might By sud
denly cut short by message from Rich
moud
.Ss1anth- Before you loft Fsirmont
that cav for Morgantown, did you not
express Your mind very freely on the
street and at the Mountain City Hotel,
concerning the situation of the then I'M
happy cpuntry-charging Abraham Lin
coin With the sin of compelling the pas
.Ape Of the Virginia Ordinance of Sc.
cessioR, by his proclamation, without the
shadow Of Constitutional authority, call
ing cut 10000 men to arms to make war
upon the South. and in your denuncia
ton nf the acts of theunfortunate PreSl-
dent use these words or then equivalent:
81 hid always thought could never wit
ness he hanging of any man, but now |
could see Lincoln hanged as high as
HsnAn2'
Eghh And before your departure
from Farmont, did YOU not say to
seve-al of your friends here that you
werc going home 10 encourage the peo-
pie OF Monongalia to accept the
situation forced upon the South
that Virginia must now be a unit
etc?
.N.H Wbor ,.,u roacboJ NDrrs,
IOWA. still entertaining your loyal South
ern sentiments, did you not expect to !
make a speech to YOUR fellow citizens At |
= gnnersl muster, which came oil the |.
mex. day or two after your arrival, in
fllnlment Of your promise to the Seces- !
s,or Convention. and your declarations !
by he way?
7snth-And because of Your opinions, .
in citation to the duty of Nirginians IN
tina. crisis, becoming known to the
Mo nongalia people, were you not threat
eaed by an Infatuated mob from
the neie hborhood of Cheat river IN that |
cot nty2 And to save you from possible |
vic lence, did not committee OF Your !
ne ghbors wait upon you and oeseech |
yoi to go straigtwsy to the Court House
AMI make war speech for the Union as
IL n' And did you not thereafter
dslounce with ali the bitterness OF
yolr heart the men whom you
bsi been SO instrumental in educating
in the school of states rights, and who
,olld not consCientiously pattern after
vcnr somersaults in politics? And all
Trough the bloody trials OF the people in
.bis region, did you not, by your intiu-
o. ce saw to the "home guards" IN Monon-
salis and Marion counties
Hold good sword but this Day
.pd bite hard where hound thee?