Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-04-09
wRpNEsDAY MORNING. APRIb 9. sls5s.
SECESSION IN vIRGINIA.


The following article from the Washington
Pal Examiner is worthy of notice, lest "a fail
ure to correct It might lie construed into tacit
acknowledgement of its truth. The editor of
hatpaper knows little of yirginians, if he sup
poses for q moment that they have the slightest
disposition to be severed from their Common
wealth. much less to annex to Pennsyl yania.-
That would be move thelastto be entertained
Were secession thought of for moment, we
should want State of our own; SO our neigh
Der may rest satisfied that the annexation ques-
ton win never trouble his Legislature. OF
course "it would be very desirable acquisition
forPennsyl !" but would it be for usg would
be the first question We would ask. The Exam
liner may. rest assured that the Pam Handle has
NO thought of secession. No, neither Brooke,
Hancock nor Ohio. We know them ali, and we
venture to to say that there could not be found
ten sane men in al these counties, who would
tolerate the idea for moment
Tlisw say because we have as good an OPP
poftunitY Of knowing the sentiment of the Pan
Handle as any one init, and we unhesitaingly
charge that the assertion that the Panhandlcis
ripe for secession is a SANDER upon the patriot
ism Of the whole people of our narrow neck
We know that the Examiner is acting from erro.
neous information, and therefore do we at once
nail this charge to the counter. FOrsomc years
a few disappointed spirits have been cndeayor-
ing to produce the belief, in order to produce
thence the fact Thus far they have failed, and
failed, signally. The true State spirit is alive
and more vigorous than ever, and these abortiye
efforts to produce dissensions will but recoilup-
ON the heads of the Pittsburgh cmissaries who
endeayor to produce them. Tho people of the
Panhandle are true alike to their State and her
institutions They viii rally under the flag of
the State to defend the institutions of the State;
and, should occasion call, the people of the
counties Of Hancock, Brooke and Ohio will be
found behind no portion of Virginia in manifest
ing their devotion to their OWH State, and to the
institutions Of the South. s.fe55.
We hope that the Examiner will correct the
SANDER upon our people, which it has (uninten-
ticnally, dOubtlcssO been the means of circula-
ting. Ne are not ready FOR secession, nor eeen
thinking Of 1t.
IsThe inhabitants of that portion Of Virginia
known Us the Panhandle, are talking seriously
Of seceeding from the Old Dominion, and casting
in their lot with us from Pennsylvania The
PANHANDLE includes the counties of Hancock,
Brooke, and Ohio, with population of twenty
five to thirty thousand. It would be a very dc
sirable acquisition TO Pennsylvania. The people
are thrifty intelligent and entcrPrising and being
mostly farmers they would add materially to the
bone and sinew,' Us well as to the wealthof the
keystone State. Besides it would complete the
geographical symmetry of both States, and cs-
pecially of Virginia, which looks the map out
Of, shape, with this narrow tongue Of land pro-
nv portion Of her Territory. The annexation
of the Panhandle would extend the western
boundary of Pennsylvania to the, Ohio river,
where the charter to William Penn intended it
should be.
While, therefore, we would do nothing to per
suade the people of the Panhandle to detach
themselves from the Old Dominion, we may say
10 them, that wheneyerithey make up their minds
to do 80, Pennsylvania will be ready to give
them cordial reception.