Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-04-09

SECESSION INsNIRGINIA.. s-@r
The following article, from the, Washington
pa Examine, is worthy of notice, lest fail
ure to eoFTeetit might be Construed into tacit
acknowledgement Of its truth. The editor of
that paper knows little of yirginians if he SUPP
poses for . moment that they have the slightest
disposition to be severed from their Common
wealth, much less to annex to Pennsylvania. =
That. would be move the lastto be entertained.
Were secession thought of for a moment VIC
should want State of our own; SO our neigh
Der may rest satisfied that the annexation ques
ton viii never trouble his Legislature OF
course at would be very desirable acquisition
6Sr Pennsylvania but would It be for us? would
be the first question We would ask. The Exam
liner may rest assured that the Pans Handle has
no thought Of secession. No, neither Brooke,
Hancock nor Ohio. We know them all, and we
venture to to say that there could not DO found
ten sane men in all these counties, who would
tolerate the idea for moment
ThisWe say because we have as good au op-
portunity Of knowing the sentiment of the Pan
Handle as any one in It, and We unhesitafngiy
charge that tie assertion that the Panhandle is
ripe for secession is q SANDER upon the patriot
ism Of the whole people of our narrow neck
WeEnow that the Examiner is acting from erro:
n6ous information, and therefore do we at once
nail this charge to the counter. For some years
a-few disappointed spirits have been cndeavor-
ing to produce the belief in order to produce
thence the fact Thus far they have failed, and
filled signally. The true State spirit is alive
and more vigorous than ever, and these abortiye
efforts toproduce discussions will but recoil up
ON the heads Of the Pittsburgh emissaries who
endeavor to produce them. The 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
institutionso of the South. ID
we hope that the Examiner will correct the
SANDER upon our people, which it has (uninten-
tionally, doubtless been the means of cfrcula-
ting. We are not ready for secession, nor ere@
thinking Of it
'sThe inhabitants of that portion of Virginia
known rs the Panhandle arc 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. 1t would be very de-
sirable Acquisition to Pennsy lvania: The people
are thrifty intelligent and cnterprising, and being
mostly farmers they would add materially to the
bone and sinew,' as well as to the wealth of the
Keystone State. Besides it would complete the
geographical symmetry of both States, and cs-
pecially of Virginia, which looks on the map out
Of shape, with this narrow tongue of land pro;
iecting some hundred miles further north than
any 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
While, therefore, we would do nothing to per-
suade the people of the Panhandle to detach
themselves from the Old Dominion, we may say
TO them. that wheneveIithey make up their minds
70 do 80, Pennsylvania will be ready to give
them cordial reception. n