Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-11-06

mall tue surrounding and adj joining
county to send us the vote of their re-
spectiye precincts, as we'll as any details
of the incidents of the day that may be- of
geRerhli interest: as speedily as Possible.+7J
Let US especially have the county vote.
s.sv< :. .ThosTVAdo9Axvakea.
"A very handsome tribute to the Wide
Awake organization will be found on. our
6rst. page today. As.sthe, cotemporarys
from whom ne quote, observes, It is truly
'W6rthy of,notice that Notwithstanding
4, e,great. extent Of this extraordinary orr
Rahisatioh, It's short history is marred by
no record of disotderly or abusive con.
dnotR Such, bas..been ,tbesrecorda Of the
Organization here in Wheeling, here the
companiess have bad TO .syald, as muehsiu-
suit as IN any place that NE know Of, ex-
cepE Baitimore, and ret in no. one Instance
haye.they ever fetaliated. They have, had
just the same .oppoEtupitiesEto play the
coward and throw stones: aud bricks from.
dark alleys aud windows .ass their oppo-
nent5, but they have never done. it, so
far. as We know of, not even = jibe or jser-
has ever passed from ';WiderAwake" ip
this city towards a.. procession or demon
atrattons6 any Of the other parties. They
have looked on and said nothing nor at
tempted anything. In short, here as every.
where, they have played the man aud the
gentleman always. In the Northern cities
and towns where they possessed the whole
field, and could, SO to speak, have done
anything and everything they had mind
to, with immunity, they have in no wise
differed in their conduct or their speech
from the organization here in Wheeling.
What a marked contrast does such con-
duct present to that of many of their OPP
ponents. digger thieves" "wooley
heads" ''Abolitionists," and every species
of ,opprobrious epithets, have been their
common salatations at every street cross
:ng every time they have paraded. Such
insults are hard TO bear, and they arc such
as probably not single member Of the
organization would bear when addressed
to him individualIy-but they are such
as the organization in its parades aud
professions has borne patiently. Aud
this even tempered deportment-this
perfect and universal propriety--this
tolerant and patient forbenrance every
where and on every occasion, has made
this organization the power that it is
and will it in history as the most
striking political feature of this genera
ton: Well may people wonder and adj
YoSH 4.
Awake organization, as they have done,
until eighteen states and parts of the
other fifteen have become one vast di.
rect or indirect Wide Awake confed-
Grafton. The. same causes have opera
ted on the public mind to induce this SYM
patty as that which operated on. the mind
of the British officer when he visited Mar
iou's men in the swamps, aud found them
living on roasted potatoes, sleeping on
piles of leaves, and uniformed in the
coarsest homespun, and fighting without
pay. The student Of American history
will recollect that that officer surrendered
his commission. to his King, declaring that
he would not fight against men who were
undergoing such priYations simply for
their liberties. Aud so the people have,
in less impulsiye way, perhaps, concluded
about the Wide Awakes andtheir organi-
cation. They have found in their ranks
the very flower of the young men Of the
country-young menrof the most general
inteIligence-young men of the best NOR.
alsAin short, young men Of the best hope
ami rrIV0Njsa e, fhe;r vit;a..5 FTLo.-
have, seen. these. young men voluntarily
undergoing. strict military dtscipliue-sub-
jecting. themselves to frequent and severe
expenses to much losslof time, to fatigu-
ing marches, to. insult and to all the dam
geEs5of concealed rufia1ism. And.for no
reward. other than the ardent desire to see
thepoliey oftheir country made free rather
; than slave; to see the great rights of free
Americancitizenshipi in all the States ofthis
Union vindicated. and the future homes of
themselyesand their posterity kept FREQ for
freemon. These desires and these convic-
lions have rallied them. Some, Of course,
have not beenrallied thus, but we allude to
the great central neucleus. of the, organiza-
ton. STouncrercohId- rail- such an organi.
ration for'saa very propa gandisrn-n even
II yop. paid them per diem for parading.
There.is nothing in the desolating effects
of,that institution that could ever eukiu-
dlsthe enthusiasm or the intelligence or
the.moral conviction of tho youth Of the
country. An institution that strikes
down,all free citizenship, that puts fsttcrs
on the press and gags on. the months Of