Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-28

second many OF Der movements IL Is MOTTO
be doubted that we're Reofthe WesttO show
a united front in opposition TO her demands,
aud In manly resentaaent Of The degrading
inequalities which she has imposed on us,
that We would soon effect reformation.
And thai is just exactly what many good
nen IN the West have been lAboriug for
years 70 bring about, 1t is such couusels
as those of Mr.. RQsseII, that help to pre-
vent 1t, by endeavOripg to reconcile US to
the yoke Of the taSk-nasters. Mr.. Rus
sell says that the West could prevent these
grievances by putting forth her whole
strength. Bxacaly 50. Aud why does not
Mr.. Russell join in with Western Virginia
and ally himself with her sentiment and
her interest, instead Of singing hossanahs
10 Eastern Virginia. ii is surh influences
that operate TO encourage Eastern Yir-
ginia aud to Strengthen her hands, and
she will never abate one jUt or title Of
oar rights to rs. while she finds allies like
Mr.. Russell. Never.
But-it was not especially to go into any
consideration of the merits of the ques-
| ton of division. that we took up Mr. Russell's
letter. Probably, if We had not seen some
remarks on the subject, by writer il the
Parkersburg Neae., We should not have
noticed it. The writer We presume to be
a Democrat, :hough evidently not one OF
Mr.. Russell,s kind. la the course of his
remarks he says:
In my former article stated that in the
even, Of the dissolution of the Union,
Western Virginia had no interest in COM
mon with South Carolina; that even should
the State join the Southern seeding
States, yet such Onion would be of short
duration SIS to Western Virginia l am
prepared to hear the mean suggestion of
the probable disintegratiou of Virginia
denounced as reasonable and the author
of it branded as an dbotitionist; such being
the faTorite epithet applied by the dis
unionists to every man who has the indie
ipendenre to dissent from their treason to
the Uhion.
Western Virginia, from its geographical
position, must ultimately unite with the
States in the valley of the Mississippi.
There is nothing in this quotation that
strengthens our position on the subject, any
further than that it shows how useless ii
Is for Mr. Russell to deceive himself OF
other people, as to the insignifcauce OF
this movement for division of the State
1t is general movement, not local one
and it is advocated by men of all parties
outside the ranks of those who are in ia
vor of secession. In further support Of
this fact, the last Richmond Wing con.
tains the following letter from Western
Virginian:
STATE coSvExT1oH-AH HIT FROM WESTERN
VIRGINIA.
To the Editor of the Rhig.-I see you
are IN favor of State Convention, and
beg leave to suggest to you an influence
which will be sure to bring it about
Western Virginia desires very earnestly
an amendment of our State Constitution
on the subject of taxation, and a move
ment WAS in contemplation for that pur-
pose before the breaking ont of the pres
ent difficulties. If Convention is called
for any purpose, one of its first duties will
be 10 deal with this important subject, and
to establish the finances of the State upon
a footing of equality and justice toward
I'll the interests and all of tue sections Of
the State.
AS an earnest of the purpose of the
East to make this just concession, grace
fully and cheerfully, they will be called
upon to organize the Convention upon the
basis of representation in the present
House of Delegates.
A fair understanding on this subject
will contribute greatly to that unanimity
of action on the part of Virginia which il
80 greatly to be desired. VALLEY.
If we had space, or rather if the stirring
events of the day day did not crowd GU,
columns SO entirely, we could each day
serve up communications, both from oul
readers and our contemporaries of the
Western Virginia press, showing how wide
spread is this feeling for division of the
State. Many of the opinions are based or
artificial trounds-that is, on the Cypress,
i've legislation with which the West ha.
been visited. But several of them, and
among them our own, are based on natural
grounds-on the fact of great, irremedi.
able, geographical and climatic difference
between the two sections. We are at
much two people and oven more than those
living on the two sides of the Alps
If we are not, it follows that Eastern
Virginians and Western Pennsylvania.
are united, homogeneous people, be-
cause, as we said yesterday, the Cod
of Nature made us part Of Pennsyl.
vani", while the surveyors, by accident
or design, made US a part of virgi-
mia: We have the same sort of wenthe,
with Western Pennsylvania. 1t SHOWS
here whenit dOesthere, it rains here when
it does there, it lisa drouth here when it is
there; their creeks, and hills, and valleys
are parts of our own, are filled with like
lindIof deposit, yield about the same kinds