Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-27

IT is of great Importance that the city
of Wheeling, at her January election, should
give solid union vote We. are little
city wedged in between Ohio and Penn
sylyania, and lying good piece north of
Mason L Dixons line. Those who tell us
that we are a Southern city simply try to
make fools Off five are Southern then
Cincinnati must be tropical, as she lays
some three hundred miles below us. We
are not half as Southern as halfn dozen
Northern cities We could nume-either
in position, in interest or in sentiment
It is the baIdest trash and the most un-
mitigated stuff and nonsense in the world,
to talk about US being Southern. We are
no such thing. The God OF Nature made
MS just like the country on either side Of
us, bone of their bone and soil of their
coil, and forty thousand acts of the Yir-
ginia Legislature couldn't make us other
wise. What's the use then in us here
pretending to something we are not, cal
ling ourselves Southern when by mere
accident of the surveyors or something
oflthat sort. we didn't happen to be n part
of Washington county, Pennsylvania
What is the use, we say, in the light of
this truth, for us to ignore stern I'M
, ehaageable fact and delude ourselves with
some rag and tag fancy that has neither
anything good or practical in it? We
address this question to the honest COM
mon hard sense of every one of our fellow
citizens, and ne ask them iii is not so
Just as we state it? And if tits, is it not
incumbent on US by every consideration of
interest, to say nothing at all about pat
riotistn, to put an effectual stop to all this
pirate about disuuion in our midst. What
have we got to gain by even affecting
dispRion feeling here, much less in really
entertaining 1t? Nothing in the world.
On the contrary, we have everything in the
world to. lose by such silly, idle talk.
Did it,eSersoccur to those who are in the
ha dE affecting it in our midst, that they
were doing the interests of this city
great deal of harm? Did it ever occur to
them that such feeling is a stencil in the
nostrils of the people on both sides Of us
this city2 the people who bring their
beef, their pork, their hay, corn, wheat,
oats, potatoes, AMI all their produce here,
and who buy OuE groceries and ralicoes,
as well as immeile quantities ofonr iron,
glass, nails, paper leather, &C., and other
manufactures? We say, did this ever oc-
cur to the would be disunionists in our
midst2 And, in addition, did 1t ever oc-
cur to them that more nails manufactured
In this city, are annually sold to one West
ern city, than are sold to the whole South?
Think of that, gentlemen, if you please,
you that are neditNttng a Cotton Con-
tederacy. a pretty Bgnre city like
pnes would cut in a Cotton Confederacy,
whose motto would be cheap niggers anu
Tres trade, wouldn't she? Wouldn't it
be nice, considering the quarters from
whence We draw our daily allowances of
meats aud vegetables aud eatables, to
ilesN- passport system, AID tariff sys-
TEN, a custom house system on The
other Nlde d Me river, and on the other
side of the Pennsylvania line? Wouldn't
such systems increase our trade vastly q
a mighty BabyleasSo, ssould soon come
TO be under sacls4sa Fegime.s Wouldn't
we. Yes, over the 1sft, We wouLl, We
Wonldbs a ons-b6rse feb, paStifs Ia about
a year CT less. That's what We would be.
In.about Eve yeats It would be hard to tell
that ever there had been town here. We