Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-25


Columbia. That, too. as We have already
said, he has told them. And now again
andagain We ask whatmorc could he do
what more worthy or more credible assur-
ances conld he give than he has given.-
Sonc-in our opinion none. And we say
this rather IN the desire than otherwise
that Mr.. Lincoln will, if possible say
soIaething. Z Il our friend knows of any
thihg that III. Lincoln has left unsaid that
he ought TO have said, anything that he
couldado or anything that he could suggest
more than he has already done or suggest
ed, wont he please let US have it2
We ask attention to the articles which
we publish from two or three of our Mes-
tern Virginia contemporaries in this NOR
niug's paper. They indicate, in our opin-
ion, what is the prevalent feeling not only
in this Congressional district, but in g
large portion of our western half of the
State. There are in this Congressional
district seven union papers, viz: The
weIIsbuFgh Herald, the Wheeling Stqats
Zeitueg, Germany the Wheeling Inteli-
geneer, the Morgantown Star, the Middle
bourne, Tyler Co.. Plain Dealer, the
Grafton Guardian, and the Pruntytown
Fisitor. There are two secession papers,
viz: The Fairmont Yirginian aud the
Wheeling Union. We cannot speak ad-
visedly about the Fairmont paper, but we
presume that the Morgantown Star, in the
following paragraph states the fact in re-
lation to that matter, rs well as in relation
to the proportion of Union and dis Union
voters in the district. 1t says:
The Wheeling Union and the Fairmont
True RiginiaR are advocates of secession,
which is Revolution or Disunion. We do
not believe there are thousand men ont
of the twelve thousand voters in this Dis
trict who are favorable to the Secession
doctrines.
We believe that the Star is correct in its
estimate. We believe that its figures rep
resent very nearly the disparity between
the Union and the disunion sentiment
Notwithstanding, however, this fact,'it be-
comes every lover of his country to unite
energeticaIly and deYotedly in routing
the band of disunionists who are in. our
midst. They have been taking advantage
of the apparent apathy, and the quiet, well
assured Union sentiments of the district,
to iaculcate their reasonable doctrine,
and to try and precipitate this district into
an inextricable completely with the seees-
sion movement. A correspondence. the
National lntel3igencsr, a.. venerable and
we'll known citizen of Richie county," ms
that paper introduces him, sees how this
disunion game has been insinuating itself
among the people of Western Virginia.
And he gives the note OF warningmo his
fellow citizens, by saying that there is now
on foot, a grand counter movement, hav-
ing for its object division of the State at
the Blue Ridge. The movement, says the
writer, contemplates -s,.'e
The erection of new State, embracing
that portion of Virginia lying westiof the
Blue Ridge, and destinedito include as
many counties east of said line, along the
upper Potomac and near it, as may be in
duced by identity of interest to co-oPet8te
in the project. Considerations Of an eco
nomicnl character, determined partly by
the arrangements of the present coiistitu i
ton OF Yirginin, deemed by many in the
western part of the State 10 Be Unequal in
respect to the rates and OBJECTS ot:tAxAi
tion.) arc represented TO bG;at. tfie!bdttUm
Of this popular movement, which in the
opinion of our correspondent awaits only
the opportunity and the pretext to assume
formidable proportions. i'-r e. e."
We fancy that this paragraph will be an
eye opener to some of the disunionists.
They maya well wake up Ghdl66Eitsduare
in the face. There is no doubt of It's truth
There is a very wide spread and. spread
ing sentiment in Western Vitgiui@'in favor
of a division of the State at the Blue
Ridge. The people of Western Virginia
know very well, and it is useless longer for
demagogues to try to blind thsmor recon.
cile them to the fact, that they have been
used as so many yassals 'by'Eastern yir-
ginia, and that, iu the language of our
Clarksburg contemporary, ..'tWestern Eir.
GINA has suffered more from the Cypress.
i've doctrines of her Eastern brethren thar
ever the Cotton States all put together
have suffered from the Northern Persona
Liberty bills" This is so. Any one who
doubts it has but to turn to the 22I and $50
clauses in our State Constitution. where
he can see the inquitous discrimination tina
is made against US, 1t is there provided
that "alI property. other than sIarss
shall be taxed in proportion to its
value" And it is also provided
} that slaves under twelve years of ag,
shall not be taxed--no odds whn
their value may be, whether FIVE hundred
or Eve thousand dollars-and that all over
twelve years of age shall be only taxed Al
the valne nf tl,raa hnndrnd dnllnrs r,..,..L