Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-23
rlr. Hverett,s Letter.

The lines between loyalty anu t'e''SN" W
the Government, are daily narrowing down.
And we are glad of it, We point to the
admirable letter of Hon. Edward Everett,
published this morning, rs proof of the
the fact. That distinguished man has new
er been accused-even by his euemies-ot
unnecessary harshuess. Indeed, his fail
ing has rather been lack of the positive
element. Yet even he, the mildcst man
nered statesman of the country, has felt
himself called upon in this dire and dread
full emergency, to which the traitors have
reduced the nation, to advise the people of
every loyal community to see to it, that
secession emissaries, whether in the shape
of treacherous newspapers or public bah
blers, be no longer tolerated in their midst.
We approve most heartily of these sugges-
tons.
In the course of some remarks which
we had the honor to submit to portion
of the people of Belmont county, Ohio, at
a late public gathering, we. took occasion to
call their attention to the course of paper
published at st. Clairsville, and to advise
them to urge their county government
to bring the weight of their authority to
bear on it, and restrain it, by injunction,
from ever issuing another sheet, such as
it had been publishing. Like its compeers,
the Dayton Empire and the Cincinnati
Enquirer, it was, under the pretence OF
Union, q secession sheet, ana every week
it was disaffecting and demoralizing a
portion of the public mind of that county.
OF course it was not an open and aSowed
secession sheet, for it dare not be. There is
not one such sheet published in all the loyal
States. But when the time came, when it
had poisoned and poisoned, by slow de-
grees and easy stages, enough sentiment
to give it an assurance of division in the
county, when the loyal feeling had been
sufficiently dcmorali2ed to insure it immu-
nifty from public indignation, then the
mask which it was wearing would be
thrown off, and the genuine features
appear.
The duty of the authorities was not to
wait for the denouement of the plot. If
they did, they would wait fatally. They
would then, as we fear they would even
now, encounter the demoralized element
of opinion. Already the effects had shown
themselves in the aid and comfort that had
been sent on to the traitor, Vallandig-
ham, from that county. Forbearance was
becoming each day more and more vital
matter with them.
This was our argument to those people
then. 1t is our argument now. 1t was
not an argument of moblaw, for we believe
in nothing of the kind. 1t was a plea TO
the lawfully constituted powers Of the COM
munity to interfere in behalf of "Ii that
that was dear and sacred to the people
the preservation OF theirliberties and fthe
Union and the Constitution of their fNtl-
ers. This is Mr.. Everetts argument. We
submit it also to those same authorities,
and to the authorities of Washington couu-
ty, Pa, and of all the communities where
in disguised ennis sarics of treason are
ste althlly operating on the public senti-
meut. If the people fail to respond to this
earnest and patriotic argument Of Mr.. EN-
eret;'s, and do not at once let go all susie
nance aud countenance of the deadly emf
saries, aud, by the power of law, rid them
them out from their midst, the historian
will Justly account them unworthy to have
been saved from the great conspiracy now
beleaguering the capital of the nation,
LRTTER from DOWN THE RIVER
The Mcclellan Guards in CRmp--A
Brace OfCOwards'
Editors IptelliqIacsr:
Our pleasant yillnge of Darlington was
ealiYeued on Wednesday by the arrival of
the Mcclellan Guards, Capt. HOLSTER, an
rowtc for camp. The good people gave
them hearty reception in the shape OF
substantial supper. 1t appears that this
company was designed for the Virginia
service, but in consequence Of statements
received that the boys already out there
had been go sadly neglected this company
voted unanimously to go TO Camp Put
nam.*
On Wednesday morning the Steamer
LeonoYa, Capt. Davis, vas chartered to
CONVEY the boys to Camp Putnam, After
an eariY breakfast aud the boys were mus
tered iuto ranks, and few appropriate re-
marks by Capt. HolIstsr and our esteem