Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-22

eminent there has not been a nav passeJ
that has benefited or protected the white
labOrer in any way. And shaltit be snid
of those who make our laws that thew
think more of woody headed neRro inter.
csts than the interests of their moor but
honest constituents. Let them liewnre. A
day-n day Of fearful reckoning iscominr:
and those who think the working classes
nre blind and cannot sec beneath the veil
of this horrid movement, will be placed in
that retirement they are so fitted TO adorn.
In conclusion, dear sir, / would say, God
bless you and yours.
Union and Liberty, one and iGsepnroble
now and forever. a WOREiSGMAX.
These letters are only waits. 10 be seen
on the great current of public Opinion
but they are interesting from their repre-
sentative character. They serve to show
what are the feelings ofthe people, whenleft
to their sober reflections. And now the
question is, willthe feelings, the Eishes and
hopes of these people be disappointed? /
answer that do not believe thai they will.
believe that, as matters now stand. Union
will triumph over disunion, and that this
good old Commonwealth will be rescued
from the grasp Of the spoilers. Notwitb-
stnndlng, II is not going to beiaonL with
out an effort? The disunio isis are busy,
and they will, as indeed they are, hakiGg
every shit to compass their Infamous puF.
pose. A telegraphic despatch, for in
stance, was received in the citYLlast night
from De Witt Dc Jarnette, the member of
Congress from this city, statinS that war
had been declared and that 4 hill had
passed the House, at Washington, prorid.
ing for the employment and enlistment of
the army and navy to enforce tlie laws
You never saw such buzs, I'm small
way, as this despatch created. The seccs-
sionists walked up from their ddSpondeucy
and suddenly became rampant, They
logged Union men in the ribs Il the sun
per tables, elbowed them in the parlors.
and taunted them with the news, saving.
"fou don't propose to submit toisuch pro.
ceedings as that, do you2'' Cue of them
leaned over the shoulders of Nr. John N.
Speed, at.the table, just oppokfte where
was sitting, and says, "Well, 4 Speed, the
Black Republicans have gotjyou now,
what do you propose1tO d02p And thus
you might hear them all the cIening long.
low much. of impression they were able
to make on some of the weak laneed brcth-
reh, cannot, of course, tell, bat suppose
they would not have resortedto to the trick
unless they knew the weak plAces where
they would make capital The most sys-
tematic and Inscriptions ueank-in fact,
every sort Of means nre employed to press
the Union men into the secession ranks,-
Street corner meetings, militaty displays,
minute mems cusignia on cOatsI and hats,
and every thing of tue sort that might be
supposed to have depressing influence
on a patriots feelings. But, al said,
believe 1t will all turn out toflbe s.loves
labor lost believe the gallant men
who are standing so braEely up for the
untoply will be Ytet0riOnH +
G9Rside rabfq siHdIgn fled5
,t1lp pitr .trtihs bIle I'M del iron ,iss
NORTH y u The s6hfs lofsa habni 81.
Hall, the 9deleggte from 7Wetzel5 county,
who. habitnaiiy, asII am told, herds with
the idisuntonists audlis suspected OF being.
in conclaVe with them. he WAS greHtiJ
taken with the secession speeches Of
Acssrs-- Anderson and Benuing Yesterday.
commissioners from the States of Missis i
stppi and Georgin, especially with that
the Inter. tits well for his constituents,
to know these things, because he was only
elected through the division Of the Union
men, and had only seven Il believe) Of n
plurality at HAT He will ,uot represent
the people of Wetzel county, If he, follows
his present lead, and predict he will
soon find it ont.
There is one spot in this city;besiles tho
Capitol, where the flag of our country is
still streaming, and only one that have
seen, that is over the Wig Office. There
still you will see it, and all thought of it,
and talk of it, and sight of it, has become
such rarity, in this latitude, that it actu-
ally exeitcs no remark. Would you believe
such thing possible. 1t makes me sad
TO acknowledge that it is even So The
flag ogeF the Wing office is not the only
one about the establishment. There is the
one on the inside of it, which Edward Ev-
erett sent Ridgeway, the editor, the other
day, the one in which tue Boston memori-
al was wrapped up and sent on to Congress.
And splendid piece of hunting it is, too.
went up especially to see it dny or
two since.
Yonwill see an abstract of,ths speecacs
of tllc two secession Commissioners from
Mississippi and Gcorgia in the papers len
close to you. They consumed the whole day
yesterday, and were excessively tircsome
and monotohous. Ispeak impartinlIy, for
! like an able speech. not on my side of
the question as much MS any other kind,
and hold myself ready ut all times to give
the devil or any body Plseihis due. But
these two speeches were Just uothing in
point of ability; and III saying this, | beg
pattion of Gall of TEetzel, who, us 1 have
already told you, was pleased to DEATH
Aud u is that, which, as much as any
thing else, makes me think he must
be far gone Anderson, the Commissioner
from Mississippi, is very fine looking
man. Something after the older OF Judge
iBEoekenbroqgh, only not SO gross look
ing. he has splendid eye, and took the
ladies IN the gallery by storm, who Nll vo-
ted him. "iElove of u man. Gen. jackson
says his speech was ga tOlerable SoPhmore
(ps usually just hit the nail on the
head. The Commissioner from Georgia,
Mr. Beuuiug, is very common place in-
dividual, albeit he is Judge, when at
home. He made a long, scattering and
very ultra speech. He seemed, unlike Mr.
Anderson, to speak extemporaneously,
and for that reason had to stop