Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-03

success.
/ have already mentioned that the peo-
pie of that portion OF Virginia over which
the recognized State Government has
prevailed had contributed their full pro-
portion of soldiers TO the army of the
/ Union. We have now ten full regiments
in the field for three years service, besides
! three sartillery companies. Three more
regiments are. rapidly filing up. OF this
force, from the best estimate have been
able 10 procure. three -tourths are residents
of Virginia, the other fourth being from
Ohio and Pennsylvania, The citizens of
those States have been anxious to enter
our service and meet the common enemy
on the soil of Virginia. We thunk them
for the zeal they have displayed in our de-
fence. It will ever be gratefully remem-
hered by all Western Virginians. Nor can
it lessen our obligation tor the services
they have rendered. that, to meet the enc
my upon orr soil and drive him over the
eAilegneny mountains, was the surest pro-
lection to Western Pennsylvania and
Southern Ohio. Let US cheerfully reeog-
nize the great principle, that we are each
and all banded together in one great cause
Ito maintain the Constitution and ths
Union, and to protect and defend each
3 other. Wien Il is recollected that the
loyal population Of that part OF Virginia
which il under the re.organiLed State
Government, cannot be estimated to eX-
coed two hundred and twenty thousand
i persons of all ages and sexesS and that
many of these must be kept at home to
| defend their own ifAmilies aud homes from
rapine and murder 10 which the people of
Ohio and Pennsylvania have not been ex-
posed; we may justly claim that VIC have
done our duty in support Of the common
cAuse.
Il l recommend that some provision be
made out of the State Treasury to aid in
the support OF the families of our volun-
seSrs who are in the United States service.
/ Many of our soldiers have left their fami-
lies in straitened or destitute circum-
stances at home. They have hitherto been
aided by county and individual subsesip-
lions, bnttbis resource is mostly exhausted.
Nor is it proper that this burden should be
borne in this manner. Some counties,
Having from eight hundred to.a thousand
voters, have raised three or four companies.
| Others with a much larger population,
llutve not raised as many. Asthe the taxes
which come into the State Treasury are
raised by an equitable assessment upon all
there Is an obvious necessity that the
State should contribute to this necessary
kexpease.
The Legislature has made no appropri-
alton TO defray the expense of organizing
1.-The volunteers Of the State, when called
| into the service of the United States.
devoted almost the entire civil contingent
fund to that purpose and then obtained
Temporary loans for the residue absolutely
necessary. The Federal Government has
Refunded to me considerable portion OF
tue amount expended, which have applied
TO the payment ofth sums borrowed. But
1 there are outstanding accounts. and other
expenses daily necruing, which It is me-
reSsary to provide for. All the StRtes, it
Is believed, have found il necessary to
make temporary advances ofthis character,
| in order to put their several quotas in the
| field; and in comparison with others, our
advances on this account have been small
indeed. The Federal Goytrnment recog-
nizes such advances as just claims upon
itself, and will refund them on settlement
upon proper Vauches. II must be appa.
rent, however, that If every expedition OF
IIhe kind, before being made, is to await
the action Of the Treasury at Washington,
1.-The public service may be greaty-per-
haps italy, injured by the delay. re-
commend, therefore, that you make an ap-
preparation for the purpose here indicated,
in order that all such advances for United
States service may go regularly upon the
books in the AUDITORS and Treasurer's
Departments, and be entered rs they occur
to the debt Of the Treasurer of the United
States.
I refer you to the Auditors report, ac-
campaigning this, for full report on the
finances of the State. When the State
Government was recognized, great appre-
heusion was felt that difficulties would ex-
list in raising the funds necessary to carry
liz on. But, by the aid of the taxes collect
ed in eleven counties, and of the amount
received from the Federal Government on
account of the distributable share of the
State of Virginia of the sales of the
public lands, under the act of Con-
gress, passed in 1871, we have had full
mcans of supplying the wants af the civil
service, leaving balance of eighty thou
Isnnd dollarsir the Treasury on the Thrift
4 eth OF September last. Owing to the dis
loyalty of Sheritfs in other counties, moth
ling was received from them prior TO that
date But the State GoVernmenthas since
been re-orgauized in a large number of
those counties, and loyal Shertffs are now
actively employed in collecting the taxes
therein for the present year, which will
largely augment the receipts of revenue.
1 respectfully call your attention to the
suggestions made by the Auditor in his re-
port, in regard to the appropriations of
your extra session.
There are persons among us who sup
port and encourage the cause of the re-
belIion by every means in their power,
short of overt acts Of treason. Their
persons and their property are protected
by the laws of the State, and of the United
/ States and yet they deny the obligation
on their part to support the one or the
/ other. If our territory should be Invaded
by the Confederate forces, all their sympa-
t6tes would be enlisted in favor of the in
4 yatlers, and their active support would be
given to that cause whenever it became
safe to do so. The treatment of such
cases is matter of great embarrassment.
Every government has the right to secure
l itanlf and its lnr,,l citizena aahinat nnen-