Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-12
JuasoFummsrs aud his Letter.

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JudgoEuamsrsH aud his Letter.
We print to-day letter from Judge
Summers, of RaaaWba, handing 10 to Gov.
-Letcher the resignation of his seat in the
Richmond Convention. This Convention.
1T will be remembered, adjourned to meet
on the 18th of June again. and consequent
ly resumes operations this morning. OF
course a great many of its former members
will turn up missing almost all of those
from the West. Judge Summers, we fan.
cy, whatever may be his other reasons had
no desire to resume his seat in that body.
With his sentiments, his situation as a
member of any such body as will again
convene there, would be anything else than
pleasant. The probability is that he would
hardly fare much better than John u.
B"tts-thatis ifhe dared to repeat what We
all know To be his sentiments.
As to the JUICES letter, we confess, that.
we have but little admiration for it. Itis
weak kueed affair. Very. Butitis like
the Judge ia that respect. While adnitting
his fue talents us u popular orator, aud his
many excellent qualities as II citizen, Judge
Summers is a man lily fitted to meet
the exiEeucies of times like these. lie
Is proverbiallY a timfd, hesisating man,
who has been and will he ruled all
his life by men who have not half
his brains, but have what he so sadly
lacks, moral force Of character. The Judge
always 70 lows, aud never leads. He must
see his path clear of all obstacles and must
be we'll assured that he is sailing on u
smooth sea before he sets out on voyage.
Aud hence it is that he talks in the namby-
PANTY way he does about sending troops
into Western Virginia. All he wants is to
be '.Iet HIOne"-just like the Secessionists
talk. All they wanted here in Wheeling
few weeks ago was to lie let alone. Don't
get up your Union organizations" they
8aij-"yOu will raise nm excitement" And
while they were talking this way, Governor
Letcher was writing letters to Col. Porter
field to come up here, take our arms, burn
the railroad and its bridges and commit
any amount Of depredntiOns that might be
necessary to make US helpless aud defence
less. THIS is the way that the let alone
policy works. 1t means Secession and
nothing else. Aud Judge Summers when
be uses it is either wiIlfulIy or ignorant
ly playing into the hands of the Seces-
SiOuists. We hope that the good peo-
lie of Ennawha will pay no manner of
attention to what the Judge says on this
head. lie is not to be relied on and
We warn them now of that fact just as
We warned our own friends here of
the wiles of those who pursued a
similar policy. What the people of the
Ktnawha Valley need in their midst, is
United States troops. They need them
there now, aud we rejoice in the hope and
belief that they will see them there before
Saturday night. Already the secessionists,
as Judge Summers admits, are encamped in
that valley. They ought, every traitor of.
them, to be driven out, and we hope Gen
Mcclellan. will do them up just rs he has
done those who cnmpei at Grafton and
Phillippi. Let the Scoundrels be driven
clear out of Western Virginia, and then.
and only then, We shall have peace and
qniet among Us.
Gen. Mcclellan should not heed all this
whimper and whining about INVADING the
soil" Tor moment. No sound Union man
talks such stun. All such men hope aud
pray for the appearance of the Govern
ment troops among them, whenever they
a threatened by the State troops, and it
Is very bad, as well rs a very weak
thing, for Judge Summers to talk as he
does, about the harmless designs of these
secession bands of marnuJers who gather
themselves into camp 10 Western Virginia
Judge Summers, OF anybody else, to the
contrary, let US see to it that Gen. Mcclellan
IS not misled as to the wants OF the Union
men In Western Virginia. Il would be u
fatal Gluuder to leave the Etnawha Valley
90 become a secession stronghold, aud it is
becoming one every day