Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-03

a SAAABes
The wonderful change that has come
over this community within the past
month cannot have escaped the most
ordinary observation. Secession has been
laid low-has been made to bite the dust
And it has all been done peacefully, TOO,
been done just as freemen do those SOFT Of
things, by the power of the ballot box and
CT public opinion But a month or 30
ago the secessionists around Wheeling
were rampant, full of their boastiugs of
what would soon come to pass in our
midst. They wers Erpciously going TO
permit Union men to hold on in their
course until after the election, but with
the closing of the polls the career Of
Uutonism in this State, in this par, Of tAe
State as we'll as other parts, would also
close. Many were the anonymous notes
which they sen; to prominent Union men.
telling item of the delightful prospects
which awaited them, such as hanging,
tar and feathers. riding on n rail and other
pleasing aud frolirksome gaieties. 1t was
not long ago that a high official of the
city revealed to Us the fact that plan was
on foot among select party of these
tolerant traitors TO come to the EniciIi-
gsHeer Office and take down its flag
About the came time prominent man,
on the street was heard to express him
self that, "the ID abolition flag
ought to Ne taken down" And there
was, no d1ubt, a hearty good will
among u ndmber of the traitors to see the
Stars and Stripes taken in from our win
dows, as we'll as from all other places
about town. We were kept pretty we'll
advised Of their plo,tiugs aud doings most
all the while and felt well assured that
their time would, in all probability, come
about AS soon if not little before ours.
The doings in Baltimore were about that
time at their zenith, and the traitors here.
abouts were possessed with great hopes
for the success of their brother traitors in
Baltimore. They sat up late and got up
early to get the Baltimore papers. A rare
batch of them could be seen any night
waiting on the train. They were all eager
ness for the successful deaouement of the
grand Maryland plot. And no wonder!-
They doubtless thought that if megre
minority could successfully precipitate
things in Baltimore there was nothing TO
keep them from doing the same thing in
Wheeling.
But all this sort of thing has changed
now. The Baltimore plot failed. The
Government aud the Uuion men of Mary
Land put the thing dowu-their legislature
adjourned without calling Convention,
the Secession cause went under in that
State Soon the election came on here
aud the cause went under here also
And not only here but throughout Western
Virginia. The traitors were beaten beyond
all precedent. They were so stripped and
cut down as to be left perfectly at tue mer-
ey OF their opponents. Especially was
this the case in all the region above and
below this city. And we venture TO nsser.
the fact, that history does not record n
victory so overwhelming, so oue-sided,
that has been used by the victors with so
much of forbrarance and mercy. Not a
single deed Of violence has characterized
the victory. There is a moral heroi.m in
this tact that will forever illuminate the
annals of these times. Despite the knowl-
edge that We all had, that the darkest ty
rauny was being prncrtccd on the Union
men of Eastern Virginia; that they were
driven from their homes; tia, their pro-
perry VAS con6stirated and their estates
wasted and plunderedi despite ali the in
science and insult that bad been practiced
In our part of the State, despite every
thing that could aRgsavate poor human
nature, the Union meu of western Viz
giniS have borne and forebOrnc, and to.
day theiE record stands without q siuple
blemish.
Are not such people fitted to rule the
ds'tiuies of state-peOple who so we'll
know how to govern tbsmselves7 Con-
tFa1s them With Eastern Virginia. There,
violence rules aud riots. There, there Is
no security of life or property for a day or
an hour TO tho minority. Brute force ter
roriEes over the land, and even such osf-
liant men as John N. Bolts ara stricken
down Are such people e, to be the
Fulers Of Western ytrstuiaR Is such Se,.
Potism the standard that We should boz
% 2 NsyssI Western viFEinia. loyal and