Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-23
TO-DAY.

AO-lA H
This is the long expected election day.
We are called upon 10 go through the farce
of voting on the secession ordinance, pass
ed on the 18th of last April, aud which for
two days prior to that dale, and ever since
Inns been ia ms full force and operation as
ever it can be, though it be adop,ed to-day
by hundred thousand minority. Still 1t
is our duty TO vote--a duty We oweto our
seIves-the performance of which will set
us right before the loyal people of the ma
lion. We may be Defeated and doubtless
will be, bnt that does not affect our itnme-
diate position in the eyes of the country.
The vote to-day AfFords the peoplcof North
Western Yirgtpia nm opportunity to estnb-
lish their position and their patriotism in
ContradistinCtiOuto other portions of State.
According as our vote Is will QUE future
be. To-day NC are regarded with grea.
favor by the Government aud by loyal
States. They have high hopes of us to-
day. All their sympathIcs are with us.
They stand ready to afford ms all the as
sistanco that We may need in our detcrm;-
nation 10 resist the jeff Davis yoke. five
are true to ourselves to-day, that yoke
will never come upon our necks. If VIC are
not true We will be in the ruinous position
of having made enemies of our neigh
bors aud friends without having
gained mn equivalent elsewhere.-
Situated as we are in respect to the Jctf.
Davis rebels, it is geographical inpossi-
bility, that We can ever be part or parcel
of them, or that they can ever be of hid TO
US or NC to them. We are at tue mercy of
the loyal States, but thank God We are not
at the mercy of the rebels. Eastern Vir-
gini" may vninly rage ut our loyalty, but
her rage is impotent for harm. She is
separated from MS by two raages of noun
tnins and on her entire coast she is imrni.
nently threatened by the increasing Iegions
of the government. 1t is probable that in
few days she will be the scene of active
war, in which not only all her own rebel
ious people will be kept bnsi,y employed,
but all the cooperating cousPirators who
have now gathered within her borders from
the lowIands and the swamps of the Gulf
States.
Bat have no fears OF North Western
Virginia to-day. She will give o majority
vote against the infamous ordinance. She
will tell Wise and Pryor, and JET. Davis
and Toom6s, and all the petjurcd band OF
maraudiug desperadoes who head tho re-
hcllion, that she will never aid or sympa-
,hize with them, that some other hand
than hers will strike the blow That shall
blot out republican government in this
country.
Oar own loyal little city will give mo-
ole vote, So likewise will the county /;
aud 50 indeed will all the counties near
hy, above and below. Secession will fiud
noabjdtnE place in these latituIes. twill
be utterly overthroWn aud crushed out
by slsi vote TODAY.
We trust that there will bsa full vote.
Let one omit to SO 70 the pelIs. 1t is Of
great Importance that the Union column
be sWelled to Overshadowing dimensions
Let the demonstration in favor Of liberty
and democracy and constitutional govern
ment be so strong aud so orerpoweriuE
that the bldeous rat.issnake win never
showiIs head hereafter within our borders.
THE Secession sheets are just now la
mensi6g oyer the 'suEiugatioa of Mary-
land" The fact that the United States
troops 4 NOT murdered as they march
through Maryland. is considered very
drsadfnl Eastern YirEinia especiallyfeels
badly about 1t. She wonders why Mary.
land; has not thrown her shield before
Eastern Virginia, in imitatioo Of Eastern
VirEtnia's action fcr South Carolina.