Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-06
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The Best strategic Point in the Onion
The Resent COHVemIioms at Riohs
3nond-tSh0tt the GoveF1lnaemt 1 should
!. To the Editor Of Tie N. z. Zsmes. 80
Politics are now so completely blended
with the suppression of tile great rebellion
we hare on hand, that Iwillbe e3cuseiioI
saying that Western Virginin is the best
1 Strategic point in the Onion. Missouri
MaS ne nVsr0oEge easily, AMI is Mt Vne
slde 0t effective operations. Kentucky is
loyal in her people; but her leading men
have acquired some strange kinks, ilint
1 wllhhe Increased or reduced hy the suc-
tcess. or failure of the rebellion: hut tho
n0plLAl Virginia bus thrown herself into
therOrtex. Her soil must lie the hattie
/ ground, and we hhXe the tlutyresting upoh
ns, as a. loyal people, to devote our atiem-
tentionE to that State more clnsely than 10
any other, as II father would devote his
mind to the study of the character of n
son who eriRced, Unexpectedly, mural tLr-
I,itude, or physician study u dcscase that
liesdid not fully understand.
! was resident editor in Western Vir-
Etnia for mure than tweuty years. / be-
lltve did my duty, aud at all timessoMglt
her hsst nIlertssts.{ Il thars recently spent
three Mtcks there ios, energetic efforts TO
promote the welfare aud ultimate prosper.
| ity and loyalty Of the State claim to
know the Np1ple and condition of the State,
and tIereiure write you EE I
I Virginia has produced great and pat
rintic men, hut lvr early constitution and
laws onlY regarded Eastern Virginia and
a few spirits as The true masters of the
State. Tue details of county as well q )
! Slate Government we've for the few, and
| Virginin west of the Blue Ridge WAS con.
/ sidereIl merely us IL cuIuuv Ot the Stnte.-
1 Its fertile soil and mines. however, secured
a, a,l'oImlation,and in 1870 was found great!
!, er thnn l1At ut the East. Before The next
! decade, the Eastern sOllgateiiy was COM
tpelitd to yield nlnOre literal Constitution,
the election of Suite nnd comfy Officers
| blythe people, aud univ1r,ul suffrage; hut
4 the%rtlnIned the rirH U0ee rtfe, ,-tlie, tibwer
Hf taxation on the one siIe aud of expcndI
ilure on the other. together wiih-llie old
/ L. L. v. social stntus. and thus kept the
State UttireS aud moral power, while the
| West was fed rom the crusts that fell
iI0m the table OF Dives
| lrcpcnt these facts to show the llilFirml-
I ties which the people OF Western VirEinIl
lMAc to enc oOunter, and that where they
are lnynlaud trup'tG the government, they
are 80 against facts which most If your
7 readers do not renlize. DO 'nut say lllcy
are more loyal than the people of tile Free
States; but they have mnre difficulties to
/ cUntcnd with, aud, therefore, their loyalty
is tried rs l'y IRE.
The Convention of The State. which was
recently held, WIS uncOnstitutionnlly call
I'd and held, Mnd its action throughout
was in direct violation of The Constitution
of the State; hut it WIS held at Richmond
under popular pressure, and Western men
{! succumhed, s0mC 10 feur, but mOst to the
hslief thu the men of Eastern Virginia
| Were tLeir- rigilful masters, MS they bad
been their rulrrs; and thnt they, as the
| representative men of that state had been
tlpItcrtd as tue mother of State ,uil suites
men, hud the right tu control the UuiOu.-
THUS f'Assed the UFdfnnacr. The county
shsritls, clerks, Judges. assessors, scollect-
Ols, &C., holding IlIgir-pOwer by election, ii
Iistue. bnt hnicua5le tot the State, regarded
their loyalty ito the State As par
mount to That Ot1tae UuiUn, or fearing
summary tiectntent from fees aud sni.
aries, became noisy rel'els. The power of
these, the lSOrror ut y Jferi ldei9s, Or some
other fiery paper, whose hume aud pua.el
they did uOt comprehend, induced nnny 10
submit TO tue rebel fever; but us u gener-
AL lhiuglhe great heart Or the people 6rN-
ced ttselfat the election, and in deti9nce Ol
4Il ~! !hese pooWers, tue vote OF Western
lMo 70 tpe uAlqp, aili
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