Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-16

THE Wellsburg Herald comes 10 us this
week with a very long leader in opposition
to a division of the State. 1t tnkes occa-
sion to define its position as the only paper
in the West that assumes this position, and
to remark that although the weight of
newspaper authority is against it, the dis
uuisitions of the Star and Lnteiiigencer, ETC.,
have not shed great deal of light on the
subject-a remark which we suppose to
be altogether correct, and which we know
would be eminently so if applied to this
protracted effort of the Herald. The truth
is, our position is SO plainly right, the rea-
sons for wanting "a division OF the State so
palpnble in themselves, that no light is
needed to enable everybody to see them.
On the contrary, it will take II Drummond
or Calcium light of the dnest brilIiancy to
bring out the features of the argument the
Herald essays but fails in on account of
the scarcity of the necessary effulgence.
The Herald does not oppose division
OF tue state Oh POaNts VI iSB''A''J' 40 ~
saws it believes it would be strictly consti-
tutional. This constitutional question has
been the great bugbear OF anti-divisionists,
but the Herald disposcs of it in half
dozen words, and bases its opposition on
other grounds. The argument about en-
barrnssing the Government was SO thor
oughly played out daring the Convention
Debate, that the Herald does not once AL
lude to it. The argument, If there is any,
consists in refuting the charges that have
found expression, as the Herald well knows,
for years, of Eastern injustice towards the
West, and in cndeavoring to show that the
commercial and legislative interests of the
West demands, or at least would bu
strengthened by, continuance of onr
connection with the East, This IS It most
extraordinary argument for a paper that
has held the positions which the Herald
has up to IL recent period. 1t is one, come
from what source it may, that is rebnked
aud refuled by the convictions, the com
mon sense, the experience dearly bought,
of the whole people OF Northwestern Vir-
giuia. We had imagined that the last six
months experience, to say nothing of any
thing prior, would have shamed such "
line of arrp aent so thoroughly that no one
could be found to utter it.
Besides, the Herald thinks it would be -
great pity to burden the Northwest with
the expenses of II separate State Govern
ment, when it is as much as the whole
State is able to do TO pay them. Is the
Herald oblivious of the fact that the cx
penses OF Governments correspond with
their magnitude? Would Il Government
for une-lhird of the territory of Virginia
cost as much rs one Tor the whole of it?
At any rate, wouldn't the Government for
the new State of Knunwha lie as cheap as
the present '.yindicatsd and restored
Government OF Virginin, not dollar Of
whose expenses are paid by people out
side of the limits proposed for the new
State? And then we should have the con-
sistency of State Government that le-
gisla,ei for !, whole people who aeknOwl-
edged its authority and shared its expcn-
SEES equally-which is At good deal more
than can be said OF the present one.
There is one thing about this new State
business that seems almost Incompetent
sibIe-and that is, that some people who
have been all their lives declaiming furi-
ousIy about the wrongs and expressions
Of the east, and the natural antagonsm
between tho two sections, {mind we don't
say this has been the case with the Heruid,l
have now discovered that they arc proud
that they arc yirginians; that the noble
Old Dominion ought always to be one aud
undivided; they never want 10 he separated
from the grave OF Washington; aud various
other very pretty aud euphnutous sayings
will which 10 tickle the ear aud flntter
their vanity.
The Htr0Ed, like many others since tue
State Government has. been set up here,
feels At painful solicitude about the east
pilies them exces sively and hopes no add
vantage will be taken of their extremity
thinks it wouldn't be manly or dignitieI to
do it, and even charges that all the reasons
that can he urged in favor of a division
may be summed mp in Ibis.
.Now is OL-R Time and let II, take aoirm-
tage IF IL
Well, for our part, we must confess that
is just about the doctrine. Now is the
time, thai's ccrtnini and We, not being nf-
iiicred with conscience so ever refined, or
bowels so compassionate as the Herald, do
most emphatically 20 in for taking advau
tage of it, Our very dear and much be.
loved brethren of the East would no doubt
he gratified with the willingness Of gentle