Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-23
a .ooa word for wheeling.

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week, puts in the following well deserved
words for the city of Wheeling:
There is, perhaps, NO city Of the Union
\ that has suffered moro By tho present TO-
bellion than the city of Wheeling. Lo=
Gated In seeded State, the manufaetnr-
ing metropolis OF Virginia, she had peen-
liar claims upon the patronage OF the
South, and, in fact, most Of her manntae5
turing trade was With the Southern States.
Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana pur-
chased largely of their Steam Engines,
Sugar Mills, Wagons, Iron, Nails, CastingsI
Glassware, de-, in wheeling and ~ the
time Of the secession of these States she
was enjoying q prosperous trade with them
and other Southern States but In the on
set of rebellion the devotion Of her citizens
! 10 the cause Of the Union and the Consti-
tuition, their loyalty to their Government
triumphed over what seemed 70 be her pc
/ euniaFy interests, and the price Of that
devotion was the entire loss of what had
hitherto been prosperous trade, aud she
was len, for time, without trade, and her
citizens without NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
whom felt like changing their harps upon
the willows aud weeping after that trade
/ and that employment that had been so
completely swallowed up by the blighung
monster Of disnnion.
The indomiRbIe energy of her citizens,
however, has been rs uneonquerable as their
l devotion to the Union; ana they have
\ speedily turned machine shops into wagon
| factories, and her warehouses into saddle
/ and harness manufactures, and are busily
engaged in making up for the Government
the munitions and aceoutrements Of war
There have been Hundreds OF wagons
made in Wheeling of the very best kind,
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4 dred persons engaged ina the manufacture
| of saddles and harness for the Government;
and, what Is most 70 the credit of those en-
/ gagged In the work, not single job that has
4 been completed in Wheeling for the Gov
eminent has been condemned or rejected
/ on account of defects in materials orwork-
mauship. G
The Government, in giving out contracts,
should look well to these matters, and
4 should at ell times pRtrouize those who
have most faithfully and honestly filled
their former contracts; and, where possible.
discriminate in favor of those who have
lost most by their devotion to the cause Of
the Union.
The manufacturers do not ask any dis.
elimination in their favor, except that
which the superiority of their work enti
ties them TO. The wagons manufactured
here are notoriously better than hose man
ufactured elsewhere, and the same may be
said of the cavalry equipments sent out
from our shops. Our manufacturers are
becoming better. known TO the Government
by their works and we are glad to see that
they have competed aud are still prepared
to compete successfully with mauufactur-.
ers elsewhere.
II has been urged by some that it
would be a stroke Of policy on the part Of
the Government, as fast as IT seizes any Of
the cotton ports 70 open up a trade
through them, and export cotton to Eu-
rope. This, tits argued, would remove the
excuse Of England aud France for desir-
ing to break tho blockade, and would, at
the same time produce a revolution among
the cotton planters themselves, many Of
whom, 1t Is thought, would bring their
cotton to such ports for shipment, in spite
Of tne prohibition by the Confederate au-
thorties. The N. Y. Postexpresses con-
traFy opinion, ridicules Simmons idea of
taking q boat load of Yankee knick- knneks
down there to trade for cotton, and says:
The Government, 1t is safe to believe, is
4 nIan. IN which every stroke sbaIl bear ia
nurt 10 The General resnlt. In this General
4 pIsn Port Roval Il f,onbtIess imnortant "a
haze If oT,sra,jons inst "a Fort PieIsens
il: mt a Penseoola- IL, not vel opened as n
cotton port. ID neither il Beauforr likely. 10
be. ItWould be absurd to establish trade
with the rebels, either on Hilton Head or
on Santa Rosa Island; aud thegoverument,
whisn Knows maine gtestes. apnSyanSe
commerce. is not likely to destroy this.
wholesome measure by voluntarily open.