Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-03

York influence and secret agens VI w"
York bond holders and all that, he must
know by this time, at least, that the in-
situation is utterly groundless. We have
conyersed with several members of the
Convention and have yet to know Of any
one who saw or heard OF such an agent or
fell, such an influence in the Convention.
The only gentleman who was here from
New York during the sitting of the Con-
vention, was, to our personal knowledge.
an cut and out advocate for division OF
the s..,e, and an immediate division, toos
We make bold to say that IL ever COM
ysu.iou assembled in this country that was
governed soIelyand exclusively by patriot.
10 motives aud a disiptsrested desire 70 do
the very best thing they could do, IL was
the late wheeling Convention. And that
they did do the best thing they could have
done. every day, in our opinion, more con-
clustvely shows. They have formed a
growing ueucIeus for State government,
around which all the Union sentiment OF
the st.tethat is free, is rallying, and around
which 1t will increasingly rally as fast as
it is lot up from under the desPotism that
overpowers it.
So plain was the path of duty to all the
delegates that there was scarcely divis-
ion of opinion from the start. They saw
at once that this was not the time to move
for a division. The very fact that dele
gates were present from other parts of the
State was of itself matter OF moment
which they could notafford TO overlook. But
their chief difficulty Was in the fact, that
Congress could not recognize such divis-
ion unless IL was made first, by the consent
Of our Legislature and themselves con-
iointly,and second, because it was manifest
" the determination of the government to
restore every State " this Union whole and
entire, Just as she left. In other words to
restore tho status of the Union. Very
great pains had been taken to ascertain the
sentiments of the government in this par
ticulAr, aud more than one embassy vis-
tied the authorities at Washington just for
that purpose How then, could any dele
gate consent in the face of all these facts
and all their light and knowledge, to SO
triie with the people AS to inaugurate a
line Of policy in which they could not at
the present tiGae sustain themselves
There is one other remark in the Star'a
article, to which we will allude. 1t is that
concerning the State Indebtedness. "The
first effect" tof the action of our couven.
toni, says the editor, sis! to assume the
State debt, which is S5O, 1000, oOO." This
remark would imply that il We had divid-
ed at once, We should have escaped this
debt. We suppose this was the idea in
tended to be conveyed TO The readers oil
the Star. 1t would be very erroneous
one, indeed. We would be far from escap-
ing one hairs breadth of all that we are
liable for now. Our position would be
lust the same. That debt belongs geo.
graphically to both what is and what
would haze been all Virginia, had we
divided-and the people of no county
or section could rid themselves of their
liability for it, anymore than A could es-
cape the incurred debts of the firm of A
L D, simply by Withdrawing from the part
uership. Certainly the editor well under
stands the force of this assertion.
But We have devoted even mors space
than We had to spare to this article. We
conclude by urging upon the people Of
not only Monongalia county, bat Of all the
other counties of Western Virginia. not tc
be for moment misIed or faltered in their
hearty support of the Wheeling Conven,
ton, and the new government instituted
by it. Be assured that it was the work o.
your best and most discreet men-of those
who have returned to your midst as one
of yourselves-having common lol
and interest with you-and who with
you are prepared to brave all the peril.
that are threatened by the wicked desper-
ADDE'S at Richmond. Be not deceived
by any hasty or uucalled for cavils Or cen.
sures upon the action of that Convention
for we tell you truly, that whoever in al
our midst is not heart aud soul with the
great movement that is now N liking fol
our deIiverance through the medium o
that Convention, Is not With you in any
thing else that might prove better for the
cause.
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