Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-28

before the Inauguration of this rebellion,
unless il be by the act of her own people
residing within her own limits, aud living
there, precisely as Northwestern Virginia
has done2 Then, sir, tell me how this Is
to be accomplished As the armies Of the
United States march through that portion
Of the State and drive before them and ont
OF the country, those who are engaged in
rebellion, and leave the ''loyal hearts" free,
can they not act for themseITes2 What,
then, IS to prevent them2 Have they not
the same General Government We have2-
Have they NOT the same Constitution that
we haTe2 Have they not the same '.loyal
hearts and the same wise heads that we
hAVe2 Ifthey have not, God help them
tLaughter) fear that even with our eff
forts they could not be saved. (Reuewed
laughter.l Sir, this great movement that
is worth more than an army with banners,
which as WAS we'll said by the gentleman
from this city, IS the movement which Is to
restore the CniOn-this movement has to
be made, and effected, and inaugurated,
aud persisted in BY the people inhabitiug
and residing within the limits Of the re-
spectiTe counties that have suffered from
secessiouism and rebellion. Have they not
within their midst loyal men, wise men,
men capable of being Governors aud mem
bers of the Legizlature2 If they have not
they could NOT send them here. They must
have members of the Legislature, and those
members must of necessity be selected
from among their midst, aud how do you
prevent their patriotic action, By either
bringing them TO sit in legislative body
at Wheeling. or allowing them to sit in one
east of the mountains Would they be
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latiye body there, than they would be sit
ting in one here2 grant you they would
not have the benefit OF our counsel, but in
days gone By they have been unwilling to
take our counsel. We have endeavored to
force II upon them, but we have always
been told IN effect, to stand aside, and we
have been spoken of as the ''dtsgracei
Northwest And IL is to these, sour
brethren" who have brought upon us the
calamities under which our whole country
isreeliug and tottering-Who have involved
rs all in one common rIin-it IS tender
consideration for these gentlemen that is to
stay Us in an effort made to relieve us from
a dominant and arrogant governmental
majority, and place US where aud make us
what nature and uatnre's God designed us
to be, free, separate, independent po-
HtIcal community, occupying place upon
that flag, star As large as either of them,
side by side with the Ihirty-iour now there.
That is to be sacrificed; our material inter-
ests are not to be considered; the wealth
contained within the surface of our soil is
to remain as it has always been, undeYel-
oped and weare to seek in other States and
in other communities, that sympathy that
we should share and which we would share
10 our own State, if we were not separated
from the rest of it by natural iusurmouut-
able barriers
You never can, and never will get with
you into c separate State the Valley aud
the Southwest, unless you conquer thepeo-
pie there, and force them into your State
against their consent and against their iu-
terests, and this, presume, no man pro-
poses to do.
l propose to say nothing about slavery
1t is not necessary that we should. If
reroliect Alright, it was not aIluded to or
mentioned in our earlier constitutions. 1t
was left . the Convention of 1850 to in
corporate provisions in our present Con-
stitution upon the snbject; and this was
done to satisfy, with others, this very VAL
ley and Southwest, about which there
seems now to be so much soiicitude. Con-
gress will not moot it if we do not. Let it
alone then. There are within the proposed
2T2, T59 whites. The slave population in
the last ten years, 6ithia the proposed
boundaries, has decreased their numbers,
being some three thousand less than
in 1850. think that the most Jealous
anti-slAvery partizan can see enough
to convince him of the propriety of letting
the question alone, its agitation, particu-
larry now, can only tend TO divide and dis
tract Us and perhaps defeat forever all
hope Of a new State. You need not fear
the vote upon the ordinance; the people
outside the Panhandle are almost unit
in its favor. The name kanawha was the
result of compromise in the committee,
preferred New Virginia, as more signih-
cant, but yielded. think KAnawha pre-
ferable to Allegheny. The mountains of
bat both the Khnawha rivers have their
whole extent in our proposed State.
The man who represents me as fayoring
the acknowledgment of the Southern States
as an independent government, knowingly,
wilfully and maliciously misrepresents me
and says what he must know is untrue.
If such were my views l never would
have risked all, even life itself, in be-
half OF tue Union cause, and If snch
had been my views Northwestern Vir-
giniI would to-day be in the hands of
Southern traitors aud as effectpalIy in the
possession of JEFF. Davis Co. as is the
rest and residue of the State. had
naught to do to secure traitor favor but to
initiate sach leading statesmen of the
Northwest as Summers and others you
and can name.
Senator JoI nson, of Missouri, is ma
tive of Harrison county. We were boys
or rather young men together, and have
been, from the time we first met, warm
bosom friends; and although his sympa-
thies, believe. are all with the South, he
is incapable of any treachery to a friend,
and would say the Union cause has more
to fear from the efforts of those who would.
in view of all that have done, now try to
throw suspicion upon or TO question my
loyalty than it has from him. Thank God
never deserted II friend, and II keep my