Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-20
sBCEs.IoslsTs seem 10 Ne getting very


SBcEs. IoSIsTs seenllto be getting very
scarce ont in MnrioG county. We learn
that on last THesdny. his exceiIeacy, 2.
KidWell, Jimmy Eeeseh, Esq.s dope Mr..
E. F. Vincent, more generally add faaiiiaFs
~ known as "Plcteh,'' having previously
given out an appointment to address the
dear people atwtn6eld. in tb5t county,
went there for the purpose nnds;Eilh the
intentiOn aforesaid. They took oh them
a large bundle of "wholssOms, truths"
ready made for the occasion, which they
intended to dispense With IN eye single to
the glory of John Letchcr and JET. DaVi..
They went 10 Winfield, as NE have already
remarked. They went there 10 speak, too,
but concluded they wouldu't do IL 30
body let nor nobody hindsred, for the very
good and sufficient reason that there
wasn't living soul or mortal man about
except the three distinguished accession
luminaries aforementioned, aud they, feel
Ing rather discousoIate over the pros
pect, took counsel with their good sense,
aad went back home, wiser and perhaps
madden men.
A FREUD who came out from Marion Fri
day says that at Glover's Gap they were
holding secession mass meeting, viz:
Fletch Vincent, the irrepressihle Pletch,
on s,ore.box, and about two dozen of
uuWashed lonfers distributed around him.
Two or three Of the great lights of Seces-
sion from FairmOnt got on the train, and
this motley crew was tho multitude y
waiting to receive and lEsteu to them.
Prcachiug secession must be getting to
be an uP-htu business out there. No won
der Kidwell declined to RIM for Congress.
with Western Virginia, and 6heIF
Hopes OF Her FIXTURE.
The Cincinnati Commercial has, in our
judgment, highly jodicious and sensible
article, which We copy, on our receut Con-
vention. the result of it, cad the prospect
before Western Virginia.
We like the eogent array OF reasons
which the CoamereiaI presents as the basis
for its suppositiOa and its argument for an
eventual division of the State. They are
every way tenable. The FIRST reason ia,
that Western Virginia is attached to tho
Federal Union, and Eastern Virginia i,
nOt--aud never has been, might be truth
Tullv added. In the next place, The geo.
graphical position of the two sections is
radically, because naturally autagOnt4,ic.
In the third place, the West is tenautet by
different kind of people, having diRereat
institutions. different markets. and, there
fore. different interests aud Affiliations.
In The fourth Pl4ee, our pc pie shave al
ways been the victims Of the legislative
8avOsitism of the State AlWGys. We
have, Indeed, been taxed enormously and
INDEPENDENTLY to build up local inter.
eats 10 Eastern Virginia" In the ffth
place, the State Is, as stated, Wssddlsd
With an enormous debt Of almost any
millions, aud its credit Is saakrupt-all
OWING as the CoRssreiai atrikinsly OBJ.
series, ITO she Encouragement and down
hill policy Of Eastern vir5aiaas In once,
while. the young and vigorous West is len
with ths Incubus upon it of having to foo,
the hiIls which it neree contracted. Ard,
ain tue last place. az the COnRTeial still
farther observes, "somes the croWniaE in.
justice and infamy so long submitted TO,
ofsaEsEins sllvO-owniuE n1bo5s 10 escape
TAXATION on tbs larger proportion Of tbeit
property, while the freemen OF the West
pay 0neroas ttxeS on every dollSt they
oFu."
This enumeration Is we'll prgseated. aud
NE hO9' tG4t all our readers viii re.d,
weigh and eoastdtr The cosaisrsiaFs whole
StttSle- Our Western lrgipiainterssts ara
Just noW The subject Of attsR,Ieu the eouu.
trI Or. Our apft. our clirnntn. e..,.- an,.rni