Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-28

very patriotic letter from Col. Philip st
George Cooke, OF the Second Regiment Of
0. s. Dragons, stationed ut Fort Critten
den, Utah, which must command consid-
cradle attention. He says that he has re-
ceived the call of the Virginia Convention
ON all natives of the State in the Army
and Navy, and that his respect to the opin-
ions of the citizens of his native State de-
mands of him an answer. Hear hiu:
"At fourteen years of age, was severed
/ from Virginia the National Government
adopted me as its pupil aud future defend
/ er; it gave me education ard profession
I and then made solemn oath to bear true
allegiance to the United States of Amcri-
CD and to serve them honestly and faith
| fully against all their enemies or 0ppress-
Ors whatsoever. This oath and honor
alike forbid me to abandon their standard
nj the first hour of danger"
Years ago, he continues, public men
at the South began to despair of their
future control of the Government IT.
ritated at the prospect, they embraced
wild, impracticaLle, State Rights theo-
rtes they resolved to rule, if only amid
the ruins of the country they conspir-
ed they turned their backs on their
friends at the North and West "they
forced an election by minority of
the people, and then gladly raised the cry
of sectional domination and of imaginary
injuries to follow. They took advantage
of their own wrong and pronounced po-
litical crime the success of n sectional par
ty to which they had deliberately contrib
uted." Then the Oligarchy of South Caro-
lima IA State not yet very homogeneous,
politically or socially, with any other part
of the nation) undertook to convert great
excitement into temporary madness.-
The voiceless inhabitants of six other Suites
were dragged into her train. ''The lead
crs have exercised every art to gallo over
the Border States to save themselves from
failure until desparately they lit the torch
of war; then Virginia fell into the snare"
In conclusion he says-"I owe Virginia
little; my country much. She has entrust-
ed me with a distant command, and shall
remain under her flag as long as it waves
tue sign of the National Constitutional
We have cOnteuted ourselves with Civ
ing the above liberal sketch, knowing it to
contain nil that was material in the letter.
The language throughout is that of the
writer himself, and it will be seen that he
speaks with but very little reserve upon
The grept question of the day.
a little trading goes on between the
fleets and the coast nOtwith-
standing the vigilance of the confederate
A correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertfser, writing from
inc of the ships of Charleston, says:
what do you think of the following
note, from IL feminine rebel
Madame L.G- sends her compliments
% the officers of the United States man
'f-wHr, now anchored Oft the harbor. If
hey are agreeable, she will exchange all
Iorts of garden vegetables for ice.
Although our stock of frozen water was
'ery short, two pals full of the best Rock
and lake went to the lady,
SAnd Sleat forever is she who relied -
On northern honor udnortheru pride"
The same correspondent writes: ,e-
can adventurous smugeler, who got a
ew hundred pounds of fresh provisions ON
board the Wabash, said that hundreds of
men in Charleston would sell US things,
nut that they feared we would hang them
Up Mt the yard arm. Have We not bound
ourselves to kill all the southern people
zOu can catch o. said he to one of our Off
era. Such a question indicates state of
ceiling which pretty satisfactorily accounts
or the enthusiasm of the southern rebels"
UNDER the constitution of the COnfeder-
tie States, and the laws Of their Congress,