Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-31
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Monday, August 2sth, issi4i war '-D : -
IS Union EsnlIn the seesdsd states.
THE alien proclamation Of Jefferson D1
Wis gives the ayoWed Union men still re
naming in the seeded States, forty hour
IN which TO leave. His proclamation is is.
sued under rigorous act passed by the
Confederate Congress. That act author
ICES him to issue PROCLAMATION requiring
all persons adhering to the United States
and recognizing the authority Of the Fed
eral Government, to gather together their
personal eheets-tho few they would be al
lowed to take-and fee their country in
less than two days after the date of his
proclamation. Aftsr that time they were
10 be taken, held and treated as alien enc
mics. 1t is e1trernely difficult, if not i'm
possible, to ascertain the number in the se-
ceded States who would be subject to suen
, q proelamation-who, like the venerable
Judge Catron, of the U. S. Supreme Court,
would be obliged either to become hypO-
critics, and take an oath which was against
their eonscienees, or have their all taken
from them-eyen their life. For illustra-
ton: Atthe commencement of this war, the
idea that there was any considerable num-
Der of citizens in the Western part OF
our State, who opposed the terrible
despotism Of Eastern Virginia, was scoufed
at by the Catalines of that section and our
own. as bosh aud they were represented
to be 80 few in numbers that Gov. Letelier
was advised by such fellows as old Tom
Raymond and Sam Woods here in the
West, and Pryor & Co. in tie East, and
by the secession press generally,to hang
them'aH To do him Justice, Ex-senator
Mason, in his advocacy of the policy Of
removal, If they did not vote right, was
far moro mercifuI than the violence of1ha
e secession partisans, who would have treated
"a them at once to hemp. Let the present
attitude Of Western Virginia speak for the
az accuracy Of the secession phrophets as to-
- numbers. 1t is dificuFt yet to say how
q many real loyalists there are in the west
srn part Of our State-we mean our els
Allegheny region--who feel the proper
obligation to keep and transmit the noble
legacy Of our Fathers but the probability
Is, that quarter OF million would Be a,
moderate estimate. s iIs 81
The estimate is even larger in the follow
lag table. We copy II as the bestat hand,
as, indeed, the only one We hAvsseen and
: C. with many the estimate Of tho loyal pop.
ulatiou will be regarded as far too fayora-
p BILE. Time and the turn events, are the
,.r-r only resolvers of these doubts. Take the
+ssr case OF Louisiana. We have heard state
ments from Louisiana sources, to the effect
that there has been q decided reaction
there for the Union; that many desire
nothing 50 much as q return toithe glory,
prosperity and personal security that pre-
E d vailed from the admission Of that territory
into the Union, down to the fatal, iuhala-
tiou of the pestileutial gas OF South Caro-
~ lina Secession. They know that life was
secure; that property was secure that the
,s old Union never harmed the hair Of one Of
their heads; while they know that Seces-
sion is as the Bohan Upas, which has SCAT
tered poison over life aud property and
hopes and country. Such loyal Union men
would hail the waving anew over them Of
the Star spangled Banner as return 20
the dignity aud glory Of noble country.
In the following table the loyal poPula-
ton Of 5LouisiauA is set down at less than
the half We have been told thai, -rsallyt
as the heart is,-the State is for the
UnioaI 5e ).
We copy from the New York Tfats-not
editoriAI-the estimate of correspondent
,.sof the present strength Of the insuFrec-
1.-THE total population Of the nineteen
free States and territories Of the Union Il
ls,20OOO0. The total free population Of
the iFteen Slaves States Is, In round num-
bers, S,4OO, 600. Certainly, population
OF over eight millions OF united people
ought 70 be able 10 maintain formidable
contest against the Authority OF this Gov.
egnmant-if these members represent true.
IL the relative strength Of the rebels anC
the nation. Bat the numerical measure o
tho'poWer Of the insurgents, Is, 10 fact
no greater than the HgnreS which repre-
sent tho numbers Of that portion Of thl
populations Of the States who are in aetu.
~, q Febsiltou; and we therefore suhmit,I sidl
Nv side, With the total free population o.
each 6f tie S6uthSrn States, our own can
did estimate, dsFiRed from the best facts
We can collect, Of the numbers Of people
ID each State Who,at hsdStj wish success x
thehag nfsthnirJeuuntEg.l = y no An
In the following table abe EtlItt eolGrnu
represents the total free populate A, and
the second our oEn estimate of the nuns
Der Of loyal people Of each Of the slave
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