Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-18

$4,000 Will, of necessity, he repudated.
From its contraction, Western Virginia has
enjoyed no advantage, and having seeded
for good cause, She would never consent
Ito a blrdeu from which she had received
no benefit. Tho interest on this public
debt is now S2,oOo,oOo annually. If she
secedes, it is paid for tine last time. By
seccding she elects TO make her own terri
tory the theatre of tho war, and takes the
brunt of the contest, which will interfere
with and embarrass NIL her industrial ope-
ratiOns to degree that will render the
payment of her obligations impossible,
even if her territory remains united
IFar, norsopsT, hGerGteS the Stare. The
Eorth have been most Reluctantly forced
Onto this contest, which, in the already
diminished valae of its property, has cost
It q greater SUN than the value of every
leRr4 in Virginia. We are not going to
end it till we have guarded against, the re-
currence of q similnr outbreak. This is
the talk of the man Of business, tue maun-
facturer and the merchant, who in the out
set were almost unanimous ngainst any
step thSt threatened hos,ilities, aud SYM
pathised to great extent with the South
All now call for a final ssHlemeng.
1t Virginia goes, Slavery in Virgiria
goes With her. She loses the very thug
tor which she secedes. With Washington,
retained, (and it will be retained, if half
million of men can hold it,) it would not
be long before two grent streams of migra-
tiOn, one North and the other South, would
send every negro out of the State. Vir-
gina may as well understand. first as last,
the temper OF tue North, which is as united
to-day as are the people OF Chnrlesroa,-
that if she makes war by joining those in
actual rebellion, we shalt strike at her
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be tritied or temporiZed with. We are
ready for the contest. We did not provoke
it. We sought every means to avoid it;
but we 20 in for permanent peace, leaving
no disturbing element to again, at an
hours notice, cOuvulse and break up the
country.
Whit is the other alternative presented?
/, Loyalty and all the blessings of loyalty
all that Virginia has enjoyed for seventy
years. perfect domestic quiet aud order,
every possible opportunity afforded for the
deYGl0pmeut ut her material Interests, aud
81 large share of the power and patronage
of Government. Could any condition or
position lie more frIicitOus and lie .irable?
Why is it to be changed for certain de-
structiOn2 Only to satisfy such mudmcn
rs Wise, and such scounlrclS as Floyd
Men of this kidney are the head and front
OfsecrssiOu wherever it tcXistS-disnppoint
ed politicians, and corrupt swindling
I, knaveS. Can such men lead to any good
/ results? Into what plight have they AL
/ ready plunged this good STATE? The
\ bonds are now selling mt 60 cents ON the
tlolI"r--s. fair quO'mtion of the bonds of
I broken down Western village. Her works
Of Improvement arc NlI stopped. They
can be carried on only by the issue and
sale of hOu'ls, which every one now looks
upon Hs removed hardly an inch from re-
I pu,lintiOn.
Have not the. people of the State al
ready had enough of secession? Do they
not see that it bights whatever it strikes?
| that law and property are Synonymous
| terms, and that the violation Ol the one is
the destruction of the other2 If the State
! is half ruined under the threat of, seces-
sion, whore will she be when the overt act
hns brought down the strong arm of the
Government? She will soon find out the
difference between Buchanan aud his cor
rWpt Secretaries, and Lincoln and his Cab
met ut the head of Affairs. The hitter are
going TO try the experiment of attempting
to enforce the Laws. The people will
stand hy them in sufficient force to crush
| out nll resistance, wherever Or whenever
made. They feel that the existence uf the
| Government and society itself depends up.
on the success of such nn experiment.
When collision comes, their rnrnpst con-
viItiOns, which draws its inspiration from
Freedom, and the mighty interests they
have ut stake, will, we are confident, he
more than n match for that wild rage
which draws its inspiration from negro
Slavery.