Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-30
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THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES R-
GINA.
An InterestInELetteF.

Am apprehensiVe that the final act Of that
Convention will tend to check the current
Of sympathy which was so generously
flowing in from all quarters for our loyal
tty to the Union and the Constitution
The attempt 70 divide the State espeel-
ally during the present distracted eondl
ton of the country, is regarded BY All Win
whom have eonVersed IS inconsistent
Il with an earnest and hearty support OF the
Administration, whose VieEs are well
known, and whose friendship it Is impor-
tant to secure, aud il Is considered not on
~ against the spirit Of our State aud Ma
4 tional Constitutions, bat small Imitation
of the very bad example Of Secession set
1 BY the Rebel COnfederacy- Il seems TO me
Il also, TO say the least, highly ungenerous
on the part Of our fellow citizens OF West
ern Virginia, thus 10 desert their loyal
| brethren in the East under their present
Appealing circumstances. Nor eau the act
Of attempted division be defsaded ON gem
eraI principles OF public policy. Railroads
have so annihilated distances, and the tete-
| graph has brought ell regions into such con-
tig0ity of time and place, that largeterrito-
ries can now bemore eOnTeniently subjected
to singIegoyernmentth than when the bOun-
| daries OF Virginia were established These
considerations have donbtless iu4Renced
Congress in the formation Of Territories
/ preparatory to their becomiRg States With
] In the last few years. Hence we find the
States recently admitted, and the Territor-
les hereafter 70 be admitted, are of much
1 greater extent than any Of the original
thirteen. The inference from these con-
siderAtions legitimately follows that Con-
gress would rather favor the policy OF con-
solidating and uniting several of the small
States of the revolution than OF Increasing
the number by division Indeed, know
the feeling against Division is almost uni
Versal in Congress, and among the states
men OF the country outside of The limits of
Western Virginia, and that the effort to
carry the measure through Congress must
therefore result in an inter abortion
Observation-Disclosures you weighty reasons
for complaining of Us east Of the noun
taius. Il would be difficult TO exaggerate
the wrongs aud expressions which West
err Virginia has suffered At the hands of
an Eastern majority in the State Legisla-
ture. grant that the money raised by
general taxation has been mainly expended
limprudently in the Edst. But beg our
Western brethren TO remember that the
men who have been their tyrants and OPP
pressors in the East, are now rebels in
arms against the General Government, and
are very likely soon to meet the usual fate
of tyrants and rebels in most righteous
and overwhelming retribution.
The immediate future will, in all proba-
bility, be pregnant with mighty results,
producing great changes IN the eastern
portion of our State. Oppression and in
justice are about to be overthrow, and a
new and better order of things will soon be
established The men who are hereafter
TO bear rule with us, will be those who
have suffered from the Injustice Of the old
tyranny wrongs aud hardships fully equal
70 any inflicted upon you of the West, and
these men, from the strong sympathy Great
ed by the aggressions Of = common enemy
will naturally be disposed to redress all
your grievances. But the consequences
of the present rebellion will enable the
Western section to take care of its own in
4erests in spite Of all hostile influences; for
: the East, by the sreyaEes of the war and
loss of population, will be reduced in leg
tslaIive Importance SOC greatly that its
former prepouderance will be destroyed,
and when, If ever, it shall recover from
thes shock, the population will be so changed
in character as 70 have become homogene-
nous with your own people.
How are the mighty talleui Poor old
Virginia fighting the battles Of rebellious
and hot-headed South Carolina Oh, pity
of pities, and s0rroWs of sorroWs, that our
goodIy State, once enjoying the merited
reputation of producing Presidents and
rulers of the greatest Republic on earth,
should have sunk to the degradation of
rushing into a fratricidal and wicked war,
from a fear Of some future and contingent
danger to her great commercial business
of breeding and selling slaves. Sorrow Of
sorrows, that the nations should thus be
permitted to point the finger of seorn at
US and say, GLOW like crop OF potatoes,
since all that is really valuable is under
ground.
And since reason and revelation alike
declare that without the shedding of blood
there can be no remission OF great nation
al sins, can it be expected that our great
iniquity, the great cancer on our body poll
itic, will ever be eradiea,ed without pain,
and perhaps peril tn the very lite of the
patient2 And can we hope, without a
baptism Of Ere and blood, that our SIN
stricken State can be regenerated and be
allowed 10 enter into the joy aud glory
which God aud nature have so beautifully
provided for us 2
II our Wises and Msgruders, by their
mad and suicidal course, shall continue to
destroy our towns aud cities, and drive
away our present population, il IS eopso-
ling to know that that the crowded people
Of Europe and the North, with their indus
try, arts, education and enterprise, will
soon ell up the vacuum and take posses
sion of the country desolRted by tyranny
and rebellion, and the places which to
their cost have hitherto known the ancient
effete and emSseuIAted Aristoeraey shall
know it no more forever.
We are but passing through changes
Iery similar to those which 3he nations of
Europe were compelled to undergo In their
escape from feudalism 70 freedom, and we
may hope they will prove with US beniti-
cent as with our aneestors-
Let MS then address ourselves TO the
task Of redeeming not part but the
whole Of Vfrginia-the old plantations of
the east andt tue wild forests ofthe west
labor shall be paid and respected as it de-
serves, aud the education ofthe poor mans