Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-07
The New STATE.

The New State.
The editor of the PreJE with 20 little vio-
Ience, attacks the whole project of n new
State now, just as he did months ago
when the movement was in its iucipiency.
The fact that the project is so near its con-
summatiou-that it has been before our
people for so many months. that it is, we
may say, to all intents, 6thing accomplish
ed, does not make any difference with
him. 1t is now as it ever was roatter of
abolition and precipitation. There is still
''something concealed in the mau9vering
going. on Itmakes no odds to him that
three of our Congressman and one of our
Senators are foremost in the work. Ii
makes no odds that a Convention was
elected to form a new State-that the Leg
lslature gave their consent to it unanimous
Iy-that the United States Senate gave
their consent that the people wherever
they can vote desire it, and that for two
generations a large part of the people of
Western Virginia have been looking for.
ward to it. 1t is still precipitation and
abolition with him just as everything
with him is first, last, aud always mig
ger"
We eau tell the editor that he may butt
away at the stone wall. He will only
butt his own brains out and that will be all.
Ifthere is any one thing that the people
of Western Virginia have made up Their
minds 20 it is new State. Aud it is not
in the power of meSy such men, letAlone
one, like the editor ofr>S Press n destroy
their hopes. The people understand the
editor. They know him to be utterly in
sincere in his taunts of abolition and that
be is simply using that old cry to effect
his partisan purposes. The editor has now
become the recognized organ of the dis
loyal sympathisers and he can not do less
than make such music as they will dance
to. It's necessity both ofinclination and
position for him to oppose the new State. ALI
last winter when the convention and legis.
lAture were in session he kept very quiet
he was mum as the tomb. But now that
he thinks things have broken loose again
and taken another shute, aud that disloy-
atty and semi-secession united, have be-
come an element of power, he opens out in
his old style and traduces the whole move
meut as one of precipitation aud abolition.
The only thing like precipitation that
has threatened the movement for new
State, came from the Editors present beau
ideal, Jno. S. Garlic, xho in violation Of
all constitutional regularity sought to alb
ruptly discover this and the adjoining Con-
gressional district from the balance of the
State and make new State of them. The
peoples representatives would not follow
Carlile then any more than they would now.
They proceeded in order and did their work
legitimately, and the Wheeling Press can
never undo it. 1t is all useless for the Ed.
itor to try his old saw of Abolition. He
can not make the public believe that Mr..
Wiley and our Congressman are Abolition
lists. The insincere and INSCRIPTIONS man
knows they are not. Neither can he dis
connect his opprobious comment from them
aud saddle it on to others. There gentle
men are parts aud parcels of the bill for
the admission of Western Virginia, as it
stands, and We call public attention to the
. Shi SO buAL bhS Sul1OA Sbauh SOup
ly exposed every time he attempts to pre-.
JUDGE it 10 his paper with his slang of abO-
lition.
In the meantime we would say to all
those engaged in the good work of filling
up the petitions, press on the task. See
every body aud get every body to sign the
petitions. Have men appointed specially
for the work where it is possible. Such a
plan has been adopted here. and Mr.. Elijah
o. bay, the Commissioner of the Revenue,
has agreed to put through the whole mat
ter. The people are signing the petit
tions almost en- masss. we hear, and so they
will do in all the counties. Out in the back
country the people were more of unit for
the new State than here in the Panhandle,
which was for while tinctured with the
idea OF going to Pennsylvania, and they
will roll up the names without stint
Press on, then, and 1t will not be many
weeks before tGeask will be finished clear
through to the end, and Western Virginia
admitted as State into the Union.
1t has leaked out that some of the lar