Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-28

i sacrificed even HfeIitsef in, defending the
border towns and cities from 6se andsYotd,
and eastern property from pillaRe. The
/ East in the late SECESSION movement has
repaid us by calling asconVention funsane-
toned, without the cqpEentlof a majority,
lusurping powers TO our injury; bypretend-
led ordinInces requiring us TO Separate from
fdnd wage war against the Government of
the United States, and against the cCitizeusi
of friendly neighboring States attemptiuE'
to snbyert the Union of Washington and
his copatriots and to transfer our allegi-
aheea to- rebsllio1s eonfederacy, and %
place the whole military force and opera
stiOnssof the eiCommonWealth under the con-,
troll ofithe rebellious southern confederacy;
lFinstitutinE reign of tefFoB10 suppress the.
free expression of the viii nof,the people;
making elections n mockery aud a fraud;t
Iinstitutiug war by seizing the property Of
the Federal Government organizing and
mobilizing armies to capture and destroy
the capital of the nation; attempting to-
bring the allegiance of Sthe peopleitof the
United States into direct conflict with their
subordinate allegiancefto thsiState. III.
The Western Yirginians are, aud always
have been, of the race of Ameriehn pio-
neers-the couquerors and cultivators Of
the Wild dregTons OF the New W0rld-moun2l
taineers by nature, and democrats, IN the
Legitimate sense OF the word, by instihet.=.
They belong to the advance guard of mod
etn civilization In principle, policy and
interest3 they are Of the progressive party
Of the "A American pe0pledi Everything in
thetn7and around them aud before them
impet them to pS0ceedLA LAnothing that al.
lows them to recede. Byithis difference OF
character and conditions, they are morally
and politically divorced from EasternafVir-
,giniad A mountain chain divides us geo
graphically "a gulf as broad as that be-
tween Abraham aud Dives, lies between us
In spirit, institutions, and destiny. Sooner
or rilAter the virtual division so long felt to
befnecesssryy will and must iibe acknowl-
edged and established In faStn sioe0 -
In the State of Virginia. immediately
before its ordinance of secession, there
were but 490, , SS7 slaves; of these there were
but 2,777 in West Virginia, or one in
thirty y-hine!of the whole number, while its
free population numbers 334 ,92l or closely
approaching one-thtrd. From such q dig
yersity of interests as the aifference in slave
population, and from such a prep pohderahee
of political power in the State to susthin
the systemsof work without wages against
the free labor of the West, helped out, asie
has been, ,7sby tho atrocious principle Of
slave property representation, 1t is easy to
infer the nRlfgh Influences that have re-
tardedrOpr rprogress9 in everything neces-
sary, to our welfare. n0pr contributions to
public measures have not been paid backlI
to us in the internal improvements which
our country demands: nor I'M tile free school
system, to our advapcementin nallthhtmakeS
p people prosperous land happy The
tide of emigration has been turned away
from a country tempting to the men that
are building up an empire m the North
nj a ftfh dat
reer." Our mountains full of minerals
our coal, marble, salt, rock oil, are all held
under the ban of u middle age policy of
Legislation: Our rivers are unfmprot ed;
aud our valleys are shut out of the mar,
ketS that a happier overnment wouldlo
Fsince have opened to them, The mass Of
these mischiefs is too great aud too nuner-
Gus for statement, as the Injury is beyond
calculation. They may be summed upiin
one generally comprehensive and terribly
significant fact. The State of Virginia,
larger than Pennsylvania and 4AIaryIandl
put together, as old as either, aud natural
ly richer than both, advanced III fee popu-
lation but I56,O69, or twelve and 4 half
per cent? IN the last ten years = while
Pennsylvania made an ircreasei OF SO 4.5S4
persous,H equal to twenty -tiFe aud threen
7qunrters per cent, more than dopbie the
rate of growth in that great product which
in "a country like ours is the sign and
proof of all other kinds Of progress.
A sAreWe not right, Mr.. Speaker, in crying
out with the apostle, "whp, shall deliver us
from the body OF this death2" But We
hayeialready, by our own act, thrown off
theidecaying and corrIpting carcass that
so long cnmbered iand oppressed us, and
we aresnoW asking you to break the slender
thread of State y nifty that fictitiOnsly holds
usltogether here in Representations aud re.
spousibtltty. .a nciLHN ra9n-tqa i;Eh Il
While the secession of Eastern Virginia
seemed too industrious toebe possible, and
whileiit. .stoodhmerely rs a temporary. tri-
uniph ;oflipolitfeAla desperadoes oversthe
sober nnd better gjudgmbnt Of her real
people, I'VE who kueWtthat theactsof seces
sion,was aefaIsehood oftheconysntion, and
therefore believed that7sbe could mot be
constrained into a mad and streasonabiel re-
bellinn in fact and deed, as " teII as in words,
hoped that ere this time she would retdrl
toiIoyRlty; but the bistoryuofltI last year,
and the attitude other psOple TO Iday, have
opened our eyes Insteadsof repentanse.i \
they exhibit nothing less than the every
desperation of popular insanity. . We no
longer hupeo f0rs their RETURN TO- the
spirit of unity and peace. Possibly we
might forgive the ebloodshed; the robberies,
the, he,iimpfisoumedtsg (which they have so
ruthlessly inflicted upon us; but. IT Is not
possible fors them to become worthy Of
such forbearance. They first made them
selves our enemies and now they have
made ms theirs. We cannot again 20, as
the minority of the State, into theirieRis-
lAtiye councils We will mot again endure,
their maIignaut dOmiuatiou. The con-
strnctive unity ofithe Stats ohtVirgfuia is
aHmera legal faction 3zih common 7Eaglish,
1t is not true ofsthet etpreSent, randsit Iisgas-i
clearly yfimp0ssible in the future. W e have
for more than,a year stood front to front
at the point of the fbayonets We never can
again stand side. bysside in their halls off
1esisIations They cannot beat Us ID 'the I
battle6eld.a WswilIih0t surrender to their
Theyahave never done us jdstiee Of lsH5wn /
US mercy in either. We choose, ,if u efnast /