Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-10
LETTER FROM ALEXANDRIA, va.
The Visit of Gov. PeIrpoInt there Re-
Gently.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May Z.
Editor. Lntslligeneer:
Our good citizens have been enjoying n
rare treat in the recent opportunity afford
ed them to made the personal acquaintance
of his excellency Francis h. PeirPoint,
Governor of this Commonwealth.
During the Governors visit We bad two
large and enthusiastic meetings at LYceum
Hall, at both of which he attended, and
gave us his views on current matters in
exteuso. Nothing in the world could have
been more opportuue, for of all the places
in the sunny South that have thus far been
Hrepossessed" by the Government, none has
been more tenderly handled than zAlexan-
dria, and none has, in the persons ofmany
Of its prominent citizens, turned more vim
dictiveIy to stay the hand that profFered it
benefits, than this same good old town Of
ours. We, who stand upon the ground of
our fOrefathers, who love the country, and
who refuse to bow the knee to Baal,
have beens systematically ostracized So
cially, have been met daily with looks of
scorn and aversion; ga, have been almost
inSulted by the females here yclept ladies,
who so largely have espoused the cause of
the rebels. But even these misguided
creatures now at least begin to show signs
OF returning reasOn-silence is taking the
place of garrulity, and doubts are gradually
suPplanting the faith once SO firmly pledged
to the support of bad cause. The fe-
males we can afford to endure, but the dis
loyalty of their brothers. husbands and
fathers must be met by firm measures on
the part of our civil authorities. Now, all
winter long, these men have been coming
money here under the protection OF the
Federal Government and the State. They
have been freely using the Post Office, aud
claiming the protection of the laws for the
preservation of their lives, property aud
business transactions. Indeed none have
been more pertinacious than they,
in appealing for protection, in sea-
son aud ont of season to the mill
tary authorities, aud yet when the time
arrives for the renewal of their annual
licenses. they cody refIse to reorganize
the loyal Government of the State. They
do not hesitate freely to appeal TO the
magistrate for aid IN enforcing the collec-
ton of rents, ejSctment Of disorderly tcu-
ants, &C., but they positively refuse to be-
stow their fealty upon the source FROM
whence these benefits flow. Now we need
ed just at this time, the presence of some
one in authority to lay down the law, and
to assure our peccant friends that it will
be enforced and nothing therefore could
have been more oPPOrtune than the advent
of his excellency.
10 his first address, he gave us com.
plete history of the causes bringing about
the Convention of the loyal people of Vir-
GINA, which assembled at Wheeling on
the 18th of June, Is6I-It3 assembling
the scope of its action to embrace the
| S0hOle State. His object and determination
to re-Organize the whole State under the
Constitution of the Uuited States and the
Constitution of Virginia of 1851, and the
laws of the State made in pursuance
thereof, any thing in the ordinance of the
Convention which assembled at Richmond
on the 18th day of February, 1861, to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
In his second address, he directed his
remarks mainly to the action of the Legis-
lature, and the necessity for sustaining it,
and in this connection the Governor was
peculiarly happy. He laid down a course
at once gentle, prudent and firm, and we
agree with him in all he said. The Law
must be sustained. Those who do bust
ness in our State must be loyal men, or al
least put on the semblnuce of loyalty, for
he that is not with US is against vs., and il
is idle longer to handle traitors with gloves
If men are more sOlicitOus for the prosperi-
I ~ huu suCCeSS VI Jcus DhNlSt Luhu Vi IuGLu-
selves, let them close their warerooms un-
til such time AS the silly delusion passes
Union men, North and South, have borne
the brunt of the losses in this war. 1t i.
| their business that has been Frustrated
ana their property that has been sacrificed
to the demon of discord-those of the
| North in the sum of Two Hundred and
| Eleven Millions OF Dollars worth of goods
furnished, and those of the South in the
Wholesale destruction of property and the
confiscRtion of incomes by the usurpers
Let then, these rebellious merchants
either comply with the law, or close their
places of business and thus make room fol
better men. The loyal citizens of Alex
andria are fully ready to endorse the ac-
ton of the authorities, and we desire the
course indicated by the Governor in his
admirable addresses here, on this subject,
faithfully carried out, confident that nc
other, will. in this juncture, avail.
PoToMAc.
The COmhscntIon BIN.
The debate in the Sonata at WASHINGTON