Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-09

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perleMce OF the Editor among the
Tennessee ScCeSSlOnlstS.
We have received the second number Of
the Na'ionul TsicgrGph, weekly paper
published at Clasksburg, Harrison county,
by Il. S. NorthCott, refugee Tennesseean
1t is a highly creditable shcet-crcditnblc
to him aud the people among whom lie has
located, and they ought, and we hope will,
sustain him generously.
The editor has had good deal of prnc-
tical knowledge concerning secession, aud
in this number he details some of his ex-
perience ut the time of Teunessee's going
out Of the Union. From his article we
take the following. 1t strikes us az good
sense:
We remained in Tennessee until that
State had, through this reign of terror,
voted herself out of the Union, when there
was most undoubtedly large majority OF
tue people OF that State who were, at their
| hearts, loyal to the Government, We
talked with hundreds, and told them that
we intended removing 10 some of the loyal
States; these Hpplauded us, and told us
that il they had any opportunity they
would do the same thing. These were
generally men of substance, too, who
owned large real estates and numbers of
Slaves. They informed us that they in-
tended to stay and keep silent and take
care of their property if possible; but
that, 1t any opportunity offered, they
\ would gladly return to their allegiance.
You may wonder how it was that a ma
Jority Of Union men could be ruled by n
minority of disnniOnists This is easy to
be accounted for. From the time that the
! Southern wing seeded from tho Charles
ton Convention, the disunioniyts began to
organize rapidly tliroughoutap the South
| eEn Statcss They knew that they had mr.
ranged a programme that would secure the
1 election of Republican candidate, aud
| they knew that that would os their time to
strike, because of the bad Odor in which
the whole Republican party was in the
/ South. The Knights of the Golden Circle
established themselves throughout the
slave States, and welded u potent influence
| in this work of treason. The sI0vc-hold-
ing States, with but two or three cxccp-
tions, were under the control of disuniOn
| Governors. The arms of each State were
managed by disunionisls, and thus the or
gnnizatiOn was thorough. The Union men
! generally being of the quiet, unobtrusive
class, we've uuOrgNniZcd, consequently not
in condition to contend successfully with
the thoroughly drilled disuniOnists, though
they were inferior i'll numbers.
An unorganized majority, unless the ma
ljority be exceedingly large, cannot con-
tend successfully with an organized min
ority.
Disunion Governors could plot treason
call cgislAtures-orgnn-
iEe and arm companies, regardless of the
Twill of the people, and they did not hesi-
tate to do it. 1t is true the people chose
Their delegates to the conventions, but the
ldisunionists were preparedto swindls them.
ln the strongest Union counties they usu-
ally had some man.
''who with smooth Discrimination, skilled to grace
The DEVILS purI ose with an angels faee,''
to offer himself as Union candidate; but
who, rs soon as the convention met, aud an
ordnance Of secession was brought up,
would find some preteXt for voting for it,
while his indignant constituents did they
presume to say any thing, would be tainted
as "submissionists,n "Liucolnites,r Habo-
littOnists," &C., &c. Georgia, Alabama,
North Carolina, Louisiana, aud Virginia
were voted out of the Union by men who
had been elected as Union men. TCnnes-
SEQ and Arkansas were maneuVered out by
some legislative legerdemain, that was most
unprecedented, and which appeared to
more resemble the work of " Cross-roRd
political meeting than the serious deliberal-
tions of a body of men sworn to. support
the Constitution of the United StatSs.
There is stOng Union element in the
seeded StatOs, aud Hs the Federal army
advances it will develop itself
EThe Convention and the Prospect for
New state.
The following extract is from au articl,
i'll the MOrgantOwu Star, to which We uav,
alluded elsewhere. It Was a sagacious
motto of one of tho old philosophers, tc
learn wisdom even from those who are moi
supposed to wish you especially we'll
And taking even this harsh view Of tbi,
extract, it may be serviccable reading to
the members of the Convention. At all