Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

ed provision on Monday by which all
persons in thAtaStats enga1i ,i1,.r lliOn
since the 18th ofIDteembel last ars de-
priTed of the privileges Of citizenships 1n-
less they take an obigatioR.t6 support the
Constitutional the United States and the
Provisional Government of Missouri
Serves them right, too; for what right have
men voting or holding Office under gov
,erumspt tosuhich They are deadly enemies
10 heart, il not in arms Hiihoatsatgleast
pledgiDg themselves 70 respect aud support
il. This action ip Missouri shows exactly
the difference between Unionism and con,
servatiim-b between Northern conservatives
(which now means Northern sympathisers
with Southern ireasonl aud trns Union
men in the border Southern States
The Situation in Missouri is identical
with what II is here in Western. Virginia.
They have Eota set Of traitors to deal with
there as ne have here, who ara ready 70
damn the federal gOyernmentin. one breath
and Eatify contract undsr it With the next.
They are willing to hold Offices or positions
under it-Willing, nay eager to become the
recipients of It's bounty, but they are just
as willing and some of them just as eager
to take its life as they are to receive It's
money. There in Missouri as here in Viz.
giuia the rebels refuse TO acknowledge the
loyal government Of the State az they also
refuse to acknowledge their allegiance to
the American Union, yet we presume they
embrace every opportunity TO vote there.
as they do here at every election held nm
der the sanction of these governments. in
order that they may put into responsible
positions those whom they know to SYM
pathise with their reasonable aspirations.
In Missouri the Union men, by the action
Of the State Convention, have closed down
on that sort of thing, They deelsre by
this act that every man offering. TO vote or
hold Office must be either citizen or IN
alien, and they prescribe an oath that shall
be an effective test Of that very point. If
he is a citizen Of the United States at heart
he will very ebeerfnlly comply with the re-
quiremeut to renew his allegiance by an
oath to support it's government and the
provisional government Of the State, OPP
Grating under it. II he is at heart an
alien, and believes that his allegiance is
due some unknown and bogus concern,
unFesoguized blythe nations OF the world,
then he is no citizen of the United States
and has nosright and nOtbusiness to be
voting d its elections or holding its offices.
Nothing can'be ptainer. y
Though the ,eircumstaaees in Missouri
and here ia Western Virginia are alike, Mis-.
souri, goes beyond us in her dealings with
the rebels. We arscontent with requiring
au. oath of office holders Though. lately a
few special arrests have been made aud
an oath requtred); aud secessfonists arc
just as free to vote for the officers Of
our Government here as the most loyal ia
the land and i've Minutes after casting
such vote, they win deuounce that Gov.
ernment as bogus, and viii refuse to take
the oath to support it, because that would
be perjury" IT it is rightto limit the
elective franchise to citizens in Missouri, ii
is right here and by that test we should
soon know who were citizens and who
were not.
This action of the true loyal men OF
MissOuri-men who have been in the mids,
of the rebellion, who know how to estimate
it, who know what 1t is, and what is need
ed TO cure. it, who have suffered BY actual
contact what we here and those north OF
us, neYet- hays suaered--contrasts nobly
with the pttiful whining of rebel sym
pathisers, who style themselves ''conserva-
tive" about infraetious of the Constitution
by the AboIittonists aud fanatics, but who
never have anything q, say about the to-
fraction Of2tbe Constitution and all the
rights and liberties it secures, ia ten
States of this Union, by armed traitors.
S-1------ - i-.i'.
In the SOuthweSt, there is reason TO be-
lieve the war is virtually ended. The great
armies of the rebels there have been dis.
persed and disorgaaizsd, and their Acct Of
guuboats and rams sunk and eaptured.-
From the Mississippi our igunhoats can
penetrate into Louisiana, Arkansas and
even Texas. There appears to be no form. .
liable rebel force west OEahe Mississippi.
Now is the time for that Uuion noveme d.
in Texas with Sam. Houston at it's head,
/ which itfipOtted to have bseuImdt6ti6g for
the purpose Of restoring Texas to her allie.
glance, 20 begin its work. The work in
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee is
no longer the suppression of rebel
lion but the re-instating of civil gov
ernment. How great Union element
will be found there as base OF opera.
ttonS 1t is yet difficult 70 tell. Whenever
it is rendered certain that the Confederate