Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-15
A GRAND TRIUMPH.


mlHtler tue ultimate returns small de-
monstraIe that the loyal Emancipation
Governmeut.sustaining ticket in Marion
county Is wholly or partially successful 10
the election just held, one thing OF greater
Importance than the mere election of our
candidates is settled. That is, that every
loyal man in Marion county stands by the
Government in its great hour Of trial, sup
porting its policy, and cheerfully, nay, with
alacrity combining to assist in carrying out
its great measures for suPPressing the re-
bellion. 1t shows mOTe-TbRt the true
friends ofthe Government are also the true
f lends of the State. Indeed, It could not
be otherWise-for no man can be an enemy
to the great central head of the nation, and
| at the same time be friend to the various
members thereof-auy more than a man
may abuse bis body and pretend that in
doing 80 he benefits his limbs.
The result of the election in Marion
county is a triumph of loyalty, pure, clear,
unadulterated, and unshaken, over tue mis-
erabIe, hypocritical demagogues, who even
beneath the blue and brass of the Federal
uniform, lily conceal hearts as hostile to
the existence of the Government-as hos
tile TO the welfare of the State-ss the heart
of him who, while protesting attachment
to the great institutions of our fathers,
swore secretly that he would "take Mis-
souri, out of the Union or take it 10 hell"
The election shows that such wolves in
Sleeps clothing-such devils in the livery
of heaven cannot deceive the loyal people.
Their DISCUSSES are TOO thin-their hypocri-
sy too glazing, their arraut knavery too pa
tent to the world to allure any into their
path save those who willingly and eagerly
run therein. All such demagogues are now
placed in their natural and proper position.
4. a..
of infamy, and there they will remain
Hereafter, when these individuals come be-
fore an increasing loyal people for favors,
they will be compelled to confront this
record which will oTerWhelm them 10
shame and confusion OF face. The cleo
ton is a grand triumph over the ene-
mics of emancipation and of the progress
of the State. Not that emancipation
is Immediately secured by it; but
that this is the first great stride Ia the
march onward to that glorious result-a
stride from which there Is no retrOCessi0n.
Six months ago the emancipation question
had not come before the consideration of
the people of Missouri. Then it could not
have commanded two hundred votes in the
county. Now, every loyal mau-with per-
haps few exceptions-declares for it.
Over seven hundred emancipation votes are
cast in Marion county-the stronghold of
rebellion aud hitherto one of the very pill
lars of the ro.slavery party Well done
for Marion! 1t is a glorious cousumma-
ton. Tuesday last WAS day which will
long be memorable in the history of this
county as the day on which she broke
asunder her bouds, aud became free from
the chains of a despotisn which has bOund
her for forty-tWo years-making her rem
der humiliatiug homage to a tyrant, sap
ping her very fountains of all their naturai
vitality. Henceforth the race is free one.
Emancipation is inaugurated by the peo-
ple-and no human power can restrain
them. 10 two years from this time the
Emancipation ticket will sweep Missouri
By one hundred thousand majority, if an act
OF fmanumissiOn is not previously passed by
the Legislature OF Convention.
Friends of the cause, take courage.
You have done uoblyi grandly. POsteTity
will bless and honor you, though you may
at this momeut be only partially triumph
ant. Your future is bright; your reward
will be great, aud is near at hand. Rest
not in your noble efforts to make Missouri
free State. A few years will accomplish
the work; and it will be n proud moment to
you then, when you Gnn say, 81 was one
Of the first movers 10 the grand enterprise"
We have everything to encourage, nothing
to discourage us. Let us press forward,
then, determined not TO look back nor 70
rest satisfied until the great consummation
ia realized.