Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-16

Wheeling PTess and the PFeSIdenI'G
PrOolamutIOn.
BuLLTowS, BRAxroS Co, Va, I
Oct, Ith, 1869. !
ElIt0rI hitHgtnetr:

BULLrowS, BRAxroS Co, Va, I
Oct, Ith, 1862 !
Editors Lptsliignecr:
Some months ago dropped the Wheel.
| ing PTtsS because l thought could dis.
eeTn 10 every number Of II an uumistakea.
BILE tendency to dislOyaliy. Some three
weeks since wrote the editor Of the Ma.
toRdl Tsi,graph, telling him should have
no further use for bis paper, because con.
sidered is disloyalty OF the meauest char.
acter, being underhandedly aud sneAkiugly
so, Since that time Doth these papers have
clearly shown the eloven foot, the Presi.
dents proclamation furnishing them an
occasion upon which they thought they
might dare TO assume more distinct and
open tone Of opposition to the cause Of the
government. They have now taken po-
sition that is unequivocal They are now
against the government in its efforts to
suppress this siuPendOuS rebellion and re-
store the Union. II is not to be presumed
that they Sre any more disloyal in their
feelings now than they have been all along,
but only that they have judged that the
sentiment OF a portion OF tue people Of
Western Virginia and no doubt they hope
q large portion can be sweryed from the
support Of the government By their non-
senieal cant aboat violating the coustitu-
tion and about AbOlitionism. They have
clearly identified themselves with those
arch-iraitors Yallandigham, Bright, Vor.
bees, Carlile ct ID omns genus, and It now
only remains to be seen how much disaf.
feelion to the cause OflOyally they can pro-
duce-hOw far they can influence public
sentiment.
From my own personal observation
conclude that they have greatly mis-.
taken the tone Of the sentiment OF our
people, if they expect to bring about, by
their reasonable elforts;Any serious defec-
tion from the ranks Of truly loyal men.
have yet TO meet the first man Of known
loyalty, who does not heartily aud fully
endorse the Presidents policy. 1t is true,
Secessionists who, like droW ming men, are
ready 10 catch at every straw that comes
along, are delighting themselves with the
idea that this proclamation is going to
work wonders IN their favor by dividing
the North. They cannot give up the idea
that the great Democratic party OF the
North would part with the Union in It's
devotion to slavery; aud it is to work this
great party up TO this diabolical choice
that these traitors amongst Us, aud in the
North, are now struggling with an energy
resembling the conTulsions Of dissolution.
Bat they will fnd that the great mass Of
true Democrats, everywhere. are true to
the Union; because they know full we'll
that the last hope Of Democratic govern.
meut, 90 earth, is bound up in the preser.
vation Of the Union. Slavery may 60 by
the board, and the cause OF Democracy
will be strengthened rather than weakened
by the change, bat destroy the Union Spd
the cause Of peoples government will
then have proven failure-the light Of
freedom and liberty will have been put
out, perhaps never 10 emit another ray.
Seeessionists and Secession sympaIhizers
will hereafter sustain these and like papers
aud men; but all loyal men, everywhere,
will shake the dust of their feet against
them.
And why should this not be the case
WHAT'S wrong about the Presidents poliey7
Is 1t not the, only sensible course, and
a just and righteous poIicyl The Presi-
dent, and the representatives Of the people
who sustained him at the FIRST, proclaimed,
in the most formal manner, that this war
was not waged against the South on
sectional considerations; neither against
the institutions OF the South, but for ;he
suppression Of rebellion, and for the pre-.
servation Of the authority Of tie Constitu.
tion and laws, and the perpetuation, and
maintenance OF the Uniou, under these
Now it must be remembered, that this end
being secured, the people Of the South
would consequently have enjoyed all the
protection which it would have guaranteed,
in the enjoyment Of every right, and Of ev.
cry species Of property, slaves Included
Not only have the Southern people been
thus solemnly, aud formally, assured
Of the just and equitable DISPOSE
ton Of the Government towards them,
but time and again they have been admon.
isbed by the President to lay down their
arms, return to their allegiance, and in this
way come agaiu into the enjoyment OF their
rights, and secure TO themselves the protec.
ton OF the Constitution and laws. All
these assurances have been Scolfsd at and
derided; all these admonitions have been
laughed to scorn, and It has been through
the mercy and graceo the government that
this proclamation has been delayed so long
When the history Of the world shall have
been written, 1t will not present another
instance Of diguiied fOrbeataucs on the
part Of man, under so great provoeatiou,
equal TO this. And now shall they claim
any protection to their slave property under
that constitution and those laws which
they denouuced2 from that government
which they are sworn to overthrow? Shall
the Government of the United States
any longer occupy the preposterouSly ab.
sud position Of carrying on war against
a people that have assRiled them With
destructive purposes, and protecting them