Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-05
The Re-EstablIShed NeNvsuaper Pres
OF the state,

OF the State.
We should have noticed ere this the es-
Enlistment, or perhaps we should say, thv
re-establishment of the MartinsbErg lBerk
ley County Gazette-a live Union paper.
which adds another to the advancing col
umn of Union papers in Virgioia. So we
go; secession reIires and with it secession
newspapers. In its trail spring up another
order Of papers, edited by another order
OF men. Already the material for Uaion
paper at Fredericksburg has arrived at
Washington City, and in = few days a bat
terry will be planted on the RapPahanuock
that will tell at longer sauge than our can
non.
Very soon we shall have land redeemed
under such constantly increasing influences
Is these re-established Union papers. Cen
ersl Kelley made the happy remark the 9th
sr day, in urging the speedy re-coustruc-
tiOu OF the mails and mail routes over West
ern Va, that they will open the way for the
circulation of Union newspapers, which af-
ter all we're the only true bOmb-sheils
among an enemy. The General was right.
paper cooperation would be empty indeed.
Victories unimproved by advancing news.
They are the true armies of occupation
Secession newspapers will not get leave to
live anywhere in the wake ofour army, and,
of course, the people must fall back on
Union papers. And Notwithstanding the
prejudices of the ignorant or the perverted,
the constant dripping from day to day of
these newspapers will reach their minds. if
not their consctences. IL ink aud paper
can make a mau believe lie, and such IA
lie ms secession, there is no good reason
why ink and paper cannot make man be-
lteve the truth. 1t can and it will, wherever
the experiment is tried When we get
Richmond, the first things that will issue
from that city, will be two or three good
Union papers, edited by some of the now
secret Bolts men, aud which will make the
types of the Why and Enquirer and Exam-
iHsr offices, like Baalam, when surveying
the tents of cOnquering Israel, tell the
truth in spite of themselves. The mails
will everywhere keep pace with the pro-
gress of our armies. The old routes will
soon be put in operation over every square
mile of territory that is wrested from the
usurpers. Aud along these governmeu,
courses will TEEN new and healthier sen.
Ii ment than ever travelled them before
FirSt one district of ignorance and Sc
cession will be OYerspread and re.
claimed, and then another and another.-
1t must be SO, for nothing else than loyal
papers will be allowed to circulate. The
people will read them for the sake of the
news at FIRST, and afterwards for the sake
of the Union sentiment that is coutained in
them. This is the way that the Union is
to be re-established-by spreading every
where light and kuoWledge-by cleansing
the infected districts from disloyal incen-
dlaFlsm, and afording the residents of
them pure, sound and patriotic newspa-
per literature.
One Ofthe creates. revolutions that viH
will be brought about by .,hi. Tsh M ~ IN
be the immensely altered tone ~ ,I,O- vs..
all over the South, and espeeiAllv $50 .s'
this State. We shall never have any mor.
"ss and 90" abstraetionism. All such mis-
cradle stufE-ths miserable source of so
many of our present Woes-Rill be hooted
aud hated by the people throughout all
time to come. We win hear no more of
treachery and treason breeding sstates'
rights" and the old prO.slAvery rant and