Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-19
Appeal to the People orwest vIrglnr"

A NOBLE effort is being nude IN thlS city
to answer promptly the call of our Cover
nor for more troops. The enthusiasm of
the never failing city of Wheeling is arouS-
ing. Money never before was offered SO
freely for any thing IS it is now for the cause
of our country Ia this hour of need. 1t
will stand forever to the honor OF our proud
little city that she in this hour of gloomy
appreheusions, renewed her courage-re-
newed her Northumberland her exer-
tious in the glorious cause. She will do
her whole duty. In connection with the
county she will raise thousands of dollars
for the volunteer fund. She will give to
each recruit FROM our midst a muuiiicent
endowment. No city of the same popuIa-
ton in the Union we believe will do more.
Will the other communities aud counties
of West Virginia DO likewise?
We feel that they will. Patriotic little
Hancock ana Brooke will come forward
promptly and handsomely. So will AI0r-
shall the most intensely loyal county, per-
haps, in the new State. Aud so will noble
old Mouongalia, the first of ali the counties
to vote for IL new State. And so will old
Marion, the home of our Governor. And
SO will Harrison, the home Of such true
men AS Lot Bowen, VIM. \. Harrison and
other thorough and devoted friends of the
Union And so will Preston, the home of
such men as our excellent congressman
and Messrs. Hugan, Ollie, j. J. Brown aud
others. Wood county will heed the patri-
otto appeals of Whartons Gn=etts to spur
up--and the personal efforts Of such men
as Messrs. Van Wrinkle. Stephenson, Judge
jackson and others.
The gallant little county of Richie has
the Richie Press, as devoted a paper rs
lives, to incite her TO her duty. And she
will do her duty. And so will Wetzel, the
patriotic county that disputes the palm of
furnishing the most volunteers so far in
proportion to her population. Wha!ey'
and Parker, Speaker Frost, Senator Flesh
er, and John Hall, and Lieut.. Gov. Polsley
will see TO it that the counties of jackson
and Mason and Cabell and Wayne and Put
nam are not behind Uncle Ben Smith, we
doubt not, will raise his good old stentorian
voice ia the Kauawha country, aud Father
Newton's paper will lend him willing and
effective aid. In the county of Taylor we
shall have the influence of such men ms E.
r. Hall and John S. Burdett, while the
loyal county officers and postmasters of
Lewis, Barbour, Tucker, Tyler, Peasants,
Upshur, Randolph, Gilmer and Braxton,
will, we doubt not, exert themselves to
their utmost.
We call upon all these good men to rouse
themselves to the work. Let the 1850 men
asked for be raised before the States on
either side of us get their quotas in the
field 1t will be to our everlasting remem-
brance and honor In the annals of the ma
ton through all time to come. 1t will
more than anything else in the world, in
sure us the vote of every loyal member of
the House of Representatives for our ad-
mission as new State next December.
Let US show to the loyal States of the
Union, that we are one with them; that
we have, for veal or woe, forever and for
ever, cast in our lot with them that with
them and by them, come what may, we
will stand or fall with the Union.
West Virginians arouse to this work,
make name for yourselves now in this
momentous era that your posterity will
ever be proud of. 1t is in your power to
do so. The whole nation will rise up and
call you blessed. Call your little and big
meetings one after the other as fast as
possible. Get your principal men out in
your Court Houses-in your school houses
at every stump and cross road-and let
every man open wide his purse and set a
liberal example. Show to the men who
mediate enlisting shat the cause is com
mon cause that you are not cheap frtriots
that you are willing to give, and to give
most literally. Don't get up the bust
ness on picayune scale; feel that you
are in earnest-feel it twenty, thirty,
forty and fifty dollars worth EACH &C
cording as you are able. The war has cost
you nothing as yet. You have all gone on
making money just as ever before. Have
care that you do not delude yourselves
that that sort of thing is still possible,
even if your country goes to ruin. 1t will
not be possible. The Virginia and Ohio
and Pennsylvania money, and even the
premium "green backs" themselves, will
soon turn to ashes in your hands if the Re-
public is lost. Save, then, your property F;
insure it bygiviug literally save the peace
of your neighborhOods from foreign inva-
sion aud foreign rule; but more than all
save your self respect and the good name of
your blood forever, by coming forward
quickly and giving bounteously in this
hnnr of Yonr conntrv's need.