Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-19

TFrom The Falrmonl Nntiounl.l

People of the Mountain Counties of Yir-
ginia, LSwGrc. There is deep aud subtle
scheme laid for your overthrow, the de-
structOn of constitutional liberty, aud the
| establishment of secession! EestaSSurcd,
it is the same old song that was used to
| brighten you iuto secession NalIandig-
ham, WickiiHp, Powell, Baird, Salisbury
Il Co.. are at the head of il. Ii is coming
up under new guise. Its watch word is
g Opposition TO -IboiUiOniSts - % .i60IiioH-
| lists brought on tie 'c0r = 81 am tor the
Union, but am no Abolitionist," &c, &c.-
These are its watch words.
You have scarcely forgotten the terrorism
exercised over the State by those catch
phrases, and finally the destruction into
which we were plunged By the magic of
these epithGts. All your delegates in the
Richmond Convention, who opposed Sc
cession, were branded with the cpithct.
.'Abolitionists.' Those who fled from
their homes on the approach of danger,
branded you as Abo!itiOnists, and those
secesSionSts, who arc left behind, are nc-
lively ippressing on the minds of all the
country people, whose confidence they
have, tina; you are all Abolitionists and
it is great comfort to those Secessionists
when they can hear Union man saying
bitter things against the Abolitionists. For
while you would only apply the cpithet 10
Smith, Phillips, Garrison, IL Co., they APP
ply it iudiscrimi late!Y TO all Union men-
and thus by your declaration you Indirect
ly give aid and comfort to the enemies of
the country. This is the strutegem fallen
on by Vallandigham, & Co., to divide the
Union ranks, in order that secession may
triumph. Suppose Confederate army
should come into cstern Virginia; what
would tue wntch-word be-"Kill Demo-
Gratis" SKILL Wings" kill Bell 2" No
"hiU -46otitiOnists." And while your feet
would be dangling under the halter they
would tell you that au Abolitionist ought
to die ouly by the halter.
In yonr dark hours of peril and distress,
in the Spring of 1861, when your slave
holding friends in the East sent their mob
of soldiers in your midst to compel you in
to Secession, whence came the first words
of consolation? Massachusetts was the
first, who, without fee or reward, sent you
| 1000 stand of arms, to be used in your own
defense. Your slave holding brethren,
who had been expressing you all your life,
sent 900 men to cut your throats, if you
did not engage in this unnatural war.
What has slavery done for your section?
1t has prevented immigration; its oppres-
sion has driven from your State many of
her most enterprising sons: it has oPpress-
ed you with unequal taxation; it has
drawn largo amounts of taxes from
your section, and expended them in
the slave-hoiding sections of the State ;
it has created debt that this generation
cannot pay it has denied you equal rep
reseutation iu your Legislature; it has de-
MED you an equality in the social circle;
and finally when it was necessary to pass
the ordinadce of secession, the slave-deal-
ers in the city of Richmond, furnished the
money to feed and liquor the mob that
hung around the Capital and forced the
Ordinance of Secession. These same men,
who are the peculiar advocates of the in
stitution, reared and fostered in your midst,
some among you and some i'll the East, are
doing oil they can to cut your throats and
destroy your property, byan invading army
And who are protecting your Is it not the
Administration at Washington, by the strong
arm of the Government by means of North
.ern soldiers? Yet the Administration is Re-
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