Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-23

hlnFa " All. Tue sane strata Of mihFs
and minerals ist,rtse.sd 10 The thfsssAts,.
aud il Eis seI 10 our p9utF cor The power
Of all sbs rebels TO change or alter Que SOL
it'ry ie''ofs o. ogr physical ,rslsass -
We must stand " fall vita the dsiuay Of
oar nsiEhbon wha. God bad loiasd to-
gethsf no man or set Of men e0ald pot As.
iaHd,r
THIS Was our arEaDeat Day by day At the
outset There could be % stronger one
Igaidrs,.sd Itself At once to The common
sense Of sTsry mss that could Rad among
ii, And yet how rare thing Is common
sense Strange enough there were aeu
Up 10 Haneoss sad there we're mea. 10
brooke, add ioms here 10 Ohio, sad few
10 Marshall, and 50 on down snd out
through Western Virginia who turned up
their noses, hardened their rrbsllioaB heart,
and served and talked aud voted secession
And to th, day they still refuse to open
their eyes aud zee oae inch around them -
They actually di'dsin to look the length Of
their noses ahead Of them They are ss.
eeisionisu they want JeG, Davis to sue.
coed they want this Union broken up
they want Western Virginia divided from
Ohio and Pennsylvania, snd Pot under a
foreign Government. And all for wbat?
Can they Isl!7 Gao nay man tsll2 We
elu'tl
What end they propose what future
they have 10 yiew-what advantages, what
lights they expect to get, passes utterly our
comprehension. Thee will still De here
The earth will remain, and all that Il, 10 1t
and al that is peculiar toit Neither cot.
ton, nor sugar nor hemp, nor any Southern
staple will grow, even shonld the rebellion
succeed aud JeT. Davis become our ruler.
We will still raise what We have have al
ways raised, aaG the market Of this city
will sill be supplied from Ohio and Penn
syImnin We will sill be as Dependencies
ever On our free n'ighbors, and they will
iliI he as Independent as ever OF Us. We
have found ii impossible to get along With
out tbem ia times past, a0d will aced them
just as much as ever in alt time to come.
Now this is the argument OF our situa-
ton, repeated this morning ior the hun.
lredrh time, and yet it will tall as dead
upon the eyes and ears of the .eces,ionists
as ever. Aud so it would il they should see
the cannon Of a hostile and separated PEG
pie planted GU the Obi. hills opposite US.
II would he nothing to them to realize that
our whole Panhandle surioce could be she'll
ed, aad stripped and barred of everything T-
single day time from the bluffs on the
other side OF the river. That fact is moth.
rag to lhem. They would still turn up
their noses, even did they see ii. To tell
them Of the folly OF their sOpposog that
Pennsylvania or Ohio would suffer even this
little strip of land 10 lay as hostile terri.
tory between them, counts nothing to them.
They still turn up their noses and talk
their silly cant about rights.
There was and is only one way to deal
with such people. They ignored reason,
and nothing WAS left but to make an issue
OF force with them They were deaf to all
entrcalies not to put Western Virginia in
position OF hostility to her nearest and only
natural friends. But they would do it.
They would vote for secession, and they
would ever since, talk and act secession.
The logic of their course is upon them
Western Virginia is to-day, to all intents
and purposes, under military rule. The
reigns are grawn tightly, and they are be-
ing drawn tighter each day, There are
but few counties now where secessioust
can ply his vocation, lie is arrested and
confined, aud is obliged to take stringent
oath. He feels very bitterly, no doubt
the force of the Government. lie has very
little liberty or free will left him. 10
other words, and politically speaking, he
has hard time oft And why shouldn't
he? The thing has come to pass Of which
he was warned. lie was told that this
Government could not be broken up peac.
ably. He was told that our situation here
would OF necessity compel invasion from
the States gu either side Of US. And now
the warning has eventuated ia reality. We
have Invasion. We have the power Of the
bayonet, and those who would compel it
feel it, and feel it like iron in their souls.
They think, we doubt not, that it is very
cruel to arrest them-put them in jail
compel them to take oaths which they bate
give bonds for their loyal behavior-and
10 every way pass under the yoke, Yet
they brought it on. They made it neces.
sity on the part OF the government. And
they still continue that necessity. Andthe
government continues its hold upon them,
and every effort they make to shake oil the
hold only tighteus it. They will never get
clear of it. Never. Pennsylvania and
Ohio will never let go their hold on this ter
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