Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-08

The "twenty million Of freemen had spo-
KEN" and now "this wicked and nefarious
crusade" against the people of the South !
and their Institutions must cease. How
can man who wants tie rebellion pat
down 4GIk that vey2 What would a
stranger have thought f,he had been in
the House Friday and Saturday and heard
the avoWaIs these gentlemen made and
gone away without hearing any reply.
Yet this outburst Of Indignant cbivalry
had nothing new or uuusasl about it, ex-
cept that it took place here. There are
plenty of people entertaining similar views,
and good many of them used to live in
this region of country but latterly they
have nearly all gone South, a latitude
much better suited to their tastes aud
sympathies. We regard this as but one of
the dying kicks ofthose politicians in West
| Virginia who bank on devotion to the Mig
gerism of the East. They are soon to be
buried in Western Virginia beyond hope
of resurrection Mr.. Carlile, theirleAder,
has already been decentIy inferred, and
those following in his footsteps will very
shortly be subjects for the political under.
takerrand as soon as they get tired of going
around to save funeral expenses, will be
inferred with becoming rites
Possibly it was thought that division
| might be stirred up in the Legislature,
| news of which being heralded on to Con-
gtess would be an argument against the
new State and strengthen Mr.. Carlile's wan
ing prestige. How does that thing look to
Congress as it turned out? Two votes on
one side aud all the rest against Never
was there more iguominiOus failure
All the more ignominious for the proposal,
after the indignaut thunders of the House
had been heard, TO Withdraw the motion
so as to save the overwhelming confusion
of a recorded vote. But the House was not
to be SO triaed with and that proposal too
was failure. We don't remember ever to
have seen anything start out larger aud
and come out smaller than these gentle
men 10 their attack on the Governors mes
sage. I, was really painful to sympathetic
natures to witness it.
/ Can it be that these gentlemeu are igno-
antofwhat has been going on right around
t them for the past two years2 Don't they
) know that there has been revolution OF
r ideas in Western Virginia lately7 The evil
, dences of it are SO numerous that even a
7 hermit il our mountains could not live SO
: secluded as not to come in contact with
f them. The war has lifted our people out
q of the South Carolina swamps People 10
y the country have taken to reading the daily
= papers which are terribly inceudiary and
). dangerous to Ignorance and old fogyism.-
i The result is they have got to thinking
a pretty much their own way as 10 politics
6 a1d public questions aud doing very muct
: as suits them in regard to the same These
It are sorrowful results for gentlemen who
& banker after the fiesh-pots of Richmond
d They may struggle against their fate, but
e currents far deeper than they can control
S will continue to move the people right on
as they have been moved for the past two
e or three years, aud if the devotees OF the
1t flesh, pots do not fall in with the tide lheJ
: will simply be left behind, disconsolatt
) aud lonely, as others have been left alrea.
2 dy. We give themd due notice SO that if they
ind themselves tiouuderiug high and dry
out of water year or two hence they. shall
mol, have US to blame for it. go ~ ~.
b Wedo confessit is q matter of some sur,
: prise when gentleman gets up Mt this day
I, in our Legislature. and calls to his aid the
r dictn of Richmond politics, aud invoke.
b the infamous statute Ia dead letter forever
b thank Heaven, so far as Western Virginia i.
n concerned) which brands as crime the ex.
is preston of one citizen to another of a
is doubt as to the right of property in man
o to suppress message Of our Chief Mag
IS istrate. Cannot the people be trusted tc
i read it aud judge 1t for themselves2 Is any
j. gentleman in the Legislature, however ex
: allied, to elect himself for whole people, tc
: say that their Chief Magistrate shall moi
: address them upon public questions ir
e which they have great and Immediate in,
n terestI There is nothing in Governor Peir.
y points Message that has the least color o
l. treason to the United States. There 1,
If nothing in it, not word, of comfort or en-.
IS couragement to the enemies of the Govern
E, meut. No. so far from suspicion of any.
; thing disloyel, there is 10 tia feryent fidel
e ity and pure devotion to the government
e the Interests, the institutions of the people
y that put to shame all the pretences of its
a detrlctors, Is it this character that make:
: il SO obnoxious to gentIemsn9 grant
3 thing, truly, this grave Indictment Of two
9 gentlemen, "a against "the person. whopre-
y tends to represent this Statein the rapaci
: ty'sof Governor, for disseminating 'iaSen.
o diary" documents Tryiugt stiruP iiasur.
5 reesion among heir niggersm what ter.