Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-20
FROM MARSHALL COUNTY.
MoUxDsv1LtS, VA, Aug 10, 1856:
Editor. I,tsLIgtnesr:

Editors Ictsibgtncer:
GESTLENEx-n is difficult for your
correspondent to keep up with the events
in the pain county. Obviously the time for
received action has come So great is che
boon for which We strive, and so great Is
the enthusiasm in this county that we lave
now four companies abont filled up.
The War Committee for the county has
instructed the court to levy bounty Of $50
for four full companies. On Yesterday our
War Meeting came of. l. was large and en-
thusiaztic sure. The militia companies of
the I34th regiment We're all summoned to-
gether for the purpose of drill and display,
the plumber in the ranks was estimated at
oue thousand The number OF persons a;
the meeting could not have been much less
than Two thousand. The meeting was or
gaaized by appointing Simon B. PurdY,
President, and Vim. Mcfarland, John Par
kias0a, Samuel Dorsey, Robert Alexander,
Michael Bowler, Henry Sockwan and Rob-
ert Henry Vice Presidents, and Joseph Nc
Lane Secretary.
The meeting was then opened with pray
er by the Rev. MIR. LYDIA, Pastor OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church In this town
He prayed for the blessing Of God 10 rest
upon tue President OF these United States;
tina, he and his Cabinet might be endowed
the war in which we are now engaged, as
tos peedily suppress this detestabie aud IN
holy rebellion. aud that peace aud happi-
ness might soon return to visit our cOuu-
try; aye, and be prayed for our soldiers on
the tented field, and for those we are now
sGnding out TO battle for our cOuntry's
rights.
Tie Committee on Business, consisting
/ of Il. d. Hunter, Capt ". J. Purdy, James
Holiday, a. o. Baker. James Alexander
| and Wm. Blake, had a stand erected in the
/ Public Square, the Court House being iu-
sufficient 10 accommodate but small por
ton OF the immense audience.
/ R c. Holiday, Esq, by instruction of
I the Coz: n;ttee, offered the following reso-
/ lutions, which were unanimously adopted
/ Res0iped, That we recognize but two d.
/ visions OF the people of the United States
/ in this national crisis, those who are loyal
! TO the constitutional government of the
| land, a. formed by the Fathers OF the Re-
public, aud to national unity, and who un-
coudiIionally naiutaiu the Integrity OF the
/ Union in all its parts, and constitutional
and civil liberty within it, and those who
openly or covertly aim or cndchYor TO sub
vert or destroy the government. 10 IiYide
our country, and to yield TO The reasonable
demands OF its enemies. That we frater
Mise and cooperate with the former, aud
detest and ahhor the latter aud that we
will sustain and aid the government in a
vigorous prosecution Of the war, aud with
all tue force of the army and navy all the
energies of law, and all means consistent
with civilization aud essential 10 its pres
ervation, until the rebellion an organized
opposition to our government, is annihi-
lated and every rebel reduced to submission
or driven from the land, and the Integrity
and the patriots right TO one undivided
country, one flag, and one destiny, is vim
dIcA;ed aud forever established.
Resoived, That we, the people OF Marshall
County. earnestly desire the separation Of
West Virginia t.om the Eastern portion OF
the State, and the admission of The former
into lhe Union, as a separate, independent
and sovereign State.
We cnumer;ltc but few of the causes
T which impel as to this. Commercially.
politically aud ::sociaIly, East aud West
Virginia are aliens, and thus must ever be
and remain. Ia the imposition of taxes
unjust and onerous determinations have
been made against US, and in their favor.
by subjecting almost everything with Is TO
TAXATION, and virtually excmpting slaves,
their most valuable property. Ia denying
to US. and Withholding from US, in appro-
priations to useful works of internal i'm
proYemeut, any just or adequate proportion
of the forty-six millions OF State debt tx
pended in internnl improvements to Jan.
1861. In forcing upon US the Oiious and
unjust mixed basis principle of representa-
ton, By which slavery, and not free white
men, is the element of political power, and
which virtually denies representation iu
the Councils of the State TO one hundred
and Twenty-Five Thousand free citizens OF
: In uIa n - no
allegiance of our entire people from the
constitutional Government of the land to
the reGelIous, reasonable Southern Con-
tederacy, and by pitching their tents upon
West Virginia soil, and uafurling their
piraticaI banners in battle to force us into
u craven submission to the servile sale and
transfer they had made of US.
West Virginia, diseuthralied and regeu-
Grated, will never again submit its neck TO
the lyrants yoke. Their bonst-that for
twenty five years they had kept the nose
of the West 10 the griudStOne in agony"
SHALL be of the past, never again of the fa-
ture We are the initial pUint of IL new
dispensation on Southern sUil free iu-
{ situations and mans rights; aud We here
By appeal to every patriotic member of
Congress in the lard to aid us by their iu-
huence and votes in securing the admis-
sion of our new State within the Union at
the next session Of Congress, and their re-
ward will be, consciousness of having
aided DISTINGUISHED aud struggling peo-
pie to the enjoyment of their rights, and
adding an additional star to the bright
constellation of States, ard a competitor in
noble efforts for freedom and empire.
Mr.. Campbell Tarr, of Brooke county,
was then introduced aud was greeted with
loud cheers. He gave an account of the
despicable, mean and contemplate course
which was pursued by the slaveholdiug
: oligarchy of Eastern Virginia, how they
despised propositions of compromise; that
"rule or ruin" was their motto; aud that