Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-23

Sprlug. have witnessed with great SOr-
row of heart, the spirit of strife aud dis
cord and disregard for State sovereignty
and authority in come six or seven counties
of my old district
How much more dreadful must be his feel
ings uOwl only think how his bowels
yearu after the misguided and unfortunate
people of his sold district, while he is all
snug and safe down at Richmond, or some
place else. under the protecting wings OF
the Southern Confederacy (if it has Wiugsy.
We wonder fany recollection of our un-
happy condition troubled him when he
skedaddltd out of Richmond along that
toW-path, in search of his rights aud the
protecting 1gis Ofthe Southern COnfeder-
acy!
Inthe J'n,on of the 18th we find the pro-
ceediug of a meeting in Gilmer County, in
which John +. Hayes. now captain of a
guerrilla band, we believe, was prominent.
NJ. w. Hughes, late resident in the Athene-
u'n, WAS Secretary. This meeting resolv-
ed that they were "virgiutaus," and owed
/ their ''first allegiance" to the State. Con-
sidering all the circumstance, we don't
see that their being N'irginians was much
credit to the State. They resolved, further,
that, "ns Virginians," they would defend
"her honor and rights wherever their SER
vices might be demanded; and, very ma
turally, soon after, in pursuance of this re-
solve, most of them turned bushwhackers.
A year ago the Union kept standing at
its masthead the resolutions adopted by
the Fairmout (secession) Convention. We
Copy sample:
"ReEOtrsd, That we owe obedience TO the
Federal Government only 6scauss Virginia
has commanded us to obey its laws, &C.
That our allegiance is due the sovereign
State of Virginia; and We maintain that
Virginia has the right to command our
services as against any other State, power,
government, or authority whatever"
That is what We call pretty strong seces-
sion doctrine, but that was the infusion
prepared for our people by the doctors at
Richmond and they had to swallow it or
none. Strange bow the people who ''main-
tanned" that sort of thing got out of the
way in this section when the ''power, gov
ernnen;, or authority whatever" moved to-
I ward them
From All editorial in the Union of May
/ 10th we extract:
"There are frequent. indeed we may say
constant, rumOrJ and canards to the effect
that large detachments of troops are being
I prepared to be sent into Northwestern Vtr-
GINA and located at Grafton, Moundsville,
and even in this immediate vicinity. These
report are mischicvOuS and entirely un-
cd Vel, NN,
! at this time 100000 armed men now in the
State 10 d.feHdher rights, we are assured that
unless greater necessity than now exists
shall arise no troops viii be sent in this
direction. The game is not worth the
candle ?"
We suppose the editor meant that no
troops would he sent out here from Rich
mond. Ofcourse he would profess to dis
credit any report that the United States
"onld send any troops in here, though
qnAking in his boots all the time. But the
game ioas worth the candle and troops
came into wheeIing-but none of that hun
bred thousand, probably because We had
no rights up here worth defending.
The E"io" goes on to say that it had
"never supposed that Virginia would part
with one foot of her territory in conse-
quence OF the revolutionary Convention
held in our city,"
"VirgIni.. AS the talented young eIi-
tor" nuderstoOd the term, meant the chiv-
airy, the +. +. VS., the niger lords about
Richmond, in short tile sece ssionists {; and
on that theory We guess Virginia" is
abandoning all the territory OF the State.
We wonder if the now absent, and we fear
diSconsOlate, editor of the Union didn't
think something of this sort when he, in
company with Numerous other illustrious
hut seedy exiles, Was making that MASTER
" advance on North Carolina, short time
since.
But this article ia already rrotracted
beyond reasonable limits, and with one
more allusion to our deceased contemporary.
and the circumstances of its demise. we
will close. On the 25th of May, 1861,
/ precisely one year ago day after to-mor-
row, the Wheeling Union breathed its last
As We have said before, the approaches of
dissolution were gradual, though appa-
/ rent.
/ On the morning OF the election it was
taken with severe fit of warning, as fol-
40 the Editor or the Unon Paper:
| We have suffered enough from the evil
tone of your paper. II would be prudent
TO discontinue its publication. A hint to
| the wise ia sufficient.
/ IN. FORDYCg, Capt. t. S. Vols"
The "ext morning the Unio" was seized
with fit of election returns, which great
" aggravated the disorder ami added to it's
debility and the following morning re-
uewed attack Of the same complaint, in a
less mitigated form, proved fatal. The last