Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-21
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The Editors of the Press arc refugees
from Hampshire county, in this State. who
came to Wheeling to get the public print
ing, who instead of loving the Union; loyc
only the spoils which they can secure
from its treasury. The Government has
spent millions in defence of the County of
Hampshire and those esurroundiugit; thous.
auds of Northern men have risked all that
they held dear in driving the rebels out Of
that section, and hundreds aud perhaps
thousands ofthem have found graves upon
its soil, 6ravely defending n people who
despised them, while the Editors of :he
Press are daily denouncing them as thbo.
litionists," and pleading for the negroes of
those who murder, AID destroy, not only the
soldiers who have gone to their defence,
but Gssqssinute, burn and pilidgs the few
Union men who remained ntle1the inglorl-
Gus flight of Trowbridge and Downey.
Where would tOs have been but for the
Northern army? Those who were able.
aud who did not, like the Editors of the
Press, seek safety in flight, would have
been impressed into the rebel army, aud
their property would have been destroyed,
and their families insulted If not outraged.
Yet these men hurrah for slavery and curse
their defenders as "a Aholitiouists." :" That
tvord has no terrors for me. That has been
the cry of Democrats ever siuce can re-
member. II has been applied to me and
to all who had the holiness to denouuce
their Internal doctrine, which has culmi-
mated, as it enemies always predicted it
would, in civil war and an attempt at a
dissolution of the Union-to accomplish by
force Of arms what il could not accomplish
Rt the bAilot-hOx. We told the Democrats
that it was a Rule or Ruin Party; and that
prediction was as true as the glance of a
prophet: They could not rule; they are
trying to ruin. Thank God l5they can do
neitherl
But the most melancholy part of this
matter is that some who are Union men,
and mdny who profess to be Union men,
are joining in the cry against the Northern
men, calling them .'abolitiohisls,i and VA
riOus other names fmhnufaetured by}trli-
tors. want no better criterion by which
to judge Of a mans loyalty in these times
than TO hear him cry sabolitionist =
curse Fremont, Hunter and Banks; Swear
that all tie Black Republicans" ought to
be hung, saying that the Northern fanat-
the abolitionists ought to be hung by the
side of Davis and YanGey; never abuse
secessionists, except in company with tab
olitionistsp aud fanatics-all of which j
have heard nearly every day for the last
three months These-U Union men want the
Union restored qa It pGs, and the Consti-
tuition preseTUed IN all its purity. They
SWantsno contisc6tion bill; they. want tue
rights of the States (thatsis, ;nIggersl TO
remain as they were before the war. With
them, emancipation is a violation of the
Constttntion. They don't want the South
to be hurt, not at all that would be un-
constitutional. They have very inno-
Gently and very Kindly attempted
to destroy the Union by arms, anditis nn-
constituti ional to- hurt them; most fonl wick
edness to Interfere with any OF their rights,
and especially their right 70 nak The ''nig-
GER supreme, aud the ssniggeER influence
predominate over eyerythinR else Il don't
value my sopiniop very highly, but am
of opinion! noverthelessi that siavary Is. IN
one sense, the cause Of the war; and Tam
equally OF opinion, on the other hand, that
IL win never be the, cause of anpt ptaer " ar
IN this county. for when this ii ht ends
slaueFg leill not Be- tnoEtk 80 tnlg toE. hlen
may deplore it some honestly believe sla-