Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-11
AuImportant PubIIoatIon.

great interest TO 10 tue people OF west
Virginia 10 our paper this morning. He
coplenses into snort space, and into
very plain an easily understood language,
all the necessary information concerning
the recent call tor volunteers. CousiderH-
BILE volunteering is now going on in this
State, and little by little ac-essiOns to the
ranks Of the old regiments are made
Every accession counts one, let every man
bear that fact in mind, and subtrNcts one
from the draft The more volunteers the
fewer cOnscEiPts. 1t is thus every mans
Interest to help on the work, saying moth
Jog about considerations OF patriotism or
of the liberal remuneration for recruits
that is now offered. Il is time to make
decided movement in this matter of voluu-
teerinS, tor January is tue month set apart
TO ill all deficiencies III our State quotas
by draft II every man aud woman would
take an Interest," real, live intereSt-in
getting each one recruit, there would be
no draft in this State. We eau just
as easily, and good deal more
satitactorily, raise our quota hy volunteer
iug than by CONSUMPTION. Why Hot do it i:
The three hundrel dollar exemption law
will be repealed, We suppose, within the
next few days. Such is the symptom now
in Congress, motion to that eject having
been already made in the Senate. The
enrolment is about completed in our three
districts, aud complete lists of all those
liable to military duty made out. The lot
will fal! prorliscously upon rich and poor,
upon the willing aud unwilling, the loyal
aud the dislOyaI, and every man drawn
will have to either go or furnish substi-
tute. Encouraging volunteering now will
be great deal easier than finding substi-
lutes then; aud hence it becomes II matter
OF insurance aud wise precautiun to help
on the column while all stand alike in ss-
speet to chances.
We bespeak tor the Governors state.
ments and recommendations, ths closest
attention, Hud tor ht- efforts 'o ~vetA tue
rA,;essity of draf:, the most earnest CO.
operation OF every citizen.
Necessity for Union Newspapers In
the DIhsrent Counties OF West VIr-
EInia.
We have before US long but most ear.
nest, sensible, and patriotic letter from
citizen of Harrison county, asking us to
bring before the Union people OF that sec
zion the imperative necessity for live
Union paper being established in their
midst. lie shows the damage that has
been done in many instances by CaEile's
apostate paper: how those who we've once
strong in the good cause. hare become
Indifferent, and how those who were al
vavs weak have become OatiTely demoral-
lied, and all for the wGna of q constant sus-
tanning stimulus to, their original impulses
and intentions. GarliIe's paper, wherever
it has fouaa its way into families, has
made, if not enemies, very questionable
c1iauds to the Government, and in many
instances it has wholly perverted honest
but uniformed minds from the right d.
rection by it's insidious appeals to their
prejudiCes aud fears.
We have wondered how it is that in q
populous county like Harrison, the major
lty of the citizens being loyal, a paper like
Carlile's could be sustained, and yet 10
movement for Union paper. paper
from distance, even though it be cheaper
and more generally interesting aud infiu-
entail, is no substitute for county paper.
There can be no substitute for county
paper 70 Tue people of a county. It Is a
constant local influence, and necessarily is
seen aud read and felt where no other
paper eau be. 1t rAdiates from the centre,
as nature does, and not from the circum.
ference, as outside papers do, and there is a
warmth aud growth and vi'iEying power
in such radiation that is unattAinable by
other influences.
We commend these considerations to the
loyal men of Harrison, and likewise to the
people Of MonongAliA, another rich and
popuIous county, who also to their injury
and reprOach have no loyal paper iu their
midst look what the good influence Of
such papers as the Fnirmont National, the
Parkersburg Gazette, the Richie Pres, the
Point Pleasant Register, the Middlebourne
FlaindedIer, the Kanawha Republican, aud
last, but by no means least, the excellent
wellsburg Herald, has been. What would
have become Of West Virginia without
these papers? We have no desire to spec
ulate what West Virginia would have been
had these papers been as zealOusly against
the Union as they have been against the
rebellion. Their fruits teach us to plant
and cultivate other seed of like kinl.-
We must do it or see the good elements
that exist dissiPs,ed by aud absorbed into
bauefuiinfuences. The means for starting
and snnnorring good Union paper in any |