Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-13
THE Tactics OF the Enemy.

The Tactics OF the Enemy.
There appears to be no trick too low, aud
no fAlsehood too gross, fos the enemies of
West Virginia to resort to to deceive the
people. Ont 10 the Interior they tell the
people that they do not oppose the new
State or the lew State Constitution, bat
they are simply hostile to the Wiley amend
meat, and try to make them believe that
the amendment is what they are to vote on
at the coming election, and that they may
vote it down and still have the Constitution
and the new State without it. This was
the proposition held out by the little clique
at CIarksburg in their call for an anti
Wiley amendment at Petersburg yester-
day. Such audacity is like the iguor-
Ance in Mr.. BUNDLES parochial district;
it is ''frightful" 1t is to be regretted that
there should be any necessity to notice by
way of refutation such obvious violations
of trn:h, but lying is the chief argument OF
these men, aud to answer them at all must
be to expose their faIsehoods. There is no
EGRulhE EGAANI vi kuG5O COluulub UNIT eau
be imposed upon by such bald pretence,
but there may be some around them who
have been SO indifferent, and therefore igno-
rant, as to the present attitude of this ques-
tion as to be misled by this audacious false
hood. Wherever you can find such spare
no pains to explain to them the true state
of the case-that the question that will be
put to them on the day of election will not
be "ior the Wiley amendment or against
it," but "for the amended Constitution or
against it," The amendment is an amend
msnt no longer. II WAS adopted by the
Convention, and is now as much part of
the Constitution as any other section in it.
The fomrer adoption Of the Constitution
goes for nothing, for having been amended
it has to be submitted again entire, Just as
if it had never been submitted before at all.
The Constitution now comes to the people
for their fnal judgment. 1t must be ac-
CcptedOr rejected entire. Its the result of
two years agitation aud labor, aud if the
people decide now that it does not suit
them, then there is the end of all that move
ment, aud another vote on the question
could only be obtained, under the most ia
vorable circumstances that can be mag
ined, after similar lapse of time and ex-
peuditureIof money and labor. We do not
think so happy combination of circum-
stances iu favor of the partition of the
State could ever happen again, nor that
people of the West would ever have the
liberty, if they even had the spirit, to make
another attempt,
Another trick has been resorted to by
some low wire workers who have been serv-
ing the rebels and drawing pay from the
government, in support of the "free negro"
ClsmOr with which they led of their oppo-
sitiOu to the New State. They have been
telling the people that the Incorporation of
the Wiley amendment into the Coustitu-
ton would tnuudate West Virginia with
free negroes, and when shut up by citation
to the fact that the Consultation puts in
force the auti-free negro law of virgiuia
which declares that mo free negro shall
migrate into the State" that no free ne.
gro snail be brought into the State" aud
that tho free negro shall remain in the
State after attaining the age of 81, "-they
seek to confuse and deceive people by
pervertiuE the language employed. The
constitution declares TCbap. II, Art. 81
that "such parts of tue Common Law and
of the laws of the State of Virginia as are
in force within the boundaries of the State
of West Virginia when this Constitution
goes into operation aud are not repuguant
thereto, shall be and continue the law of
this State until altered or repealed BY the
legislature" Any who knows what the yir.
giuia anti-free-uegrO law is knows that
this dsmOlishes all preteuee of danger from
FREQ negro immigration into the New State.
Some other dodge must be tried. So the
people are told that the anti-free-negro
Law of Virginia is "repuguantn to the Con-
stituttOn and is therefore not put in force.
How it is repuguant they do not explain,