Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-25
The Status of the OpposItIOn to the
New SCaGe

u6Ee 10 uONulbB plhluSt W nuy 0hPASJN-
dice ID mind than the fact that if secession
lists throughout West Virginia had any idea
that there was the least possible hope of
their being able to defeat the New State
they would one and all, to man, vote
against it, and not be content to stand back
and refuse to vote. Their original plea, at
t be time the first votes upon theNew State
question were taken, was that they did not
recognize the vote as legitimately submit
ted to them; that there was no power vest
ed in anybody this side of Richmond to
submit such question that Virginia was
no longer in position to make an appli-
cation to the United States Congress for
anything, aud, therefore, that this whole
agitation and canvass and vote upon the
New State was of no binding force or obli-
cation upon anybody. They took the same
position in reference to the New State that
they took in reference to the restored Gov
ernmeut. Gen. Jackson, of Parkersburg,
as trifling and ineffective and impractical.
BILE man politically as lives, was conspic-
uOus in his opposition to tho restored Gov
eminent, just as he is now in opposition to
the proposed New State Government
Neither he nor one of the other sign
era of the address which we notic-
ed yesterday morning, were in ia
vor of the restored Government. Not
one of them now give it anything but an
enforced and unwilling support. Their
sympathies are not with the Government,
State or national. What the exact position
of General Jackson is no one pretends to
know. We have never seen any one from
Parkersburg that pretended to know. All
that any one could tell was that, charac-
teristically. he was mumbling and carping
and fault finding, and not agreeiug with
anybody or anything, aud that all his in.
fiueuce was against the concentration of
public opinion around tho restored Gov
eminent and International Administration.
This is his position. The positions of the
other four signers is worse. They are all
known to be disloyal in their sympathies.
They have been so from the start and
nine out of every ten men who are opposed
to the New State entertain similar sympa-
thies. There may be some few persons
who are ignorautly aud honestly opposed
to the movement, but We would almost as
leave try to mako money by hunting lost
dollars along the highway as to try to find
a dozen such persons in any one county.
The opposition to the New State goes
hand in hand with tho opposition to
the restored State government aud the
opposition to the war. They are part and
parcel of the same sentiment The proof
Is within the easy observation Of any man
who has sense enough to look about him
and think over the antecedents of the op-
Poueuts of the New State. Take any of tho
adverse ones, just as they occur to your
mind, and ask yourselves what was the
position of these men in reference to Uco-
erOion" two years ago2 and what was it
In reference to the reorganization of the
State government by the loyal people of
the West herei This is an easy way of
coming at the gist aud root of the whole
matter, and 1t is any loyal man g own fault,
and he is very poor excuse of a man, if
he suffers himself to be deluded by the
sympathizers with JEFF. Davis who are
heading the anti.New State movement.
This fact being as we have stated it,
what loyal man can reconcile himself
TO being found in such company to-mor-
row. How can he excuse himself in
time to come. 1t will not do to say that
he was deluded. No such excuse will be
received by the public sentiment of West
Virginia, two years from now. Men will
say in answer to any such excuse that we
had before our eyes the character of the
mon who were in opposition to the new
State; that we could not heIp knowing
that their sympathies were against the
government of the United States, and with
the rebels. And they will say further that
We had this question in all its length and
breadth discussed aud agitated among us
for two whole years that it was explained
In every newspaper and on every stump,
and that all that We had to do was simply
to open our eyes and let in the light upon
our minds. This will be the answer of
public sentiment two years hence in refer
ence to all excuses from those who fail to
do their duty tomorrow. Very uueuyiabls |
indeed, will be the situation of that man
who will find himself, at every little social
or political gathering, called upon to Tell
his neighbOrs why it was that on the 2stb
of March, 1853, he voted against so great +.
OoOn-sO rich blessing as the new Star.
Of West Virginia.
We do trust if there is one loyal
man who still hesitatss as to where his
iuty lies that he will lay these considera.
ions to heart, And let every such man
emember this, that the secesslonists have