Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-16
The canvass.in MarsnaII aud other
Counties.


The canvuss.in aIarsnaII aud other
Counties.
No more enthusiastic aud whole soulsd
meeting has been held during the New State
canvass SO far, than that AT Cameron last
Saturday. The loyal and devoted people
Of that vicinity are awake AID alive and
will vote almost as unit on the 26th.-
Marshall county is striving TO be the ban
ner county, and Preston and MonongaliA
will have to look well 10 their laurels. We
should not be surprised to see that county
give, exclusive of her soldiers vote eleven
compauies) clear majority of one thous-
aud. She is one of the bravest and most
reliable counties in the Union. The peo-
pie there, ever since the war, have moved
almost in solid body. They do nothing BY
halves. They do not go for the new State
in piece meal. They go with their hearts.
aud souls. The leading speakers are work
ing nObIy aud indefatigably. They are
cauyassiug every inch of the county
Messrs. Caldwell, Holiday and Mcconnell
attend most of the meetings aud are inces-
SAINT in their labors. If anything like the
work that is being done in Marshall is GO
ing ou in other counties the new State can
not help having clear aggregate majority
Of twenty Eve thousand. Let the other
counties emulate the example of Mar
shall We know that most of them
will. All of them should. Speakers
should distribute themselves into those
counties where taey need help,-counties
like Randolph, Barbour, Harrison, Lewis,
Doddridge. Writ, Brsxton, SC. The river
counties are all right. Press the canvass
home in the remote interior. Send all the
spare speakers into such counties as we
have named for the remaining time. All
tie people want is to hear the merits OF
the New State fairly presented. Every
dtshonorable effort has been made use of
By the agents aud tools Of CArIiIe & Co.,
to poison their minds aud enlist their pre-
judices- But these lAbors will avail them
mounting As We s..tI New State will
be carried By an overwhelming aggregate
majority. 1t is only a question of ma
jOrIies in each county. We shall carry ev-
cry eouaty by more or less OF majority
We feel 60 hesitation in making lha, pre-.
dtcGoa. But it is desirable to swell the
majoEities in each county to as near unan-
unity as possible. Unremittiug, active and
intelligent work will do this. Press the
canvass then, friends of the New State
Let every man who eau speak or talk enter
the arena in his district orIin some other
Oae. LIE, dozen people be got together if no
more can bsgot out. Explain to them fully
aud tru;hfally the issue, aud let them 10
their turn expIain to their neighbors who
were not in attendance. Aud more than
ali else s1hOrt them to organize thorough
iy for the day of election. Have lists OF
allths voters in each precinct aud see that
every man who is legal voter is called
upon aud invited to the polls, Ii is not
wise, neither is it creditable in any way to
conclude that the majority will be large
enough without the personal exertiou Of
every friend OF the New State. We are not
hoping for mere majorities: we know lha,
we have shOm now. We all ought to wan,
unauimitY as nearly as possible, Such a
result viii be of iucaleulable benefit to the
peace, harmony aud prosperity of the New
State in future. Work theu, New State
men, like the easnes, men that you are
from this to the close of the polls on the
Goth.