Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-30

day. We regret tnlS eACRealugIy' Aue
Legislature can i'll afford TO lose the SER
vices of such member as MIR Lamb. His
fine exact mind. ripe legal scholarship and
experience, together With his prOverbial
business method, made him invaluable at
this time in the work Of originating and
codifyiag our legislation. We learn that
the Legislature refused to accept his resig-
nation, and We hope that he can be induc-
ed to withdraw it. The reasons for Mr..
Lambs withdrawal have not transpired.
We published yesterday liberal extracts
from an able and manly letter written last
week by General Thomas Francis Meagher,
the distinguished Union Democrat, to the
Union Committee of 0hia. In that letter
General Meagher 2neQuivocally announces
his Identification With the Unionists who
rally under the banner which John Brough
upholds in Ohio. and who gather from all
parties to overwhelm the treason there aud
everywhere, that represents itself in the
candidacy of the convicted traitor Vallan-
diHham Not to be Influenced by the name
Of democracy" under which the attitudes
OF disloyalty aud treason are assumed at
the North, be takes az patriot the broad
common. sense view, that faction whose
success is coveted by the armed enemies
of the Union cannot be the party for true
Union men to belong to, aud that the ranks
of an opposition arrayed in malignant hos
tility to the government cannot invite men
L. a. nj
sustAinithat government in a life and death
struggle for existence. The name of"De-
mocraCy" may go where it will be is the
Grue Democrat who abides by its princi-
pies; aud the principles OF Democracy"
20 Gen. Meagher. are those which place
the citizen, at time like the present,
in sympathy with his government aud ia
enmity to its enemies.
1t is a simple argument by which Gen.
Meagber determines his position bat it is
all that any patriot eau need. "Eha cleo
ton Of Nc. 8rough,n considers he, twill
deepen the depression aud confirm the dis
comfture of the South, going tar 20 con-
vert into volumes and blank despair the
ecstacies inspired by the Peace meeting
and riots OF New York, Iowa, and other
places where copperheads abound, and the
venom, as we'll as the slime, the fAngs, as
we'll as the slippery skin, of the reptiles,
warn the community of danger. On the
other band, the election of Mr.. ValIandig-
ham will rouse the dropping spirits of the
guilty States that have been so efectually
crippled of late" Summon Mr.. Vallan-
digham from his congeniaI exile 10 the
bosom of his British sympathizers, seat
him in the Curule chair of your State, let
him have the disbursement of the patron.
age with which it is richly padded, and,
not doubt oft, the usurpezs at Richmond
will have good reason to infer they have
reliable friends at the North, aud that
hampered aud overborne by a swarm of en-
emies."
Nor is it the rebels alone who are to be
made glad by the election of the expelled
traitor. All the enemies Of the United
States, everywhere, are to take heart over
it and rejoice. Canada will illuminate
in celebration of the event" "The Lon
don Times, on its being telegraphed from
Liverpool that Mr.. ValIandigham has been
elected Governor of Ohio, will be itself
again" "The Southern loan will have a
sudden RISE" "Lord Palmerston will
straighteu himself up and talk more
jauntIy and impndsutIy than ever about
the rights of belIigerents." ROebnck,
Gregory and Lindsay will grow more i'm.
Fortunate with their motions for interVen-
ton"
And all this is enough for the Irish pa
triOt, Thomas Francis Meagher, to con-
slider, in settling with himself where he
shall stand in present politics. He will
have none of democracy" that pla-.
ces him in sympathetic association with.
rebels in arms, foreign enemies. and pat
rons of the mob. His side in the present
conflict is with the government. His
democracy" is on that side, and there he
stands, firm in its principles, side by side
with the Union men of the whole land,
urging Ohio, as they do, to "vindicate and
fortify the national government" by elect
ing John Brough, and in so doing to re-
ceivs "the hearty congratulations of every
true Jacksonisn Democrat" 80 .-I -
Such is the position Of Thomas Francis
Meagher. We impIore his cOuntrymen
who have become, like him, citizens Of the
American Republic, and who desire to be
true to the country of their adOpttou-we
implOre them earnestly to consider whether
he is not right.