Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-31

An honest hearts its lot VII snare
And follow Il 70 Death O. Fame.
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The Ohio EIection-AF Few Words TO
Our Neishbors oyerstlle River.
The election for Governor Is to take place
in Ohio on the second Tuesday in October
NEXT. John Brongh, sturdy old demo-
crat of the jackson stamp, full of war
fervor and patriotic deyotion, is the can
didAte of the Union men. Clement L. VAL
landigham, traitorous sympathiZer with
the rebels, is the candidate of the so-called
democracy.
There are many men who will vote for
Mr.. yalIandigham without comprehendiug
what would be the result of their vote
were it to elect him. Such men are voting
for him on old party grounds-because
they-think he is democrat, and because
they fail to realize that there is an issue
between him and his opponent momen-
tously beyond the range of mere party pol
itics.
There are many alas that there should
be SO many J good, plain, honest, unpFe-
tending people, who will vote for Mr.. VAL
landigham under the terrible delusion that
it cannot be possible that he is disloyal
man. They look upon him as in some
way, in some respects, under some circum-
stances, a Union man. They have been SO
accustomed to hear hard and extravagant
things said of their candidates in times
past, that now that the wolf has really
come at last they cannot credit the fact
But SO it is, nevertheless, and We would
to.day, and from this on to the election,
that our disinterested appeals from this
side of the river could engage their atten-
tion. All of us that are loyal here in West
Virginia feel an intense interest in the Ohio
election. We look upon the Union cause
there as our cause. 1t comes home to
us-even to our very doors. We cannot
be Indifferent spectators to such an issue,
at such time as this in Ohio.
We take it for granted that the people of
Ohio generally sympathise with the posi-
ton of West Virginia. How could it be
otherwise? We refused to part company
with Ohio two years and a half ago. To
keep with her in the Union we left our
own brethren of our own state. We cut
ourselves forever asunder from our own
blood and bone. From that day on we
have stood as break water between Ohio
and rebel invasion. Our country here has
been oSer-run and wasted again and again.
All that Ohio has suffered or is likely to
suffer in this war is not to compared to
what the people of West Virginia have
suffered. 1t is natural, therefore, for us to
presume that the people of West Virginia
do not lack the sympathies of the people of
Ohio.
How then, men of Ohio. do you propose to
show that you sympathize with us2 Is it
in the only way you can show it at a time
like this2 Do you propose to be true to
the, cause in which West Virginia has
suffered SO much and in behalf of which
her people to-day are SO jealous and SO
patient2 Doyoubear this fact before your
minds, that there lives not a union man in
these borders who would not this day
dread to realize that yallandigham is to
BIZ elected your governor 10 ocioberi Do
you bear likewise this other fact before
your minds, that there lives not single
rebel IN all our borders here who does not
ardently hope for the election of that man
Consider these two things. We are per-
suaded that many of you have never re-
fiected seriously upon them, and yet they
are grave truths and ones that are deeply
felt on this side the river.
: You may ask us why our people feel
thus about vallandigham's election2 We
answer you, because We have noticed that
from the beginning of this war up to this
time he has steadfastly refused TO vote a
dollar or man TO its support. Because
his most prominent speeches have been
published all over the South aud highly
commended Because noted rebel paper
has IL 50 many words endorsed him as
their sort Of man. Because, for the rea-
sons given At fhe time Of his arrest and
trial By Gen. Burnside, ali that he has done
and all that he has said since this war
commenced has been In favor Of the rebels
and against the country He has over and
over declared against coercion. He has
held the currency of the country up to rid
icule In his public speeches. BE has de-
nounced the war as an abolition war. He
has fnfamed the peoplet to resist the arrest
of deserters; to resist the CONSUMPTION law;
10 resist the collection of taxes.
But this is not all. The limits of our
paper are not sufficient to furnish even a
oompsnd of yallandigham's record. Our
desire in this article is simply to awaken
/. the attention of the people on the other
side of the river to that record. We wish
them 70 realize before election day that