Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-25
Es.oree w. Summers and the People
who Support Him In the AanaSVh"
CAmp DEFIANCE, KANAwHA County, I
~ August 10th, 1863. !


Editors Intelligenesr:
Isee in thu Lptslligencer of the 18th inst,
n vour structures on the speech OF u. w.
SINNERS, that you intimate that ne may
succeed in making the people OF the ka'
nhwha Valley believe that he IS a Union
man and a new State man, but that he
would never be able to convince yonr peo<
pie in the upper end of the State that ne
isone. What wish to say'is, that II you
sIppose the loyal people of the Kanawha
valley are less thorough in their views and
fceIinps on this great question than those
Who live in the upper section of West Vir-
oinia. that you have very much moderated
them Aud we wish further to say that
the truly loyal of this section of the State
by no means endorse Mr.. Summers, and If
the intimation that such thing could be
true of people who have suffered every
indipnity that the hell-hOunds could in-
fiict. had come from disloyal source, we
might have suffered it to pass by without
stoppiup to notice it. But feeling satisfied
that you might have wrong impressions
with regard to the genuineness of our 10y
atty, and knowing the high position you
have always taken, 1 felt that 1t was my
duty, as friend of the cause you have SO
molly defended for years, to dlsa6use your
mind of any erroneous Impressions that
MY have been made and to vindicate our
people from any charge of a want OF
dep and abiding devotion to the
cabse of our country, 1t is doubtless
trie that a certain clique in this district
will support Mr.. Summers. But who are
they ? They are those men, with very few
exceptions, who have always been held as
doubtful, and who, we doubt not, would
iusi as soon JEFF. Davis would triumph
in he struggle as the Government
Hut permit me to say that the truly 10y
al, Hose men who have taken an active
par and who have presented a bold front,
andwhose breasts have been laid bare to
acknowledgement storms of secession, have no
synpathies for that class of men who in
thelnidst of that storm, when every tim
ber!ioint, and tenon, in the vessel was be-
| ing TRAINED to their utmost, stood with
| fold!d hands and sealed lips. Mr.. Sum-
ers Ielongs to that class. The people OF
Kanlwha county and indeed throughout
the 1Glley well remember, when they look
back, what a deep and painful anxiety
burtIsned every loyal bosom, and what an
abuutant relief it would have been to them
| in that dark hour of their greatest trial,
had Sme one in whom they could have
impliIitly confided, stepped forward and
| with gigantic hand aided them in con-
ductiIg our m-beaten vessel through
the beakers to the shore. Geo. w. Sum-
mers ould have aided much, but alas, he
was q cold and frigid as an iceberg, and
as stint as the grave.
4 Thh is the man then that some talk o.
bringing out for one of the highest offices
in the-Syift of the 1AAaEA1lAf ASS ~
4 right SSm-drop from my shoulder, or my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth thar
that tte one should ever be used in casting
a vote for, or the other in uttering sylla-
BILE in Recommendation of any such mer
for positions of honor and power again.
GeoRe w. Summers truthtully calls oul
4 new Site the 'tchild of the Storm" so it
is, but Who are the men who successfully
controlled and quieted the intricate cir
cumstaaces that clustered thickly around
the place and hour of its birth
Was it s. W. Summers? No, sirl But
when blood, fire and smoke were deluging
the land from center to circumference and
when Conflicting elements, like mighty
earthquake, were Gonvulsing the frame
work ofPsociety to its very foundation, he
stood aldof from danger. We know these
things ID be facts. What l know have
written, And have written it in vindica-
ticn of the loyal people in this section Of
West Virginia. No fears need be entertain
ed on TIE part of the friends of our cause
that we viii be easily gulled. We have
suffered too much for the want of aid
from thoi who could have given us much,
but were silent, w. W. II.