Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-18

God guard our nag, and keep each star
Zach stripe bright RH now they WaVeJ
Still make Il lead our ranks in war,
still float above each patriots grave
Death to the traitor that would dare
To trail II through the dust Of shameS
All honest hearts Its lot will share
And follow Il to Death or Fame.
The SpenkershIp OF the Next House
OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES members
from West Virginia.
The copperhead journals on the one hand
and the Union journals on the other claim,
respeetively, the organization of the next
House of Representatives. Iuasmuch as
several States are yet to elect members,
their speculntions are simply TO be taken
as speculations aud nothing more. Those
of tho copperheads who predicate any por-
ton of their success on the elections to
take place in West Virginia, will,we think,
be signaIIy disappointed. We do not be-
lioye that the new State will return a sim
gle man who will not vote for the admin
istratiou candidate for Speaker, much less
will they return one who will be likely to
vote for Fernando Wood, the New York
HeraEd's candidate. We should like to
see the man from West Virginia who,
calling himself q Union man, would
dare to outrage his constituency to
such an extent as to vote for Fer
nando Wood or any candidate of that
ilk. AS matters now appear it is more
than probable that Hon. Schuyler Colfax
will be the Administration candidate. And
certainly while there IS not a filter man in
Congress for the place, there is no one for
whom a Representative from West Virgin
ia ought to be more willing to vote.
His earnest and able speech for our admis-
sion will long aforementioned by the friends
of the new State who were in Washington
at the time pressing its admission upon |
the House of Representatives. 1t was
remarkably lucid and forcible speech, and
produced marked effect upon the mem
bers In fact it was the opening wedge.
Colfax deserves everything of our mem
bers Beside his services TO US he is adj
mitted to be one of the very best parlia-
meutariaus in tue country. We would
like to SEQ him aud Fernando Wood pitted
against each other. That would draw the 1
lines at once aud reveal Enthusiastically to {
the country who were the copPOrheAds and
who were the Union men.
1t ia NIL important to the country, and to
no portion of it more than to West Vir-
giuis, that the Speakership of the next
House should be in the hands of an honest,
thorough -going, fearless Administrator
man. 1t is vital to the war that such should
be the case. The committees to be APP
pointed hold the issues of life and death to
the country. Imagine tor amoment what
the SpeNkership OF the last House would
have beeu in the hands of vallaudigham,
with Ben Wood, say, for chairman Of the
Ways aud Means committee, and Dan Yoor- |
hees chairman of the committee on Eieo- |
lions, VIM. A. Richardson chairman of the
COMMITTEES on Public Expenditures, Henry
s. Barnett, (uow in the rebel Cougress,)
chairman of the committee on Military At
fairs, and SO on through the chapter. Such
men as these would have been chairnen Of
all the important committees. They would
have reported against supplies-against
taxation-against the employment of me-
Croes as soldiers, and the world would have
beheld the spectacle of a great nation going
TO ruin because of few men who had
completely blocked the wheels OF legisla-
ton. As all know the country is not out
of danger. Far from it. Like a pa
tent lying at the point of death
it has sirply passed the dead point ct
danger. There are other dangers, The
best attention, the most careful, patriotic
and devoted assistance, are Necessary
Where Is such attention, such assistance,
=, 1870. e-or,S From the followers of
VallauaiEhamS the man who said before
the var commenced that he would never
vote : dollar for It's support, aud who never
has. No man believes that the country
would be safe day in The hands of such
men. Ii would be most fearful venture
TO pat the civil powes,,At this passing Cri-
sis, in the hands of such men.
What then is our plain duty as a patri-
Oie people here in Nest Virginia Is it
to select men about whose votes there is
to DC the least dOubtP Can We. in the
face Of the fact that these same followers
OF Wood and VAliAndigham were the bitter
opponents of our admission, and that they
are to-day just As tall Of enmity as ever,
and would be glad to have an opportunity
of upaoing what has been done to
make us a State, send men there who
viii have apy sympathy With them2
Nsyerl Not stngle representative from
oar new State has ever yet sat in Congress.
II the eCpperheAds had tree power aud
felt secure in its exercise, thSre never
would be representative from the new
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