Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-14
From the Philad. Inquirer.
"ESnERN UTRGTNTA.

si From the PhiIad. Inquirer.
WESTERN VIRGINIA.
The plans of the rebel leaders were sad
II ~ disturbed by the opposition which the
, Union men of Western Virginia offered to
their plots. In May, 1861, the notorious
Mason wrote his famous letter to the Vir-
ginialelection, saying that those who could
not vote for tho ordinance of secession
tought net to vote at all, but pick up and
\ 20 out of the State. Those who have read
the letter will remember that it reels and
I.staggers onward towards its conclusions in
4 a very maudlin, zig-zag kind of way
Both the style and the augmentation are
Iieminently suggestive of bad whisky. The
people of Western Virginia, however, could
not conscientiously vote for secession, even
under the influence of Mr.. Mason's pathetic
appeal. So they began to pack up their
4 goods and prepare for departure from the
State in way all unexpected by tho
conspirators. Trey resolved to go,
Carrying away bag and baggage,
wives and children, and houses and
! lands-all that was theirs-leaving
the leading rebels looking aghast at the
unlocked for application of their cherished
doctrine of the right of Secession. How
they felt on the occasion is manifest from
the frantic way in which. they sgnashed
their teeth and swore at the departing
loyalists, from the savage threats they
LioI, ti,o, 70 asutes ny
Il ~; 70 carry Lnelr threats
a;o /, w. :. Al1ious S1
sete ma
/. Wise blpsteFed as loudly and accomplished
as little as usual, and fH4whict the inevitas
BILE, Floyd tried his "'prentice hand" at
generalship, and made himself the laugh
ing stock, as his thieving at Washington
NJ. nun tue contempt OF me WOrlu'
tHi pelsu' Wnicn Cost l!ne Sepels SO
~" ~ eOuFeu tnem SO iittle, at ieast
:. ss aSe s sS.uence OF the deep cnagrln which
sney ts &c .. Tue oarrler thus thrown III the
80 - t'efF carrier ana OF their Interior
W. a,.
:" u uouot wnether the country has ever
/, 49, So tue tu'ty conscious OF the import
"u . VI mat GOOD work which was accom
: Plsneo oy the loyal men of Western Vir-
stui@, %nen they seeded from Secession,
a enu uoluly proke loose from the bonds
"nlcn the Rebels had so cunningly thrown
pFoauo them. II shut Off the Rebels di-
8 rect'y rom ONO and Western Pennsylva-
r MA. 1t erected barrier on the Eastern
3 of loyal territorv vvedo+e lie in hat,Sasr
: rebeilious Virginia ana Kentucky. whicb
i, lthey were endeavoring win snnarhnmar
: efforts to hurry into Rebellion. Il was al
u uprising OF the people in the Rebels, owr
s border; an outbreak of the trues loyal
i freedom loving American spirit; a present
3 trouble, and presage of yet other resur.
rections of that same spirit in ye
. other portions of their Confederacy
: of whose runanimity of feeling the,
= had ever been wont to make thef
lying boast. We of Pennsylvania. and III,
citizens of Ohio, have the strongest posi-
u BILE reasons for cherishing the remembrance,
:! of the patriotic course of the loyal men o
Western Virginia, and the strongest mo
= tive to impel us to seek occasions for show.
!, ing our high appreciation of it. 1t tha
q section had been filled by rabfd Rebels
and given up entirely to their sway, oul
r border counties would have been making
a sad history during the last two years
: They could only have been kept in compar.
). atlve safety NE BY. tue presence of larg'
Iorce- But they nave been dwelling in al
n most unl9terrnPted quiet, thanks to thu
d l9ya!.ty, :! Mestern virginia. And that 10y
n.y Is Y 9ses yet otner good fruits, by AMI
e OF the Government wakes stronger ant
II s'F0nges,
IT Shameful Condnct ora Union Genera
it a Chattanooga correspondent of n,