Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-18

There Is no news from the southwest OF
any special moment. Our movements
through Mississippi are stirring mp that
State to an appreciation of the rebellion.
Take the general appearances in all d.
rections and the rebels seem to be getting
a heavy instalmlment of their rights.
The FOOIishnesS OF Secession In West
Virginia.
We have frequently asserted it to be an
incomprehensible thing to usi why any
citizen of West Virginia should be a seces-
zionist. So far as secession may be con-
sidered practical matter, in certain To-
calities, that is, a matter of material
value to those embracing it, we defy
all the powers of logic or common
sense to show that it has anything in it
that should c0mmOs1 - 70 "a Weat Viruin.
ian. Granting that it is possible to sepa-
rate what is called the South from the
North, which we maintain is utterly im
possible, yet what is there in the situation
of West Virginia that can promise her any
thing Of good in that separation? Who Of
all the farmers, mechanics, merchants
manufacturers, laborers, professional men
of the region embraced within the new
State is to be benefited Z? And how are they
to DO benefitted2 In the earlier stages of the
war we frequently asked this question. We
desired to know what il was, as question
of interest. that induced any man among
US to adopt the quarrels of South Carolina,
or AlAbAma-or any other Southern State,
and for the sake of these quarrels lend
himself to a scheme for breaking up a
Union that never injured him, and the de.
struction of which could not possibly ben
edt him to the value of one peuny2 Ma
ny times we put this question direct to GER
tain acquaintances before the vote on the
ordinance of secession was taken. We
have yet to hear one of them say that they
believed that West Yirginie would be BEN
Gifted commercially or agriculturally or
in an other material respect. Men of In
telligeuce know and must have always
known that in no event could the success
of the rebellion have Injured TO the
interests of a section situated as we
are. We are neither in the South nor
of the South. We do not raise any of the
Southern staples--neither cotton, rice, su-
gsr,tobGcco, and have no identity ofinterest
with states that do. What bond of con.
genAlity coald there be between us aud
South Carolina2 or Alabama or Florida
or any of the other South Atlantic States 2
There climate is not ours-their soil is not
ours-their institutions are not ours
What then is there that should induce
US to break away from the people aud
the states Immediately adjoining us and
join in with people and states hun
dreds and even thousands of miles away
from usH And then, suppOsipg that we are
foolish enough to attempt to do so, how
are We to get away from our neighbors1
Our territory is here where it SWays has
been and where it must be to the end of
time. We adioln Ohio and Pennsylyania
and We cannot help it, desPise the fact as
we may. They must always be just as near
to US as they are now. No ordinance can
put Us away from them. "what God hath
Joined together let no man put asnnder."
How ineIpressibly silly aud absurd TO talk
about the people of Ohio, West Virginia aud
Pennsylvania having different interest or
a different destiny. All three are the same
people. Their country is the same-thetr
productions are the same-their markets
are the same, and the people, themselves,
are the same. If we are in the South they
are in the South, and if We have South
eru interest so have they. If We ought to
follow South Carolina they ought tofolloW.
Their rights have beer just as much tram
pied on as ours, for We have precisely the
game rights In every respect.
These are very plain aud elementary
and such as commend
to the common sense of every I