Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-14
Classifying west virginia IN Adj,

we noLlce- Iuhb u pTOmluenS +0ASh0uS
paper of Butternut sympathies is at wsrl
already. classifying the next House Of Rep
resentatiyes. In the calculation made tw,
members from West Virginia are claime'
against the Administration while only on
is conceded to its support What right o
authority this sheet has to speak in ad
vance as to the sort of representatives tht
people of West Virginia will send to the
next Congress, we know not, but,we thank
the editorofor the significant warning which
his ieares have given US. Being notified
thus early it will be entirely the fault of
the voters of West Virginia if they fail to
dIsappoint the calculation to which we re-
fer. Why one member should be credited
to the support of the Administration and
TWO to the opposition, it puzzles US to fan
CIV. Why not put them all down one way
or the other? We should like to know
which district it is that is expected to send
an Administration man and which two are
TO send the Observation-Disclosures members
Who among our readers can give any good
reason for a classification such as We have
alluded to-? Are the people ready to say
amen to such parceIling out of their
representation We think not. We shall
be very much mistaken if West Virginia
does not materially change the count. If
opposition men go Congress we think it
will simply be because the people are
egregiously deceived in the position of
their nominees. We have not the least
idea in the world that it is the inten-
ton of any district TO send spotted man
10 Washington. 1t is notorious fact that
those members OF our legislature, hailing
from counties the most remote from the
border here, were the most uucompromis-
ing in their unionismA and in their sup
port of the administration, The strongest
auti-slayerS men ins.the, body were from
the furtherESost counties. We all know
that this district is not likely to send an n
opposition mena 6er3if she knows il. Whist
district then is it that is relied
upon to play into the hands of the
copperheads We fancy that when
the experiment comes to be weighed
in the balance 1t viii be found sadly want
ing. In the meantime, let the people of
the new State rouse themselves to the
closest scrutiny in this matter. No doubt
last such an attempt, as is indicated, will
ne made to send slome tainted man to
Washington.
We esteem it nothing more nor less
than oopperhead arrogance to thus pre-
anne upon the loyalty of West Virginia.
I. is taking for granted that our people are
entirely oblivtous of their situation that
thew are surremeIy ungrateful for the
extraordinary consideration and favor
which they have received at the hands
of this Administration. 1t is sup
posing that they are not sagacious
enough to know thatin the fact of their
close adherence to this administration lies
all their hopes of the permanent and in,
violable recognition of their admission as
n State into the Union. 1t is likewise q
gratutious assumption that they have for
gotten who were the enemies of their ad.
mission; that they have meekly and stu.
pidly overlooked the votes and speeches o.
the so called I" opposition" on that memoir.
able occasion.
Whatever copperheads may think Of
count or presume at present, we counsel
them to form more modest expectations as
to tho likelihood of our elections, Our
people have not forgotten Carlile & Co.,
in the Senate, nor Vallandigham & Co., ii
the House nor the pregnant fact thai
those two divisions make up what knowr
as the Opposition" to West Virginia ant
the Union lin Congress. 1t isayery unwar
.rautea piece of presumption to suppose
that the voters of West Virginia are ethel
so short in memory or so tame in spirit o.
SO credulous in temperament as to commi
their highest interests to the tender mer
cies of spch an opposition ~
We trust that our people all over the
new state will be warned in time of all in
dicatiOns and iutimatiOns such gas are re-
ferred to above. 1t behooves them to taxi
the earliest precautions looking to distric
conventions aud the nomination ofcaudi.
dates. = -N7l''
A writer insthe New.aYork EeeniHg Pos
remarks that sthe plan for taking For
Wagner would have been successful but
for the want of daylight"-Shich seems
to be another way of saying that our forces
would have capt6red. the fort, but they
"didn't see it,
AN. Atlanta. Ga, paper deneunces tbs
base outrage of forcing starving people in
yicksburg to eat United States rations.-7
The fellow complains that The rebels ar