Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-27
THE ELECTIONS TODAY. ,
We have 90 last hour appeal 20 make |


We have no last hour appeal TO make TO
Union men to do their duty to-day
We feel in respect to an election go i'm
portant as this one to-day, somewhat as
Gov. Wright said in respect TO the firing
ON Fort Sumter: yiz-that the man who d \
NOT feel himself appealed to BY thesevent
itself could not be very deeply impressed
by mere words. We have had important
elections in West Virginia since this war
began. We are not prepared to pay that
the one to.day is more SO than some others
that have preceded it, and yet It is like
each one of them. link in the chain and
IL cannot be left out without running the
risk of undOing or forfeiting all that We
have done in the past. = +. ~ -. $50
Every intelligent man in our midst knows
these few thiugs full well: '"i
Faat-That the party that is to-day con-
fronting the Union men in this State, has
for it's puslsus those who voted for the
ordinance of secession and those who did
not vote at all, on the 2Sd of May. 1851. ~
SeeOnd-It is made up Of those who by a
large msiOrity were and are this day OPP
posed to the state existence of West Viz
GINA, and who sympathizSWith the men in
Congress who voted against the admission
of the State, and the men who IN Ohio and
Pennsylvania have steadfsstly ignored the
new State in their speeches aud on their
banners. go. sec.
Tard-The allies and friends of our op-
ponents here at home, will, II they get into
power, and the question comes up, devote
their influence TO remand West Virginia
again to the government at Richmond.
FourtA-In case they succeed in putting
the State back again under old Virginia,
we will come under the rule of those who
are now our enemies in the Geld, and who
will put upon us not only ell the old inc
Qualities Of which We so long complained,
but, in addition, our proportion iof'ehS
ruinous taxes which have been enacted
since.
The question for every man to ask him
self this morning, before he votes, is this {:
win it pay me in any sense of the word
to vote with those who who have doubt.
fol record 60 far as either the Union or
the new State is concerpedH Do 1 not, in
voting with them, risk everything that
promises to influence my condition for
good in life, for something very sus-
picious in its character II assist
to.dsy in voting down those who voted
down the ordinance of secession, and
who, in doing so, saved me and my inter-
ests from the woes that have befallen dis
loyal old Virginia, and who have secured
tome the new 6lates with It's greatly de-
creased eF, rate Of taxes and iis many promis.
log adyentagss in the future, DOL not do
something that is not only very uHgrntestGesl
in its character, but also quite likely to do
me a great deal of actual harm.
Those who TO. day will stop and think of
what is involved in their votes, Of the dark
and uncertain future that lie before us al,
viii be slow to cast IN their lot with the
party that does not feel that the victories Of
Grant, and Of Sherman and Of Sheridan
are good for its prospects, and that has no
assurance Of success except as disaster
may befall our arms between this and the
Presidential election. -n +'.-! I. g. -