Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-02-04
Letter from monongalia County.

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Letter from MOnonGalia County.
Editors InteNigencer
Senator Raymond, of Doddridge coun.
ty, addressed his constituents in a card
published in the Plaindr0ler, which was
Thought of sufficient Importance by the
editors of the Monitor, newspaper
published in Morgantown, to copy it In
their paper. Senator Raymond assigns
his reason for voting against the test
oath bill Il believe it is called). 1t may
satisfy his constituents, bat it will not the
loyal people in district number three,-
Although both our Senators voted with
Senator Haywood, and they are men who
stand fair with the people, aud, if, as they
say, they did believe the bill uncoDstitu.
tional, aud TO vote for the bill they would
violate their oaths, they certainly did
| right so far as they are personally con /.
cerned. The secesh sympathIzers here,
and suppose everywhere else, exuIt over
everything that Union men do which pro-
fits them. very large majority of the
people in this district are unconditional
Uuion men, and so far as the writer of
this has heard, there is but one opinion
about the propriety OF passing the bill,
and it's constitutionaIity.
The propriety of every public officer
taking this oath Is patent to every loyal
man. The sympathizers have honey
tugled some OF the Uuion men to vote
what they call the constitution. Couserva-
tive ticket, (the plain English of which is
| rebeD, and have succeeded in electing a
few sympathizers over scme-of our best
Union men in this district. As'to parties,
there is but two, unconditional Union men
and rebels. Traitors aud conservatives
will not do to tie to. Those that are not
fO TIa iy1DH
ground to occupy Look at the result OF
your charter elections. The loyal city of
Wheeling barely succeeded in electing
thsir city officers by the skin of their
teeth, and electiug teW to the councils
that, If 1 read right, voted against the
soldiers UotiHg. Shame on Union men; and
eternal shame will rest on every man who
affiliated with such a clique. But it is
useless tor me to say OF write aword, for
if the people of Wheeling will not hear
you and follow your instructions, who
have so ably and plainly pointed out
their duties and the danger resulting from
it, say if they will not hear you they
would not believe though one ra,sed from
the dead. Contrast Wheeling to-day with
what it would have been under the rule of
JEFF Davis. Rebel sympathizers have
grown rich by being protected by the loyal
people of West Virginia, aud so with
many other places, while at the same
time they have been doing all they could
in giving aid and comfort to our enemies.
Prom the result Of your Charter cleo
tious, think the Legislature, before it
adjourns, ought to make provision to meet
elsewhere
hope, Messrs. Editors, the Legislature
will, before it ndjourns, pass Senator
Young's Liquor bill, or something very
stringent. Look at your streets aud al
leys, grog shops and whisky densi Look
at them in all the towns and villages over
the State. You see old aud yoang, down
to small boys. staggering, qusrreiing and
fighting, occasionally taking life What's
the cause2 Liquor Liquor! Nothing
short of shutting up all classes Of gros
shops will do any good. But every body
knows this. Oar representative know
this, aud yet for fear of making them
selves unpopular with the dear people,
they have not the sense, many of them,
to pass bill that will utterly crush out
this curse that is upon us. But will
stop. lhave written more than intended,
and perhaps more than you will publish.
THIRD SENATORIAL DIsTRIcr.