Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-02


MR. CHARLEY RUSSELL, once of this town,
and originally of Tyler county, now mem
Der from this district of the rebel Congress,
offered resolution the other day that he
and his fellow rebels would never submit,
but that they would wage rebellion on and
on, world without end. We suppose that the
resolution really represents Mr.. Charley
RusselPs desires. he is certainly one of
the public men who can i'll afford to see
the war stop short of rebel independence
There are some with whom it is different,
Mr. Russell recognises that unless the re-
beilion shall prove a success. and unless
West Virginia shall be reclaimed to the
Old Dominion, and the Uuion element
here aud throughout all our counties
crushed under, he could never hope to come
back and even live here much less to be a
power among US as he once was. He has
no hope go far as all his old associations are
concerned except in the absolute success
of the rebellion, the overthrow of the
Union, and the scatterment and exile of
Union men from West Va. We think, how
ever, that Mr. Russell mistakes the future
even supposing that his desires for the
success of the rebellion should be realized
when he takes it for granted that the Peo'
pie of West Va. would suddenly lose thelI
present feeling toward him and his coad-
tutors from their midst. Happen what
may iu this war Mr.. Russell has no future
among us, except one of general execra
ton. He and Joe Peudleton and such lik'
escapaders from this section, could not re
gain their standing were the rebellion sue
cessful ten times over. At every election
they would be voted out of countenance
aud at every street corner the boys anon
us would cry "for shame?" at them. The
would be recognized by all classes IS tn
architects of ruin-ot broken hopes-o
persisted liberties-of desolated memories
The mark of Cain wonld be on such, an
it would be strange if some who shout
Rud them would not slay them.
We would suggest to Mr.. Charley Rus
sell and his red-handed coufreres fror
hereabouts, that they turn their face
away from any anticipations hitherWardi
This will be no place for them in an
event. The spirit of the old Union, wit
all its precious recoIlecuons, will not 500
die out among the freedom loving peopl
of West Virginia, come veal or woe to tn
Union ITSELF Without cause, without
decent pretext, without community of in
terest or association, they unnatarally lei
us and Joined themselves to our task mas
tnsr in East Virginia, and with them hay
made common cause against US, an
against our neighbors and friends aloD
this border, and against the common coun
try of US all. Such men have no lot o
inheritance among us any more. The.
must go to other sections, where the peo-
pie are more like themselves, and wher
the voice of reproach is not SO likely to b
heard nor the finger of scorn SO otter
seen. OF all men we can imagine sucl
men as Charley Russell to be the mos
miserable. The future promises them lit
tie. be it as it may. They will be alien
wherever they go, and even success ca
bring them no recompeuss in their ow
estimatiOus for what they have forfeited
They will wear out the miserable rem
nants OF their miserable lives as tn
bloody Jacobins of France wore utthsirE
and "doubly dying, will go down"
"To the vile dust from whence they sprung,
UnRept, unhonored and unsunG."