The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-02
THURSDAY MORNING, NOVA.
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reactionnry party, not only as regards
national politics, hut ns regards the
very existence of the State of West
Virginia. We quoted a morning or
two since an expression from written
card OF n candidate for the Legislature
in Greenbrier county, in which the
author avoWed himself as not only OPP
posed to the Test Oath, passed last
winter, but as also opposed, Us he ex-
presaly said, "to the State of West Vir-
GINA" or course such acandidate can
not become n member of our legisla-
ture, even II elected, for, as a prelimi-
nary, he must swear to support the
constitution OF West Virginin, and that
constitution prescriBes In the very
first sentence OF the very first section
of the very first article, that "the State
OF West Virginia shall he and remain
one OF the United States of America"
Yet the Greenbrier candidate is but one
of many such candidates who would be
glad to offer themselves, and, perhaps,
one OF many who, according as they
find encouragement, Will offer them
selves. The party calling itself ''demo-
critic" in this State opposed the forma-
ton of the new State, and, candidIy
speaking, we believe that the leaders OF
II, together with many followers, would
wilIingIyrecro,ss the Red sea tomorrow
and become again the Israelitish bonds
men of the Egyptians, If they could
successfully raise, in their opinion, the
reactionary flag. We have always an
ticipated some snch movement, and
we nre not Mt all surprised to see men
who have been in the rebellion, and
others who sympnthized with It, to-
gethcr with some who were Indifferent,
intimaling desire to get buck into the
old State. In the eyes of such men
West Virginin is hOpelessly committed
to the Union cause and the Union party,
and therefore holds out anything but
flattering political prospect to lead
ers and followers whose sympathies
have not been identified with that cause
and that party during the war. They
naturally seek affinity with the ma
jority, and the majority of their kind
are only TO be found in the old State.
We have before us the Inst issue of
the Lexington, (Rockbridge county,
Na+ee' anu tl'e I..e,'''onu - 1.,gI D''
%l.lel con ,', l5..,it, o '" e.'t a. "u
''o,ai Vi "'i'S" ''''' - a
u S1oI ,,, pm " NV, NJ, H So.
~ I''S'S ~. '.lns ~. w"
into the old commonwealth. The idea
pun toI VI ~ 49, W. l''el~ Le.''ll,uS
M y. ~ 9'y y. nv DoeS.' 'Ho VIZ"
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-. :, pi'l'C,su " ~ :"
.iP "ia1 -sos-,eI,u' tto
t'iht ~ an ecoho,llc point Oh Wow 1t
Wou'u pe u very "esir"ule partnership.
Is iieeuie''S 70 ,'uu ti''l' tue great hlil-
~, no'ii'Ie uiu NOS IL 'i 'tn' sn''
"ese va WIZ iOoE upon TINS L. econo7
iiil' iue'i Dio que. ES Tue oiu va pa.
Pers soo'i us''i us t'ot'iscu ~. tooNeu
on t"e pi" Up ! ne C,ilaPi-
"A'eu fortunes OF VI" u are Wen rep
iSSotte" W 'iie "essHF III Hueet"h'
Ieop'e VINO nIe to-u"y SO largely leu
rom government ''ouhtS' ana whose
minus poor at Tue pes't' 1Fe stripped Oh
MUSES. ieii.e'I "''iii'' iliu every "sFlccuA-
10 10. ,.as'','., au unu
w. 800 = 'iS O'P ~, anu "nos
e"' % 'n MY n'''ioS' 'Atiu"t
oo'tS'''s "h
Pto"so ''.,, IN p'.i'neisniP
WIN" Young UNI, tlllity co.ll'onWeilth'
PosSes,ns e%celiSnt ctetlIt' a Iu,l treas
u'y' u.u'.Ss. ~ "H H' iio ueo. eA
80 aL'o Vi tt-o giT ouo I,1 =.
uv.V'o '"0 MN' u'.u oiea'eu win luz
p'' Is anu most iiH'''Fi"s prospectus
AT , nome ''lu IoLo"u'
one Slllno' helP IeS'alll,nS the oinlosSe
between INC Spluer ana the N.Y. as no |
reads these articles in the Virginia pa |
pers about a reunion. We have people
in our own State silly and suicidal
enough to second, II not TO originate,
similar suggestions. There were croak-
ers and malcontents in the camp of
Israel who In the very sight of the
promised land would have retraced the
wilderness md rc-crossed the sea and
gono back again to making brick with
out straw under tho Pharoahs. But 1t
was not SO to be. It wasn not so ordained.
Neither Is II written that West Virginia
shall again go buck under the dominion
OF those whose policy so long benighted
and retarded her, and who at the last
invaded her and sought TO bind her to
the slave car OF a South Carolina South
orn Confederacy. II is useless for the
dilnpidated depredntors of the old State
TO pine to our pcople for they will never
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