The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-28
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Some Points worthy OF Attention.


The Richie county Press, "a paper
by the way, that is doing good service
to the Union cause,) has some remarks
in the course of n recent article that are
not only forcible and suggestive in
their general bearing but are especially
pointed and relevant in view of the
issue that has been presented to the
people of West Virginia, in the shape
of the registry law and the constitu-
tional amendment.
eve CONTEND" says the Press, "that
the loyal people who organized this
State as aloyal State in the Union in
the midst of the tumults and threaten
ing dangers ofa civil war, carried on in
part within our borders, and so con-
trolled its policy as to keep it loyal
State, securing good degree of protec-
ton, safety and prosperity to its peo-
pie, and at the same time rendering
such an amount of aid to the General
Government in its efforts to vindicate
its rightful position and authority, and
to subdue the hosts of treason, as to en-
title it to Il most honorable position in
the roll ofloyal States, are the people
who should still control the policy of
the State, who should make, and judge,
and execute its laws. The Parkersburg
Gazette, on the other hand, would per-
suade the people that the war being
now happily ended, and peace restored,
the government of the State should be
duly and formally handed over to the
men ofthe State who were born to rule;
the men who formerly controlled the
politics and policy of Virginia; the men
who were the county politicians, and
held all the offices of the counties, and
who attempted to compel the people to
follow them in reasonable effort to
States; but, failing in this, forsook tho
people, and employed all their energies,
during the subsequent four years of
war, to accomplish their designs, max
ing our new State an especial object
against which their reasonable eff rtS
were directed; often going out of their
way to deal her II blow, and combining
themselves to no honorable rules of
warfare to annoy and ruin her citizens;
denouncing her as bogus State and
her authorities and loyal people, as
traitors to Virginia. marked by them
for especial and exemplary destruction
whenever they should return, as they
confidently expected to do, in triumph;
and who not being permitted to return
triumphant, yet return, bold, and def
ant, and adhering to all their old prin-
ciples and purposes.
This we honestly believe to be true
statement of the issue between us,
though we concede itwould not begood
policy for the editor of the Gazette to
state it thus. He attempts to disguise
his true position and purposes under
professions of 'conserVatism.' He would
fain accomplish the purpose OF reinStat-
ing rebels in power; but he will not
risk alarming the victims he hopes to
catch, by advocating openly so start
ling proposition"
We submit that there is a great deal
of force in the above remarks from the
Press. The case stands as therein pre-
scented, viz: that the loyal people of the
State, those who organized it, who be-
lieved in it, who took all the risks of
so doing, who opposed the usurpers at
Richmond. who adhered under'all de-
feats and discouragements to the State
and the United States, are "the people
who should control the policy of the
State" Either this is true, or the con-
verse of the proposition is true, viz (:
that those who opposed the State, who
believed and denounced it as bogus,
who cast all their sympathies and in
huences to the rebellion that was war
ring upon both, and would, if possible,
have crushed both, should control its
policy. Both cannot control that poll !
cy. Therefore the issue now is simply
this: Who are the natural and rightful |
guardians and custodians of West Yir-
ginin's interests? Those who have
from first to last believed in her, stood !
by her, rescued her, made her State,
or those who have secuted her, opposed |
her, hindered and thwarted her by |
every means in their power? The is
sue lies just in this question. No one /
can mistake it. Friends and foes must Z
alike admit that the contest is, who /
shall control and mould the policy of /
the State? The two mothers who came
before King Solomon claiming the
child, the one genuine, natural, sym
pathetic claimant, the other mere
pretender, presented just such an issue,
involving just such an award of indis-
putable justice. By all that was right |