The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-18

A CORRESPONDENT this morning of-
fers some corrections in one or two par-
ticulars to the interesting sketch of the
State of West Virginia, recently pub
lished in our columns. We might add
a word to what he SAYS, in respect to
the popular uprisings throughout the
STATE that 50 plainly Presaged what the
hnalaction of our whole people would
be. Among the many demonstrations
both preceding and succeeding the pas
sage of the ordinance, none were more
significant or inhuentiaI than those held
in Wheeling. We refer to the great
demonstrations in December and in
January, following the Presidential
election of 1860, and also to the Mer-
chants meeting in the spring of 1861.
We might also allude to the fact that
1t was here that the discussion
Of the new State question com
menced months before it was agi-
tated elsewhere. The alternative of a
division of the State was presented to
the secessionists in case they persisted
in separating Virginia from the United
States. In this discussion Albert Cal
latin Jenkins, member OF Congress
from the district below, and Chas. w.
Russell Of this city, took part.
The merchants meeting here in the
spring of 1861, was really the initiatory
step towards taking farewell of old Yir-
GINA Her authority oyer us was for
mally repudlated at that meeting. 1t
was resolved that We would no longer
pay taxes to her, to be used for our des-
truction and for the destruction of Union
people and the Union cause elsewhere.
The proceedings of that meeting thrill
ed not only this vicinity but the entire
country. Loyal people at home and
abroad cried for joy. It was hailed as
the beginning of our deliverance from
slavery, secession and rebellion.
These things will all, of course, be
noted and chronicled when the history
Of the new State movement comes TO
be written In detail. As we said in
announcing Mr.. Hagans' interesting
sketch, he preparedit simply as an out
line and not as full history. He did
not pretend TO that fullness which
would include all desirable particulars.
-$OS II-
GENERAL sHERDAS,s oP1MoSs.-A
correspondent of the Cincinnati cou,-
mercidl, who has been making pedes-
TRAN tour through Texas, had on his
return to New Orleans an interview
with Gen. Sheridan, and thus condenses
the expression of that distinguished
officers views upon topics OF public in
terest,-premising statement that the
General declared himself determined
to keep entirely aloof from politics:
/" He said there was an undoubted
change for the worse in the attitude of
the South within the last six months.
and bad symptoms appeared to be in
creasing. IL now looked as il these in
fatuated people were about once more
! to precipitabe their own misfortune
Nothing conld have been more consid-
erale than the disposition of the nation
toward ats defeated foes, even in the
neat OF passion and flush of victory
and had the rebels only manifested a
temper eorTespondingly reasonable, as.
lndseds WAS very natural to be expected
amer such establishment, there could
have been no further difficulty. The
south evidently had no statesmen, else
30 plain problem would not
continue to be so bungied. For
it should be clear that no class,
once set free, can long remain
DISTINGUISHED, and as they ought to
have forestalled their foes in giving
freedom to that class in war, so after
ward common sense ought to have
prompted at least the latter prudence OF
making allies in peace of those with
whom they are bound henceforth to
live. Instead, however, it appeared
certain the rebels had learned nothing
from experience, and would, in fact,
drive their only chance into unfriendly
hands. The safety of the public peace
and of the private rights Of Union men
in the South still required the media-
ton of sufficient military force, and
II called upon TO give his testimony, it
should be, the United States troops
ought not yet to be removed from the
Sonth.p 5EF 5FT7fs
The correspondent says that General
Sheridan appeared to highly enjoy the
repaEtee of a Texas paper, which quot
ed his often copied jest, that "if he
owned Texas and Tophet, he would
trent the former and live in the latter
'.place,'' and CURLY added, -''d-n a
imam that wouldn't stand up for his
"own country"