The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-17
A. w. Campbell and the New STATE

We.quoted i'll our paper OF the l4th an
editorial published in the Wheeling IN
| relligencer of June 18th. 1861, ill which
the acting editor OF that paper (whoever
he was) took the position that no effort
ought to be made for a separation be
tween East aud West Virginia until the
rebellion was disarmed and the whole
| comm, edlth restored to the Union.
Mr. CAMPBELL states i'll reply that the
article referred to was not an editorial,
although published under that head but
Was written and inserted by friend
daring the absence Of the EDITOR and the
public are lett to infer though he pru-
IDENTIFY does not say 50, that the editor
and his friend differed on that point
/ Another editorial however. appeared
III the iRtetiigeHCSr OF the 18th of Jane,
III which the editor or his friend com
uenting on IA speech tavoring a separa-
tion OF the State, made by Nj Dorsey ia
the con yentiOn theu i'll session here, took
the following ground;
We cannot dismiss from our minds
that the first point of all to be gained is
to put down the rebellion III every county
in the State III which it exists-in Lou
don, in Kanawha, III Tucker and Ran
dolph, rs well as IN HeHricO and other
counties east Of the Blue Ridge.
When the time comes for orr separation
from the East, we want all the counties
that geographically belong to us. As
matters now stand, we cannot get them
This is but repetition of the opinion
expressed in the editorial of the 18th of
Juue But perhaps Mr. CAMPBELL was
still absent,
Another article appeared under the
editorial head in the IntelNgencer OF the
18th of June, from which we make the
following extract to the same effect
If we were left free to have our own
way of it. we would say, let us cut loose
from Eastern Virginia just so soon as
our Legislature can be assembled and
the consent of Congress obtained But
there is too much that is impracticable
about that course The difficulty in as
certaiuing who Is with us and who
I against us among the counties in the
! Valley, is alone an obstacle of an almost
insurmountable kind We should de
sire to see the whole valley of the State
with Us. Likewise, we should desire to
see the Southwestern portion with us.
Those who recollect how Mr. CARLILE
was badgered by Mr. CAMPBELL for
wanting some of the Valley counties
brought into the State. will be surprised
to find these sentences in the Htelli0ercer.
But is true, nevertheless, that paper in
1865 insisted that the separation should
be postponed until we could take the
whole Valley. Possibly. however. the
editor was still absent and these para.
graphs were written By his friend
The next article which we have found
i'll the Intelligeaoer is an editorial of a
column and half in the paper of July
;, 1861, viudicating the convention for
not adopting measures for division of
the State, il reply to an article published
IN the Morgantown Star. The paper
still occupied the same position. The
editor was staying away from home
long time
We do not find the subject mentioned
again until the 20th July, 1861, when
the Inteiiigenoer in an editorial, referring
to the movement for a division of the
State. informed its readers that the pee.
pie of the Panhandle are not ready to
leopard the great great object of putting
uo"n secession, by hasty movement
IN mat direction. That great object ao-
cou'Plishea. ne adds, we are ready.