The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-12

ties to our boundaries, every membe!
of this same so-called conservative
party opposed them to the uttermost
At all the great political gatherings o.
this organiZAtion-int their professions
OH their banners, and in many noticea.
BILE ways, West Vfrginia has been
studiously ignored asa State.
In connection with these significant
facts we must not forget that the Vir.
ginia Legislature sotne weeks ago in
augurated u proposition for the reunion
of the two States. II has been pro-
claimed at Richmond that in due time,
when reason shall have resumed her
sway in the minds of the people, and
when the Radicals (as they term all oi
US who did not sympathize with their
treason) shall be put down, and the
that then we 'tas errfug brethren will
return to the fold from whence we
seeded" An extraordinary commit
tee of conference was appointed by the
Virginia Legislature with power to ne
gotiate for reunion OF the two States
at some opportune time, or falling in
that for the payment of the mammoth
debt of Virginia. This committee will
doubtless hope with anxiety for the
defeat of our constitutional amend
ment on the fourth Thursday of next
month. To them such defeat will be
an omen of reunion at no distant day.
The public press of Virginia will inter
pref it to their people as the beginning
of that treaction4which is to bring into
power in all good time their friends
and sympathizers here.
The consequences TO the loyal people
fthe State in the event of the defeat oi
the Amendment, now that 1t is made a
test question, cannot be easily foretold.
We do not pretend here to enumerate
all the possibilities ofreactionarYd disas-
ter. .thAtlInay attend such a defeat. We
know full we'll however, that 1t IS the
dearest wish of every disloyal sympa-
thizer in all our htty-two counties, thai
the Amendment Bhonld be defeated. III
it is adopted we believe that the safety
and permanency of the State Is assured
beyond peradventure. On the other
hand we do not feel that West Virginia
has anything more thanp precarious
existence from day to day-from one
election to an Other-if the amendment
is lost. M & u fiti . t Htia
Suppose that this Conservative party
that SO bitterly opposed our admission
in Congress, and that have SO persist
emily outlawed us ever since, should, by
the accession oftheir Southern allies, get
control of the next Congress, and of our
next Legislature here at home, We
would then be pOwerless 10 resist our
transfer back to Virginia. No vote Of
the people is ever again to be required
on this subject. The consent OF the leg
islatures OF the two States and of Con-
gress, is all that is necessary, Their
action despite any protests of the peo-
pie, would be final.
- AS to the consequences in every con-
ceiva BILE point of view ofa reunion with
Virginia., we will not attempt to por-
tray them 10 you. No disaster more
complete than this could befhll U.S.
1t would be AS if II living body should
be bound to dead one. 1t would be
as ifa prosperous man were compelled
forever to pay tribute TO a prohigate.
1t would simply be u return to an ex-
aggerated degree of that servitude that
has made West Virginia in days past Il
land 50 undesirable to the Immigrant.
IMPOVERISHED and deSolated Virginia,
with her hopeless debt, would be fast
ened upon our prosperity as huge in
cubus forever.
In conclusion we would exhort our
loyHl fellOw-citizens to rally once again
with that zeal that has carried US satel y
through our combined struggle for Ma
ti0nai and State preservation thus far.
The victory this Spring Will put at rest
all our fears for the, future of West N1r-
ginia. Let us therefore arouse as one
man and roll back the tide OF reaction.
Il. Ii. LOGAN,
JoHN E. WILSON,
JOSEPH BELL,
g-s. SAMUEL LAUGHLIN,
.-.ztsr -. JOHN K. HUBBARD,
JOSEPH SEYBuLD,
80 A.-M. CAMPBELL,
Central Union Committee.
WuEEIING ADril 10Th, 1868,