The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-04
Political status or the Mountain
Counties, West Virginia.

Political Status OF the Mountain
Counties, West Virginia.
Editors I1IteLLigence1': ll'a
have Just returned from months
tour through the counties OF Upshur,
BraxtOn, Nicholas, Fayette, Raleigh,
Monroe, Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Ran
dolph, Barbour, Taylor, &c. God
shur! They were the bulwarks of
Union and strength, around whom the
masses of the mountain counties raj
lied during the rebellion. They will
give the largest Republican majority of
any county south OF the railroad, on
22d of October and Sd of November.
Set them down to the tune of old ten
hundred.
Next passed. through Braxton. The
Union men are buoyant and expect TO
carry the county by u respectable ma
iority. spent u few days in Nicholas.
Some of the leading men there, who
have been voting the Democratic
ticket, said to me that they were going
to vote for Grant and Colfax; and
that w. q. Stevenson Was the
best selection which could have been
made for our future Governor, and that
they would give him n hearty support
with all their influence. So that hll
may count on Nicholas giving more
than her usual Republican majority.
Fayette is all right, and is marching TO
the battle field in one united line, and
we will carry the county by moro than
two-thirds majority for the Repti blican
ticket. At Raleigh Court House met
the great Democratic champion OF West
Virginia (so.called), Mr.. Frank Here
ford, and spent the greater portion OF IL
day in debate with him. MIR. ii. rs one
of this two Democratic electors for The
STATE at large. do not say, as some
bystander at the Raleigh debate has in
timated through the columns OF the
INTELLIaENoER, Veni, Uidi, Uici, but the
action of the people in October and
November will decide whether we have
lost or gained there. In Monroe,
found all quiet and peaceable, SO much
SO that one might havedou bted whether
there was rebel in the county, but for
the vindictive and ugly schirrous yis-
ages which would occasionally pass by.
The presence of Capt. Grafton and his
company OF Uncle Sans" Boys in
Blue, has salutary effect on rebel blus-
ter in Monroe, but l found II quite
different al Lewisburgs where some
drunken rebels were "heaytng and set
ting" like Brownlow's ram at the
| gate post. The Union men OF Monroe
| Informed me they were hopeful of CIV
| ing three hundred Republican majori-
| ty, Green brier is the only doubtful
county in the Ninth Senatorial District.
| The Union men are battling hard to
redeem her, and not WltnOut Roou
prospect of success. Pocahontas, (my
own native home) expects to vote
greater per cent. OF her registered yo-
ters than any other county in the
State, in behalf of political liberty. All
haill TO the Indian Queen of the noun
tains; from whom IL is said so many of
the f. F. VS. descended. Though the
state should be lost in the vortex of
Democracy, rebellion and anarchy,
yet we propose to stand and remain a
band of freemen, and we think we are
full able. Let us ''rally round the
Flag, boys; rally once again, shouting
the battle cry OF freedom. Down
with the traitors, and up with the
Stars.' "Union and Freedom;" Jo! nL
aud forever. Two months more of In
cessant war, and the last great battle
for American liberty will be fought;
slavery crushed foreyer-'"Then shall
our peace flow as river, and our
| Righteousness as the waves of the sea-"
Fz. s. YOUNG,