The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-02-12
The Panhandle ExCommunica.

puaPp that can ArafCRly Ina HnnaidaraI
complimen,arv Ue sOvs th,,
"Tbe Panhandle w.. n thorn In flo ,;Is
OF old Virginia. Her thisyinR arts did
not comport with the chiyalrons senii'
nhent OF .he people OF our Mo1her sIn'e
noIiticsi e,hics IF ,he Third % District
There is us much community Of interest
and as much social and political homo
Hehei'y between lhe lot1ento1s Huu ~. Eui
bobI,Sn,S T'I Of III" " PorbSndie. The rela.
tions with our people will be as agreeable
with one as with the other"
1t has been some time since we read
an outbnrst Of this kind from the Old
Virginia element IN our State. We used
to be very familiar with 1t in the days
oil slavery before the war, and also when
the project oil new State Was under dis
cnSSion alter the war commenced. The
kanaWha Valley was intensely hostile to
the idea ol A new Stale, the expectation
being That the Coniederacy would win
the day, and that Virginia would he the
great political lmperator oil the new
Slave empire, while the hereticS ol the
Panhandle would be overrun by some
victorious Duke Of Alva and driven out
oil the State, after which peace and slavery
would forever hold sway in the Old Do
minion "lrom the center clear round to
the sea.
The reference to the "Ihieving arts OF
the Panhandle population isaqneer sort
Of aiLexpression and difficult to under
stand exactly. 1t may be an insinuation
that our people were none too good 10
steal negroes from the chlyalry of the old
State before the separation. ltmay refer
to the old charge that We stole $4,000
square miles OF territory from her and
formed it into the present State Of West
Virginia. Or it may refer to the more
recent charge that we stole the capital
from Charleston.
The corner lot spectators of Charles.
ton have per8istently tried to get up a
feeling against Wheeling by Industrious.
lly charging her with the theft of the
Capital, lust as II they owned the Capi.
tai and Wheeling had no right 10 be u
candidate for il. We have ALWAYS con.
tended that this silly charge was an in.
suit to the representatives of the First
and Second district, who saw Gtto re.
move the Capital 10 thia city. ui.in
effect n charge that thew were either \ set
Of imbecilea or corruptioNi.ts and that
along with the Governor of the State
they were bought M or hoodwinked bv
the p.ople of Wheeling
In this woy the Charleston peoule have
undertaken 10 bull.doze the balance of
the Stat, into nm adoption of their
grievance apoiust this ci,y and If nos.ible
mt Wheeling before the world a. n sortof
freebooter who has in her possession
something tha, belongs 10 them.
Strangers wopId sunpos. after readipp
such paragraph as we have quoted
from the Chronicle that the Panhandle
people were positively unfit to be asso-
cia,ed under the lame form Of government
with the people OF the Kanawha Valley.
The language employed is the language
Of hate. What possible justification is
there for the Use Of such language? Ger.
tainly ii is not because this part OF West
Virginia is Il drawback in any sense Of
the word to the prosperity Of the State.
The statistics OF the Auditor will show
that the Panhandle lisa large contributor
to the public revenues-how large it
would be invilious IN us to say by way
OF comparison with the Kanawha coun.
try. We leave to the public the task OF
searching the tables and making that com.
parison for themselves.
Our opinion is that the publication Of
such articles as the one We quote docs
harm 10 the interests OF Charleston.