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! If our Western Virginia Onion people do nut nlrctidv nppeiir before the rrorld as a ultra g the me.iueetai.d lowest of »H God's creature*, it i* nu fault of the Ch.dui.tii editors w their correspondents. Their 1whole uSergies jfo divided betvyeen it jseeming attempt to catatijisb that tact, and to destroy public confidence^!! the authorities at Washington. \The following is an extract from a Icttei written bv a correspondent in Wirt county, to ibo Conuiwcial. Any intelligent person can see that it is sitnplv a malignant exaggeration:But the most ciiriou**, miserly act of beings I ever saw, are the Union men of Western Virginia. I have never seen but one who would expend a dime toward'* the preservation of the Union, f have seen but one woman in Western \ irginiu who would bake a biscuit for a sick soldier, i without first nsking if he had any change; and daring our marches 1 never saw the first drink of water offered without first asking for it, and nearly in all cases, the man would nut move from his leaning posture on his fence, but would point to the j welt and say say, There it is, sir; help you it-self.” If a rail is missing from a Union ! man's pile, near a camp, he goes to the Colonel for its price; if n cabbage or turnip disappears from the garden the old woman sends to the Colonel for the value of it. The people hereabouts have an idea that every Zouave carries Uncle Sam's Treasury in his knapsack. One just now told me that he was going to ask for $200 as some one had broken his fence down.— Some entile had got in nnd destroyed some corn. The land, corn and fence would not fetch fifty dollars if offered for sale. A little hauling was required by our commissary. He was to get his provisions up the river bank, it took fin hour and a Imlf,with a yoke of steer* hitched to u sled. The man modestly asked for four dollars. II j was told that the one thousand Zouaves before him had left their homes, their nil, to protect such ns him; he said: “Oh, ye?! you are volunteers; I uni not.” Such men I a* he compos* the majority in Western Vir- I gifiiti; still I have not the least doubt they 1 are really Union men. but they won't give ; eitherjiheir time or blood toward the pres- j ervjitiou of w hat they desire—the Union. j
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Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, West Virginia, US
Thu, Oct 31, 1861
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