Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-07
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to Virginia, from which we extract;
Virginia is naturally divided into four
sections, viz the Underwater, the Pied
mont, the Valley, and the Trans-Allt "any
sections. These also form civil divisions.
The Tide Water section contains 36 coun-
ties, extending from the seabboard to the
lower falls of the rivers, and has white
population of 236, 1913, and slave Popula-
/ tion of 1873, 1872. The Piedmont section
extends from the head Of tide water TO the
Blue Ridge Mountains, embracing 80 coun-
, ties, with white population OF 25O,5
and n slave population Of 25l SOB, making
total white population in eastern Vir-
.giuia" of 4s6, 4sl, and total slave popu-
iation of 444,795. The Valley section en-
braces all that country between the Blue
Ridge and the Allegheny Ridge, containing
nineteen counties, with white population
of ls4, 1858, and slave population Of 49,
SOL. The Trans-Alleghnny section ex-
tends from the Allegheny Ridge to the
Ohio Ridge, embracing forty-nine counties,
with white population of 4l6,636, and a
slave population Of only 26,4s2, making a
total white population in Western Virginia
of 63l, 444, aud a total slave population OF
GO, 1853. From these figures It will be no.
ticed that nearly one half of the whole
population of Eastern Virginia are slaves,
including the Underwater and Piedmont
Districts, while only one-tenth of the total
population of Western Virginia, which in
Clndes the Valley and Trans-Alleghany
sections, are in bondage. Such facts are
significant for the future.
The ordinance passed by the recent Con-
vention at Wheeling, for the formation Of
new State, seems to have created in the
minds Of many an apprehension that West
ern Virginia is about to commit great
and serious mistake. But those who will
carefully read that ordinance will observe
that no such mistake has been or will be
made; but, on the contrary, that ordin-
ance, like all other acts Of the Convention
aud the General Assembly, contains we'll
guarded provisions against such errors, and
a full recognition OF constitutional and ma
tioual obligations.
Thus it is quite impossible to form new
State without the consent of the General
Assembly and nm act of Congress admit
ting such new State must be first obtain
cd. Should Congress see fit to grant such
admission, it would probably do 50 under
such circumstances as would fully relieve
the patriots of Western Virginia from the
charge Of hasty and mistaken action.
The Tribune hopes, however, that no d.
vision will be made, and that "the boun-
darics of the Old Dominion will remain
unchanged, extending from the Ohio to the
Atlantic, and that her loyal Government
will soon be guard of our national capi-
tall"
We hope that the boundaries will not
remain unchanged. for, according to the
TriGuns's own showing, every interest we
have or ever can have, demands that they
should be changed. We have right, ms
a people, to assert our interests, and ought
to do it, when robody under the sun is to
be damaged by doing SO, except those who
have so long and unjustly damaged us.
As for making the "Old Dominion the
guard for the national capital" that is to
be done by force fnrms and by that only;
and the erection of the State of Kauawha
caunot, possibly, in tho least degre, weaken
the force of that army to which we owe so
much md on which so much is depending.
Virginia will be just as much a guard to
the capital with Knnnwha for a neighbor,
as the way it Isl nud,it will be none any
way until it is conquered.