Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-13

tempt to bring into contempt, the govern
ment of Virginia as reorganized and restor-
ed;
Now, therefore, we, the people of Riteh-
| ie county, in meeting assembled, do re-
solve as follows:
/. That the acts aud doings of the Con-
| ventiou which assembled at Richmond on
the 18th of February, 1881, are unconstitu-
tional and void, and in open rebellion
against the Government of the United
States, and therefore are not binding on
the people of this Commonwealth; and
that the late Executive of this State, by
his acts of usurpation and rebellion, and
his adherence to the pretended government
aforesaid, styled the Confederate States of
America, abdicated the governmento of Vir-
giuia and left the people without any 10y
al and constitutional Executive.
2. That we hail with lively satisfaction
the reorganization and restoration of the
Government of the Commonwealth, by the
Convention which assembled i'll the city of
Wheeling on the llth of June, 1861, and
we hereby ratify aud endorse and pledge
ourselves to uphold and defend the govern
ment thus reorganized and restored.
| 3. That it is the duty of every good cit
izen to support the Government of the
United States in the maintainance of the
Constitution and the Union against the re-
bellion which is now attempting its over
throw, and that it has come to that point
in the contest now going on in our country
when men cannot hold position OF neu-
| trality-they must be either for the Union
| or against.il. lie must sustain the Gov
ernment of the United States or of the rec
helion. He that is not for US is against
US. And that those in our midst, whether
they claim to be Union men or not, and
who approve, and by their conduct attempt
to bring into contempt the Government of
Virginia as reorganized and restored by
the Wheeling Convention of the l1th OF
June, 1861, ought not and will not, be re-
garded by US rs friends of the Union.
4. That it is the duty of every person
holding Office in this Commonwealth to
take the oath prescribed in the ordi-
nance passed by the Wheeling Convention,
entitled "An Ordinance for the Reorgani-
cation of the State Government"-And that
we CiW not. HoU or hereafter, support any
such persOnJor Office 'oho refuses to take the
oath.
.. Nor tpiR ice, under any circumstances,
consent that any person, tOho has heretofore
been acting t1ith The rebel party shall be per
mitfe1 10 return among as again 10 tGke the
oath Of office aud discharge its duties.
6. We earnestly entreat our Conventions
al representatives to proceed without fur
ther delay to prepare for division of the
State Of Virginia, that all our efforts here
tofore have been directed to this object as
the finale, and that we will not he satisfied
vita anything short oft.
Z. That we heartily endorse and approve
the firm and manly course of our present
Conventional representative, Wm. Fl. Dou-
glass.
8. That the untiring labors of J. B.
Blair. in the cause in which we are engaged,
entitle him to our commendation and sup
port for the high position to which he as
pires, Il scat in the United States Congress,
believing that in him they will ever find
friend on whom we may confidently re'y
in our greatest extremity
o. That these proceedings be published
in the Democrat, Wheeling LnteLligencer,
and all other Union papers in this Con-
gressional District.
JAS. MALONE, Chr'm.
F.P. Peirpoint, Sec'y.