Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-22
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The Times of this morning has fallen into
n very serious mistake, when Il asserts that
tue convention now in session at Wheeling
have, "by formal aud unanimous vote, re-
solved to cut loose from the Old Dominion.
and form for themselves new and indie.
pendent State. The great State
of Virginia is to be dismembered by the
voluntary act of over half million of her
late citizens; and new. State forme from
the Western. part Of. her tsFritoFy will claim
place in the Union."
On what authority these assertions can
rest we are at u loss to knoV, Most as
suTedly the late "declaration" couIi;ned
no such ideas, either expressed or implied.
That document, as temperate in tone as it
is unanswerable in argument, simply de-
clared that their dearest rights demanded
3" the reorganization of,ths government of the
commonwealth J" and declared, that " all
acts of the said (Richmondl convention
and Executive tending, to separate this
common wealth from the United States, or
TO levy aud carry on war against them, are
t0ithout authority and void and the Offices
OF all who adhere to the said convention
and Executive, whether legislative, execu-
tive or judicial, are UGcatsH." In all this
there is not Il particle to warrant the con-
Hs
Further, the very same number of the
Daily Tunes contains n despatch from
Wheeling that a resolution, presented by
Mr.. Farnsworth, of Upsher county, uecIar-
ing one of the leading objects Of the con-
vention, to be the separation of Western
from Eastern Virginia, tgas tabled by a vote
OF hfty-seven to seventeenl In other
words, only two-sevenths of that body are
in favor of dividing the State. Ali the
speculations about the name 10 be given
this unborn babe, or its recognition by
Congress as a legitimate child of the
Union, are necessarily to he of no purpose.
There will be no separation in fact, no Sc
cession even ON paper, other than in too
hasty metropolitan dailies.
We take this occasion to express our
warm admiration for the wisdom and love
Of country which have characterized the
proceedings OF the Wheeling convention
up to the present date. That the people
cf that section have laborea under griev-
ances mnhy and oppressive, has been
shown abundnntly in the columns of this
paper. A state debt of over twenty mill
lions of dollars has been contracted with
in fifteen years for works of internal inn
provement, nearly every dime of this sum
having been expended IN the insatiate
Tide-water region. In political appoint
ments VIC have also shown that the West
has been completely ignored. The ma
chinery OF taxation has been so beautifully
adjusted, that the large planters should
escape nearly "scot fres2 for their two
legged property, which Is the most diff
cult and expensive to protect 10 every
respect the trans-Alleghany section has
seen itself neglected, despised. aud over
burthened. 1t had every possible provoca-
tiou TO reralinte upon its late domidaering
rival, now that the opportunity for turning
the tables has arrived.
But the convention felt satisfied that
separation would not be an act either. of
good faith or sound policy. Their honor
stands pledged for the redemptionof the state
debt, aud the word "repudiation" is not in
their vocabulary. 1t is weed which grows
only on disuniOu soil but will not bear
transplanting to the breezy uplauds of Vir-
ginia, Kentucky or Tennessee. Constitu-
tionally the Western counties have no
right to secede, and their people will not
furnish Charleston and Richmond with an
argument which might be employed with
fatal effect against the federal government
In the great question now undergoing the
arbitration otpublie opinion aud the sword.
Their separation. eVeniWith many just
grounds of complaint, would reduce them
TO level with the rebels of the cotton
states. Secession has not such an agreea.
able odor nOW-a-days that the loyal citi-
zens of the "Pan Handle Of the Great
Kauahwa, of the Greenbriar, must Gull a
boquet from its leaves and flowers to wear
in their bOsOIns or their flowing locks,
And they are wise as well as right and
loyal in 50 doing. Western Virginia, with
its progressive and tolerant ideas, is hence
forth 70 be lie StSte! Richmond NAV con
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