Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-09

choose to raise the standard Of diSumiOn, aud
sudeapOr TO proatratc the Government. And
SIR. .shen that as done, so long as ii pledses
God to give me a voice to cypress my se"ti-
ausnts, or an arm, ,Ucak and snfeebLed as 1t
may be By aye, that VOies aUd that arm '0iH
be on the side Of my country, for the support
ofMe general authority, and for the mantle
nance oft6e Powers ofthe UmiOn.-CSpeech
of Henry Clay, August list, 1850.
The Prospects In store for the New
State.
The recent vote throughout Northwest
ern Virginia for division, forms to our
mind constant and ever recurring theme
for pleasing contemplation. We do not
think that it is because we have long de-
sired il that we feel enthusiastic over it,
nor that we expect much simply because
we have hoped for much. We have Gu
deavored TO keep the figures before US, aud
to be always under their control. we do
do not believe that we have an EIdorado
in Western Virginia. We do not believe
that our people have voted themselves
wealth and power by simply voting for di-
vision. AS a-::man cannot by simply TAX
ing thought add cubit to his stature, 50
neither can State be created by the cast
ing of paper ballots. We have simply
taken the first step towards regeneration
of our political and material fortunes. We
have simply agreed as an invalid worn out
and worn down and emaciated by Icing
course of uncongenial treatment, to adopt
q new and more promising regime. This
iS all We have done. -
One of the frat things prudent men do
when they get out OF a money losing and
impoverishiug partnership, is to cast about
and see what they have to start in the
world with on their own account. On the
principle that money saved is money
earned, they would naturally consider that
the cutting off of an immense outlay, from
which they derived no profit of itself. made
the dissolution of partnership a very adj
vRntageous stroke of policy, even if they
could count upon no immediate additional
earnings. This is precisely the way West
ern Virginia stands towards the East. We
have taken the primary step towards get
ting loose from a connection that was as
unequal as the game OF 'hcads win, tails
you lose" Our connection with Eastern
Virginia has cost us millions of dollars iii
rectly paid into their treasury. Indirectly
it has cost us millions more. It has been
all the time US if vigorous body had been
united by some unnatural ligament to a
dying one. From this body of death our
people have expressed almost unanimous
wish to be delivered.
To show what we may expect as a star
ting encouragement, we have only to turn
to the back numbers of the Auditors re-
port. We fnd that iu the fiscal year be-
ginning the first of October, ls47, and
ending the sOth September. ls4s. the
whole expenses of the civil list for the
State of Virginia was $s4,422 35. This
includes the salaries of the Governor and
Executive Council, Judge of the Court of
Appeals and the general Court, the AttOr-
ney General, Treasurer, Auditor, Register,
and their clerks, the Secretary of the Com
monwealth and assistants, the clerk of the
Executive Council, the attorney and clerk
of Henrico Superior Court, the clerk of
General court, the keepers oftbe rolls and
of the Capitol, the public printer, the re-
porter of the Court of Appeals, aud the
mileage Of.the Judges of the Court of APP
peals and General Court.
The pay and expenses of the General
Assembly, consisting of 1876 Delegates and
80 Senators, forl the session of ls47-4s,
was sos, $40 go. 1t would be large es-
timate to fix the same expenses for the
proposed State Of KanaWha at one third of
that amount, which would give for the
civil list $2s, 40 70; for the General As.
asmbly $s6, sos 81. Total amount of our
ordinary expenses se4,s47 SIS. At tho
present rate OF taxation there would each
year be BALANCE of more that $4OO, 1000
in our treasury. This would pay the iu-
tersSt upon more than six millions of dol
lars, which would enable the new State to
construct lines Of improvement, penetrat-
log and opening up every portion of our
territory. It Would also provide fund
feTth aid Of Institutions of learning, for
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