Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-07

OF sermons, so cents each. nonTIll'So
How IIaye the Mighty Fallen--Har-
wants TO Account.
Editors LNtelligencer:
The couatyOf Harrison first sounded from
the watch tower the war cry of resistance
to Eastern. Virginia's encroachments, and
her best and most loyal citizens nobly re-
sponded and stood forth under the most
discouraging circumstances, determined to
risk their lives and their all in resistance
to the unjust edicts Of the Richmond usur.
pers.
Those same men are watching with no
ordinary degree of interest, the action Of
the new State Convention assembled Mt the
city of Wheeling and beg leave to enter
their solemn protest against the following
Resolution offered by one of her delegates
and supported by theothCr, viz The Gdop-
ton of the present Constitution of Virginia.
with such alterations only, as would make
it apply to the new State.
The vote being taken, only Harrison and
Powell voted in its favor.
| This Resolution and vote have had n
stunning effect upon the friends of equal
| rights, and the opposite upon the limbcr-
kneed wayside 0ristOcrNtS of the county
Have our delegates lost sight of the fact
that it was the inequality Oftaxntion that
has agitated the people OF West Virginia
for the last thirty years, and has time and
again called forth the subject and made her
people clamorous for u separation from the
East2
hold that the people of West Virginia
are no more disposed to recognise tho vote
ordered by the Richmond Convention,
eqnaliEipg tho taxes, than they do tbnt OF
tho Ordinance of Secession. Thousands of
votes in the west were cast against it, that
would have been cast for it, had it not been
regarded rs low, insinuatins trick, an
insult, a cheat, and bait laid out to fastcn
the Ordinance of Secession upon an un.
willing people. 1t is the twin sister of se-
cession, conceived In darkness and begot-
ten by the same father. And you, gentle
men, when you took the oath rs mCmbers
Of the Convention, you disavowed any al
legiance to the usurPing Richmond Com
VentiOn. 1t wont do to mix things up in
this way. You can't represent us at Rich
mond aud Wheeling both dt the same time.
You have heard about serving two masters,
| and also God and MRmmon, &c.
The majority Of our people want put in
the Constitution, in capitals if necessary,
that taxes upon all species of property
shall be equal, and many other alterations
of Importance to the new State, which you
cannot but be well aware of. Don't have
that resolution inscribed in the big book
of records, and if perehauce it should get
in there, mark it coAtraJand
1t is, in my view, the true policy Of the
friends of tue new State Government to
press forward the business of the COnYen-
/ ton and bring the session to n speedy
close, remembering that the same men tvho
Opp05cd a diriJion Of the State last siugust,
are thToRtHg IN side issues to retard or PrOtrGct
the session Of the ConUentioH, so that no rOte
can be had before tie people IN time to get
it 6efore the Legislature during its PreSenf
sitting.
am just reminded here of the two
young delegates from Harrison to the
Legislature. What has become of them
| Who or what has sealed their lips, or
hushed in eternal silence that orNtory
which charmed their constituency during
their canvass for that office2 We're their
howeEy speeches mere defamation de-
rived from papers in the hat, instead OF
the originality of the head? Brilliant
achievements were looked for from those
young aspirants. Secesl, it was thought,
would be by them pushed against the wall
in so violent manner as to statter all its
bones. But the people are often doomed
to sad disappointments. Professions and
promises are not worth much Just now.
old Harrison had better turnover a new
leaf, or the first thing she ktows she will
be legislated away back down to Dixie.
There was probably no period in our
connty's history when it was of so much
Importance for those representing us to be
up and doing. The claims of our county
to tho Capital of the new State, only need
to lbe properly Represented to make it ap.
parent to all, and thereby secure that much
desired object. 49,,
Recollect that the strictest scrutiny ol
the people arc upon you, our representa-,
tives from Harrison.
THE N. Y. Journal of Commerce thinks
it greatly mistakes the nature of English
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