Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-26
The New state and the Next step to
bo Taken.

be Taken.
Editors IHtelEqsReer:
1t is now clear that large majority of
the votes cast upon the Con stitution cues
ton, within the forty-fOur counties, is in
favor of its adoption.
Section 5th ot the Schedule makes it
the duty of the officers conducting the
election in any precinct ITO ascertain as
early AS practicable after the election, the
vote in their respective precincts. aud GER
tity and return the same, as soon as p.ac-
!. ticable, to the persons conducting the
election at the Court House precincts, who
shall ascertain and certify the result to the
Commissioners appointed by the C0nven-
ton This, presume, has all been done
before this time.
The next step to be taken. then, is for
these Commissioners to ascertain the ag-
gregate vote, and it n msjority be found TO
be in favor of the Constitution, to certify
the result to the Governor, and request him
to eonEehe the. Legislature, and lay the re-
suit before that body for its consent.
thus= - -
"The Commissioners hereby appointed
shall take such steps, and do all such things
AS they shall dem expedient to procure, as
soon as possible, the consent of the Gener.
al Assembly and Congress to the formation
and erection Of the State of West Virgin
ia
In view of the manifest meaning and
spirit of this clause, no one can doubt
what the duty of these Commissioners re-
qnires them to do in order to make safe
the new State. How will some members
of this Commission reconcile with this
clause their efforts TO suppress the voice of
the people upon the gradual emancipation
question at the late election? Did they
really believe that such course would Sc.
cure the most speedy success of the new
State? If they did, they certainly differ
from nearly everybody else.
There is nothing contained in the 4th
Sec. of the Schedule that will justify for
their further delay on their part, whatever
their private inelinations may be.
Our Governor will need no other sugges-
tion on this subject, bot to rely upon him.
self in this and other matters, and not up
on the advice Of interested demagoguesS,
civil or military. He must comprehend the
necessity for speedy Aetion on the subject,
las eveFything-he and all, that lrilE, Hust
see-depends upon securing the favorable
action of Congress at the prsseAs session -
and that his friends, for the present At least,
are CiS.A AiEeyheHirlls aud nesr STATE men.
] perceive the papers, and yours among
the rest, seem to think that the very unau-
imous vote of the people in favor of the
gradual emancipation clause wherever
they were permitted 70 speak at the last
eleetiou) is all that will be required to IN.
sure n speedy admission by Congress-
ReUer ICdS EhFre a yTedfeT mistake. Congress
will never trust a people zone half of whom
are rebels, open or coVert) that have shown
themselves SO liable TO be duped and mis-.
represented on the subject of slavery, as
our people were in the choice of delegates
to the late Convention. The total want of
confidence in, and respect for, the intelli-
gence and wishes of their constituents,
manifested by such members as opposed
the reference of the gradaal emancipa-
tion clause TO the decision of their
masters, the people, Congress will not
overlook or ignore. They will naturaI-
| ly and properly infer that the zane peO-
pie will still suffer themselves to be dnped
and misrepresepted on this question in fus
tufe, by the negro fogy leaders, and there.
| by the element of slavery will be made per.
Petual in the new State and pro- slavery
Senators represent it in Congress.
/, Nothing short of the iucOrporation of the
I gradual. emancipation clause by the LegisI
Iature in the Constitution itself-either alb
solutely or upon condition that tue people
olb0l ytatSesE NatE et III secNfe tAt 5C0e
new State heaFinF before ooagrAsss I.et
US not be lulled or deceived, but keep our
.feyes constantly on thestEaightand marrow
path which eau alone lead our new Stite
into the Federal Union, viz: instruct our
servants in e Legislature when 1t shall
convene, to give It's consent on condition
that the gradual emancipation clause shall
become part Of the Constitution as s00u
4 asf ratified By the people; apd Congress
will consent aud admit AT once upon the
same condition, and the people riH ratifJ
after, and the new State will be saved
otberwise lest ,a1 tssssa - 80 s.4z,
Respectfully, G. PAREER
P. s. Every Senatorial and Delegate
vaeaney throughout the new State, shoulf
be tiled AT once by the right men, and al
our Cis-Allegheny representatives thor.
4 oughly instructed. G. P.