Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-07
The New ConstitutIOn--AV Voice from
MOnonRaIIR.
Editors Mtelligenesr:

mOn0nBaltRs
EditOrs Lntslligeneer:
One Of our delegates to the Convention
has the mOdesty to declare that the new
Constitution is one of the best State Con-
stitutions in the country. This he says,
after having voted for all the main features
of that document.
1t may be well to inform our delegate,
it he has not found it out already, that he
differs very materially from large num-
Der Of his constituents. Many of them
think that the new Constitution, after all
the time and money spent upon it, is a
diffuse, innpposite, imperfect affnir, and that
If it were even adopted by the people and
accredited by Congress, it would require
amendation in n great many particulars
before the lapse Of three yours. A few OF
its minor faults have been pointed out by
Mr., Northrott of Clarksburg. Still more
faults have struck every legal. mind peru
sing this curious paper; and one in partic-
ular has attracted the attention of every
cool-tbinker who has taken. any interest
in our new State project.
But without dwelling specially on de-
tails, may We not remind our elected, not
I to say self-complacent Delegate, that the
adoption of this new Constitution by the
Convention, will prove the defeat of the
citizens of Monougalia county had, in
sending men to represent them in that
body, namely, The establishment Of. a ns,r.
Stale 8ts- aa
1t cannot be forgotten nor overlooked,
that we all were exceedingly anxious for
the accomplishment of this uim, that we
regarded this more than any other cousid-
Grafton, and that, when one of onr repre-
scptativcs cast vote which seemed to us
to. look away from our main design, we
called him to n public account, before n
| spontaneous meeting assembled for the
purpose. In tho Court House. We, were
prepared to receive from the hands of the
late Convention, indeed, any kind OF doc
ument which would secure us against tho
further contlnuauce of the complex curse
arising out Of our connection with Eastern
Virginia. That,is, we were ready to &C.
Icept almost any terms upon which we
might obtain the new Stnte. For NE knew
thai we,could raise OtheE matters atanoth-
er time; If they did mot suit .us, but I'VE
knew full as well, that no other opportu-
nifty such as the present would occur, for
being released from the peGalent eHreass
of Eastern Virginia 49, s5o-.
How great, then, is our grief, how deep
our modification, when we find that the
action of our delegates and of their coad-
TUTORS, will-defeat rs in the very particu-
lar for which chiefly, almost only we cared
aSs4dff, Nays what inhst be onr icliagrin,
what our Indignation, when one of our
delegates enthusiastically talks about the
superiority Of the new Constitution, and
hAughtily rrprobStes rs an "RbVii ZIONIST = .
any one of his constituents who may offer
an objection TO the slavery clause, which is
so fatal 70 our dearest hopes
We must be excused, Messrs. Editors,
for cvincingrsome feeling gat our defeat, for
we realize that We have lost incalculably
by the detection or gnllibility Of the pro.
fessed snew State menn IN the Convection.
For one, sirs, choose as an humble citizen
Of old Monongalia, tGlsaY that I have pla-
ced confideHee'in Judgment 1 Willnot say
in hoRsstyt which has oven iuntFust tWoy-
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