The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1862-03-27

The wrilcr, who is known to be an as.
tato lawyer, then proceeds to argue the
unconssitutionality Of the Wheeling gov
ernment, Just as if there had been no ro.
bellion, and as if the alternative had
never been forced upon the people Of
Western Virginia, to either quietly sub
mi! TO be bsrtorod and sold by the Rich.
mond scoundrels to the Southern traitors,
ortako the course they did in proclaim
ing their allegiance to the General Gov
crnment, and their determination to stand
or fall in is support Il sounds very
we'll, does il not, for one who has made
the law the study ola lodg lie to quib.
bic aboutlcgal techpicaiilies and to siiok.
10 about the consitptionality Of this
thing or that, when no speaks Of tho
course pursued bya people who were in
the condition that we wcro last Juue?--
Such a man might talk until doomsloy,
and do nothing but talk, and yet effect
nothing under heaven towards the saliva
ton Of apoople already on the brink of
political ruin-but we must say that
he is entitled to credit for even talking,
for that was more than SONS great men
wo know Of, dared 10 do,
But The argument odyancci about the
want oflagful aa,hodty to call coo-
yeatioa is, 10 our mind, perfectly absurd.
Where, we nak, was the people to look
for lawful authority bu. to Richmond,
and had not law, orler and everything
Of the kind boon overtldea and tram.
pied under ootby the rebel State aulhori-
ties then rampant ia that Godiorsalen
city? EIofuuher objects to the recogn.
lied government because the action Of
the convention which formed il was in
conflict was the proceedings Of tho preyi-
Gus May convention. We would like
to know how the people committed
themselves 10 the 9th resolution Of that
convention so far that they could not SET
it aside if they thought proper, The
laws Of the Modes and Persians were said
to be Interchangeable, and tho 9th resolu.
ton must be OF a similar character.
Again, We are inormad that because
there were not more than thirty.fvc Del.
ega,es aud eight Senators in the Wheel.
ias Legislature, it, therefore had no re-
spectability except what the buyonets Of
the United States gave it, aud the IND vi.
~ is then made, ir il is "nol clearly a
uswped Goverumes-.--n government
founded ia force7" We would like to
know ifGen. Jackson or "any other
man" could have said anything that
would be- more gratifying to a Western
Secessionist than the above
quoted sentences? We might enquire
of the writer whose fault it is, chat
there was not l54 Delegates and 50
Senators in the Wheeling Legislature in
steal of the number which was so insig
niRcaut that it had no respecabilty?--
Was the door closed to the admission of
any representative who was known to be
loyal TO the General Government? Ger
.airly not. Then the argument is. tha,
because majority Of the Representatives
ia the State chose to adhere to jeff, Da,
Wis rattle snake Government therefore
the Wheeling Legislature which was ac
knowlodged by Congress as Mc Leg sla.
ture Of Virginia, was composed Of a pack
Of usurpcys.
Wohad intended to notice at length
the writer's objections to the proposed,
division of the State, but find that we
have already given up more space to a
consideration ftho other features Of the
letter than it deserves, and must, there
fore, defer our comments to another lime.
An Extraordinary Letter
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