Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-28
THE NEW STATE.

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a9 THE NEW STATE. ed
sBjSSSee OF fh q Hon. Hon K v. V#Raafey, OF
VirgInlaJ deIfvered In the House or
representatives.; July 11th, 1sB2J
d-On'a Bill1tQ provide. FOR the fAdnIs-
sion sa1S % or sysst 1yiIfglInia into the Uh-
AR wtiAiEY saidga itiH b1sdi ,19si Tei
g Ma SfEIKER Tie pe6plsiof westYirl
ginia,iwith unparalleled unanimity ,bhFb ugh
their Representatives,, ask for the separa-
ti6n of their portion of the State from East
.Virginin, and their admission into the Union
as a separate, independent, and sovereign
community. If 1t were n Territoryiof our
nationale dQmRinI. withher zspperfces of
about twenty-fonr thousand square miles,
and with her population. of NEARLY four
hundred thousand souls, asking admission
info the Union, there would be no hesitanc ncY,.
If it were mere question of the ditision OF
State, you would at once refuse to
entertain the proposition. If there were
not urgent public land Federal reasons
therefor, affecting essentially ithe peace,
happinessI and prosperity OF. West Kirginia,
yonhshouldr promptly. decline ltolconsider
the suggestion of the division of thel"Old
-DOminion.p- causes demanding the
separation were transcient and eS6nescent,
or such as could beremoved without polit-
ical ,copyulsion and in a nations lifetime,
or such as might continue without, the
greatest detrimeht and injustice, if, the
highest Welfare and safety Of. the Union
could be preserved in tho present status of
affairs, the case would be different.
sas For eighty Sears have the peopIeo OF West
Virginia suffered from her unnatural con-i
pacTfoy, off X tTsTfafo E0r ID
three generations has, she petitioued, and
sought for the adoption oftia liberal
and Just policy toward her. For almost "a
century has sue borne the oppression, in,
suit and lcontumeIy of Eastern legislation
without redress and without reIisfsy Forty
years ago, hoping Ion no change III policy
frGni the Eastern Ilristocracy, she soGghtd a
division Of the Slatss some icbqtending that
the, Blue Ridge, and some the Allegheny
mountains should constitute the boundary.
The Seaboerd a1dIPi PisdppHg districts, in
stead of mOdllyipg legislation, and renders
ing it less odiOHs tohthe peoples of West
Virginiu, soight to make it more, ,perma-.
nently oppressive by detachiug the valley
from us, extending internal improvements
of altdescriptions into that sectionsuniting
the people commercial and socially with
Richmond, treating the West as bsr rival
.inscommerce, herenemy, and an inferior.
So After the smetrqpoli Titan, city Of i&atRlahd
had extended a branch of its road to Win:
chester, the Virginia, Legislature denied
further charters. The breeding OF Slaves
for southern markets served alsoito detaGh
the valley from the West and assiniIate it
tosthe East. Ofthe forty-four millions of
State debt expended fnAiiternal improve
ments uP:to january /, 1861 only one aud
Ia hall millions have been expended in West
Virginia. Not only has Virginia refused to
permit us to Improve olpcouutry, bpt when
baltimore proposed ITO build RAILROADS
through our tefritorysat her own expense,
the Legislature refused charter. ~ .
The antaeonism usually findiugplace be-
tween Communities With social orsanizaL
tions SO widely iifferert as those OF Nest
ern and Eastern Vfrginiag developed to such
a degree, that J6hu Randolph of Roanoke,
smoke in tile convention. of, Yirgfnfa Of
1929 Of the valley and Western Vieg ginia as
parts of the State (which ! must calEalien
TO us, and forever separated from our inter.
tests and feelings, torn byifactionsI Imarked
by lines which divide her into two differ.
ent people-distinct in feeling, distinct in
nossessions. different and anita oohfkine1inE
tsrests u q iM = Raid win! of Augusta. prel
fIicteil that aif slave representatfou should
bs forced upon them, the final result will
he the sepafation of the State.n So OBJ.
ilnresssiiye had the 'legisiation become q. with
no hope oftrelief inIthe ordinary, way, that
Mr. Goode, i'm the yentio a Of Virginia IN
iIs5 Il proposod that the House of DELEGATES
and The Senate should each he sdfyided into
two icbambers, one composed of those Sc east,
and the other, of the members west OF the
'RIne Ridge. and sreunirinpI votes. by cham
hers: and a majority of each chamber nec4s
essary % appropriate or raise money BY tax
west / TO the gripdstone forthelIast seven
tS-fys years IN agony, .asI Is IS 49, 81