Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-05

immediate vicinity are moving themselves
earnestly In behalf of the new State. Mr..
C.. D. Hubbard and others have engaged |
themselves iu::the good work. So also have
Governor Pefrpoint and other members of
the State Government. Hon. M. Blair
writes yesterday from Parkersbnrg that he |
is busy and that the new State men of his |
district are busy. Mr.. Geo. McPOrter, of
Hancock, will take the matter in charge up
there. we exhort all the earnest live
friends of .west Virginia to now go ear
nestly to work and secure names by the !
hundreds aud thousands to the petitions. |
Only this month of November remains be-
fore Congress meets. The name of every
man 10 the new State ought to be on some
few who will not sign these petitions:-
They are limited mostly to the followers of
the Wheeling Press. the vote for the new
State was almost unanimous at the cleo
tious which have been held. 1t is no less
so now, save perhaps in the few instau-
ces where Carlile and the Ptess may
have poisoned some ones mind. Our PEG.
pie are practically a unit for this great
measure, SO full of all that has been desired
by them for SO many years. The best men
aud the leading men of West Virginia are
It's earnest advocates. All our mem1ers of
Congress, except Mr.. Carlile, and all the
members Of the State government are its
fast friends, and are now all working for it.
Those who need any advice how to pro-
coed and what to do, should lose no time
in corresponding with Hon. VIM. G. Brown,
of Kingwood, in Preston couaty, or Hon.
W. T. Wiley, Morgautoun, Mouongalia
county Hon. Jacob Blair, parke=sburg,
Wood county; Hon. K. V. whaley, Ceredo,
Wayne county; or L. "A. Hagans and G. D.
Hubbard, Wheeling. Any of these gentle
men will supply all needtul information
Mr.. Blair has plenty of blanks we believe,
and ifnot they can be obtained here. These
blanks have printed on them the bill for
the admission OF the new State as it passed
ths.U:S Senate last session, and reads as
follows:
"A BILL for the ,ddnissiOn Of the State of
mIEest Virginia" INTO the Union, and for
other PurPOses.
WHEREAS. the people inhabiting that
portion of Virginia known US West Yiggi-
mia, did, by convention assembled IN. the
city of Wheeling, on the twenty sixth of
November, eighteen hundred add si&ty-one,
frame for themselves a constitution, With
view Of becoming separate and inde-
pendent State; and Ybezeas ut a general
election held in tina counties composing
the territory aforesaid, on the third day of
May last, the said constitution WAS an.
nd aHnnfaA hv ha EaI
tiers of the proposed State; and whereas
the legislature of Virginia, bR an act
passed on the thirteenth day of May, eigh.
teen hundred aud sixty-twO, did give its
consent to the formation of new State
within the jurisdiction of the said State OF
Virginia, to be known by the name of
West Virginia, and to embrace the fellow
ing named counties, to-wit: Hancock,
Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzei, Marion,
Monongalia, Preston. Taylor, Tyler, Pleas
ants, Richie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood,
jackson, Writ, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer,
Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upsher,
Randolph, Mason, Putnam, KanaWha, Clay,
Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan,
Wyoming, Mercer, Mcdowell, Webster, Po-
cahontas, Fsyette, Raleigh, Greenbrier,
Monroe. Pendletou, Hardy, Hampshire, and
Morgan and whereas, botE the cOnyen-
ton and legislature, aforesaid, have reques-
ted that the new State should be admitted
Into the Union, and the constitution, afore-
said, being republican in form, Congress
doth hereby consent that the said forty
eight counties may be formed into a sepa-
rate aud independent State: Therefore
Be 1t enacted by The Senate and House of
Representatives. of the United States ofAmeri-
ca in Congress assembled That the State
of West Virginia be, and is hereby de-
clared to be one of the United States of
America, and admitted in to the Union on
equal footing with the original States in
all respects whatever: and until the next
general census, the said State of Western
Virginia shall be entitled to three members
in the House of Representatives of the
United States: Provided, ,ditOGys, That
this act shall not take effect until after
the proclamation of the President OF the
United States hereafter provided for. 1t
being represented to Congress that since
the convention oflthe twenty sixth of No.
vember, eighteen hundred and sixiy-one,
that framed and proposed the constitution
for the said State of Western Virginia, the
people thereof have expressed a wish to
changethe seventh section Of the eleventh
article of said constitution by striking out
the same, and inserting the following in
its place, viz: 4'The children of slaves
born within the limits of this: State after
the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred
and sfxty-three, shall be free, and that all
slaves within the said State, who shall, at
the time aforesaid, be under the age often
years, shall be FREQ when they arrive at
the age oftwenty- zone years, and all slaves
over ten aud under twenty zone years, shall
be-free when they arrive Mt the age of
twenty-five years, and no slave shall be
permitted 10 como into the State for per.
fnanent residence therein"
$50. 3. Be itfiHtker enacted, That When-
oysr the neople of Western Virginia shall
through their said convention, and by
yote 10 be taken at an election to be held
within the limits of the said State, at such
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