Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-16

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Speech or the Hon j. w. NoeII, ofmo.
ON the Admission OF West Va, DeII-
Tered IN the House OF Delegates ON
the 1Oth or Dec e.3i.liS
Mr. Speaker, this question has been
discussed so fully already that / do not
expect to throw any new light upon it.
confess that have had very serious
doubts about the vote which should give
but from careful examination of tile
laws bearing on the measure, and from a
consideration of the peculiar position in
which the people of West Virginia are
now placed, i have cometo the conclusion
that it is my duty to vote for it. s=-aiz4
There are two clauses of,the constitu-
tion, sir, that / understand affect this
question. 1t is provided in the fourth
article of that atinstrument, that the United
States shall guaranty to every State in
this Union republican form of govern.
ment, and shall protect them against
invasion, &c. believe that clause to
mean, not only that the people of the
State Of Virginia are to frame and live
under republican form of government,
but that the United States are to see that
thosepeople are place1ina position where
they may exercise the priyilsgegof fra
ming and living under a republican form
of government. The second clause ofthe
Constitution, which has been so. much
discussed, that no new State shall be
formed or erected within the jurisdiction
of another State without the consent of
the Legislature of that State Let me call
the attention Of the House to the distinc-
tionithatsI i draw between the precise
phraseology of this clause and that which
seems to be understood by many Of the
gentleman who have already discussed
the,question. 1t is not provided here, as
it seems to be understood, that this new
State shall not be framed within the iufis-
diction of another State, without the CON
sent of that State, but that it shall not bc
framed without the consent of the Legis-
lnture of that State. L draw the distine-
tion between the pharaseology as we find
it in this clause Of the Constitution, and
that which seems tolbe understood by the
gentleman who have discussed this ques-
tion, and more especially the honorable
gentleman from Kentucky Mr.. Critten-
den, who seems to believe, from his
argument made yesterday, that no new
State could be, erected within the jurisdic-
tionso fqnPther State without ereonsent
Now, sir, if this legislative body in
WesterpJ Virginia is the Legislature of
Virginia. whether Representing al of the
counties of Virginia or not, If 1t is the
constitutional Legislature Of that State,
the only anxiety that, presents itself in
the proper Interpretation ofthe Constitu-
ton is, that we shall obtain the consent
of that body Il has been already, said,
land argued sufficiently, that the Senate,
I.that this House, that the whole Govern
ment has recognized the government
Iinaugurated at Wheeling, in West Virgi-
mia, as the government of State Of Yirgi-
MIA. say that there was an overwhel-
ming necessityifor such d recognition
such an overwhelming necessity as pre-
sents itself to our consideration at this
time. What was its We have under
taken, by the Constitution, to guaranty
to every State republican form Of
government, How are We to |, comply
with that clause of the Constitution, when
the organized government of the State Of
Virginia has gone into q reasonable
conspiracy, and has undertaken to draw
h9ftAtS AAALS WIG Va y
4 usurpatiOn and of a foreign government I
/ How are we, to comply with thisprovisiou
of the Constitution in guarantying to the
.l.people of West Virginia, a republican
form of government, unless we recognize
in them q State in operation--ag reorga.
nization of the old system; still attached
to the Union to which we belong3 That
is the only way in which we will be able
to comply with this provision Of the
Constitution. ll3 assSs III zi.ra
There was an. overwhelming necessity in
another point OF view. What was the con.
dition of. the people of Western Virginia
when the ordinance of secession was pass
led, and " hen the organized goyefnment oil
1.-THE Stale attempted 70 draw the whole oil
the ttold Dominion" into the Southern
oonfedereey2 Ispeak as q matter of fact.
Why, sir, the conrts OF Virginia, the laws
A OF yifRihi65 ald tue whole soeiH and po.
litieal .systsm of Virginia were broken, ,des.
4 troyed, perverted, and carried away; and
the people of that section Of the coun.
1ltfy11 ere deprived of all means Of. feFnla-
tting and controlling their own domestic at
4 fairs, by the machinery by which those
things Eereite 6eA eAaeeom plished was taken
away from them! They ReIe left without
Law, without courts; without officers, With
out everything, unless we undertakeIto say
here that fhg State of Virginia was State
within the Sou them 90 q ederaey, and con.
A ,hscted 20 Il by the ordtaanse % secsssion
Z and by the arTangemeat IWhiehEWas made
ibyi .he commissioners with that O0nfederSs
4 ey. Why, sir, mo- right Of persons, no
right iof property, no social or domestic
aGaifs, could be regulated or controlled BY
! Et6e people Of Western Virginia, under the
! eircnmstAnees in which they were placed,
without Fscbka aug The ordinance of Sc
eession, and acting % q State Within the
Bouthern ConfedeFacyt4lis isrsaaiIHa ID
sfdo46eFefore it was that there WaSHn over
/. wbeIming pseessl thIssS thiSf psonts should
, have the mesaastQ reoOrganize the maehin-
cry of the old Snteg GOVERNMENT in'harmonI