Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-25
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The New ConstItution.

The New ConstItution.
lEditOrs InteLligenceT:
1 have this day read, as carefully as
could theptoposed new Constftnt tio6. and
While there ts much in it that / Roproye'
there are some things that cannot an.
prove.
1tlooks to me good deal like the COM
pany OF eighty volunteers, 90 officers. and
liPriVatc, and the poor fellow was mustered
to death, and the company broke up for
want of its high private. When our whole
country IS about to be taxed up to its ca /.
Pacity to support the Union, to make off,
elals as numerous as there are favorites of
the click, then to pile on the agony in the
torm OF dollars aud cents, as though money
existed IN protuse abundance, and leave u
large maj ority of the citizens of the ipro.
posed new State to be beWers of wood and
drawers Of water is, to my mind, not 10 be
9eslren. 1t was said that some of the
honorable members of the Convention de-
clared that they were sent to exercise their
own judgment, and not to represent tbe
views of their constituents, and 1t seems
that that "some,p was majority of tLo
whole. Gentlemen, don't dodge Face
the music, and if the charge is not true.
why afraid, or unwilling to let your honest
constituents say whether they want a FREQ
or slave State2 Your constituents. as well
as yourselves knew that new slave State
could not be had out of an old one. Even
lne arch thief, slippery Floyd, in the days
OF James Buchanan never deamed of such
an expedient to augment the slave mower
OF, the South, aud il Virginia has n ripht
to divide into two distinct slave powers 40
has any other slave State, and Congress
would certainly have more self respect than
70 endorse snch n wild scheme as that OF
tue Southern SlHreOcrats now proposed
Gentlemen, you may be well assured that
they Will not do it, and you knew it as
well US your humola servant.
h q tessrs' Editors, let me ask our noble
delegates, who spent the winter on the old
tune OF $4,00-per day, if they did not in.
tend to defeat our long cherished bones of
Q new Slater II they did not am moor
thinker, or they are not themep | supnossd
they were. We asked with great unanin1i.
~ and iu good earnest for n new State.
'aed p09Fo Of our slRVeh hOldtuR bEothrefi said
SNlys!laYes may go, but give us our liberty.,'
bnt our very willing public servants, with
high sounding professions of loyalty to our
cherished hopes for a New State, 90 TO
work to defeat US first, by making such
= constitution as itself would defeat us be-
tore Congress, and secondly, by so enIarg-
ing our borders Ms to make such n consti.
tuition as would succeed unacceptable 10
a majority of the people.
Gentlemen, you knew thisl And whv
spend time and the peoples money for no
purpose? The constitution you offer us
we do not intend TO have, but We do intend
to keep the subject before the people. and
mark those who have deceived us.
Fellow citizens, do not be discouraged
Remember Bull Run, and how, at this time
the scale has turned. We-will try il vel
again, and it those now elected will moi
carry out our wished we will mark the
coons, keep the ball rolling, vote for no
one, no not IN angel if he were not a free
State man.
Look for another squib. j. AIARroN.
Between tho Virginia Hills, Feb. 20, 1862.