Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-18

\ and shaking with rnge, while the pe0pl,
were voting in favor of the clause, ant
Ideclare the Instruction to be unauthorized
land improper, and use all the means IN hi.
power to suppress their expression on the
subject2 All these things I stand ready
to prove by unimpeaChable WITNESSES
WAS it the fear on their part that the ex.
preston of the people would be adverse tc
gradual emancipation. and SO injure ohl
case before Congress? Or was it exactly
the reverse? Why was 1t that wherever
any of these old fogies lived or exercised
their influence the people had no chance
1 to express their minds on the subject,
while at every point throughout the entire
State, where the people had a chance tu
express their minds, their'votes were near
~ or quite as unanimous for gradual
| emancipation as for the constitution?-
Look at Mason, Kanawha, Wood and their
other nestling places: Jackson, Roane,
Wayne, and other counties that come
within their benumbiug influence. I'D q ~
But the election has demonstrated two
great facts which now stand out as clear
and prominent as the CIoudless sun at
l'uOon-day, viz: that nine-tenths of the
loyal people desire gradual emancipation
aud tho new State; and I'd, that these
nigger fogy leaders don't mean to let them
have either, but mean to wreck the whole
project by keeping the constitution in such
shape that Congress will not approve it.
How vain and shallow their effortsI
for the thunder tones in which the people
have spoken at all their various points
throughout the State where they had
chance, affords conclusive evidence that
all The loyal people Of the State are of the
S1Ene mud nd will M aYFroSp
as soon as removed from under the shad-
ows of the raven wings OF the fogy leaders,
and at the same time they have uRmasked
themselves and revealed their nefnrious
purposes, viz to place the neck of West
Virginia again under the yoke of slave
Oligarchy. ~ -lsi = u
They know that If the Constitution goes
to Congress as it is, it will be rejected, aud
the Convention will have to be called to-
gether again for the purpose of inserting the
Gradual Emancipation clause then it will
have to be again submitted to the people.
agreeably to he6th section of the ordinance
of the goth of August last and then again
laid before the Legislature, which will have
to be again convened for the purpose; and
before all this can be accomplished, Con-
gress will certainly have adjourned with
out having actedoupon' the subject, except
to reject it in the first instance. Congress
and the Yirginin Legislature will convene
again on the first Monday of December
next, Inrthat Legislature the whole of
East Virginia will be represented, aud all
the plaques that were heaped upon Pharaoh
will not make them let West Virginia 90.
And if a previous Legislature shall have
consented, Congress not having approved J
this new Legislature willlihaVe the power
aud the lgilL, too, to repeal and aunul such
cousent. Aud the new State will be for
ever lost, Except that the ordnance of the
Goth of August, aud unanimous ratitica-
tion by the people, with the action of Con.
gress, can still save it.) stand ready to
prove, by ,unimpeAchRble testimony, that
these leaders hhyel pdWitfed that they do
not. expect nor believe-that Congress- will
admit the new State for the present, and 1
have shown what must be the inevitable
consequences. .7lzls a s.a.t..e
Now the way propose to obviate'all the
difficulties aud secure the new State, is for
the Governor to convene the present Leg
islature at oucei let that Legislature give
its consent, with the condition that the
gradual emancipation clause shall become
a part of the Constitution, as soon as rati-
fed by the people; let Congress, at its
present session, give its consent and admit
the new State, on the same condition, and
the people ratify afterwards, AS soon as
Congress shall give its consent, (though
with the conditjop,) it places the subject
beyond rep6aEng power Of any subse.
quent unfriendly State Legislature.
The 3rd Sec. of the 4th Art, Federal Con.
stithtion, requires the consent Of the Leg.
islature. The conditional consent, pro-
pose, answers this requirement and if any
of the fogy leadersdehy it'll challenge their
reasons.
W6pt then, do these leaders really de-
sire!2I To procure sthe,admissionsof thesnew
State, into the Union, under the gu!se of a
lamb, when they really belieye5it TO be a
wolf-n free State people, when they be-
lieve it to be slave State, and that, If per-
mitted to, speak, the people will so declare
themselves? This would imply fraud on
the part of the leaders. De they believe it
citement, as they contended in the Conven-
ton it would, or are their real motives
what many of them have admitted it to be
in their declarations .'that they do not ex-
pect or believe Congress will admit the new
State for the PRESENT." No netD State, if
they can prevent il, is their real purpose.
The valuation of the real estate in the
proposed new StateNis ab0ut.ninetymillion
dollars. All admit that the erection of the
new State will double its,value, Do the
togy leaders suppose the future increase OF
1900 negroes is to permitted to.stand in
the way ofa gain of ninety million dollars
to the land holders, especially after the
Federal Government has offered to pay the
loyal owners of the slaves, and the en-
hancement of their oVa lands will, l,idemnify
a hundred fold for every possible loss,
While representing the largest tax-pay-
ing real estate in the proposed new State,
| J, for one, answer neyerl and / say to my fell
low-landholders throughout, the proposed
State tethatifwesuccumb, the Federalgovernl
mept ought to- look upon us as incapable
of! self government, aud ought at once to
establish a provisional goYernmentooTer
West Virginia, and take care of people
care Of thsnssl I'd. an - !. y l..lrssi