Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-07

ItAlol11leSt CTedbeu 6AuCS tue passage OF the
pretended ordinance Of secession is aIesaI
or legitimate debt of the State tyetifthey
have the power by numbers, 70 prevent
their reputation and compeII the nav
ment, of what avail will be the mestion of
right or Justice. When will atSouthern
Confederacy refund TO the Skts these
amounts2 NeyerI When can the State
pay them to the holders of her binds?
These are part of the glorious :omplica-
tious into which we are invited by those
'Fwho oppose the new State-Wl1o s15clamor
about congressional. dictation, but have no
objections to Confederate, rebel 0. Leteher
dietdtiOH or oppreysion, who seem to cove
their oppressors, surely stnot wiely3sbut
too Well't
We have been accustomed for pears to
IpRy tax of 40 cents on the $I00 Hlue of
our property. The Letcher ,junt0 d Rich
mond, am informed, has increa q their,
taxes three hundred per cent, OF to 81 %
on the 500 iyalue. Gan and will be pay
such taxes, and for such purposeif And
If we should, the revenues of tie whole
State, even at that rate, would noPay half
the annual interest on the presat State
debt and liability. The negro property of
the East is no longer of value tERif per-
/ sonality is consumed, aud their lads laid
waste, all by their own madness AID folly.
And what will be the revenues ofsuch a
region2 But, on the other hand, snce the
reorganization of the Government at
Wheeling, collecting at the old rati of tax
alton, and from only twenty nine of the
forty eight counties of West Yirgiiia, the
ordinary expenses of the Govermet of the
State, and the extraordinary or var ex-
penses to near the same amount, haze been
paid, and still we have such surphs as to
enable us to reduce our taxes onefourth,
or to 30 cents on the 800 yalue--ust one
fourth the rate aotO 6sing paid IN To East
er1a part Of the State. And yet wehear it
urged that by the formation of ne new
State our taxes will be increased.
By the census of 1859 we find tte reve-
nues of the 48 counties composing West
Virginia, were $3.50, ,030, and the Upenses
of the same counties, paid out of he pub
revenue of S5s1 ,43l, from which deduct
$se,S46, the ordinary expenses of tie Gov
ernment the last year, and we thye left
S60l ,595, showing that at the ole rate of.
taxation, we should'have snrplu of over
half million annually. These Are facts
and figures from the record, and ctanot be
controyerted.
The statements aud figures as to debt
and expenditures, created and made since
January, 1861, are derived from the Acts
of the Legislature and CouyentiSn, pub
lished at Richmond, for the years 1861 and
1852, captured by Gen. Kelley, and to
which, by the kindness of our worthy Gov
ernor and Gen. Wheat, have had access.
The other Acts and Auditors Reports can
be found in every county. To the. record
and the facts, tar payers, and yotI cannot
hesitate as to your action in the premises
N.I baa, F,,T. II
those who prHte =to4Foas-OfetAxssintt t6e new
State.
We are told we shall be small State
sparsely inhabited-the government and
public buildings of which will create op.
pressive taxation. This is untrue in every
particular. We have unbounded natural
resources-a fruitful soil, timber, water
power, inexhaustible mines of iron aud 9TH
er ores, camel and bituminous coal, and
fountains of oil and salt, and everything
necessary to make US a prosperous State
and people; and ia area aud population we
are'in the beginning in advance of many of
the comparatively old and prosperous
States. With population by the census
of 1860 of 334, 34,921-nearly equal to that of
Louisiana, Mississippi or rTexas-exeeedinR
that of Arkansas, New Hampshire, Vermont
or Maryland exclusive ofBaltimore), aud
exceeding the white population of South
Carolina by 43, 3,533-three times the popn-
lation of Delaware or Kansas-tWice that
of Rhode Island-six times that of Oregon,
and equal to that of Florida, Colorado, Da-
cotah, Nevada, Nebraska, New Mexico,
Utah, Washington, and the District of CO.
lumbia combined.
Our area is about $4,000 square miles
just about the same as South Carolina-
little less than that of Kentucky, Ohio or
Indiana, each of which contains popula-
tionyof about 10000 equal in area to
Maryland and Vermont together, and equal
to New Hampshire, New Jersey and Mas
sachuse,ts combined. The last-named
alone of which sustains a population of
over a million. And are we thea pigmy
Incapable of standing alone2
No man of sense and caudor will urge
or admit any such thing. What was the
State of Illinois, in 1910, had white pop-
ulatiOn of ll,601-less than one twenty
ninth of the present population of West
Virginia, yet she could sustain q State
government and erect her public buildings;
and in 1860 had white population of
/, l,T04,323, with a permanent school fund
of $5,000,000, with 5000 public school
houses, in which are being educated 49,.
600 of her children; and in the last ten
years she and her citizens h0ve expended
within her borders over 500, ,0oO, 900 in
the construction of Railroads.
Without q New State we are Inevitably
i,buried in debt aud bankruptcy, and there
by driven from our hills, valleys aud homes.
With the New State, If we are true te-our-
selves We have every promise aud guaran-
tee of a happy, prosperous, and glorious
future.
Let ths tax payers, the people, look 70
ther record aud the facts, fairly, honestly,
and candidiy, aud we shall have, on the
26th Of March next, no vote against our
constitution or the New State, unless it be
OF those coyertly IN the service of the Reb.
el and Letcher eonclaye at Richmond, or
of the itinerant pIace-seekers and Office.
hunters, who have no interest In common