The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1863-02-26

slltntlon. Ohce more, " mas ~ Saves
$50 acres Of improved anil 5000 acre
Of unimproyed land, and town lots now
worth $4,000; ratify the Constitution Of
West Virginia, aud the value Of the i'm
proved land is increased SO, $50, in.
creased value Of uninproycd land, =
$4,000 and Of town lots Improved and
unimproved) 5000 total--S4s 100;
deduct loss from Deprecated Slave prop.
erty--S3, 15O--ond she snug sun Of
E4), 600 is naized by adopting our new
CONSTITUTIONS. Nor is this all, d has 10
slaves, pnatal,suburbsn mansion, and
10000 acres OF wild l,nl in AZ almost
inaccessible part Of the State; hi, lone
stead is valued at $4,000, his wild Inud
at $4,000, his slaves at $4,000, total
t22,00O; the Constitution ratified, his
costly villa seIlsfor 1900, his remote
Wild lands sell readily Tor Sjpcr acre,
$50 00o,and his slaves for 1900, total
sos 500, instead Of $4,000 as now Of
frred, and no buyers At that-difTcrence
in favor Of The new State, $ll500.
We state the case Gorly; il any doubt
we refer them to the census Of of 1850;
but We need not continue our compare
tive estimotosof values now, md then
under the old aud IN Ter lhencw Con
Slitulion. The topic is in xhaustable,--
It's alike demonstrabe in every other
other conceivable Situation"
With our admitted natural adynnta-
ges, can any one advance a plausible
reason why, in ten years from our ad.
vent as an Independent Safe, our real
property should not approximate in val,
ne, that norh of the OhiO?
A new State guarantees that des'dera-
tenn. Why, for tho last fifty years, has
the swelling tide Of emigrants, in quest
of new homes, swept by Weston Vr
ginia, as obliyious Of its intrinsic at.
fractions, as the noislcss flood that un'
ceasingly flows down the noble Ohio,
and-like that food casting at us, but q
furlive glance, and--pasSing on? Be,
cause they wished to live in a land where
they could make their own laws, and
they well knew Eastern Virginia egisla
for and tyranized over, West VirJuianai
therefore, while they pltied, they could
notcast their lot IN with, us, but con
tinued their journeying, six and eight
hundred miles further towards the set
ting sun.
West Virginia, though ever Standing
beside the highway Of emisrant travel,
has been compelled hitherto, to witness
this continuous lhrong ofsturdy yeoman
ry, ignore her primitive excellences, to
see them because of oppressive, foreign
rulers, and consequent burdensomO taxa
ton, refuse 10 settle here, and chogriurd
and as they sale" though your country is
remarkably healthy, your soil fabulous,
ly fertile, your rich mines, inexhausta-
BILE, and all of so easy access, so Conve-
nient 10 market, yet, we cant lorego our
inalienablo right, which We have, here.
Lofore, ever exercised--of determining
by ballot the amour! of taxes we are to
pay-we cant reconcile ourselves to
living whore we are liable to be gonnd
down by Obstrepcrous and inimical leg
iglatOrs, to enjoy all your unequ lied
natural advantages; we choose coun-
try less advantageous, far more dis,
tant from dear kindred, FAR more Icmo'
we'd from good mbrkets-a country fat
less saubriou' and with far less Of the
evidences of rcfoel civilization, and
though even exposed to savage ucurs.
ions in the Western Wills, We choose all
these, forbiIding though they are, where
I'VE can continue to enjoy our jnostj,
mabIe, God-given privilege of the cleo
tive franchise"-and they turn their
back upon West Virginia. and settle far
beyond "the fother Of waters"
But, by the estoblishmeatofthe indie
pendent State Of West Virginia, all this
is completely chauged--,his until re-
Gently, unintormiltod stream Of wcII.to.
do, intelligent farmers and mechanics,
viii Instantly he defeated from il, couysr