Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-08
The OmO,al Returns.


We publish this morning the Official re-
turns of the vote cast for and against the
Amended Constitution on the 26th ult. in
twenty eight of the forty eight counties of
the New State. These returns we're open.
ed and counted yesterday by Messrs. Pax
ton, Lamb and f. q. Caldwell, three of the
five commissioners, in the presence of
Judge SOper, President of the late Cousti-
tional Convention.
They foot up the unexpected and we may
say unprecedented sum of twenty .four
thousand, eight hundred aud seventy four
votes for the amended Constitution, a
clear majority of all the votes ever, at any
time, cast within the bounds of the New
State, and ShttLeaviag tseenty counties TO hear
from.
This result is really wonderful. The
most sanguine could not have anticipated
SO grand aud overwhelming triumph.
We can give the sccessiouists all thew
claimed, viz all the possible uncast
votes-aud still beat them most crushing
". We can give them more than they can
claim. We can allow the basis of calcu-
lation to be the Presidential vote of 1860
and admit that all the 46, 894 votes then
present and voting within the New State
are still present aud capable of being cast.
Of course, they dare not claim such silly
thing, but we could afford to admit it, if
they did claim it, and still have most de
Oisive and undeniable majority of several
thousand.
We presume the aggregate vote, when
the twenty remaining counties are in, will
reach thirty thousand. 1t looks that way
now. This will come very near, as every
Intelligent man knows, being the Notable
strength of the New State. The Seces.
siOnlsts claim that they have twelve thou
sand from West Virginia in the rebel ser.
vice, as soldiers, guerrillas, and hangers
on; and if they tell the truth, there is very
little strength left for them in the way of
votes.
Had they voted on the day of election
and drummed and scraped their whole
force together, in all the forty.eight coun-
ties, we do not suppose they could have
cast anything like ten thousand votes.-
That they could all have voted, had they
chosen, tho result proves. Five hundred
and fifty votes are on record against the
New State, and a very fair proportion of
them were cast in the very hottest and ESQ
to speak) most iutoleraut Uuion aud New
State counties that We have. Fifty-six of
them were cast in Marshall, a county bv
allodds the most uncomfortable for seces-
stonistsi Que hundred aud thirty-eight of
them were cast in MouOugalia, and seventy
of them in Preston-two counties of pretty
much the same stripe MS Marshall. In
these three counties, the stroages, aud hot
test for the Union and the New State
nearly one half the vote against the New
State was cast. Ifa man could vote as he
pleased in these counties, most assuredlv
he could in any of the rest, exceu, i; he
down on the borders of Secessia, where
the Union and New State men were afraid
to come out and vote.
No, the truth is patent to the world tina,
the secessionists in West Virginia sud.
denly found themselves collapsed aud |
played out in public estimation. Thew
made this discovery few days before the I
ate election, and theJ beat the hasties, |