The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1863-03-12


dead, who has ans wcred anl solved these
questions.
Inaspeech, delivered at Lexington,
Va, Sept, l847, the Rev. H, Rulraer, D,
D., said: We glory in Wheeling, be.
cause she only, in Virginia, deserves TO
be called manufacturing town. For
this her citizens deserve TO be crowped-
not withdaurel, but with The solid gold
OF prosperity. But how comes it Whec.
ling and next TO her, Welsburg of al
the towns in Virginia should become
manufacturing towns! Answer; They
breathe the atmosphere of free States, al,
most tonching them on both sides. But
again; seeing that Wheeling, as a manu-
featuring seat, is equal to PitEburg, and
inferior 10 no town in America, cxcep.
Richmond, and lhaS sho has almost no
slaves--whyis is Wheeling so far buhlnd
Piusburg, and comparatively so slow iI
her growth? Answer Sic Is in cous 4
tyy IL ,ohjch slGoeig is established bg lalo.
, will add another paragraph Of the
Doctors speech; he sail; Thus it ap
pears fellow citizens, byinfaIliblo proofs,
that West Virginia, in all her parts, in
all her interests, has suffered immensely
from he institution Of slaecyy, These
arc the words Of christian statesmen
and patriot, who was not afraid to speak
out and tell the truth, and that too in the
very center of the STATE, and at line
whom slavery was at the zenith Of its
glory. Ho was a stakeholder himself
but that did not Prevent him from seeing
the evil, and proclaiming it on tho
housetops--lh lha! he was right iq his con
clusions and assertions, is evident from
The great amount of statistical facts pre-
senIed in his speech. Statistical facts
are stubborn things; they ore unanswer
able.
When We look at Virginia MS she once
was, and as she now is, we are lost in
wonder and establishment ut the bind
wild, mad, inFa'uatiou Of her rulers; re-
mindiug Us of the prodigal son, in Holy
writ with the exception that there is no
sign of repentance in the former.
She seemed to hold her own among
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