The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1863-02-26
From the Wheeling IptellgetcOr.
What Voting Against the New State
win Dol
roinl pleasAnt, Yn., M. I. '63.

which would spread deSolN,ion and ruin
all aopuj. Theu vote agniast new
State,
lfyou want to haEo our 1sn beautl.
ful Ohio, made crimson by the blood
shed by constant murders, perpctrated
by uuIsgonisric I9rces, stationed on eth,
er shore. Then vote against tho now
Safe,
II you wont 70 see your cities, towns
and villages, all along tile borlct bocom.
lug depopuAted aud crgpbIjns to ruins,
Then vote agNinsta new State,
fyou want 10 drive tho sturdy lahcr,
cr the ingenious mechanic, h6sciehddd
farmer aud IN fact. all the incslinable
blessings which tho onward march Of
civilization and the progrOssoI the age.
will necessarily impatt, Then vote
again,t tie NewSla,c.
If sou want to reduce the population
Of the country TO one third Vt itS present
number, Ifyou want 10 convert mil,
lions OF broaa acres Of rich productive
soil into barren wilderness, ovcr.erown
with briars ihorns M thiS,Ies and in.
fesled with owls serpents and lizards;
Then vote against new State. l
If YOU want still to keep locked up
in tho eternal f,sncss Of onr mountains
those exhauslless stores OF mineral wealth
for ages yet TO come II You want 10
slutiIy end slaguate all enterprise. II
you want TO blot out The last glimmering
ray Of hope that fits along tbe horizon
Of the future and which has checrad and
animated the spirit Of all the loyal pco.
plo Of West Virginia, almost for ages
past Then vote against tho new State.
II you are opposed to colleges. acsd-
cmios and free schools and all other IN
slilniions thsi cultivate sod slssale a,.
Ii YOU want all the great blessin
knowledge which alone rednes and
alts the soul and opens up the only avI
enues through which true bliss is impar.
ted to mans imuoripl b,ing. confined
exclusively 10 the Arstocracy 'or pdyi.t
legged cl,sses. Then vote against the
new State.
Ifyou want oworld 10 know that you
are at heart rebel and deeply IN sym
pathy with treason. Ityou want to do &
kind act for the Southern Confedcrncy;'
Il you want TO please such man rs JqG.
Davis, Rhott, Yancey, Cobb, Keit, Wise,
Letchcr, ToombS, Pryor, WiGfall, &c.
il you want to Gil all rehrldom with
shouts of JOY over the defeat of this
great and noble project, and one voto
alone will do it. Then sir,you had bet
ter cast your vote against the new Stale,
fyOu want to worse Than throw away
the vast sums Of money already expenr
ded by the loyal people of West Virgin,
ia. in their honest struggles to shake
off the yoke, ,ha. Eistorn dcspotism has
placed upon them. Then vote against 2
new State.
If you want 10 thwart and render null
and void all our efforts hitherto TO build
up for ourselves and our children, .
government at once, grand and gloiious
and which will secure to al the rights Of
lr"emeu Then vote Ogoinst the new
State.
II you want to heap upon the people
of West Virginia, buhhcn Of taxatioR
to hep pay the expenses of this Southctp
rebellion, that will grind you aud them
dow 'or twenty generations ~ come, anG
perhaps no, one single dollar 20 to tho
benoGl OF those from whom il has been
cGtorted. Then vote egaipst a ncw
State.
Ifyou want to establish q government
under which no man can exercise the
right Of suffrage, unless he is work.
50 900 or has a few negroes, and where
all the poweris ia tho hands Of on aris-
tocracy Then vote agansla new State,
Ifyou wantto establish permanently
and forever the sysleG of human SlaSes
ry, If you want 10 set up slave mar,
ket where human hoisgS are sod lie
horses and mules and where fathers viii
sell their own offspring, and under the
cover of which isperpetrated crimes SO
heinous and revolving, that oven dey3
mish; shoulder to commit themand which
ignores and puts 10 blush, every sentt-
m"nt Ood principle Of tho christian relig-
ion. Then we say vote sgiinst the neY
State. W. w. II,
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Esr Oliver Cromwell is wrIlknOwuAo