Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-04-24
WESTERN VIRGINIA.

The Wheeling intelilgencer, good
at the game the Yankees play, VIZ ::
Lying, publishes the official vote Of
Western Virginia in favor Of the
amended Constitution, as taken on the
10th nit. 1t says in twenty-eight
counties the vote cast for the Consti-
tuition foots up the unexpected sum
Of twenty-four thousand eight hum
dred and seventy-four, being major
lily of ali the votes ever cast in Yves
tern We /, and leaving twenty counties
still to hear from. This vile sheet
does not state how many votes were
cast against, nor why THIS immense
vote was cast for the Constitution.
We were informed Of the process of
taking the votes in tf1at section gc1rYe
time since and Informed our readers
at the time, and stated our belief that
the votes would all be cast in favor Of
any proposition Pierpont might be
desirons q carrying. His sheriffs
went around with the poll-books, and
stating the question to be voted upon,
required the votes to be cast il a GER
tain way q failure so to vote would
atfo'd the osfehifless, = sure ticket for
adnittancs into some Yankee Bastile.
Many Of the true and loyal men in
that section, who had families, requi-
ring their utmost exertions to furnish
them with Subsistence in. cohn try,
at ore tilAe. Id our possession aid theh
in Pierpont's and Lincoln's, and re-
cessarily scantily supplied with the
necessaries of life, without any pros
pect of an ca ly Improvement in that
respect, were compelled to make the
choice between casting this vote and
starvation for their families and chose
the former, and hence this one sided
vote.
The Intciligcincer claims this as a
grand triumph for the amended Con-
stitution, which constitution differs
from the one voted for last spring in
this, that it admits Of the gradual
emancipation of slavery within the
limits Of the pretended neW State Of
Virginia, and Furthermore shows from
the figures that in twenty-eight coun-
ties this spring the vote is eight thou
sand more for this a1nes,hed Constitu-
ton, than was cast for the unamehded
Constitution in thirty-fve counties
last spring, and argues that "Aboli-
ton" and all such "ogres and gorgonb
dire" are rather popular than other
wise in Western Virginia. This might
do to tell those unfamiliar with the
views of this oppressed people, but
will be placed in its proper category
when retailed in this section. In the
first place the vet pretended to be
cast are not and have not. been there
since long before that vote was taken,
and fictitious naf1es must have been
inserted to swell this amount to this
triumphant vote, and secondly we
know no truer men to the institutions
of the South and to the Confederacy,
than these same down trodden, OPP
pressed Western Virglnians, and we,
like the Intelligencer, glory in this
their boosted triumph (?) but from a
different reaso... We see in this tie
greater CAUSE for more general STAN
pede from that section by set Of men,
who leave their all to the mercy of the
abolition brutes, and exultingly speak
of the loss Of their property, burned,
killed and run off, On account Of their
sympathy with the Confederacy, and
with fixed determination, patiently
await the day when they will visit
their homes with force sufficient to
wrealS their vengeance Upon their
fendish enemies. We fondly look for
the day when this portion of our State
will be redeemed from abolition rule
by the brave hearts and strong arms
Of Western Virginians. May it come
quickly.