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

sliLution. Once more, @ has rs slaves,
$50 acres Of improved anil 5000 acres
Of unimproved land, and town lots now
worth $4,000; ratify the Constitution Of
West Virginia, and the value Of the i'm
proved land is increased - 80, $50, in.
creased value Of uninproved land, =
$4,000 and Of town lots Improved aud
unimprpved) 5000 total--s43 $50;
deduct loss from Deprecated slave prop.
erty--S3, 15O--and the snug sun Of
$4,000 is naIized by adopting our new
Constitution. Nor is this al. b has 10
slaves, pslatial,suburban mansion, and
10000 acres Of wild lonl in An almost
inaccessible part Of the State; his home
stead is valued at $4,000, his wild Imd
at $4,000, his slaves at $4,000, total
S2e, 900; the Constitution ratified, lis
costly villa selIsfor 1900, his remote
wild Hands sell readily Tor So per acre,
$40 oo0,and bis slaves for 81 500, total
Sd3,50O. instead Of $4,000 as now of.
frred, and no buyers at that Inference
in favor Of tho ncw State, $ii 500,
We state the case foirly; il any doubt
we refer them TO the census Of of 1860;
but wO need not continue our compare
tive estimates of values now, and then
under the old and IN Ter the new Con,
stituiion The topic is in xhausable,--
It's alike demonstrable in every other
other conceivable "situatioh."
With our admitted natural adynnta.
ges, can any one advance n plausible
reason why, in ten years from our ad,
vent as an Independent Safe, our real
property should not approximate in val.
ue, that n1rth of the Ohio?
A new State guarantees that desiacra'
tam. Why, for tho last fifty years, has
the swelling lido Of emigrants, in quest
of new homes, swept by Western Vr
ginia, as oblivious Of its intrinsic at.
fractions, as the noisless food that un.
ceasingly flows down the noble Ohio,
and-like that food casting at us, but a
furIivc glance, and--passing on? Be.
cause they wished to live in land where
they could make their own laws, and
they well knew Eastern Virginia lcgisla
for and tyranized over, West Virginiana;
therefore, while they pitiGd, they could
not cast 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 emigrant travel,
has been compelled hitherto, to witness
this continuous lhrong olsturdy yeoman
ry, ignore her primitive exce|lencies, to
see them because of oppressive, foreign
rulers, and consequent bnrdensome taxa
ton, refuse 10 settle here, and chogrinrd
and as they said though your country is
remarkably healthy, your soil fabulous,
" fertile. your rich mines, inexhausta-
Bile, and all of so easy access, so conve.
nient to market, yet, we can't lorego our
inalienablo right, which We have, here,
tofore, ever exercised--of determining
by ballot the amount of taxes we are to
pny-wc cant reconcile ourselves TO
living where we are liable to be ground
down by obstreperous and iuimcal leg,
igIators, to enjoy all your unequ'lled
natural advantages; we choose coun-
try less advantageous. far more Dis.
tant from dear kindred, far more reno.
we'd from good msrkets-a country Cat
less saubriOus and with far less Of the
evidences Of rcfocl civilization, aud
though even exposed to savage iucurs.
ions in the Western Willis, We choose all
these, fOrbiIding though they are, where
we can continue to enjoy our jncsti-
mable, God.given privilege Of the cleo
tive franchse"-and they turn their
back upon West Virginia, and settle far
beyond "the fother Of waters"
But, by the establishment ofthe indie.
pendent State Of West Virginia, all this
is completely thanged--lhis until re-
Gently, unintcrmiltcd stream Of wcI.to'
do, intelligent farmers aud mechanics,
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