Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-30
The Vote OTIast Thursday through
ont the New state.

the Vote oGI3St ThuFSdRT through
Out the New state.
II is apparent 70 every well ordered sud
candid mind, irrespective of aay party pre-
deIie:o9, that there could not bs a tairer o.
more straightforward election than thsse
vas ia our midz: on Thursday last. EVER
citizen Ehs allowed, without le, or hind
rance Of word OF deed. 70 vote inst As he
pleased Ehe vas for the Sex State or if
he EAs against it, no body said $ word
Il WAS oue of the quis,sss, most orderly
and exemplary elections ever held The
fact HAT At many Of the precincts heard
from, in the different counties, there we're
votes against theNsE State. shows that The
POils we're open and free 20 ali lawful
corners.
All this goes 70 sho~ how entirely dem
ogOgical, and uosubstantial and insIacere
ia every 4ay, we're The prets1tz OF the
leaders of the CoPpe.head faction in West
Virginia, who under Pretease that fair
election eoald not be held, advised their
followers no; to vote, but to stay at home
and help them TO count all uncast votes on
their side. Since the fret days of the re-
belIion, We do not presume that SO entirely
q free and lawful poll has been taken
Il will have been noticed that even among
the soldiers, against whose voting so much
outcry was made by the disIoyalisss. there
were votes against the New State. The
same free and unimpaired rights we're e1-
ercised there IS elsewhere. Those of them
who chose to vote against the New State
did SO. Every opposttionist in the New
State had just the same chance that every
New State man had, as the reforms ipdis-
pusably prove
Gov. Pietpoint some days before the
election, aud in order to meet aud utterly
anpul the cavils of the disloyaI, issued =
proclamation guaranteeing to every man,
irrespective of his sentiments, the fullest
privilege of voting as he pleased. He is.
sued this proclamation, not because it was
necessary so to do, but to stop forever tn.
misrepresentation of the secession syuua.
thiEers aud take the wind completely out of
theis sails, which be most effecrualiy did.
As another evidence, showing how
great was the care that scrupulous vote
should be taken, even in the camps. where
SO much latitude of action is generally
claimed and allowed, owing to the absence
of the surroundings and eonvenieneies of
ordinary times. We subjOiu the fol.
lowing printed regulations and Instructions,
got up under the auspices of the late Con-
stttutional Convention, to provide for the
taking of the soldiers vote.
The following were the Instructions TO
those who we're commissioned to take Tue
poll in the different regiments:
THE ExEcuT1vE COMMITTEES, pursuant to
the Ordinance passed by the Constitutional
Convention of West Virginia, on the 10th
of February, 1868, entitled IAN Oedinance
70 provide for submitting to the people of
West Virginia, the Amended Constitution
adopted by this ConveUtiou,n do hereby
appoint you Commissioner to take, at any
time from the twelfth to the twenty SIKH
day OF March, 1868. including both of the
said days, the vote, for or against the said
Amended Constitutions, of such persons
qualified to vote, as may be at that time.
in the service of the United States as SOL
diers or officers of the Virginia Militia.
within the
In the discharge of this trust you will
govern yourselves by the followinS direc-
lions:
You will not enter ou,the discharge of
your duties, until you have taken the oath
or Affirmation prescribed By the seventh
section of that Ordinance; and ton will
as 5000 as possible, furnish TO the chair
man Of this Committee, proper evidence of