The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1863-07-02

iobuiCi Jul GUN lIHFtl, UNNlS, rs
snQlaIions, and interests, all-al say that
West Virginia should be severed from
The East. And now, to day after many
long aud weary years Of insult and in
justice, eliminating on the part of the
East, in an attempt TO destroy the Gov
eminent, we have the proud satisfaction
of pfoclaiming 10 those around US that
we ara a separate State in tho Union.
Our State is the child of the rabeIioo;
yet our peace. prosperity and happiness,
and, not onl y ours, but that ofthe whole
country, depends on tho speedy sup
preston Of this o'tempt 10 overthrow the
Government of our fathers; and il is my
duty, rs soon as these ceremonies are
closed, to proceed at once to aid the
Federal authorities IN their efforts 10
stay its destructive hand. do not in.
tend to insult your loyalty or Intelligence
by discussing before you to day the dog
ma of secession. It's bitter fruits ara to
DO seen all around us. 1t is like the
poisonous Upas tree that bIigbls and
withers everything that comes within us
influence. We have seen and felt
enough Of to know that it is lraught
with evil, and that continually. The
politicians Of many ofthe Southern States,
having an tnordinate desire for pIace
and rover and it becoming apparent
'thot the great North West was improv.
ing and increasing in population so rap.
IDLY that the controlling influence Of the
Government was soon surely TO be- with
the free States, and that the South must
surrender power which they had so long
cIerted to majority Of the people nc.
'cording to the principles Of our Govern
1nent, they became desperate, and de.
termincJ il they could no longer con.
troll. they would destroy the Govern.
ment. BY fraud and laIsohood, ard by
incondlary speeches., they Influenced
the public mind in the South, and indu.
ced them to believe that they were sur
fering great injury from the General
Government; that the rights of the S ruth
were net only disreSardcd, but lrampIoI
under foot; that Mr., Lincoln was n sec.
tioaal President, and that his election
:, .s;oo. ,LaI ;r,Ls "o' VI insult ana IN
Zoo roSm.,J y. 9uo'"'"cu 10 II 'ney
worse than slavery itself and, fearing
md resnGct f ro, ',' L ''au So'i,e reverence
;nsiiion,I a ~" '1Y Io !ls, 'ney
HAT noacobIo as w Wv tAI'u'esS uoc'Flhe
anro with Tia Co UeSs'o" was III GohSoh
than from III ,Iais oI,;, anu aosoIvoa
no,,,bo c"ro. s"o'. oo''S'a"nS 10 sup,
much moro oF = ~, hn t"'S ana
,naLt na,;, " ~ l'No character lhey
inc an tbe S ,ho,;, ;u.GgOueu IN prevail
SlStc, to omh,aoo '' ,,,',; :" many n"ny OF lhe
tomnt 10 rar., ' Nv; uoO'r'uc ana at,
',hrs ,bcy ;n.n, " .nio oAocuuon' ana
snd I,asS nroscrn,eS !, % tar u lsuei!,on'
Years Win V9 go,I eud ~ o, ,,or over '~o
n better c,nss 7, L.s .ns Sy "I't r .,
proportions anil i d doms assumed ne, leatui
erries of tI,o Gavar,n, ""I' at. Snc Gu
and Of tho loyul neopIe ~ 5ef %a' ~. ru
inous purposes. "
unir. 49,.
s, onIST tn tnese circumstances wha' course
O"u"'u '"I p ,oyaI men OF West Virginia .
P i%aSiI nut oT'ore | state what we
',o ,La, w. ~ WIZ state that it seems 10
,ue Ina! INC position Of our people in the
Jt?,""'ns OF lh0 troubles, and their con-
Sn O o,,. sue rl;' nave not been understood
Wy U o,., ,o,e"us around us. In the com
mo U' or riees " 'neSe difficulties we were
P ,i, Oh . southern State, whose conven-
md ,b Ia' Iaa. a'l ordnance OF secession,
' ""u ' .h ,SCl caused many to sympathizo
WIZ, sAe oou'n without rejecting wheth.
OF ~ was r'sh' or wrong. We were sit.
uotea between the South and the North.
ana M. ,n case Of a collision it must noces.
c''lHN ltSuil llAt nIIfs unnll H..