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

ed everJaig in the streets Of Wheeling
for the stSO years, TO pay the interest
on moue borrowed to make these rail
roads. fhy sir,an unofFendiug animal
would hs to travel 800 miles before he
could sc ich himself against a single tie
on a siug railroad built with your mon,
ey. la glterl With all this money
thst has ben expended, they have neg
lected yd aud their notions ara alto.
gether dlf tent from youts, They are
not a det eratic pcoplo, They are in
favor ola oyernment with privileged
class. i BY believe that none but real
holders 8 llj be entitled to the right of
suffrage sort of oligarohy, an oristoc.
racy in ieh men that are wealthy
shall be d erybody and everything, and
men who lYo moi had such advantages
shall be o bling and nobody. Now To
show you b great difference betwaon
you and sepeople, l would call your
attention two speeches made in the
Congress the United States al tho DO.
ginning Ohio rebellion. Ono was made
by Mr. De arnett, of the Richmond dis
Wici. and e other by Mr.. Garnet, of
t6e a! Essex strict. Congressman are not
likely 10 nj ee speeches containing doe
trInes whida they do not believe will
be popula1in their district, especially
when the eysFe candidates for reelection,
as both The d gentleman were --and
looted, 100, D lhs rebel Congress. De
JarnettsOg it's only in a country where
labor is ow q BY the capital of tho coun.
try that publican form Of govern.
menI can e t--that republican gov.
ornment'ca nniy exist wherc the cap.
iial of a'cQ Fly owns the labor Of the
counuyo
Mr., Gal i says the grea! cause of
the failure free society in the Northern
States has b that they hav, boon de.
votedly az I'd 10 the democratic form
OF tho govs hint, They have believed
IN represo1 ell on mere numbers OF the
people; th nve believed in universal
suffrage; aH every country where Uni
vorsal sur zists the balance of pow
er lies IN ads oil men who have to
work TOO to know anything about
the govern y. Now you cannot for
get that so as we are the whole State,
and you Ii every part Of the S'ats
representa- gour Legislature, yop ore
in the band ihese men. If you do
not get a ny ate now. and you 60 on
roorganizih State until all tho State
IS representa- iosWill no more con-
sent 70 gopr eaeW. State then they
would be foreSer deprived Of the ofiices
of the country What do you expect to
accomplish by continuing 10 be united
20 Eastern Yirginio3 Do you expect
your condition TO be improved in any
way? Do you want to bo down upon
your knees again before the authori'ics
at Richmond Doyou wan,to continue
united politically and intimately with
those scoundfels who have brought all
this trouble upon the country? Do you
want to send back your delegates and
representatives to the city of Richmond,
to be run out Of their by set of negro
traders!
Do you want 10 have your people,
your gentleman like my friend on my
left (Mr Hubbard) iugulted by set Of
rufiins aud scoundrels- -alluding TO the
treatment OF Western delegates in the
Convention that passed the secession or.
,Iinancol taunted with being told that he
represented tho "whire trash of West
can Virginia, Gentlemen, | have fre.
qucntly in ny life been considerably
aggravated. One Of those times has been
referred to by the gentleman who intro.
duccd me 10 this meeting.
They were getting up scheme in the
spring of 1850 wkich thought was dc.
signed TO aid those who were trying to
break up tho government, long before
the Presidential election, to appropriate
about half million of dollars to a gun
factory in Richmond. 1t struck me if
We were going to have peace in the
country there could be no propriety in
It took occasion to make some re-
marks against the passage oftho bill
Some gentlemen said dissolution Of the
u MON might come, and the State was
uN prepared for anything Of the kind.
| toyk occasion 10 say that I believed the
people Of Western Virginia would fight
for the Constitution and Union Of the
country whether assailed by the North
Or the South. / bad no sooner male
these remarks than q delegate from the
,ity of Wheeling -tkero is no mistake
about it-rose in his place and said
that | entirely misrepresGntel the peo'
pie of Western Virginia. HO said that
when the time camo for the people Of
The South to take their stand The people
of the border would be with them. That
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