The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-11
west Virginia.
WHEELING, Oct. 9, 1864,

81 KEELING, Oct. y, loo4f*
zox E'dilrs " the Register:
/! NJ sasn1Rter of Mcclellan and fris
to 10 me- SesA / would like to expo
someiof the hypocritical pretensions OF The
party to an exclusive care and
affection for the State of West Virginia.
The charge is made every day that the
Democratic party does mot Recognize the
new State, . charge based on ndhing but
The Imagination and desires OF those who
make 1t. The premises to this msst logical
conclusion are the statement that the name.
of the new State does not occur 10 the reso
lutions Of the Democratic meetings, that
the thirty-6fth star is wanting on Demo.
cratic flags, and that the words "West
Virginia. never pass the lips of Democrat,
ic orators. If those who make these asser>
tions had not been afraid to come and hear
the truth at the Mcclellan meeting ct the
Court House, their lies would have stuck in
their throats; and if some of those whose
political principles are determined by the
number of stars on . flag had counted them
o. carefully at Republican as they do at
Democratic meetings, they would have
found as many flags bearing only thirty
four stars at the one as at the other And
in the Legislature of the new State itself,
many of the speakers have been known to
commit the crime and outrage of saying
/" Virginia" forgetting the sbibboleth,
" West.n Cannot these critics have little
charity for the verbal mistakes of Demo
cratic speakers, or does their experience
compel them to believe that all plumbers
are confined to the Republicaa party?
But one of these political critics has &C
tually gone beyond his photographed and
astronomical arguments, and asks: fWho
does not know thatif the Democratic party
had been strong eneugh the new State
would never have passed Congress ?" In
the first place, submit to this modest Re-
publican and only new State man in the
State, that he speaks very equivocally, not
to say vulgarly, Of the way the new State
came into the world. But we may pardon
his inaccurate English when We remember
the ease and precision with which he counts
thirty five, or don't count quite that many,
as the case may be. Aperson so much in
love with Yankee notions and Yankee ne.
gro worshippersf cannot object to Yankee
answer to his question = Who, that goes
for political Information to the record, and
not to the columns of . Republican paper,
does not know that, if the Democratic
party had been strong enough, this new
State would have been admitted without
conditions, and with the constitution
formed by the free voice of her people {?
When the new State bill was before the
Senate, every Democratic Senator voted
for it's admission a0ithout conditions, aud
every Rspublican. Senate II we except Mr..
Oowan, who is now for McClellan) voted
against it. ,(See Congr essionat Globe, Sec
ond Session Thirty.seventh Congress, page
$500 Who does not remember that
when the patriotic people of Western Viz
ginis, many of whom had lost their ell for
the sake Of country, asked the boon Of q
new State with constitution which suited
them, the Republican majority in Congress
said No. SeeingIthe helpless condition of
the people, these political trickaers
determined that the Constitution
should be amended !, so 4 as 8, to throw
the State IL possible into tho power
Of the Republican, party. Driven by what
seemed necessity alter being put to the ex
pense of another session of the Convention
and an election, the people agreed to that
Constitution, and for year the result has
been as the Republicans expected. Now,
thanks to the true Union men of West Virf
einia, q better day dawns.. And now this
party, which, for the NEST sell
fish motives, as every one must see, cons
sented to the formation of the new State
and has derived from it every possible po..
litical advantage, calls for the gratitude
and the aid of West Virginia. Under what
are West Virginans to this ad-
save to aid in supplanting it
by that of the man who saved West Vir-
ginia from the rebellion who has always
been her friend and never asked of her a
price? To follow further the Congressional
history of the new State; when the bill
came up for final action in the Senate, of
the seventeen votes against it -a,tae, ma>
jority, were Republican. Gifts history in
the House cannot speak by the book, as
the, Globe for that session has not yet been
and / like to refer to the page,
but all who recollect il, recollect but another
chapter of the same partisan selfshness
and trickery.t a-.'. ... w.. '9~s...
Now let us take another view of these
professions of love for the new
State, and belief in the constitutionality of
It's formation. No man who believes al l
do, that the State of West Virginia was
formed can be very con-
,istent Republican. Even this man that
counts thirty-fve for living admits that
the whole question concerning West Wir-
sinia depends on the validity of the reor
sanization of the State Government of
Virginia by the convention which met I'M
Wheeling on the 18th Of June, 1864 H.
must agree, that if the reorganized Govern
ment of Virginia, sometimes irreverently
called "Peirpoints Government" was legal,
West Virginia is State de .jws, if the for
mer was not legal, then is West Virginia a
sham and farce, for the consent Of the
Legislature Of Virginia to the formation of
the new State was, in that case, never OBJ
tanned. Well, the Baltimore Convention,
the Supreme council of the Republicau mar