Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-19


Va, at which resolutions were adopted,
accepting the situation in regard to sla-
very, acknowledging Gov. PeirpOiut as
Governor, and praying for a convention to
frame q new constitution, 60 as to secure
a better representation of the people Of the
State. A committee appointed by this
meeting waited on the Governor, laid its
action before him and requested relief
The Governor declined to call convention
to frame new constitution, on the ground
of want of power, and by way of an ar.
pument pgairst the plan of the Albemsrle
gentlemen, showed that at least eighty
days' time would be required to elect and
call tcgelher a convention and that, if by
three months labor q constitution was
made, smother two or three months would
be lost before the people could ratify it
aud elect officers under it, go that nine
months, at best, must elopse, duriug which
the present evils must be endured before
there could be any possibility of relief
Meantime, the Governor added:
We collect no revenue. Insane and deaf
aud dumb asyloUs are uDprovided for.
The EXPENSES Of the elections and of the
convention will have to be betrayed; there
will be no law administered nor order pre-.
served over large portion Of the States,
excepting through the agencies Of Provost
MArsbaPs. However we'll these officials
might diechsrge their trust, it is not ex-
pected that satisfaction would be afforded,
at leEst judging by past experience; insub
ordination and anarchy would prevail, and
u general license be afforded for the COM
Nilsson of crime of all degrees of magni-
tude.
he then proceeded to impsrt his own
views on the state of sffairs. The "Alex-
audria Constitution" he said, was adopted
by small minority of the people, as it was
done during Revolutionary times when the
greater portion of tie State was engaged
il open war and rebellion against the Uni
ted States, and had for Its basis the prin-
ciple that the government of the State be-
logged only TO the loyal people of the
State. Open rebels, he said, are not en-
titled to any political rights from the Gov
eminent sginst which they rebel; and
when the rebellion is crushed, only to such
rights as the Government, in it's
beuefcence, chooses to grant them
Tie Presidents Emancipation PrOcls-
nation required action from the au-
tborities of Virginia. The old State Con
stitutiOn prohibited any interference with
slavery. Here, at once, wns place for
conflict Of authority. 1t was found impos-
sible to proceed in recognizing the State
without a change in the organic law; and
If the Legislatures at Alexandria and
Wheeling were Legislatures at all, they
had certainly the right to legisla,e in re-
gard to Convention aud new Constilu-
ton. The Governor then stated his plau,
which is as follows:
He expected, in the course of three
weeks, to order elections for all the Coun.
ty officers IN the State, and to have al
our courts, civil and criminal, fully organ.
Used.
He hoped that the terrs of franchise
would be us liberal, or moro SO, than those
proposed in the AlbGmsrle resolutions.
That, after the County officers were
elected, be intended 20 order elections fol
members of Congress and the General As
senbly of the State.
That when the State was properly aut
fully represented in the Legislature, theJ
would have the whole subject before then
and within their own grasp, dependent up
on their elaboration aud action.
They wouid at once proceed to the col
lection Of revenue, under present laws, al
soon as the State is organized, aud to thu
collection of license under our presen
laws.
The Governor thought time would b
gained by tue adoption of his plan, ant
the State be more fully advanced in thu
progress of reorganization.
Mr.. Bolts has been in Washington, aut
has given his views of public affairs to tn,
editor of the Chronicle. Mr.. Bolts is rep.
resented in that paper as saying that h,
could not approve the manner in which
the Alexandria Constitution was forced
upon the people of Virginia, it having
been framed by eleven men, aud adopted
by four or Eve hundred voters; hut thai
Gov. PisrpOint was elected under tho Con-
stitutiOn of 1851, and is therefore the lie.
gitimste Governor of tue State. Mr.. Bottl
denies That be has ever disputed the valid
ity of the West Virginia Government. H,
insists that the people of the West did
right to set up loyal Government, and
admits the legality of the act of separation
from the East. He would prefer to see the
old State reunited on many accounts. bui
he regards the question ap taally settled
10 respect to slavery, Mr.. Bolts admits tina,
slavery is destroyed by the events of th,
war; AID although he would have prefer,
red more gradual process, he now &C,
quiesces in tbs practical result, aud thinks
the whole people of the State would con-
seat to the Incorporation of a prOhibitOry
clause in the Constitution.
TaR report upon agricultural matters,
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