Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-12
.vIrglnIa and West YirglnIa.
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lfa. IA EEpH tnd rev. 4QFk If1DuLes-
The Daily NssCs, like some others, is be-
logged with the multiplicity Of Rirginias,'
and solicits calculation at our hands. We
win do our best to clear our pl contempora.
Ey's perceptionFyiz: bs6 .7st
ta I. The State of Virginia Ctheni Including
Kentucky and an indefinite region north.
west of the Ohio) was formed of the colony
ofalike name at or near the time Of our
Declaration of Independence. Being one
OF the p0fginAl ThirteenjN p she ia naturally
spoken or ab Old Virginia. The excision
OF the North West Territory, of Kentucky,
and finally Of5W6st Virginia, left her still
Virginia. 5Ea ta.ft lf5si TIA luji ..,-s.
1nII. This Stats, having taken a prom
iuent part in the initial resistance TO the
usurpations and aggresslonS of the British
Government, in the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, in the Revolutionary War, and
in framing the Federal Constitution, de-
liberately ratified that Constitution, with
ample warning from her most iIlpstrious
orator, Patrick Harry, that 1t absorbed her
sovereignty in that of the, Nation-that it
was not a compact between sovereign
States, but q framework Of government,
constructed BY "the People of the United
States" who only have rightful power to
modify or transform it. t7F5 g.
III. ThisState of Virginia elected Con-
stitutional Convention in the Winter of
1901. More than two. thirds of the Del.
egates thereto were chosen as ayoWed
Unionists by an overwhelming Union ma
jority of the popular vote. That Convsn.
tion. repeatedly, persistently refused to fa.,
Vor Secession until after the Rebel attack
on Fort Sumter, resulting in its REDUCTION
and surrender; when ferocious mob of
Richmond negro traders, blAcklegs and
general rufians, bullied tho Convention
into passing, by majority Of some 80 to
30, an ordinance of secession. That ordi.
nance, by its terms, was not to take effect
until ratified by popular vote, in def :
snce of which, the State authorities pro-
ceeded forthwith to make secret compact
with the Confederate Government, and to
the Norfolk, Navy Yard and HaEper's Ferry
Military force from the openly seeded
States. So, the popular vote on Seces-
sion, when taken, was shameful farce
most of the State being already in the
Military possession of the Rebels, domes-
tic and other, and votes for the Union only
to be polled at great personal peril. Sen.
ator James NJ, Mason (now envoy to Great
Britainl openly proclaimed and published
that those who voted. against Secession
fought to leave the Stste."
", That portion of Virginia lying west
ward Of the main ridge, of the Alleghehies
rather more than third of the whole in
area, but hardly a fourth In population
holding few slaves, was Overwhelmingly
Union and 80 voted. Its vote was DOT gen .
orally received and counted at Richmond.
Secession was officially claimed as having
been ratified. The loyal Untonists who
were not under the coercion of JEFF Davis
bayouets repudiated and spurned the pre-.
tended Secession as nullity, and called a
meeting at Wheeling OF those members
elect to the new Legislature as were still
faithful to the Union. They met accord
ingly, and perfected State organization,
which has since been known as the loyal
government of Old Virginia-F Francis q.
Pierpont. Governor, -
v. The loyal State of Old Virginia,
through the regular action of its Legisla-
tive and Executive authorities, consented
to the formation of the State of Vest Vir-
ginis, and that State has been constituted
accordingly. It comprises the north -wes-
tern third Of the old State. Congress as
sented to this action and admitted the now
State of West Virginia; her people having
in every legal way demanded the same.
of this State of West Virginia, Arthur l.
Boreman is Governor while Francis q.
Pierpoint remains Governor of Old Vir-
ginia-that is Of the loyal State so named.
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