Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-10-12
ALEXANDRIA.
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER u.
Virginia as it is.

Virginia as it is.
The Virginia State Convention passed the
ordinance Of secession on the 18th Of April,
1861, subject to disqualification of the people
On TIC 18th Thursday in May. The people OF
lie Northwestern counties voted hcavl yagainSt
the ratification They were outvotcd by an
immense majority; bat, instigatcd by certain
leaders, some of them refused to acquiesce in
!hc result. \ so-called Convention, which
as in act simply Mass Convention. accord
iagly met at Wheeling, and ordered an ecc
ION to be held on the 4tA Of June of delegates
!a,jeG body convened at the time named and
proceeded to organize State Government for
Virginia. Those concerned in it, denied the
revolutionary character Of their proceedings,
declaring that 1T was not their object to set
~ q new government, Or separate from. the
Clio under which they had always lived. -
Gnc of the first acts, however, was to pro-
.:Gc for division Of the State. On the goth
q August an ordinance to that effect was
passed, November Goth, the delegates elect
&C under it, assembled at Wheeling, to deter
mine limits and draft Constitution, for the
proposed new State In April, 1862, this
Constitution was submitted to the people, and
declared adopted. 70 show how barrow the
popular basis on which the proceedings rested,
the vote on the Constitution was 1852 in
favor 10 5l4 against it, III territory that gave
II the Presidential elccloa Of 1860, no less
Ian Il, Q5l votes. Tie ''Lc2slatule Of Viz
giai1' so calico, was next called together by
us Exccllency the "Govcnor, "--t the same
."ho now oficiatcs in Richmcnd Itassembled
en- the 9th Of May, and promptly gave Eir-
";nia's consent" to the formation Of the pro
poScd new State and Congress added its rati-
G:a;ion on the 3lSt of December, with al aholi-
,i2L pro7iSo, as the price. This was agreed
70. and West Virginia took rank as "a State,
o&rly in 1868. Governor Pcirpout having
mus seen the lismcmbeTment Of the State
c0asummatcd BY the separation OF the only
3&rJ that he had any interest in, or had any
access to, save with inconsidcra5ic exceptions,
acN packed his trunk and brought his title
2?st, emf began to play Governor OF Virginia
CT cur nothern and eastern border line. In
his capuvity he and his legislature gave econ
sent" to q futhcr spoliation of the Stale by
lie rape Of Jefferson and Berkeley counties,
with a vote as cast in 1860, OF 5, 70G. BY vir-
NC OF an alleged election, III which Only q
hundred or Two votes were given.
thus without any necessity upon any theory,
2nj without shame or dcccncy, was Virginia
stabbed by those who called themselves custo-
liens OF her honor and interest.
Che running Of the boundary line between
I've new and old States was one Of the greatest
u the iniQui:ies connected with this most
.niGuit0rs transaction. The SGparatlSts did
act conline themselves to Northw western Viz
gnla, with its recognized limits and its thirty
sac counties Thcjnvadcd Southwest Virginia,
:hch they robbed of nine counties, and the
Valley from which, first and last, they took
~ counties; making total Of fifty counties.
'.'hcv included counties that never heard of tic
,&!I fer vote on the question OF organizing
lie new State.
No map has yet been printed showing the
lev boundaries of Virginia. We will assist
en- readers to sketch off the division line on
their old maps For its Western boundary
nc new State has the Ohio River then the
SANDY River from its mouth to Panther Greek;
;hcn the latter to its source. Commencing
here with the pcnciI-at the Southern angle
II McDowell county,-the boundary thence
aust be traced upon the Southern, or lower
lines OF Mcdowell, Mercer, and Monroe coun
les, throwing all these into the new State.
N.0n Monroe the boundary comedies with the
Nlaehany, which is he5c the Eastern line Of
GrconhIics and PCcahonas, (bolh in the new
! to El,n S.r, Of 'ar;;li of