The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-09
Citizens Railway.
We lay before our readers this morn

We Law before our readers this morn
ing the charter OF the Citizens Railway
Company of the city OF wheeling. The
more we think of 1t the more we are
convinced this work ought 70 be done,
and that 1T viii pay. iss1f the charter
needs any amendment. now is the time
to secure it, a couple ofweeks notice OF
the application for 1t being required,
we believe. We hope the inatter,wiil
be csnyassed, and that If the work is
deemed practicable, Vigorous measures
viii be promptly inangurated. Z .,
BerheIy and JEFFERSON Counties--De-
bate In Congress Last Tuesday About
west virginia Natter h Fessr sflrf
The bill to ratify the cession of Berke-
ley and Jeffetsonf counties to the State
of West Virginia, passed the House OF
Representatives on Tuesday last by lib
yeas to "a nays. A Washington letter
of Tuesday furnishes us the following
summary Of the debate aaJ TslI
nThe debate on the subject Of West
Virginia to-day ELECTED on the part Of
two or three prominent gentlemen !, IN
the House an expression OF more more t utii ~ :
.lA opinion eA41F -
Stntes lately in rebellion than they have
heretofore given. Mr.. Stevens took ocz
F-asion 10 deny that he had ever main
FAMED that those States were dead. he
said that he agreed with Mr. yInonu.
that they were Suites and had always
been States throughout the reDeiiloIl;
that they had laws and organized gov
ernmerfs, and were in full activity as
States. The only difference be-
tween him and SIR. Raymond on
this point was that while he held
them 70 be States OF the Coniederacy,
mud not OF the UnionS while the Con-
federacy lasted, Mr.. Raymond MAIN
fained TINT they were both States of the
Union rightfully, and States ofthe Con
fatleracy de farto; but he had never
maintained that they We're dead states,
or that thew ceased 10 be States ut all.
He had voted fer the admission OF
West Virginia and not because the OLD
State of Virginia had gwen her cons ..ilt
to the erection Of this new state Wlthln
her limits-for being State OF the
Confederacy and not of the Union, she
had no right 10 give her consent nt all
but because West Virginia had been
formed out OF territory which we had
conquered, and therefore had u right TO
dispose Of. West Virginia was purely a
creature OF revolution and not of law.
Mr.. Bingham, of Ohio, took occasion 10
protest against this doctrine in very
distinct terms. He denied that we had
conQured any portion of the territory OF
the.tJnIted States IN the recent war. We
had conquered the rebellion, and not
the territory. He said he had always
maintained that those rebel States
were still within the Union, and That
the Ioynl men of those States, wherever
there were enOughof them to. organize
"A government, and wherever and when
ever they could do so, were entitled to
recognition rs the riGhtful authority of
the State. As the loyal people of old
Virginia had organized State govern
Inent for that State, and had given their
consent TO the division of the State, he
(Mr. Bingham) had voted for its recog-
milton, and he held that West Virginia
was to-day as much n creature of law
and of congressional action as any 9TH
er State of the Union. Mr., Blaine, of
Maine, rfiised a new point, that the Con-
stitution does not permit the erection of
n new State within the limits or juris-
dictiOn OF an old one, but only permits
the union of two or more States with
their mutual consent and the consent
of Congress. His construction rested
mainly on the punctuation of that
clause of the Constitution which relates
10 this subject But he was Mt once re-
ferred to the fact that his own State OF
Maine was formed out or the State of
Massachusetts"