The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-28

strife ana 0lScOrd OF OtheF years snail
be stirred up, and one particular pOr-
ton ofthe State, per adventure, will Sc
cede, unless their peculiar hobbies are |
humored. We only ask a fair cOnsid- |
Grafton OF this question, and that before
the vote on this all important issue IS
taken, that the claims of the different
points be duly weighed. We only ask
that YOU will carefully analyZe the ar !
guments and consider the respective
propositions made before this body, ana
then trust to the general intelligence OF
this assembly.
] desire to refer moment TO That
beautiful village OF which orators have
spoken and poets have sung. Although
1 have the kindest regard for the peo
pie of that town, and have passed
many pleasant hours in 1t, and have
many pleasant recollections connected
with it; although many of my soldier
days were passed in that town on duty,
still 1 must say regarding it in part as
to the location Of the STATE capital,
hope L may be INDUCED a moment.
When / heard here to-day that this IS
one Of the faireSt spots the sun has ever
shone on and that it was intended by
Providence for this great purpose, l
hope L may be allowed to say ~hdt
think about that from my own opseT-
walton. was particularly struck Win
the remark that it wasa DeauLtlul' nat,
level, open country. II may De SO Dut
since was there. It may be true that
the tine road leading from Clarksburg
is one the best turnpikes in the State,
and that 10 is well M'AdamiZed, but
think the gentleman should have add
ed that the bottom has fallen out of it.
The town Of Buckhannon lacks many
essentials for point at which to locate
the State Capital. II this great and
wonderful stratum of coal, these re-
markable veins can be found there,
i am only sorry l had to SILVER those
long winter days and nights spent in
Buckhannou over miserable wood
fire. There was none of it there then,
Mr.. Chairman, or very little, and that
/ must say, was not of superior qualt-
ty. If there are no mountains there
over, around, or through which these
railroads will have to pass, must say
they are the thunderingest biggest hills
ever saw in my life. (Laughter.) II
"A railway should ever be completed
through this State, commencing as we
are told it will, at Grafton, and follow
ing up the river, / want to know by
what principle of engineering you
would cross over that everlasting and
never-ceasing range OF hills and noun
tains, known, when was in the army :,
as Burners range, in order to get over
TO Buckhannon? Why make that de-
tour instead of keeping on up the val
ley ard crossing over to the waters of
Greenbrier?
had hoped in this discussion not to
be Obliged to make any particu lar
alIusions-to speak definitely of any
different points, or to show that the citi-
Zens OF one point had been ill used und
abused by another, but the remarks OF
one OF the speakers this morning were
so personal and peculiarly directed,
and one of the papers printed in one OF
the counties referred to was so pecu-
liarIy cited that deem il due to N.Y.
Ezalf "A ff,t ha
represent, to offer, IL possible, refuta-
ton. You were told that at the last
session and during the last year and up
TO the present time. "a hired, mercenary
press, an INSCRIPTIONS partisan sheet
was scattered broadcast through the
State tor the purpose OF abusing the in
habitants of IA particular county. /
must say that so far AS my observation
has gone this capital question has been
conducted, both in private CONVERSE
ton and in editorial papers, through
out the Stnte with all due decorum and
propr!teY, except at one particular point.
One of the papers at that point has
not only abused its brothers OF the press
but the people OF an entire community,
- and the leading citizens of one OF the
largest inland towns OF this State have
been individually criticised, abused
and detained. only wish to say il
comes with very bad grace from the
representative Ofthe community where
IN Juht paper Is puDllSneu.
ClarksburR, Mr. Chairman, 1 main
tain is as near the exact centre of popu-
lHfiou as can be reached by any maths-
NAUTICAL calculation,it we remain within
the corporate limits of any particular
town. II Is most convenient to four
fifths of the people of the State. They
have coal, iron, salt, timber and the
finest building rock in the State; they
will need no thousands upon thousands
to be expended on the item of transpor.
tation. They will need no $4,000 OF
100000 TO be appropriated AS soon as
this bill - passed, to improve n particu-
lar turnpike so as to reach the capital,
nor will they need to Hgitate the sub.
ject whether or not this State will take
all or great majority OF the stock of q
railroad to reach that point, because il
will take great agitation to make the
important changes in the funda.
mental law that will have to be
Ina'.e, before that can be done.
We propose to avoid not only the item
of transportation for building material,
but to save within ten or fifteen years,
on the item OF executive transportation,
and other necessary expenses incident
to going to and from the seat OF gov.
ernment, more money than double the
amount any point has offered to donate
Taking all these considerations to-
gether, IL IL be the pleasure of this body
TO locate the capital ut Clarksburg,
can only say, the people of Harrison
county will be under obligations to
them for the favor. n You decide r.
locate it elsewhere, you will And there
are no people i'll the State who will
more cheerfuily acquiescs in your de-
ctsion- There are many members here
who know the surroundings aud situa-
ton of Clarksburg. would say ten
Hcres OF this land, which II is proposed
To donate, il the ten acres Immediately
across Pike street, short distance To
the right ofthe depoti IL level, beautiful
and at the same time, elevated SituH
tion. Another point is near the Court
House, accessible and within the main
thorouGhfares of the town. Another is
Immediately across ON the lands of the
Elk HUI Coal Company. / designate
these localities because there are many
Otthe gentlemen of this body ia miliar
with the town aud its corporate limits.
MIR. PISSELL'S REJoISDER.
Mr.. Pinnell said that he agreed with
the gentleman from Harrison as to the
figures presented by the census of 1860.
but differed with him, as the House
might have discovered, in the distribu-
tinu of the population in the different
sections of the State. My young friend
said he may possibly have got in a
error in suppOsing hhat the PIrkers-
burg railroad WINS the Baltimore rail
road entire. My remarks were directed
To the territory north and south OF the
points whore it is proposed to locate the
capital. The counties lying north OF
this stem OF the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad-nOt the Baltimore and Ohio
ROad-are Hancock, brooke, Marshall,
Marion, MonouGalia, Wetzel, Pleas
ants, Tyler, Wood, Ritchie DOddridSe
and 'rHylOr-twelve counties. Take the
population contained in these counties
and then add to them the tier of coun-