The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-07
Letter From Parkersburg.
PARKERsBURe, Jan. 3, 1867.

NAtSO'e LSeSCtNtSCASSCA-
1 have seen some extracts from the
Richmond papers, the Baltimore Sun,
and Auditor Taylor's report, in regard
to the State debt of Virginia. If inso-
lence and duplicity constitute gentle
men, then Old Virginia is highly ia
vored. 1 take upon myself to say that
West Virginia will pay her last cent of
that debt, demanded by justice and
equity. But further say she Will not
pay one cent more. Hoy has this debt
been created?
For railrrad stocks, bonds and in
tereSt on the ,OOO
For Virginia Military Institute and
University of Virginia, In which
treason was taught..........--..---------- 10000
For stocks IN the Banks and interest
1i9eraFs Rs sfs t955SSS
For arms and Arsenais used to OPP
press and impoverish West Nir-
ginia. including the hanging OF
The balance in James River Canal,
making up, in all, full.-----.-..--.-- 5000 600
OF this forty three millions, about thir-
teen hundred thousand dollars have
been expended in the territory of West
Virgiuia; on the Covington road. West
Virginia has paid into the treasury an
nually moro than was expended in her
territory in all time, and during the
whole of the time she was denied equal
representation in the general assembly.
IldSLtEu y AIHAuld tue W G5I
equal representation according to pop
ulation; made these extravagant ap-
prOpriations for internal Improve
mentB in her own section-our hands
being tied by her injustice. Her gov
ernment, during the late war, eulo-
gised the wisdom of the State in so lay
ing their railroads to serve the purposes
of the war. Her mad politicians
plunged the State into cruel and un-
necessary rebellion, in the ranks OF
which her rich men kept out, and
crowded in her poor laboring class,
where the most of them perished. Their
negroes are free, and they have nobody
10 work. Those who brought on the
war are too proud to work, and now
that the creditor is pressing on Vir-
ginia honor TO pay up interest, they eX-
cuse themselves on the ground that
West Virginia I0On't tOOTk any more for
them aud they cGH'tpGy.
But how are the roads worked? They
are used exclusively to support the old
The James River Cana! has +. F. VS.
quartered upon its earnings to the
amount OF ST5, ,0O0-twice as much as
the current salaries OF all the State Off
GERS of West Virginia. The eight OF
ten railroads in the State pay salaries
to the amount OF one hundred to one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
more to broken down politicians indi-
gent confederate officers and briefless
| lawyers of the first families. What
! benefit is it TO West Virginia to con
tribute to the support of this broker
down aristocracy at the rate of two
hundred thousand dollars in salaries
In the estimate of the outlay in the
! improvements, and items, now in the
| State of Virginia, for which the present
debt was made, 1 include interest OF
the stock from the time of subscrip
tion and appropriation. will venture
| that on Investigation 1 am undel
rather than over the mark.
| desire to ask my rich copperheaC
brethren about town if they do no
| desire to get back to "Old Virgiuny.'
l ask all my rebel sympathizing friends
throughout the State, especially il
/ Wheeling, if they don't want to holC
another convention to advise thei
1 friends to defeat the new State. I de
sire TO call the attention of the Rich
mond press to this letter, and ask then
to publish it for the information of thei
| general assembly. WOOD.