The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-27


ought 10 know that fact better than
Hon. C. ID. HUBBARD. He knows that
VAN TRUMP's ridiculous fustian is no
more fair index of Democratic senti-
ment, than is HUNNIcUTT or BROWN
LOW fair representative of the honesty
and decency of the Republican party.
Let him apply the same rule to his own
organization and hold it responsible for
all the utterances of its irrepressible
fools and violent extremists, and Radi-
calism will go ont of power in avery
few months, and the member from West
Virginia will 60 with it. I'D.
In spite of his rather silly conduct in
the matter of his increased pay, we were
willing to admit Mr.. HUBBARD's claim
to fair share of common sense. We
find it difficult to reconcile some por-
tiCns of his speech with any snch ad
mission. He says that West Virginia " is
not State by the consent of rebels and
rebel sympathizeIs," and yet he must
have been informed, if he is not per-
sohally cognizant of the fact, that the
worst of original "rebels and rebel
sympathizers" are now holding here
high official positions, and influencing,
to greater or less extent, the manage
ment of the State Government. Ex-
rebel bush whackers have held seats in
the State Legislature; at least three
men who voted with the rebellion in
'6l, are now on the judicial bench, and
our popinjay Governors former willing
ness to "go as Virginia went" is too
well understood to admit of any doubt.
In April, 1865, had vote been taken
among West Virginia "rebels and rebel
sympathizers," not one in twenty would
have voted to return to Virginia, and if
Mr.. HUBBARD is not aware of this fact,
he had better become acquainted with
his constituents before he misrepresents
them in another speech like that of the
10Th inst. ........r-
The statement that West Virginia is
ignored in Democratic Conventions and
platforms is too reckless and incorrect
to come from the representative of
respectable constituency. Mr.. HUBBARD
is badly behind the age if he does not
know that the Democrats of the Phila-
delphia Convention, last August, accord
ed to West Virginia the warmest recog-
milton. Mr.. HUBBARD cannot have for
gotten that, at our. two State Conven-
tions in 1866, the legal existence of
West Virginia was declared to be q fact
that admitted of no question. Mr..
HUBBARD knows as little of Radical
history as ofDemocratic affairs, if he has
never learned that the only State Con-
ventiOn which, in platform and banner
ignored the new State entirely, was the
Radical body which convened in Park
ersburg last August, and portion of
which nominated his honorable self for
seat in Congress.
There are many persons who will
question Mr.. HUBBARD's right to
espouse the cause of this State. He
and his party have dealt her the most
dangerous blow she could possibly re-
ceive. They have said of Virginia, her
3.
mother, "she has no rightful legal
abiding place in the great family of
States" They have declared the gov
ernmeut of Virginia Illegal and void.
They have overthrown the authority
that created West Virginia; they have
denied its legitimacy; they have wiped
it out of existence. Could West lVir-
giaia have been. born in '63 if Virginia
died in '61i The same measure that de-
MED the legal existence of the Virginia
State Government, denied also the
legality of that Governments action
in erecting this new 'State. The exist
ence of the two is identical. Strike
down Virginia, and West virginia must
fall.
Mr.. HUBBARD has by his vote declared
Virginia territory. The same vote
declared West Virginia a part of that
territory. By what right does he vim
dicate the claims of West Virginia to a
place within the Union' We condemn
as heartily as can any West Virginian,
the absurd and arrogant utterances of
Mr.. VAN TRUMP. We condemn them, as
we'll because they are opposed to Demo
cratic opinion, as because they are
inimical to West Virginia. We regret
that they were not answered without
sacrifice of dignity, consistency and
truth.