The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-08

Remarks OF Mr.. Parker, OF Ohio
County, In the House OF Delegates,
Yesterday, I'm Support of the Me-
mortal Presented by CltIzenS of
wheeling.
The views of the citizens of Wheel
ing are SO clearly and forcibly express
ed in the memorial that has been SUBJ
mitted to the consideration of the
House, that the remarks in which I
may be permitted to indulge will
necessarily be brief. The honorable
peal on behalf of Buckhannon, was
pleased to inform us that there should
be no pOstponement of this bill, and
that he would fight it out on the Cen
tral line. We have all admired that
expression of heroic determination bv
the distinguished commander of the
great Army of the Republic. But I
fail to appreciate it's pertinency to our
action. Gen. Grant was under the i'm
Perative necessity to fight it out on that
line, but neither my own observations
nor any arguments adduced by the
honorable gentlemen who have partici-
pated in this discussion haYe convinced
me OF the imperative necessity of per-
manently locating the Capital at this
session.
That the Capital must sooner or later
be permanently located is beyond per-
adventure; but whether it should be
thus located 7101O is a question that de-
pends upon considerations which come
home to nearly every delegate, and
every constituent whom il is his honor
to represent,
Hasten slowly Is a maxim which, in
certain eXigencies, is applicable to
States as to individuals. If any man,
oppressed with Indebtedness, rushes
into the assumption of additional obli-
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legislators who increase the burdens of
taxation under which the people are
already .groaning, act neither wisely
nor we'll.
The, State during past years has es-
tabllShed many commendable and
necessary institutions. These are in
our hall, either by their reports or com.
mlttees, importuning us for liberal ap-
preparations.
They have right to make these de-
mands; they are the creatures OF the
State, and must be sustained and COM
completed by the State. Your Peniten-
tiary, Insane Asylum, Normal Schools,
Agricultural College, are essential to
tie security, the comfort, the moral and
intellectual cultivation of the people Of
the State. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars must be expended to provide
for present necessities of these institu-
ions. The State dare not now turn her
back upon them. The money must
come out of the Treasury and the
treasury be replentshed from the pock-
cts of the people. In addition to all
this, the debt due on account of the
old State must be provided for, and
school, county and township taxes
must be met.
Now, sir, the city of Wheeling comes
to the relief of the people and proposes
to furnish you with suitable buildings
n "a aT n11
commodation of the State departments
for the period of ten years without
money and without price. There
are two reasons why this prop
position should be accepted by
the Legislature. 1t will enable
the State. with greater facility to per.
feet the institutions now on her hands,
passed away, the population of the
state will have greatly multi
piled: The lines of trade and
travel will have been defined and es-
tRblished-the claims of different SEQ.
tions, now engaged in generous and
honorable rivalry for the possession of
this object will be thoroughly appre-
ciated-and then it can be satisfactorily
decided whether the honor shall be
conferred upon Grafton for its ac-
cSss1bility-or Buckhannon for its GEN.
ire of broad acres-or Clarksbure from
Its generous offers, its hospitality and
refinement-or Parkersburg, where the
member from Wood informs us the
schools are excellent, the rivers beau
tiful, the ladies bewitchingly lovely,
and donations are munificfent, or
in the Valley of the Kanawha,
whose enormous wealth in minerals
will soon render it far more attractive
to wealth and enterprise then the broad
praires of the West or the rich savan-
nahs of the South. I hope, therefore,
Mr.. Chairman, that it will be the pleas.
ure of the House to accept the substi-
tute for the bill. We offer you no mea-
gre accommodations, but a building
containing halls suitable for the Sena.
tors and Delegates, with apartments
for the Governor, Treasurer, Audi
tor, Supreme Court of Appeals, the
State Library, the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals-and so to complete
it as to suit the taste ofthe most fastid-
ious in this or any other State-and all
this, too, without exactlng penny of
tribute from the Treasury of the State.