The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-18
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, WEST Va,
March llth, 1868.


Editor of the Register
Being subscriber to your paper and
seeing many letters in it. thought l
would try and write q short one. |
perceive that the Legislature has ad-
journed, aud the members, / presume,
have returned 10 their respective homes
To tell the people what wonders they
performed. | was close observer of
their proceedings, aud certainly think
they accomplished but little, aud that
little of minor Importance 10 any one.
The chief topic in our county was 10
ask the Legislature 10 grant us the
privilege to remove the county seat.
Our member, Mr.. Largent, must have
thought it a momentous work to get
the bill through. He wrote. TO Mr..
Hiett to come and assist him, and what
was the RESULT He got the bill through,
but poor, pitiful one it IL.
He could not effect it until he voted
for bill taking off Millcreek TO enlarge
Mineral; and when he. voted for that
bill he voted away the most fertile part
of Hampshire, making the division line
in sight of RonIney, the present county
seat. The reason say il is pitifnl bill
is this is To be ratified or rejected by
the Registered voters, aud many of. the
largest taxpayers will he deprived of
the privilege of voting for or against
the bill, aud with tue present registra
tion in our comfy the bill will be re-
jected: for those living in the upper end
of the county, in the neighborhood of
Romney, were more fortunate than
those in4 the lower end of the coun-
'ty. They happened to be more ''loyal,'
or their township registrars were not
SO "loyal7 as onrs in the lower end were
which caused many more To be- regis
tered in the upper end of the county
than in the lever end, and those in the
upper end Will al vote against the bill,
and they will be very able TO beat us
badly, and it. ought, with its present
features, to be rejected. II he could
have got the bill through for every tax
payer in the county to have q crack at
it, it would have all been proper and
right. IL is very plain that the West
Virginia Legislature is backed by the
registration law. Our member, Mr..
Largeut, is certainly indebted TO the
Conservative party for his sear in the
Legislature the past session. Bat see
q vote that he gave in that body that
conflicts with Conservativism. He
voted with the Radical members
against the bill or resolution to elect
our Township registers by the people,
which would have been quite modifi-
cation, If il could have been effected
and have learned that on the memsr-
able day that the Wheeling Legislature
rendered the West Va, militia TO Con-
gress, L, sustain them in impeaching
Andrew johnson, that 'Onr member was
in bed sick. He. ought TO have been
present IL he had erawled TO the capitol
and recorded his vote against the bill,
but probably he, wanted 10 dodge Lit
tie. II ought TO be recorded in the his
tory of West Va, and handed down to
posterity as one of its dark
spots. Our Jmember must have GER
tainly thought that legislating was
a difficult work or he would
never have written for assistance. If
thousht myself qualifedS for the posi-
tion, and the people elected me for that
purpose, and found the work too mo-
mentous or too large for my mind TO
comprehend, i would resign at once.
There has been Considerable lobbying
from this county for the last two ses-
sious, and would suggest, by the way,
to the next Legislature that they pass
an act entithng Hampshire TO four
members, two Radicals and two Con-
servatives, and then think we would
be properly represented, for il seems
that the legislation Of Hampshire is Of
such magnitude that no one man can
perform IL. so. B.