The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-13

Roberts, Station, Strickler. Stump,
Thornburg, Thompson, Travers, Wag-
gener, Ward, Wsrth, Wilson, Woods
and Mr.. Presiden-50.
The noes were: Messrs. Atkinson,
Campbell, Davenport, Farnsworth
Faulkner, Ferguson, Gallaher, HaganH,
Raymond, Haynes, Hoge, Knight,
Miller, Pendleton and Wheat-l5.
The section finally adopted and upon
which the above vote was taken was q
substitute offered by Col. Roberts, Of
Writ, for the original proposition made
by Doctor Thompson and appears in
full in the twenty-third section OF the
Schedule
THE ADJOURNMENT.
The Clerks and the Committee on
Enrolment worked nearly all of Mon.
day night and about three hours work
vet remained to be done when the Con-
vention assembled on Tuesday morning.
After the offering and adoption OF reso-
lutions of thanks to the President, to
the clergymen Of Charleston, to the
clerks and other officers of the Conven-
ton, to the citizens of Charleston. and
the transaction Of several unimportant
items OF business a recess was taken
until III o'clock to allow careful ex-
animation of the enrolled copy Of the
Constitution to be made by the commit
tee appointed for that purpose. Upon
reassembling, the following farewell
address was delivered by Governor
Price:
GOVERNOR PRICES ADDRESS.
GENTLEMEN: We met here on the
10th day OF January last, and have
been in constant session two months
and twenty-three days. This was
longer period than some Of us antcipa-
ted. But when we come to look at the
magnitude and character of the work
we had to perform, we need not be
surprised.
The Convention of Virginia Of 1920,
composed Of the notables of that day,
met on the 5th day Of October and
remained in session until the 18th day
of January, making a period Of three
months and ten days. The Convention
of 1850 met on the 18th day OF October
and eat until the 4th of November, and
adjourned to the 9th Of January and
then continued in session until the lst
day of August.
In addition to the magnitude of the
work which he had to perform, we had
peculiar difficulties to encounter at the
very threshold of our labors. We met
as strangers. Each one brought with
him the peculiar views Of his locality.
The people Of our State differ from
the people OF all the other States OF the
Union. They are separated from each
other by towering mountains and
rugged streams. On either side of these
mountains and rivers are found detached
communities, isolated in some degree in
both social and commercial intercourse
and having in the aggregate no positive
identity Of character.
The people of the counties on the
banks of the Ohio have q social and
commercial identity, and 80 with the
people living along and within the in.
fluence OF the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. But, running
through and across the State,
they have but little intercourse and are
strangers to each other. A Brooke or
Ohio county man rarely or never sees
any one from Mercer, Raleigh, or any
OF those Southern counties. Coming
thus together with the somewhat dis
cordant views which local influences
always in some degree produce, we
had to become acquainted with each
other and to harmonic our discordant
views by social intercourse and discus.
sion. To obtain unity Of action, some
time had necessarily to be consumed.
But we did not consume it unneces-
sarily. We have not consumed as much
time as is ordinarily consumed by such
bodies. | have been in several Conven-
tions and legislative assemblies, and !
never before saw one 80 laborious and
orderly. During the whole session, the
united object of all the members was to
accomplish the purposes for which they
were delegated, in as short a time as
practicable, and not to consume time
for delay or without purpose. / may
say, in all truth that it has been body
of order and labor.
Our work will now 60 before the pub
lie for criticism, approval, or rejection
They will, no doubt, do itjustice.
None of us, apprehend, have gotten
all we wanted. Such a hope would
have been vain such thing rarely OF
never occurs. But the comparison ha:
to be made, not between the new Con-
stitution and such an one as might have
been, but between this and the old one
Is not the new one better than the old
| think it is, decidedly.
shall not attempt to recount the
improvements made; they are numer'
GUS and patent. The public eye will
not be slow to detect these improve
| ments-and it would be out of place
for me here 70 attempt to enumerate
them.
We are now about to separate
many Of us, perhaps, forever. l feel
most sensibly the unpleasantness OF
separation. But whilst we may be sep.
arated socially, we will be moved by
one common bond Of patriotism. We
will be united by the memories Of the
past and the hopes OF the future.
shall look back upon the history OF this
Convention as one Of the proudest
epochs Of my life.
You called me to preside over your
deliberations as your President. You
conferred upon me an honor which any
man may have been proud Of
Indeed to have been selected as men,
Der OF this body was an honor which