The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-07-25

be induced to listen to them. II, howev.
er, the Democratic and Conservaivepar'y,
after its pas, experience under Republican
rule in this State, can permi; itself to be
thus misled, i, deserves to be defeated
If men, pretending aud claiming to be
Democratic leaders, oppose the ratification
Of the new Constitution. they deserve to be
execra,edand be driven into the Republican
ranks, for whose success they are laboring
Take no apology from such men! They
"cannot serve two masters" They can
not be friends of the Democratic party in
this State aud at the same time oppose the
adoption Of Constitution which will Sc.
cure to all men in the future those rights
of which they have been so shamefully
robbed in the past This is plain talk,
but it is as true as it is pain,
1t is admitted by all that the late Con-
stitutioual Convention was the ablest body
of men that ever assembled in this State;
that they were freely chosen by all the
people in the State, at the only full aud
free election that was ever held in it; and
they we're earuast, honest and capable
men, determined, il possible, 10 do gooa
work. This convention, thus composed
Of the representative men Of both parties,
formed this new Constitution, and sent i,
out to the people for their ratification ap-
proved and indorscd by the unanimous ro'c
of epery Democratic and Conservative
Delegate. 1t may therefore, safely aud
justly be taken and accepted by every
Democratic and Conservative voter, MS an
instrument equal AID just in all its provls.
ions and acceptable to large majority of
all the people of the State,
By q careful examination Of the pro-
visions Of the new Constitution it will be
perceived that every evil prophecy made
By the Republican party as to the course
the Convention would persuc has utterly
failed. No man will be restrained or do
privcd ofany of the rights or privileges
now enjoyed by him; no man can be trans
portcd out of or forced to leave the State
as q punishment for any alleged crime
committed in it; no man can now be prose-
cuted or tried for any cfIense in any other
county than that wherein it was commit
ted, without his consent; the Legislature
can no longer suspend the great writ Of
hnbeos corpus; neither can it any more re.
lease deiaulting SherITs and other collect-
ing officers from liability for public mon.
eys received by them; it has not re'alalcd
upon political opponents for any of the Of.
fcnses committed by them; it has prohibit.
ed for tho future all religious or;.poliilc.al
test oafhs as qualification 10 vote or hold
office, serve as juror, sue, plead or ap.
peal in the courts, or pursue any profeN
sion or employment; it has prohibited the
egislature from ever establishing any
Court or Board of Registration.
The new Constitution secures in all ac-
,ions at common law, where the subject
in controversy, exclusive of interest and
costs, exceeds SEQ, a trial by jury Of
tpelue men; it secures to every man a trial
by a jury g'trelpe freeholius, to ascer-
tain the value of bis property, when taken
or damaged forpuJlic use; it secures to
every man, in time ofwar as well aspeace,
his life, liberty and property, so thatneith,
or of them can be taken without due pro-
cess Of law; secures to every man charged
with crime reasonable time to prepare for
bis defepsc; it secures to married women
their separate property against The debts,
liability aud control Of reckless and i'm
provident husbands; it secures to every
husband Or parent residing in this State,
and to the infaut children Of deceased par
euls homestead Of the value Of one thous.
and dollars exempt from all debts except
such as exist on the 22d day Of August
next and except taxes assessed and pur-
chase money due upon it, and except, also,
debts contracted for the erection Of i'm.
thereon; and it also secures to
the same class persons, for all time to
come, the right to hold personal property
of the value Of $500 (the same amour.
now allowed by law), exempt from the
payment Of all debts, past, present or fu-
ture excepting only the taxes assessed up
on it, and the purchase money agreed to
be paid for it.
BY section 8, Of article II, Of the new
Constitution, the people Of this State will
be protectedfrom all unjust determinations
against them between through and way
freight and passenger tariffs by all railroads
in the State. The system Of free schools
has been preserved and its usefulness aud
efficiency increased by adding to the ir-
reducible school fund the proceeds Of Of all
taxes that may be levied on the reyeDuesof
any corporation now existing or hereafter
created, by devolng the proceeds Of the
capitation tax Of one dollar on each male
inhabilant over the age Of twenty-one
years, exclusively to the annual support
Of free schools, by requiring all school
leyes to be reported to, settled aud record
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