The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-23
TIE Grafton Sentinal of recent

The Grafton Seminal of a recent
date, remarks:
Much of the Monong ALA county
support of Charleston for the capital
arises from the fact that the Third
District Delegates to the Legislature
banded the university about last
winter offering it to any influential
county in the first or second districts
WHO would support Charleston for
the capital. 1t is said on the most
reliable authority that the State Uni
versity was offered to Clarksburg.
Morgantown keeps the University and
supports Charleston for the Capital.
Perfectly natural"
The Kingwood Journal, which is
the essence of Preston county Radio
alism, in commenting on the above
extract pitches into our truthful neigh
Dor, the Post and knocks little of the
fur off our "truly loil" representatives
in the Legislature and then goes for
the good people Of Monongalia Coun-
ty thusly:
Let the First and Second District
give Monongalia county to under
stand that sclf-protcction demands
retaliation. If, because the Unversi-
ty il located in Morgantown, that
county is to forever be against us and
forever work to our injury, let the
University go to the Third District
the sooner the better, 1t is not worth
much any how, and we can spare it
very well. If, through Monongalia
countys treason, the Capital should
be relocated at Charleston, send the
University down there too.
The Editor of the Journal seems
to take it for granted that all the peo-
pie of Morgantown and Monongalia
County favor the location of the Caps
tai ut Charleston, as is evidenced by
The allowed extract, hence he gots for
orr people and the Post in promis-
cuos manner. This can truly be ac-
counted for, on the supposition, that
the author Of the above has weak
ness for reading and believing every
thing chat appears in the Post. which
perse ms who are purblined and near
sighted would think for moment OF
doing. He accuses the Post and Nor
gantown of playing fast and Loose
with the subject Of removing the Cap
ital and legislating in favor of the
Third District. Now the truth is
that Monongalia is in favor of locat-
ing the Capital at Clarksburg and not
at Charleston and all the scare of the
Journal man was created by his taxi
ing too big dose of the Post unadul,
terated editorials. The people Of Mon.
ongalia have not endorsed the conduct
Of her representatives in the legislature
or failed to condemn them
through fear of injuring the Univers>
ity, but has openly spoken their minds
on the subject, but these representa>
tives having been sent to the legislas
ture by q Radical majority was of
course not called to account by the
Post, to which the Journal man read
ing seems to have been limited. If
the Journal man had read more in
the New DOMINION and believed less
of what he read in the Post he would
have known better how the people Of
Monongalia County stand on this
question. The blow of the Journal
about removing the University in case
the Capital is located at Charleston is
just about as nonsensical as that of the
Charleston advocates in reference to re.
moving it, if the Capital should be
located at Clarksburg. If both par
ties are determined to make our peo'
1 pie responsible for the location OF the
Capital no difference where it is locat'
ed and in any event we are to be chas
tised by the loss of the University W.
are in very pitiable condition indeed
Our people are proud of having thu
University at Morgantown and desire
to retain it and expect to keep it, bu
they do not propose to surrender theil
independence and manhood for any
consideration whatever.