The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-30

not so fortunate. and in order to secure
this school the citizens were required
to furnish suitable building for the
purpose, without cost to the State.
Second District: the people OF Morgan.
town gave to the State property valued
at $5l 900, in order TO secure the Agri.
cultural College at that place.
The Normal School at Shepherdstown
was located Oh the condition that Shep-
hsrdstown College and the lot on which
it was situated should be conveyed 10
State in fee, or for term not less than
ten years, free of charge. The Normal
School at Fsirmont was located at
the expense of the State, and
the Asylum for the deaf, dumb
and blind was located at Romney, in
buildings furnished by the citizens OF
that place.
Third District: the State Normal
school was located at Marshall College
Cabell county, On the condition that $40,
600 should be paid toward its erection
by those locally interested.
The seat of government was located at
Charleston, in the County of Kanawha,
entirely at the expence OF the cltzenS
and friends OF Charleston, and the Nor
NAL School at Concord was located upon
the condition that the buildings then 20
recently erected tor q court house and
JAIL and the land on which the same was
situated, together with not less than five
acres adjacent thereto, should be Con-
veyed in fee TO the State, and that the
buildings should be furnished and fitted
up for the convenience of the school
without charge to the State.
These unjust determinations against
the Third District speak sor themselves,
and comment is unnecessary.
STATE APPROPRIATIONS.
Now let US look at the appropriations
made by the State of West Virginia, 10
these institution in the several districts:
FIRST DISTRICT.
Hospital for the Insane......~s l,015o1S IL
West Liberty Normal school. 2!,00o o.
Chenille Normal School ......... 95OJ 90
Total. ..........sl So, Os7 o6
SECOND DISTRICT.
West Virginia University....- 8 2l2,15O, As
Blind nd 10. u' '....'........ 2so,475 90
tairmont Normal School....... $500 90
Shepnerdstown Normal School $500 w
Total ............. ....... s526,7S 4S
THIRD DISTRICT.
State Normal School ............... S57,6lg,&
Concord Normal school... 8 500 90
Total ................. s6i,lls 81
,RECAPTTULATIoS.
First DistrIct ,SO5, C97 %
Second o1s,.So 70
Third Distrtct..-......----.. d. llS q
These figures, my friends, speak tor
themselves, and they tell q story OF wrong
to the third Congressional District so
plain al d pslpsble that nothing which l
could say would make it more so.
But we could have borne all this, even
without murmur, if the State had kept
her faith with US in regard to the seat OF
government But in sn evil hour tor US
and for the State, the Legislature re-
pesled the act establishing the seat OF
government permanently at Charleston,
and re-establisbed 1t temporarily at
Wheeling, so that the hew seat OF gov
emmett Is added to the other instltu.
lions of the first District, and the third
district is left with only her two Normal
Schools.
TIE WRONG DONE THE THIRD DisTIcr.
1t co, Id hardly have been expected that
the Third District would rest contsnted
under an outrage so glazing as this, and
il any one did, or does expect it, that ex-
pectstion was and is vain, and those who
indulge in it may one day wake to the
reality that they nsve made . terrible,
and it may be fatal mistake.
The people of the Third District be-
lieved and still believe that The people
of the First and Second Districts were
not consulted IN the removal OF the scat
of government from Chsrleston, and that
if they had been consulted the removal
would not have been made; and hence
they deter mined to make their appeal to
the people to restore it to Charleston.
And In accordance with this determip-
alton they prepared and secured the
passage OF the law submitting the ques-
ton TO the people for their determination
on the hrst Tuesday in August next.
They determined upon this course for
two reasons:
|. They know the bad effect OF this
Capital agitation upon the material in-
terest of the State in the past, and what
il would necessarily be in the future IT
not speedily settled. They remembered
the time OF the Legislature wasted, and
the vast sums of the peoples money ex-
pended in the long and persistent efforts
trst, TO settle it, and then to unsettie IT,
They remembered how this question
had entered into the consideration OF al
most every bill before the Legislature,
and the election Of every United States
Senator since 1866, and they determined,
IL possible, 70 prevent this state OF things
In the future.
2. They hadcopfdence IN the lnteiii-
yence. integrity and fairness Oft the people
IF the First and Second Congressional
D,stricts, and they determined to make
their appeal to them to right ing great
wrong which had been inflicted suPan
the Third District by the poli,icssns, an 8
thew have an abiding con fdence that this
appeal will not be made IN vain. 80, .
4 few words now in regard 20 the
bin submitting this question TO the Pee.
pie.
=" - - THE CAPITAL BILL.
This bill when introduced ;proyided
for tina lrst election to be held on
The third tuesday IN August 1877.
ana the places TO be, yoted for were
Ch.r,estoa, o.. Weston. Psrkerburg.
CIsrsvbure, Wheeling Grafton and
,AaTtinsburg. -. 80,
When the bill came up on its second
reading. Buckhanaon We sdded on the
motioa of Mr.. Fsrnsworth, the Delegsts
ffom Upshur county. sndall the Dele
este from the Third District voted for the
nstisa. In fact Ne voted for The inse,-
.sioa 10 TIA hiusf every place vaich the
Delegate from the county desired 70 have
inssrsad Bot tha enemies Of the bill had
,sevsral places .,nassted in it vithoutoop-
sultine tss DslsgAss innsdiasSfy inter-