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

: Our lands will, with the return of good
times, be bought, settled and brought
into cultivation; ou- mineral resources
will be fully developed; irsn furnaces
will be built, and salt furnaces rebuilt
and the smoke from thousand stacks
will ascend heavenwsrd, where now
the hum Of industry is never heard.
Thousands Of lsborers will find remu-
nerative employment where now there
are comparatively few, and business Of all
kinds will prosper; and it will not be
very many years until We will be the
rich, prosperous and heavy tai. paying
portion of the State, and until we will
have q majority OF the population of the
State. We now have largely more than
ons-third OF the population Of the State,
and we are, even now, increasing more
rapidly than either the First or Second
districts, and with the impetus snd ad
vantage which the location of the Capt.
tai will give us, it requires no prophetic
vision to tell that We must in the nature
ofthlngs, before great while have
majority of the population.
And then these are hard times and the
burdens of taxation are heavy, and it is
the interest of the people TO place the
seat of government where
1T WILL COST THEM THE LEAST MONEY
Clarksburg promises to give lot upon
which to build the Capitol buildings, and
this is all she does promise. Charleston
has large lot of ground and building
already erected, which, with the expendi-
ture of less than the sum appropriated
by the act under which the vote is to be
taken, will be amply sufficient for the
State tor fifty years to Gomez and this she
proposes to convey to the State tree of
charge, and clear Of all incumbersnces,
il the seat OF government is located there.
And now, my friends, let me ask you
in conclusion to
PUT YOURSELVES IN OUR PLACE,
and then answer me how you would like
to be treated rs we have been2 How
would you like to have sill the taxes you
pay for state purposes, after deducting
your just proportion of the ordinary ex-
penses of the State, except the pitiful
sum of 81, 900 year for the support Of
two schools, appropriated year after
year to building up and supporting pub
lie institutions in ether districts2 How
would you like to see your beautiful
Asylum torn away from you and To-
Gated in another district How, think
you, would the people of Moundsville, of
Morgantown, or of Rowney feel if the
institutions located in their midst were
now taken away from them and trans
ferred to the Third district To ask
these questions is TO answer them. You
know we'll what the feeling would be,
and all this and more Is felt by the peo
pie of the Third district, tor all these in
situations have. with the exceptions al
ready named, been built up by she State,
while the Capitol grounds and the Capt.
tol building at Charleston were slI paid
tor by the people of that county, and not
by the State.
We feel in the Third district that We
have been cheated, deceived, wronged
and insulted. We feel that by the legis-
lstion OF the State we have been made
the
IRELAND OF WEST VIRGINIA,
and all that we have TO remind us that
we are part Of the State is the annual
visit of the SCISSOR TO assess US, and the
like visit of the sheriff to collect our taxes
And now if you resist this, our last
appeal for justice, and perpetuste
these foal wrongs upon US, we
will feel toward you and those
who acted with you, as the people of
poor, down.trodden, oppressed Ireland
feel toward those by whom she has been
so long and 80 cruelty wronged, and we
would be more than human il we did
not, In some way or other, seek to be
avenged.
"For time at last sets all things even,
And II we do but watch the hour,
There never yet was human power,
Which could evade, II untorgiven,
The patient search and vigil long,
OF him who treasures up wrong