Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-07-03
THE CAPITAL QUESTION.

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The contest on the question Of Capital To-
cation is warming up, especially on the part
-'of the psrtisans of Charleston and Clarksburg.
IA correspondent of the Charleston Courier
reports recen, meeting at Ravenswood, jack
son county, which was addressed by our
former countyman E. Willis Wilson, Esq.
now of Charleston, aud Mr.. r. 8. Brown
This correspondent says:
a. After the speeches of Messrs. Wilson and
Brown. several calls were made for Dilworth.
who had arrived in town during the day, from
? the. peighborhood of Clarksburg. Alter
making excuses for his inability to discuss
1.-The merits Of the question, he INDUCED in
some very vulgar anecdotes. At the couclu
sion. of his speech-if such it may be called
MR. Wilson was seain called Tor BY she
' audience He appeared aud said:
See Feilo,e.cifizens Had Clsrksburg sent
gentleman here-and she has many with
whom am personally acquainted. and for
whom have great respect-I should have
been glad to enter upon joint discussion OF
the. important questions involved in this con-
test. But from nauseous stomach she seems
to have vomited up this disgusting specimen
Of vulgarity. who, with total disregard for
every sentiment, of decency, has insulted your
wives. your sisters and your daughters, who
have honnred us with their presence. by his
Aobscene, filthy. foul mouthed and revolving
stories In one of Gra.tin's Reports there is
u case of the Commonwealth of Virginia
against John Dilworth for . felony committed
= in the county of Harrison. 1t shows . YER
dict of guilty by jury. and judgment by
the Circuit Court for taking the life OF n
human being. Gentlemen, you would not
have me- and selfrespect will not permit me,
to descend to discussion of this or any other
subject with blackguard. and penitentiary
convict. bid you all good night.
Dilworth was effectuslly sawed of, and his
friends hung their heads in shame.
Martinsburg has not fully entered the field
yet on the Capital question, but is preparing
to do so, and proposes to make herself felt in
the fight.
In this connection We would sugee>t
TO our neighbors that it is not just the
thing calculated to enlist the sympashies OF
Jefferson county in a contest of this char
acter, for paper assuming to be the mouth
piece of Berkeley county to be engaged in
defamine the character of persons who have
borne the highest esteem of their fellow-cit-
liens of this county. Apublic newspaper, to
say the least, should never be made the mere
vehicle of. personal spleen, and when it de-
sends to enter the sacred precints of the
grave. and rake up the ashes of the dead, it
cannot fail (as an article in the Martinsburg
Statesman of last week, to which We would
more explicitly refer but for reasons which
are patent to all who have read it, tends to
effecD to rouse the true eympathies of an
enlightened community for already bereaved
families, and recoil upon its author and his
supporters with more than its original force.
Since putting the above in type, we find in
the Martnsburg Independent an address &c
the people of West Virginia setting forth the
claims Of Martinsburg to their support in To-
eating the Capital at tina, point. That paper
pronounces it plain uuvarnished statement
of facts. which cannot be refu:ed. and says
"On this statement Martinsburg rests, and
goes to the jury of the people with the utmost
confidence in the justice of her claims"