The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-26

rowed some distance in the river when
tho pursurers followed, knocked him on
the head, dragged him into their boat and
took him bnck to Jail, whore he remained
until discharged by due course Of law,
World OF the outrage upon humanity, but
on the rights OF Virginia; was
brought at once, and flew iast over tho
city, aud ii was but few minutes before
two skiir loads Of US were OH our way to
avenge the Outrage on Nirgtnia's rights,
and release our fellow citizen from the
enemies Of our State and people. There
were such fire arms among us as could be
quickest clutched; but what we lacked in
arms we made up'in vowing blood and
thunder, especially thunder. There was
fast rowing, fast talking, and fast running
hither and thither, when We reached tho
land; but the birds had flown, and our
opportunities for revenge and release with
them. Wedid not consider that although
they had violated the rights OF Virginia,
We had no right to trespass upon Ohio
with our violence. The affair passed of
without getting intothe courts; but sew.
eralcases Of a similar character did not.
Some will rememberthe Belprc case, where
three citizens OF Ohio were arrested and
tried in the Virginia courts for stopping
into tho river TO help runaway slaves. II
Virginia, and West Virginia under her,
owns to high water mark on tho Ohio
side, the wharves Of GRllipolis, Marietta,
Bellaire and Steubenville belong TO West
Virginia, and Ohio has no right to punish
any crime committed on them. The truth
Is the jurisdiction OF the States extends to
the channel OF the river, and the State OF
Virginia gave 10 the nation all northwes. OF
the Ohio, Just as much as could give you
the Mcclure House or anything else | did
not own. Let us examine few pages Of
history.
King James /. OF England, the most not
ed ignoramus OF all her kings upon all
subjects Of practical character, in 1900
granted charter to London corpora
ton Of the lands lying on tho Atlantic
coast within two hundred miles north and
south Of Point Comfort, and west and
northwest from those lines 10 the Pacific
coast, with all islands within one hundred
miles Of either coast. This included up to
part Of New jersey, and running north
west would reach north Of Behring's strait
and south would include part OF North
Carolina and the west line strike in south
OF California pretty large farmland il
the descendants OF the corporators would
establish q claim to It, as Virginia has
claimed, would be a bonanza. He had
the right, under the law Of nations, to
grant TO the colony, so much as they had
settled and TO the head waters OF the
streams running through their settlement,
viz: to the summit Of the Alleghanies.
Therefore, even under this grant Virginia
had no claim. lfthat claim was allowed
Spain owned the whole Of North and South
America. But this grant, silly as it was,
did not last. In 1921, this patent was dis.
solved by the Court Of Kings Bench; and
the government OF the colony reverted to
the crown and 80 continued until
the Revolution. The crown, then could
regulate the affairs OF the COLONY, and
no one else. In 1859 Charles |. granted
Maryland TO Lord Baltimore, and In 1862
Charles II. granted Carolina to Lord CIar.
endon and others, and in 1850 Pcnnsylva.
mia TO Vim. Penn. In 1870 the Lord Com.
missioners sent inquiries to Gov. Berkeley,
who had been for thirty years the repre-.
sentative Of the crown In Virginia, asking
him the extent OF his territory, aud his re.
ply was, at had been confined to half a
degree on the Atlantic, and that the only
rivers therein were the Potomac, James,
York, and Rappalnnnock," which would
extend its territory to tho summit OF tho
Alleghanies and no farther, and no change
was made in this claim until the com.
mencement Of the Revolutionary war.
During the period IRON 1870 to 1868 the
French claimed, and, under the law Of
nations, owned the whole Ohio Valley,
with what was afterwards tho Northwest.
crn territory, and England acquired her
tirSt title to it by the treaty Of l7GS. On
the 10th OF October Of that year the King
Of England issued proclamation in which
he expressed the purpose to reserve tho
whole OF this territoryto the uso of the
Indians who aro under his protection, and
forbids all Governors Of his colonies from
glanting any lands beyond the sources 81
tho streams that run into tho Atlantic
from the West and Northwest" lie goes
on to strengthen this BY iorbidding ali his
subjects purchasing land within that ter.
ritoIry, aud commanding those who had
settled there 10 remove. II is therefore
manifest that in 1924 tho colony OF vir.
gtnia was expressly matlc tho subject or
appendagc OF the Crown at the especial 70.
quest OF the oolonists themselves, that Ia
territory was always regarded by the crow \
and its agents as extending only to thS
Alleghenies, and this fact i rnIIy
sustained BY this proclamation n iTlsi
one hundred and tllirty.mine wears la.SS
and but thirteen wears before tbc col ,T
all declared NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mi "mSa
thing transnire to change tSis condi,ion z
tho interim? So far from Il Thomas Wa n
polo. with English md American Sss " ~,
atcS, had received a grant FINN the crn,S,
and council ior a Nav, ro,onv s SM =
from the AIleghanies to liz ScIotoS rivcr'