Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-13
TWENTY YEARS.


West Virginia has entered on the
twentieth year Of her existence as q
State and The WHEELING REGISTER
has entered on the twentieth year Of its
existence. The history Of the latter is
the history of the former. Such has
been the progress of events in the cOun-
try a. large since 1868, that The REG
IsTER's years form an historic era.
The grandest armies of modern times,
disappearing from the hostile fields
where they confronted each other, have
clasped fraternal hands, and to-day are
prosecuting the kindly pursuits of peace,
beneath the protection of common
flag. The warning sections of the Union
have been reunited, the problem Of re-
construction has been worked out and
questions that divided the country at
the close Of the war have been so thor
Oughly disposed of that they are refer
red to now as matters Of curious specu-
lation rather than of practical
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of two Presidents the strength
of our institutions has been
severely tested. The world has wit
messed with surprise the transfer of
Presidential authority, under eireum-
stances amounting to revolution, with
out jar to the machinery ofgovernment
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the country. In the late common be-
reavement and grief of the people his
tory will recognize the proof ola national
unity and affection which, rising supe-
rior to section and to party, gives rare
assurance of the strength and perma-
nence of the Union.
The material progress of the country
in the period at which we glance, is
is phenomenal in the history of
national growth and development.
The linking of section to section
by commercial bonds, the peOpling and
development of new areas of country,
the advance in art, science and letters;
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pied progress by those missionaries of
civilization, the railroad, the telegraph,
and the newspaper; the aggregation Of
the products of field, and forest, and
workshop, mill and mine into sum
total of prosperity which has made the
world our market; the achievements Of
genius and enterprise in every cOneeiv-
able direction, all combine to mark the
past twenty years as the richest period
in material results of which we have
any knowledge.
In the wonderful thrift and energy of
the community in which it is located,
the REGISTER takes pardOnable pride,
keeping pace with the most promising
of similar cities, passing many in the
march, the city of Wheeling is properly
regarded as one of the most enterpriSing,
substantial and prosperous in the cOun-
try. Liberal, without being reckless;
progressive, without running mad pub
lic-spirited, without the folly of extrav-
agance, and conservative, without a
shadow of meanness or seliiShnesS or
Old-fogyism, our city can justly point to
her growth in business, her aeeumula-
ton of resources, her influence in COM
mercial relations and the substantial
tokens of her industrial success which
abound on every hand, as the evidence
of wisdom in her policies and business
judgment, skill and care among her peo-
pie. AS part and parcel of the city of
Wheeling and of the young State of
West Virginia, identified with their
enterprises and contributing in modest
measure to their advancement, the
REGISTER shares in the just exultatiOn
with which our people regard their
eity's and States career, and turns to
the future with unabsted confidence in
her growth and prosperity.