The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-03-01
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

es of Prominent West Virginia
LegislatOrs-H William
Prince. David ii. Leonard, Sep.
timus Hall, @. j. p. Cresap, DC.
! no, ".
"What have we here? A curious and
diversified assemblage Of the dii n,ajors,
and the di mirorcs. The loud laundering,
love, in sportiye play with Comus, the
laughing good Of reyelry, feasting and
ljollity| +
| '323s' 2 ~ .4nonym6as.
Dear Register. Digestion aud the
weather both being propitiOus, / re-
new my sketches. aii
Does any one ask, what the wealth.
er and digestion have to do With
sketches Of West Virginia lav-mak.
ers? / answer, much. Our critical
opinion of persons and things in q
measure depends upon the condition
Of our own mind and bSdyiat the
time. If depressed, we think less
fayorably of what we see and hear.
And nothing SO thoroughly depresses
a man, in soul and body, as the com
bined influences Of a damp cloudy
day and a disordered liver.
T. On the weather subject, Wheeling
| is a city of magnificent contrasts
Yesterday, for instance, she was
wrapped in almost impenetrable
darkness, while to-day she lies smil.
ing in the warmth and brightness Of
a glorious sunshine. te.
And SO, I repeat, digestion and the
weather both being propitious, l re-
new my pen sketches. ~
The laughing day, the happy sun,
shine and my own inner feeling Of
contentment, naturally suggest, as
the first subject for my camera, that
jovial Comus Of lawmakers, the
HON. WILLIAM PRINCE,
Of Raleigh. Born in the Quaker
City of Philadelphia, in the year
1876, he is now in his sixty-sixth
year, but with only one trait of Qua,
kerism in his character, namely, un.
assailable honesty. When nineteen
years of age, he moved to the State Of
Virginia and settled in the county Of
Fayette, which at that early day en-
bracod within its territorial bounda-
ries considerably more acreage than
as at present constituted. In 1850,
the Virginia Legislature, desiring to
perpetuate the name Of the accom-
plished historian and bold adyentur
Ter, who first attracted the favorable
notice of Europe to.the tobacco plant,
formed the comfy Of Raleigh from
the Southern part Of Fayette. The
farm Of Mr.. Prince was in tie new
county, of which he has remained a
prominent citizen ever since. aa
The esteem in which he vas at
that early period held by his fellow
citizen, &as strikingly shown at the
first general election had aherthe
formation of the new county. By a
large majority, he was chosen as a
delegate to represent Raleigh in the
Virginia Legislature of 1861. 4 For
six years he acceptably served his
people in Richmond, having been
elected three times SUCCESSFULLY
During this period-memorable in
the history of the old State-he was
associated in public life with some of
the brightest minds of Virginia.
Those were the golden days when
Oscar NJ. Crutchfeld presided with
the dignity of a Roman Senator, over
the deliberations of the Virginia
House of Delegates; when the impet-
uous Chapman and polished Caper-
ton, from Monroe, and the noble old
Price, from Greenbrier, aided by the
mellow accents of the eloquent Bow
yer Miller, from Botetourt, stood up
manfully for the interests of the
Western part Of the State, against
the encroachments Of the more pop
ular East. 4aa 'al
1t is not difficult to perceive, even
to this day, the effect Of these associa-
lions upon the life and character of
Mr.. Prince, He carries about with
him in social and public life the
charming characteristics OF the old
fashioned Virginia Legislator. Kind
and considerate to the clerks, pages
and other employees of the House, he
is in truth the Prince of good fell.
low" the most popular man in the
West Virginia Legislature, ,a