The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-18


country seem incapable Of understand
ing West virginia's position in reference
to the debt She has agreed, and has
never otherwise expressed herself, TO pay an |
equitable proportion Of the Virginia debt.
This was her agreement on coming into
the Union asa State, and she has nOyer
repudiated and never will repudiate this
agreement She has made formal effort
to arrive at an adjustment with tho State
Of Virginia as to what would be her equit-
able proportion Of the debt. Senator
johnson, Oivirginia, has recently boastOd
in an elaborate magazine article as to the
sharp bargain ian ex parte bargain) made
by Virginia in 1871, when she exscinded
ohe.third Of her debt and kept two.thirds
Of the territory and pretty much all Of the
assets represented in the debt. West Vir.
ginia has asked the old State to make out
statement Of account furnish an itelnized
exhibit Of these assetts-but the old State
has persistently refused. She will neither
confer with this State through Commits.
sioners, nor furnish bill Of particulars.
She feels with Senator johnson that she
has good thing Of It as the debt stands
appotioned by her own ex parte act, and
she has no notion Of ascertaining what
would be our equitable proportion oil the
amount thus arbitrarily assigned to US by
herself.
It Is important that the country should
understand that Virginia refuses to come
to an adjustment Of the debt with this
State. Therefore let her bear tho odium Of
Reputation. We repeat, that West vir-
ginia has never rcpudiated her agreement
to pay an equitable proportion Of the debt,
P.S.-Since the above article was in
type We have read in the Richmond Di.
patch OF the 10th the following editorial
article:
We said last year on one occasion that
the Wing had made out better case FOL
the Readjusters than We had supposed
could be made out for them. We expert
enced something Of the same feeling when
We inst examined the Riddileberger bill
which Governor Cameron made law day
before yesterday. But we have found ont
the secret, we think, and have made Il
known to all who have chosen to learn the
whole truth in regard 10 the matter. The
explanation OF the plausible case made out
for the ReadiusterS is to be found in the
met that they quietIy ignored all the assets
owned DY tle TWO sutes on tue ISL Of July
1858, Gahosgh 'Tg'nlG kept aI Of hos
! asses, ana lalling 70 charge Virginia viii
lour millions oil dollars OF assets belonging
, to West Virginia which the latter appropri
: ated to herself, calculated interest upon
l principal too small by four millions Of dol
lars, See now the hh'g tries TO throw dus
0 IN our eyes again. IN It's issue oil yester
4 DAY II says:
And now II the DitpGeh will turn to the Riddle
S nHrt ~ W., VrVn1 ,s SeS s 1 w. W. ~ ~
principal and 81 OsI % Of intCrOst-totai SiS0I
t aI6.Sl. dhoi saA! Aud, moreover; i Y Just one
ssS Si ~ t6s pSS on ~ b n hGw Tn
, 1851" - 'S'' - - - = 'N"'
Now IL me Wing VIII credit West Viz
@ - fo T r,iioOS m W dOiIas, ' IT, hn
! share OF the assets OF the two States, n
: ought to Dc more and add four millions t
VirgInla'S portion oil the debt, that Joqrna
S5rn hoor q, sha. dot s"te 81 sne 1yp.
instead Of TWENTY-FIVE millions; and II i
. will thengo on with its calculations Of in
terest, and then credit and charge Virgins
~ @ bn tarcSI ~ 0 ond tha
Virginia now owes at least tho sum a
> which the Readiuster second Audito
Dyson IN his last annual report states he
ue Ptisrv Mr. p;,dlobor,or r,o,.o. . r,ou,;