The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-11

held or owned by any person who has com.
mlltcd treason against the Sinte Of Virginn
or the Confederate States, or my OF them,
or who shall have committed any oflense
mentioned in the first section OF IN ordi-
nance passed by this Convention on the
first day OF My, 1851, entitled
IAN ordinance for the prevention
and punishment OF otlenses against
the Commonwealth shall be null
and void, and any person making such
sales, contracts and convcyances, deeds OF
trust, encumbrances and liens, and alf per-
SONS who shall knowingly MD or assist any
such person therein shall be guilty Of the
larceny OF such sums OF money or articles
OF value us may have been received there
fore
Judge Woods wanted 10 make loyalty
to the Union felony punishable with
contiscation and imprisonment. Treason
against the State Of Virginia or the Con-
federate States" meant loyalty to the
Union. a loyal man could not make
conveyance Of real property in the State OF
Virginia; and the seller, morgager, attor-
ney, real estate agent, .notary-"all per-
sons having any part in said transaction
were guilty OF larceny. This applied to
Wheeling rs we'll as to Richmond, for the
Secession Convention was lcgislating for
the whole of the territory Of the old
State. There was this difference, how
ever, that in Wheeling and considerable
part OF Virginia Judge Woods and his
friends, owingto circumstances over which
they had no control, were not recognized
as II government and had 10 way to en-
force their process. But this was one OF
Judge Woods ways to"makc treason
odious." He seems to have been mad
about something and mad through and
through.
Judge Woods continued to be in state
OF mind. November 81, 1857 amendments
to the Constitution being tie order Of the
day, Mr.. Haymond-our own Al pheus F.,
since n judge of the Supreme Court and
lately Il candidate for Govcrnor-}tad III
amendment to offer to Article Third, con-
corning the qualification OF voters. In
addition to beinga citizen Of the Common
wealth, Judge Raymond wanted to add,
"aRd who is citizen OF the Confederate
States" Judge Woods followed Judge
Raymond with an amendment to the
second section to disfranchise any and all
persons in the State Of Virginia-and old
State Of Virginia and the whole Of it, bear
in mind
who, since the LIST OF August, 1861, shall
have held or exercised any Office OF trust
in this State under or by virtue OF any au-
thority derived from any government
other than the State OF Virginia, or who
shall have taken up arms against the State
OF Virginia or the Confederate States.
The State OF Virginia WIS, Of course, the
Richmond affair which has gone out OF the
Union. Judge Woods was too advanced a
tre-eater for his associates, and they voted
down his amendment. And now this able
jurist-who, rs Confederate legislator,
wanted TO contiscatc and disfranchise;
whose views were too radical and reyolu
tionary for his fellow legislators; who has
recently been one OF four inventors OF Il
scheme to silence free speech and muzzle
the prcss-this "bright, particular STAR"
in the legislative and judicial armament is
whining over an ''cra Of prescription!
There are Democrats in West Virginia
who will scratch" Judge Woods when
they come to vote III October.
Judge Woods Urges Prescription and Con-
nscation.
Turning again TO the Journal Of the Sc
cession Convention we find that on June
y, 1851, the following ordinance was
passed, Samuel Woods, OF Barbour county,
voting iorit:
Be il Ordained, That any citizen OF Vir-
sinia holding Office under the Government
OF the United States after the first OF Au.
gust, shall be forever banished from the
State, and is declared an alien enemy,
and shall be SO considered in all the