The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-10-22

pensaton all that territory lying
constituting the State of Kentucky may
held either Immediately remotely Under the former ownership of the
Commonwealth of Virginia
Certainly Virginia these eons they carried with
warranted saying that these gifts grandest
you heard Mr. Blaine says that more than have
Treasury of the United States from sales of land in
the Northwest Territory have found impossible get
exact amount as there to be the Treasury De
in the last of the Commissioner of the General Land
that these sales have benefited the Govern
ment than $5oooooooo.
Let way Government paid
sum OF for the purchase of and Florida
for Mexican purchase Gadsden treaty
men $I6Oooooo the purchase Russia $780,
600 tor the settlement OF dispute between Georgia and the Govern
under Spanish $ooooooo; purchase of Panama
been purchased acquired by Government foreign
countries or inland States except the District of Columbia and the
S!3oooooo From these figures apparent that with the
have been carved terero Virginia by
Of the Northwest Territory has furnished the Government directly
indirectly inland
and other kind character of real of which the
main the credit Virginia Treasury United
States States ; 10000, counting principal only Virginia has been
have attempted give indicate
the inland s 3 Gn a%0 and of 1s 5ae eoy
have been virtually contributed by her.
Just little about Kentucky and the States Of the North
west IrrGy The total internal Of the Nsiog for the
endfS than % 9 was b these e w oa poc
ton of in 1910 bushels than 100000
to- and their production constituted considerably than fourth
the % s the OF all the the o s
OF all the barley between onehird and oneh of all the
the tobacco produced the continental territory of the United States
n h aT e nearly yes ee the @ sS % M p naGn
ton than the Nation had at its organization They have oneourth
tine a pea estate @ GOO @ oei 'n an @ o They
implements and machinery and manufacturing machinery and tool
With the exception of two ncunbents every
when the excepted office the Vice Presidents we're
the President and Vice President great sus
s Grfd T b ed ct 4S The o n e
Vice Presidents well the exSpeakes of the House of Rep
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the United States since the death
was selected a within oh pa Gn s
held during the last century 4 were presided over by Speakers from
- sessions while Joseph has presided This
D ese mT G s
any who have held that office The minority leader of the
b m f 9 tI TIC Tb States eS have M dre f We're G np
of the United the beginning Congress-
call attention these figures, Mr. Chairman merely show
the magnifcenc Of that great gift which Virginia in her ancient
cendancy when rich made the time of
its necessity poverty
YOU sir when considered just and
equitable that Mexico Spain be compensated
taken from while Virginia whose generosity pointed
and 100000 Georgia title to allow
Virginia to be deprived OF valuable of her territory without
the shadow of compene? Neither Mexico Spain
other station nation has contributed single
to this without adequate
vision being made for large of their outstanding obligations
Even in the purchase of Louisiana from France this country in add
ton to the consideration agreed the obligations of the
foreign country all the citizens of this country the spoaon
of their ships and cagoes and of spoation
large allowed Every appropriation which Con
has made in for property taken destroyed
and such appropriations have been manyafford precedent for
the action w asking.
1t is true that this State of Virginia for four years in
belOn the Government
and so fair State But the loss by Texas Georgia
Alabama and the other Southern States
fell in action and sleep in soldiers graves upon their sunny
slopes and beside their waters these States sustained
no permanent loss by the Civil War.
If it claimed that this resolution the
ginia but for West VIRGINIA only will