Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-10
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only 70 staDporn Facts proveu py the
RECORDS ana oIher testimony.
10 hlm,v who in the love OIL nature
ho1os communion with her visible
forms she speaks various language.
Gods hlerogIyphs, tnroug nour ner Dur
oers, remind US how bounLlIulIy he De-
slowed the Bonnie SWllzerlano oil
america.
hartot in 1885, twenty-five years be-
fore settlement at jamestown, publish
ed to the world that mucn money
might be made from the manufacture
OF oil from Walnuts ana .peechnuts
with which the country apoundeu, lit.
tie dreaming of the vast quantities
beneath, that would, IN alter centuries,
gush forth to supply that material
light to a world SO elevated by intel
lectual light that hence emanated re
Elected from universities, colleges
seats of learning public schools and
churches, that from our lofty hills and
verdant wales point the way to higher
life and broader civilization.
The grant OF the English Crown to
George Somers and others conveyed all
the territory between the thirty fourth
and foFty-fifth degree OF North latitude
along the sea coast and up into the
land throughout from the sea to sea
West and Northwest" the crowns title
so granted was confirmed in the treaty
with France after the French and In
dian War; the Virginians cabins OH
both sides of the Monongahela and
Ohio Rivers, from which were mar
shalled troops responsive to wars
low in NV
sion; the glorious victories achieved by
George Rogers Clark and his Virgin
ians, their possession of the British
forts and capture of the hairbuying
Governor Hamilton. prove title by con-
quest; administration of justice
through courts Of Virginia in that
Northwest prove civil Jurisdiction and
remove all doubt of Virginia's title to
this North West Territory.
Unity of action by all the colonies
was cemented by Virginia's grant Of
that great Northwest to the Federal
Government in trust for the benefit of
Virginia and other states, which was
accepted by recorded resolution Of
Congress and sealed by deed of 1884.
This portion between the crest of the
mountains and the Ohio was a promtn-
emit factor; among the early petitions
presented to Continental Congress came
that from it's Inhabitants for establish
ment of a new province, Westylvan1a, TO
comprise virtually the same as our
West Virginia; tradition informs us OF
disappointment that the grant of 1874
to the Federal Government did not in
clude all West Of the mountains so
strong was their desire for separation
The history of that grant and dis
position by trustee of the territory
does not reflect credit in the considera-
ton shown the grantor. While the
Federal Government held as trustee. as
adjudicated by the Supreme Court OF
the United States in Jackson versus
Clarke, First Peters, seeming to forget
its capacity as fiduciary it treated the
money derived from sales as revenue
for the payment of it's debts, and gave
away without any consideration, to
States formed within it, immense por-
lions for which it has never accounted.
The old Wilderness Road through Vir-
ginia, over Boone's Trail, was ideal for
location of the National Pike; but the
route selected was through Maryland
and Pennsylvania, passing near extern
sive land holdings of Albert Gallatin,
of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treas
ury, traversing Virginia only twelve
miles to reach the Southeastern por-
ton of Ohio, decades after sale for a
ptttance of the land extending West
as far as Gallipolis
From one grant to Illinois. that as
sisted in building the Illinois Central
Railroad, that State has derived more
SA11 TYh
with interest added amounts to at
least seventy million dollars, and, she
will receive, in future, half million
dollars annually, to support its govern
ment. In Ohio roads, schools and
churches derive revenue annually from
this great liberality and she still col
lects rents on lands so donated, that
title to which has never passed.
These and nur rous other diversions
of the subject of that trust and dona-
lions, Notwithstanding the fduciary re-
lationship, stagger comprehension IN
dollars and cents. aside from interest
| on same; and the portion legally due
I, 20 West Virginia, as her share as
part of Virginia, would pay all claims.
relieve her from az judgments, and
afford an endowment to support her
government, institutions. schools. col
leges, and equalize her with other
states. who have been objects of that
lfberality displayed by the trustee.
| After this National Pike was built
from Virginia's land. the last appro-
priation in 1920, Congress passed a
bill. 1922, for collection of tolls there
on, and OVERRIDE President Monroe'1
veto by giving 1t to the States trav-
ersed who promptly collected tolls.
It was a great artery Of commerce
that drifted the trade of the Ohio ano
It's tributaries to Baltimore and the
Southeastern coast; the Pennsylvania
Railroad competed for the traffic col
lected at Pittsburgh; Philadelphia ane
( the Eastern cities furnished markets
Pennsylvania refused the B. & o. r. Il
permission to build through 1t; so die
Virginia, until 1847. as railroad from
Covington, Virginia, to the Ohio q
Point Pleasant or the mouth OF Big
Sandy was projected. While the b.
O. was reaching for this traffic a.
Wheeling, Pennsylvania filed its bill II
the Federal Court to enjoin the build
ing of the Wheeling bridge; and tha'
case. before the Federal Supreme Cour
three times, was by divided court de
cided in favor of Pennsylvania; Con