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The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
West Virginia. The vote on the Constitution of the State of West Virginia was made up in great part by the votes of soldiers — those Northern men and Germans, and other foreigners generally, who serve in Lincoln's army — who were present on the soil of Virginia only to repress any loyal demonstration on the part of her true citizens, and to maintain the authority of the Federal Government. The creation of this new State by Federal authority, in defiance of the very Constitution it effects to support and fight for, is one of the greatest national outrages ever perpetrated. Even the ablest of the corrupt leaders of the Pierpont Government had not the conscience to approve it. But they were silenced by the military power. They were not allowed to speak; and few of them were permitted even to vote. Little sympathy is left for men who purchased safety or office by degrading themselves. They became the tools of the Washington despotism — were traitors to their own State, and side<