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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) or search for West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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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 n even-handed parties that commends the poisoned chailes to their lips, and honest people rejoice when the race of Carlisle and Clemencies are made to cry cut against the oppression they helped to inaugurate.
The establishment of the State of West Virginia is a matter of no consequence whatever.
The event only serves to illustrate the utter unscrupulousness and atrocity of the Government now trying to subjugate the South.
If it could succeed the mere division of the State of Virginia or a