i:=11 • • (Second Edition) Dedicated to the ., I West Virginia Semi-Centennial From the Collections of Ohio County Public Library Archives | www.ohiocountylibrary.org • • HARRY ELMER STUPP MARCH SONG AND TWO-STEP WORDS BY James Arthur Mills I MUSIC BY Harry Elmer Stupp II.' 1...._____.1'. • PUBLISHED BY WEST VIRGINIA MUSIC CO. WHEELING, W. VA. JAMES ARTHUR MILLS MUlLS ~IO~ 10 ,.J; • 1c::J1 II N , .....; ____________________ _______________ _________________ _ -~==:::::;:=====================-~'1=-l1 =======::;:===:_ I @Jrmt-Q.trntrunial~rmt-Qtrutruutal @Jnithrnir ~nubrutr' Lazier then addressed the assemblage, Carlile accepted,accepted this amendment toto stating that the proceedings should his resolution and added the follow-follow­ be marked with calmness and delib­ delib-ing: "That the committee reportreport a eration. Mr. Willey rose to a question time for thll,thlJ, reassembling of this of personal privilege and explained convention." He said that he had that his remarks of the day before not changed his opinion but he was had been misrepresented; that he anxious to see a spirit of harmony. was in favor of a division of the state, He doubted whether the convention but by peaceful means, if possible. would be allowed toto meet at the time but said that if God spared James S. Wheat of Wheeling, thenthen appointed, but said that if God spared James S. Wheat of Wheeling, him he would be there. On motion presented a series of resolutions from him he would be there. On motion the committee on federal relations,of Daniel Lamb, the reportreport and s sub-ub­ the committee on federal relations, stitute were reportedreported backba.ck to the,the, From setting forth the abuses of the Rich­ Rich·committee without instructions. A-A mond convention, and claiming the reces~ was then taken until 5 o'clock. right to annul and disregard the seccession proceedings; also the right When the delegates convened at the to hold an election for congressman the appointed hour, Mr. Carlile oo­Oll- at the usual time; also to maintain tained permission to read the follow­ follow- Collections the laws of the state. ing dispatch frumfrom Clarksburg: "Let­ "Let- Mr. Carlile. then offered a resolu-cher's war hounds are about; look out Mr. Carlile. then offered a resolu­ for troops." (Letcher was governor tion providing for an immediate divis-divis­ of Virg;inia.). Virg,inia.). The 'l'he convent.ion convention then ion of the state, with the consent of adjourned until Thursday morning. congress and the legislature, the new state ·to be called "New Virginia." On Thursday morning, the commit·commit­ Upon the prnpriety pro.priety of presenting this tee on state and federal relations re­ re- of resolution a hot discussion ensued. ported providing for a general elec-elec­ the It was finally agreed to let the reso-reso­ tion on May 23rd to se selectlect delegates lution go to the committee without to a convention to be held June 11. further discussion and a recess was Th.eThe delegates and spectators th&1 the~ Ohio taken until 7 o'clock P. M. When the joined in singing "The Star Spangled conventionconvention'· reassembled, the report of Banner, Banner,"" beng led by Rev. Dodge and FFRANCISRANCIS HARR HARRII S SONON P PIERPONTI ERPONT the committee on state and federal re­ re- Mr. Stevens. The closing prayer was / County TheT he ""WarWar G Governor"overnor" lations was presented. made by the Rev. Gordon Battelle William George McC. Porter offered resolu resolu-­ and closing address by Hon. William Francis Harrison Pierpont was born January 25, 1814, in Monongalia tions looking to aa division of the sta'i:e state G. Brown. Adjournment was then He graduated tions looking county, Virginia. (Now Marion county, West Virginia). He graduated and Mr. Carlile followed with resolu-resolu­ taken. taught school for at Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., in 1839. He then taught school for tions favoring immediate action and Enraged by the action of the dele·dele­ Public a few years and afterward became a successful lawyer and business a speedy disolution of the ties that gates,gates, Uovernor Letcher ordered the of fire brick. a speedy disolution man; later, he engaged in coal mining and the manufacture of fire brick. bound the western to the eastern east!lrn por­ por-:,e1zure beizure or ot the postoflice postoftice' and custom In politics, he was an Anti-slavery Whig and was apresidential elec­ elec- In politics, he was an Anti-slavery Whig and was a tion of the state.state. He followed his house at Wheeling and issued a call tor from Virginia in 1848. resolution with an able argument and tor the troops of the western part of Library He was a member of the Methodist Protestant cburch.church. insisted that delay in action would re-re­ Virginiav 1rginia to assemble at Moundsville. of Virginia insisted that On June 20, 1861, he was elected Provisional Governor of Virginia suitsult in President Davis having West Publicl:'ublic sentiment was such that this by the Wheeling convention. Vjrginians mustered into the Southern order was disregarded. of Virginians mustered On the fourth Thursday of May, 1862, he was elected Governor of army and declared thiJ,tthat the failure Virginia, to fill out the unexpired term of John Letcher, who was declar­ declar- to take a decisive position wouldThe delegates having been chose chosenn to take a decisive position would held Archives on May 23rd, a convention was ed to have vacated his office by having joined the Confederacy, Confederacy. mean the ratification of thesecession on May 23rd, a convention was held ordinance.mean the ratification of the in Wheeling June 11, and a provision­ provision- On the fourth ThursdayThµrsday of May, 1863, he was elected for the full ordinance. term of four years, beginning January 1, 1864, and removed the seat of al government establishel styled "The government from Wheeling to Alexandria before the state of West Vir­ Vir- Mr. Willey declared himself opposed Restored Government of Virginia."Virginia." to the viewsexpressed by Mr. Carlile C. D. Hubbard, Thomas Logan, A. W. ginia bea-anbe0 an its legal existence, on June 20, 1863. to the views On May 25, 1865, he removed the seat of government to Richmond, and said that the latter wanted to place Campbell, G. L. Cranmer, John List the delegates in direct confiict with Daniel Lamb and Thomas and Jacob | and served until the end of his term, January 1, 1868. He then held the delegates in direct conflict with Daniel Lamb over till April 16, 1868, when Major-General Schofield, in command of the the state of Virginia, the government Hornbrook were conspicuous amon~ amon-g www.ohiocountylibrary.org First Military District, appointed Henry H. Wells provisional governor. of the United States and the South­ South-those who inaugurated this move­ move- He then returned to his home in Fairmont. ern Confederacy. ment. Francis H H.. Pierpont of Mar-Mar­ He was elected to the House of Delegates in 1869 and was later ap-ap­ He asserted that the policy which iOnion county was chosen provisional pointed collector of internal revenue for West Virginia by President Gar-Gar­ Mr. Carlile advocated wouldwo.uld precipi­ preclpl- governor and the jurisdiction of the provisional government was recogniz­ field. tate a condition of affairs that would provisional government was recogniz· He died in Pittsburg, at the home of his daughter, on March 24, 1899, cause them to be slaughtered in their ed throughout the forty-eight coun­ coun· and was buried at Fairmont. tracks, if they did not make tracks ties. with all possible speed speed.. He admitted On July 2, 1861, the new legislature Colonel Waggener of Mason and G. L. that the interests of the Panhandle convened at Wheeling and electl'ldelected The. Birth of West Virginia Cranmer of Ohio were selected as per- might be promoted by the construc­ construc-W. T T.. Willey and John S S.. Carlile as The Birth of West manent secretaries. tion of of.3. _a new state, but argued that United States Senators from the pro-pro­ A committee on federal relations the adoption of the Carlile resolutions visional government. This body also Following the receipt of the news neWS was then appointed, consisting of one would constitute treason and wanted passed a stay law and directed the of the seizure of Fort Sumter, Presi-member from each county represen-represen- to know where the men and money expenditure of $200,000 for the admin-admin­ dent Lincoln issued on April 15th, ted. The first address was made by could be obtained to carry carryon on the istration of the new government and 1861, a proclamation calling for 75,000 General Jackson of Wood county, who fearful war sure to result from such the same sum for carrying on the war men for the suppression of the rebel-declared that the time for taking ac- proceedings. The convention then for the preservation of the union. At lion.lion. The citizens of Ohio county re- tion on the division of the state had adjourned to meet the following an election held on October 24, these sponded promptly. A camp was es- not arrived and favored delaying ac- morning. acts of the legislature were endorsed tablished on the Is Islandland and became tion until after the fourth Thursday The deliberationsdeliberations of the third day by the people by a vote of 18,408 to the headquarters of the First West in May, when the result of an elec- were opened with prayer by the Rev Rev.. 781, 781. Virginia regiment. Virginia withdrew tion would show how many counties R, R.