Rogue State by Richard H. Owens Page A

First Wheeling Convention. Proceedings .
    28. Ibid.
    29. Ibid. Most references in the documents cite the term “Reconstituted” Government of Virginia, but the term “Restored” Government of Virginia also was used now and then. hey are virtually interchangeable.
    30. Ibid.
    31. Ibid.
    32. Ibid.
    33. Ibid.
    34. Ibid.
    35. Ibid.
    36. Reorganized Government of Virginia. General Assembly. Proceedings .
    37. Ibid.
    38. Ibid.
    39. Ibid.
    40. Ibid.
    41. United States Senate. Debate on the Acceptance of [WV] Senators Carlile and Willey .
    42. Reorganized Government of Virginia. General Assembly. Proceedings .
    43. Ibid.
    44. Second Wheeling Convention. First Session. Proceedings .
    45. Ibid.
    46. Ibid.
    47. Ibid.
    48. Ibid.
    49. Ibid.
    50. West Virginia First Statehood Referendum .
    51. Ibid.
    52. West Virginia. First Constitutional Convention. Debates and Proceedings .
    53. Ibid.
    54. Ibid.
    55. The term “Radical Republicans” was a disparaging name directed against Republicans who demanded some punishment of the South for the war, and also required full acceptance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments by former Confederate states and citizens. The “Radical” agenda included abolition o f slavery and racial equality. Those were truly “radical” notions to Southerners and to most West Virginians.
    The “Radical Republicans” also supported emergence of modern industrial-finance-capitalism in the U.S. That agenda was similar to the other “radical” [to Southerners] economic visions for America that had been espoused in the 1790’s by Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists, and later under the Whig “American System” advocated by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams. To Southern and Northern S.Q.’s [see Note 1], those were “radical” notions. But not so to millions in the North and over four million emancipated slaves.
    56. West Virginia. First Constitutional Convention. Debates and Proceedings .
    57. Ibid.
    58. Ibid.
    59. Reorganized Government of Virginia. General Assembly. Proceedings .
    60. United States Senate. Debate on the Admission of West Virginia .
    61. Ibid.
    62. Ibid.
    63. United States House of Representatives. Debate on the Admission of West Virginia .
    64. See Appendix for these documents.
    65. See Note 55.
    66. Abraham Lincoln. The President’s Opinion on the Admission of West Virginia .
    67. Ibid.
    68. United States House of Representatives. Debate on the Admission of West Virginia .
    69. West Virginia. First Constitutional Convention. Debates and Proceedings .
    70. Ibid.
    71. Ibid.
    72. United States Congress. Congressional Recognition and Consent to the Transfer of Berkeley and Jefferson Counties to West Virginia .
    73. See Appendix for full text.
    74. See Appendix for full text.
    75. Chase’s argument is highly inaccurate and disingenuous. Most northern political leaders abhorred the idea of five potential new states emerging from Texas. His reference to the composition of the WV legislature contradicts his contention that the Wheeling Convention represented the entire state. That the issue never was resolved by the Supreme Court may be in part related to the fact that Mr. Chase served as Chief Justice from 1864 to 1873, the time during the crucial post-war era when such a case would have most likely been presented.
    The essential argument was and remains one of fair representation. Did the legislature of Virginia ever consent to the Commonwealth’s division and the creation of a new state?
    76. Reorganized Government of Virginia. An Act Granting Permission for Creation of A New State; and, Reorganized Government of Virginia. Ordinance for the Reorganization of the State Government [of Virginia] , 1863.
    77. West Virginia. First Constitutional Convention. Debates and Proceedings ; and, West Virginia. Revised State Constitution .
    78. Ibid.
    79. Ibid.
    80. Ibid.
    81. United States Senate. Debate on the Admission of West