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e the chiefs among the revolutionists. Men of State reputation will not hazard their good names in such a cause. There are about eighty counties in Western Virginia. Of these only twenty-seven--one-third --are claimed to have been represented; and of the twenty-seven, Marion, Wetzel, Barbour, Wirt, Lewis, Jackson, Roane, Gilmer, Upshur, and various others, will give majorities against division and for secession, and therefore were misrepresented. Then there are Frederick, Hampshire, Berkeley, and perhaps other counties, included in the twenty-seven, all of which will give four to one for secession, and would give ten to one against division, and therefore were most grossly and outrageously misrepresented. George Senseney, the only delegate from Frederick, acknowledged that he had not been appointed by any public meeting, and said that he had "come up through the dangers which environed a Union man in his part of the State"--thus confessing that they are few and far between in
Berkeley patriots. A correspondent suggests to those patriots of Berkeley who lately met in Martinsburg, that they swap farms with some of the patriotic citizens of Maryland. The change would be agreeable to all parties in the State. Mr. Janney has very promptly declined their nomination.