Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-11-01

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Mr. WHaRroS-were you a, the Locotoco
meeting IN the ih Ward on Monday night
hyou were, you must have been struck with
the iruthiulness Of the remark of Zachary
Taylor made in one Of his letters, that there
is a great danger OF our government being per-
veTted from is true theory
There you would have seen Sherrard Glenn
ems, one o. our commissioners at elections. a
h''ing. a very fitting appointment for the an
princiPled and INSCRIPTIONS partisan Gov.
Extra Billy Smith TO make. holding forth an1
telling the loCJiocos 10 come to 'le polls ear
iy-to come whether they had votes or not =
Now what did this mean. coming from a par
tissn commissioner such a. be is. Does he
intend that they should vote even though they
have no votesl
Or does he mean that those v ho have 70
votes shall e the POLLS TO fight aud rowdyize,
and bullying Taylor voters. This il a pretty
speech, now, is II not, to come from a man
who after making il will have the impotence
10 stand up 10 the light OF day before his fell
low-men, TO judge OF suffrage. one ofthe dear
est rights of freemen. A petty judgement
too. such a deep dyed partisan as he i, will
make OF it. Who.after this, can have any con-
fidence in his unbiased deeision7 Can any Re
publican, any true Democrat oil the good old
Jeffersonian stamp, countenance such un-
prineipled radicalism?
| have heard it stated, and upon good author
ity, that they have engogeda party OF bullies
TO take possession OF our polls, aud fight any
man OF their own party who dares to love
his country more than his party, and 10 90 up
and cast his vote for the brave old man who
knows no party but his country. Shall THU.
be permitted? No. Let every lover OF order,
every lover OF liberty, and every friend OF the
unbiased and unterTihed will of The People,
be there with strong arms, and stout hearts to
put down all such bully desperadoes.
Let the sheriff and the sergeant. and the
magistrates too be there also, to protect the
weak aud the timid in the unbiased exercise
OF that glorious privilege OF voting for whom
they please.
Let these cohorts and hired soldiers of a
corrupt admlnIstration that sees Its doom, aud
is engaged in the last dying exertions to save
itself BY fraud and by force, beware, that
there is law besides that which is promulgated
from their party meetings and IRON that poll
dcaI engine against the people, Mr.. Newman's
post Office!
Let that postmaster, who has so v%aliantIy
traver,ed Western Virginia. and LETT his office
to take care Of Itself. while he wss at the
same time in receipt OF large salary let bin
know, that the People understand that he
has been aud is now working for his own
bread and butter.
Come, then. let us, the People, go up and
exercise our privilege OF voting understandings
ly as becomes i%reenen, and protect all others
in their right, whether they may vote for Old
Zach and their country, or whether their blind
prejudice makes them still vote for party.
FAIR PLAY.
P. S. ! hear, also, that the Loco(oco Com.
mlssloners. in town, are TO decide one wears
taxation Will allow To vote, and in the coun-
try they are TO decide in favor OF the other
year but that none bat The party are to know
this, so that they may 90 out TO vote in the
country II they cannot vote in town-and
thus cheat the Taylor boys" Is it possible
that this can be true Nous verrons, as old
Richie says,