Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-05-21
THE REGISTER.
Mseenbe;dstown, JEFFERSON County, Va
TUESDAY, MAY q, 1850.
rha Reform COnTt

wo regret to find tina! party spun "
,;ke,v to alight with its foul aud pollu.'"g
swoop upon the Convention "Ai1h III" II,
neonle of the State have decreed snail
psD ad, Cor them the errors and defects OF
o.on, Constitution Of the Common
WV We had hoped, earnestly that
az, Of tina, Convention the fell spirit oil
0,r,;z.,uism would be excluded Os ,''
fonnd sense md just feeling o; the people,
, S", =, seems tina, ?ar'y has so lnn'lFa' Il
; D into every nook AMI Granny OF : Inc
ooDular heart as to leave sca'ce'!E . ''s
matter of public interest free from ''S p
ence. r
Our own mind, when the decision OF
the people had made the meeting OF CON
ven,ion certain, teemed with iona eXPec-
,o,;on tina, as there was no particular
temptation to keep up party Iines-'he
Convention being equally called Tor by
ho,b nar,ras-,he best minds of the State
cou,d meet in concordant discussion and
elaborate for the present, and at least one
or two succeeding generations, system
Of government consistent with the press
;ra wants of tho Stale and the high de-
mands Of the age.
But these fond hopes are in imminent
danger of disappointment We are '0i0
bv leadino members of the dominant party
in the State that if the Wings get major
itv in the Convention, they will so gerry
mapder the State that the Senate vii! be
Wbip, and that to maintain their own eX-
is,ing ascendancy the Democrats must 60
to the polls in August upon strict party
grounds. In reply to this, Wings and The
Wing press assert that selt-delence Will
limpel them to meet their political antago'
nis,s upon their own chosen field, and
consequently they insist that in every
Wing District party claims must be pre-
dominant, and Wing Delegates elected.
Such state of affairs thus early devel'
oped must go, one feels, far towards es
|tablishing the doctrine of universal de-
pravity. We confess ourselves slckene'
at such developments, and dashed not
little from the high hopefulness we hat
conceived on the subject.
Decidedly as we feel on the subject o
party where party legitimately enters we
we did give welcome place to the senll
ment that readily, heartily, warmly, could
we give our vote to any able, highminded
compe tent man of any party; nay JUS
as readily and cordially to Democrat as
to Wing.
We felt thus because party had no righ
to intrude itself on ground so sacred as
That whereon new Constitution is to be
Horned. and foundation laid for the con
linued peace and prosperity OF this anc
successive ages.
Let us implore every reader who hon
ours us with The perusal Of these feeble
remarks TO discountenance on this occa
sion all party feeling and action; to apply
himself TO the personal consideration Of
the great subjects to be called up in Con
vention, and TO do all acts and things tha
/. will tend to make the Convention tho
roughly efficient to produce those Reforms
for which every valuable interest in the
State has SO long been groaning. Here
if ever, is place for the thought and ac'
ton of the people. Let not negligence
or apathy deprive us Of the golden oPPor'
tunity