Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-31
no Cooprn's CLaaKsBURa REoIsrER

To CooPxR's CLARKsBuRG RBGIsrKR
The election Of Circuit Judges and Judg-
es Of the Court of Appeals viii likely take
place on the fourth Thursday ofApril.-
The time IS approaching. it is almost up
on us. We VIII then be called upon, IN
common with the voters of other Circuits
and Sections Of the Commonwealth, to
select from the multiplicity of candidates
presented, some one for each of these re-
sponsible Offices upon whom to cast our
votes. Whom should the Democracy of
old Harrison select Let Democrats be
the men, available Democrats, Democrats
true to their party, the State and the Uni
on, and /, as an humble member of that
party, will be content.
Without wishing to do. injustice to the
claims of others, or in tho leastto disparage
their abilities, do not hesitate to say,
that in my opinion, prudence, policy,
wisdom, and JUSTICE point with unerring
certainty to Geo. II. Lee, as our candidate
for the bench of the Court of Appeals, and
to VIM. G. Brown, IS our candidate for
the bench of the Circuit. The one a wor-
thy citizen of our own, the other worthy
citizen of an adjacent county. They are
both Democrats. And each possess emf
nent legal attainments, and social virtues.
should have nothing to do with and should
not be mentioned in connection with our
Judicial elections!l! Who say so ? De-
moerats who have toiled and sweat in the
harness of the party? Democrats whose
time and whose money have been deyo-
ted to the interests of their party and the
cause oftheir country ?. Democrats whose
mental and physical powers have been
taxed in many a.political canvass to route
and scatter the Federal hosts No, sir:
Wings tell us that we should forget we
are democrats. Wings tell us that we
shoHld now forget our party and our long
cherished and venerated principles
Wings tell us we should now abandon our
own men''and rally to the support of theirs.
Wings tell us that those men who hereto
fore have led us on to glorious victories
should be deserted in the hour of triumph,
that we should join the forces of de-
feated enemy, and hand our victorious
chieftains, bound hand and foot, over to
| the enemy. Democrats of old Harrison,
stand by your principles and the men of
your party. Lee and Brown are tried and
true men, and why should we now desert
the one or the other The sagacious
leaders of the Uhig party have put no
new song in the mouths of their devoted
followers. We have heard it before-its
every note is familiar to Democratic cars.
We heard it in the canvass of 1910 hymn
ed forth upon the listening ear from the
notable lids of the "Yellow Kiver," and
yet the Democracy of Harrison stood I'M
moved. We heard it from every stump
and rostrum of our county in 1849, ac-
companied with martial notes concerning
"deeds of noble daring" upon the sandy
plains of Mexico, and the Democracy of
our county did not desert their party stan
dard. In short, we always hear the fla
miliar cry of " no party issuing from the
lips of the Syren when the prospect Of
defeat makes it necessary. Thus far the
Democrats of our county have stood by
the men of our party and their principles.
Why should we now abandon them z? Are
not our men as good, socially, morally,
intellectually, and as deeply imbued with
ScholQ,tic and legal lore, as theirs +? Is it
true, as in derision we have often been
told, that the Democratic party has not in
its ranks statesmen and jurists capable
of discharging the important duties of high
and honorable offices The Wing party
has often made the charge; what Demo
crat in the approaching election will en-
dorse this slanderous declaration by Vo-
ting for any Wing and against Lee or
Brown We will see. do not believe
it will be done. Our party pride fOrbids
it. In Lee and Brown we have men, ca
pable, faithful, and true let us elect them
| and prove to the world that this whole
sale charge of incapacity and unfitness for
Office, so often made by the Federal party,
is untrue. Why should our men, the men
of our faith and order, the men, who have
stood by us in storm and in sunshine,
the men who in common with us, and for
us, have proclaimed and successfully
maintained those great and glorious doc
trines of political policy under the health
full and benign influence of which we have
been made the happiest, the freest, and
most powerful nation of people on the face
of the globe. ask, in the name of all
all that is fair and honorable, why should
these men be cast aside, and be doomed
to spend their days in inglorious obsurity,
in order that Federalists may revel and riot
in the emoluments and honors of Office ?
Fellow Democrats this must not be. 1t
would be suicidal to the interests of our
party Such course would destroy the
hopes of any party. We must stand by
our men, if we would preserve the integ-
rity of our party. In vain will we look
for men who will do service for our cause
in the hour of trial and danger, if we re-
ward their services with frowns and hiss
es Let us then, vote for Lee and Brown,
and thereby teach this salutary lesson,
that virtue and honest zeal for the
cause of truth, are not without their re-
ward