Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-04-07


preston. as in every way worthy of the
favorable consideration of .the peo-
pie of Harrison. We presume 1t Is
true, that Mr.. Brown is Democratic
candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court,
though there has appeared in the T" kegi-
ster'', at least, no formal announciation
of the fact. He is not however, the only
Democratic candidate for that honorable
position, though Q ga Harrison Demo
craft appear to hold him in this light !;
and dreams not, we Judge, from the spirit
of his article, that there exists another
equally we'll qualified. We would beg
leave to suggest to him, that theremay
be no necessity for his taking so wide =
range for his selection. We viii remind
him that in his own county, he may find
a man, in no sense, inferior to the gentle
man of Preston. Col. A. J. Smith is con-
spicuously announced in the Register"
as a candidate for the support of the Yo-
ters of this Circuit l appeal to the good
sense and candor of ga Harrison Demo-
crat," and to the citizens of Harrison
county, to know upon what substantial
basis, are founded the extraordinary and
superior claims of the gentleman of Pres
ton, to those Of Col. Smith, of Harrison Z.
In the field of Democracy he may have
been an older, but fellow-ciIizens, can you
deem him batter soldier Z? Cassius was
an older soldier but not = better than
Brutus. And "Brutus will start spirit
as soon as Caesar"
" Now in the namO Of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown GrCat.n
" Rome thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
But il was famed with more than with one man !"
Yet, strange to tell, this yclept Harri.
son Democrat would have us impressed
with the belief that Mr. Brown is the only
man meriting the favor of the people Of
this enlightened county that as a Demo
crat, and q gentleman of legal attain
tainmsnts, he presented disk broad and
luminous as the sun that eclipses every
other body in the wide field of view.
We have had the pleasure of conYersing
with both Of the gentlemen heretofore
named We have some little acqu&int-
ance with them, and We, in all moderation
and so5srness, can say, that in point Of
legal attainments, Col Smith cannot suf-
fer by comparison with Mr. Brown or any
other spoken of as candidate for this
Judgeship, while in point of literary &C.
quirementS, and that degree of education
which is absolutely necessary to the
Bench" that it may command the re-
spect of the ''BHr," Col. Smith is incom-
psrably superior to Mr.. Brown. And ga
Harrison Democrat" if he have sufficient
frankness, must admit the fact, And he
we'll knows that no man can expect to Sc
cure the respect of the Bar, a very impor-
tant matter, unloss he be man Of better
educational qualities, than any of
which Mr. Brown is possessed. The char
acter Of both gentlemen, is perhaps equal
ly unimpeachsble, But why does the
writer go so far from home, or disguise
the fact that there is another Demo
crat in the field, or why does he not pro-
pose convention to rule off one or the
other, so as to prevent any Wing from
marching in through the breach that may
be made by two opposing Democrats
Col. Smith, will submit. doubtless, to the
decision of any proper authority, if this
matter is to be made political matter
and see not why it may not be as well
as any other. But let not one gentleman
undertake to constitute himself a conven.
ton, to say that Mr. Brown, and he only
shall be the candidate. If the people are
Interested to make this election party
question, let them assemble in = fair con-
vention, mot your HHle loud speaking cau-
cas- that undertakes to speak, in a commit
tee of three, appointed by itself, the voice
Of the whole district) and decide who
should be the candidate of the Democra-
tic side Unity Of action cannot be rea-
sonably expected in any other way.
But it will be said that Col. Smith is
very unfortunate in being obnoxious to
the serious and grave charge of being an
" eIeVenth hour" man,--not well tried and
true. He has not worn himself long
enough yet, in the service of the party
Nov our sentiments may be peculiar IN
on this point, but we are disposed to award
to man, who may have come in at the
eleventh our, az much power, land in some
cases more, to render the Democratic
party efficient service, rs to him who might
have been born under the lucky star Of
Democracy. The former must be sun
posed to have been well drilled to Wbip
doctrines and having abandoned them al.
ter due investigation of the distinctive
principles of both parties, and boldly and
conscientiously aYoWed himself forever
hereafter the advocate of Democracy, ho
becomes justly entitled to her plaudits and
her encouragement and support. For no
one is more likely to appreciate properly
the greatness and superiority of any one
set of principles, than he who has been
behind the scenery of the antagonist and
had fair view Of the evils insita." the
"Vis tergo" and the {" modus operandi''
thereof. Besides, were Democracy to
carry out the objection alluded to above
in reference to eleventh hour men, what
would become of many of her brightest