Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-08-16

We believe there never was a wing
Governor in Virginia. Thomas w. Oils
mer was the nearest approach 10 one We
recollect and he was more than half a.
democrat then, aad soon became alwholei
one. This condition fittings has accus-
toned wings for so many years to visiting
denunciation upon the occupant Of that
high position that he becomes &c o6fcio
the target of.their accumulated bile. The
Governor of the Old Dominion they place
in much the same category with q hogreeve
or hangman, and mention him, when
they speak of him at all, in mingled vein
of pity, contempt and aversion. 1t is very
seldom that, the democratic party is for
tunate enough to put man in the chair
whom they can look upon with silence if
not complacency but our last three GO
yernors. Smith. Floyd and johnson. have
incurred more than the average intensi-
ty of inyectiye. The first of the three,
perhaps on account of the dge-hammer
blows he dealt from the stump on whig-
gerry in 1874. was peculiarly obnoxious,
and we thought their bitterness could no
further go. But the treatment he re-
ceived has been surpassed by that dealt
out by the wing journals to the present
the first elected under the new
popularised constitution. t Such crea-
ture as Joe Johnson" is an expression we
find in whig exchange casually lying
before us and it is fair sample of the
language ordinarily used by them in re-
gard to him. It is disgrace to the Vir
ginia press, and through it to the State.
The latest occasion for this style Of OPP
position is Communication of punishment
recently granted to cipital convict in
named McCRuley. Wing
journals at n distance from the communi-
ty Immediately concerned are answered,
however-such in the force of facts-by
their congener printed on the spot, which
is, by the way, generally one of the most
furious of the antiJohhsonians. He
says:
=" For our part, we are sure that the
Governor was right in Nc Cauley's case,
and we are equally sure that a very large
majority of the people Of Rockingham
thinks with us,
We have direct intelligence from a
well.infoFmed gentleman Of Rockingham
to the same effect. The petition, he states,
was signed by all the most respectable CT
tizens of the country, wings and demo
u avs anu SdIISlhCIlOll dI IT'S euCCCSS 10
general. There were, as we learned from
an account published at the time. many
palliating circumstances connected with
the crime. The slain man boosted to
Noes face, and repeatedly, of having
dou6ky invaded the purity Of the lattcr's
domestic circle. That his boast was at
least partially true-in other words he
had seduced The sister-was established
by the evidence. The act of the prisoner,
who was of inferior physical strength, in
shooting him under these circumstances.
was remarkably paralleled in Delaware
two or three years ago. Tho verdict in
that case, promptly rendered of not
guilty" was received in the courtroom
with acclamations which were echoed
elsewhere throughout the country. That
verdict was not in strict accordance with
law; but the Virginia jury might have
combined law and equity by accompany
ing their verdict OF" guilty. with strong
to mercy. We should
then have heard comparatively little out
cry at the Governors having done his
duty Vim Viry.