Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-10-31
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j Ggr We copy the following excellent,
Y letter, from Randolph county. from the
Richmond Enquirer. five mistake not
the writer. he is one ofsthe ablsst and
i lmOst efficient Democrats tu the county
From Randolph County.o 81
j TO tlel Editors Of ats EeQainsr y .e
HurroNsyrLIs. Randolph Co.. Vail
/ 9. s. October 9th. 1856.
GENTLEMEN - My object of writing is
not merely for the purpose oftelling you
that the cause of the Democracy la this
county, isonward and upward. Although
our Kuow-Nothing friends-God forgive
the expression (friends, 1-are claiming
this county, since Tucker has been stricken
of, yet mark the prediction, Old Ram
dolph, shorn of Tucker, viii give TO Buck
aud Brock one hundred majority. In
1866, with Tucker attached, she only
gave the gallant Wise l2I majority
Thus sou win see we are up and doing.
We have lost, by the formation of Tuck.
er, $50 or 200 Democratic votes but
Randolph will gallantly wheel into tho
Democratic line. This will be done, too,
without the aid of foreign speakers. Wc
have had no speechfrom any mau with.
out the Magnus Apollo from Augusta.E
John ID. lImboden, and God send we may
never have another such. lsq
have not, seon Botts' African Church.
speech, or Henry Winter Davis of Balti-
moro but, from what I have heard of
them, they were manufactured from the
same old rotten web. Imboden denoun.
ced the Kansas Nebraska bill, (Rs their
prototypes, Fillmore) as tho "Pandorn
Box" out ofwhich came the evils of the
present day. He denounced tho Demo-
cratic party as disunionists, traitors and
sycophants, and moro especially The Cal
houn wing (as he formed it) al The De.
mocratic party the South as tho aggres.
sors upon the law abiding North and all
such senseless and idle tWaddle.
We have had it thrown into our teeth,
by members of the Legislature in Eastern
Virginia. that our people in the North
West were not sound upon the slavery
question, but, thank God, whom Botts'
tree~soil speech was made IN Beverly by
Imboden. no cheers rent the air, as wan
the case in the oity Of Richmond, whom
the arch.traitor himself belched forth It's
discordant notes.
II IS true but small portion Of our
people arc shareholders, but upon the
principle of the Kansas Nebraska bill, wo
are rs the plumb line and would. for the
sake Of that inestimable principle. that
some of our North -Westers were in Rich
mond on the 4th day Of November next.
to instruct, Of the ballot>box, many Of
your rich nabobs how 10 protect their pro.
perty in slaves: The charge upon the
North. West comes with bad grace from
the city of Richmond-the Gibraltor OF
free -soiism in Virginia. People livingin
glass houses ought not TO throw ston6s.'
70 cheer such man as John NJ Bolts,
such aspeech, and ut such crisis, 10. 20
say the least, unfortunate, appalling aud
disgraceful to Richmond.
Many of our merchants were lurnine
their eyes to that place as mart TO puF.
chase their goods, instead Of going to tho
Abolition cities OF tho North bat why
forsske the old and triod haunts Of vice 20
build up new ones? To uso an old hum
ter's phrase, IL is tho worst kind Of dog
that will kill sheep at home. Bolts and
Davis speeches, are choered in all tho
abolition cities in the North, and the came
speeches, by the same men, are cheered
in Baltimore and Ricbmond-in two
States deeply interested in slave property.
o shame, where is thy blush p 20
consistency, thou art jeWell' Youmay
say the cheerers OF Bolts and company
are Know Nothings. 80 they are. In the
North; and have come TO The oonelu.
sion that hog is hog. n Know N othing
is Know Nothing, and a Democrat ID a
Democrat, sec them whore you will.
Is it not passing strange that men who
have not dollar invested 10 slave pro.
pcrty, who earn their bread by day's
work, by the sweat Of their brow, and
who have always been held Hp by The up
per tens, the Goldfish ariStocracy Of Vfr-
ginia us being unsafe 10 trust with slave
property, are supporting James Buchanan,
the only candidate in the Geld who can
show pure record upon the slave ques-
ton. and that question the only one 10 this
canvass. and those r. r. v. 3 who have
their all invested in ebo shinns and piz-
zard feet, are going for man Who tells
tell who frankly and plainly tells
them that be sucked his love ,of
freedom and hatred 10 slavery from his
mothers breast, and IL has grown with
his growth and strengthened with bis
strength end who during the six
years Of service ia the Congress Of TIE u.
8. never. no, never gave vote upon that
question that was faYorablet towards the
South aud when you call them 10 40.
count for it. "he signed the fugitive slave
BILL" This 10 the paDacea for all their
ills. This reminds mo o. Doctor. who.
when he eailed 70 see patient, would al
Il ways give something 70 throw them into
fits, after he got them into tha. state he