Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-03-07
and wilnded hacks who work its

and broken-wInded hacks who work its
lettering machinery, yigor not their
own. Whatit desires. it execrates-wh hat
it lauds. itNhates. There are times when
he permits bis excessive friendship to de-
friend BY its confession times.
too. when the rancor OF some personal
disappointment may blind himNto the be-
nefit his most atrocious calumnies confer.
For the Judas kiss with which he can kill
a friend, let the present disorder and dis
of the Hindoo association snf-
fee. He has established for himself a
reputation most disastrous to whatever
cause he advocates. 1t was not great
many years ago. that he was placed at
the head OF the only. paper. published in a
large scope of country embracing nearly
all western Virginia. The Journal was
the dissemination OF pohtiS,
cal news, and continued, through the pa
tronage of apeople anxious for the en-.
cotld afford, TO increase In
prosperity; until the EDITORS intfdel. and
deistic peneFdRt became so great, ithst he
turned Rsinto a vehicle for the promuig
ton oftiis pssudo.ecclesiastieal d6gmasi:
when its supp0rfceased, the journal died.
and the editor sank even below the ecS..
ciesiasticai mercury Of his newspaper - -
so effectually did he destroy aud cause
the people to lose faith in newspa-
portal influence in the country, that there
has never since been a political journal
established upon a firm basis -snd there
have been many attempts witt apresS
tige that could cope with the deadly in
fue nee his treacbery had established, uh-
til the g Rsgistsr" began its career, about
five years ago; which, thtoughits sound.
ness upon religious and political ptinci-
pies, and the indomitable energy and un.
wavering Independence Of its editor, has
succeeded, to u great degree, in freeing.
the press from the moral obloquy and po-
liticial odium which, for twenty five years
has lowered over it, Tapping its midnight
wings like the dark and sombre phantoms
which haunted the sons of Odin. 9
That the man of the Gage, ITO whom I re.
fer in these terms of strong but all too feeble
eulogy was at that time, and until recent
ly, protested Democrat. is not denied !;
he says it himself; and that he should so
recently have been seized with such pi:
Gus horror at the encroachments Of Cath!
olics and foreigners. is fact of alarming
and ominous import While Know Moth.
ingism enjoys his voluntary allegiance, no
thinking man could have question of its
infamy. And as his conversion to this
order took place about twelve lunar
months ago, when he was found occupy.
ing an elegant ra1cAsro on one Of the pub.
lie thoroughfares that traverse the Yves.
tern portion Of the State, living in a con-
dition of transformations retirement, as do
some of the Esquimaux tribes, scorping
manual labor and all other vulgar accom- :,
plishments, living on means unearued,
unlnherited, unpaid.for, 6lchiug the art
and labor OF honest men, which to them
is wealth, and occupying wiLhal the posi-
ton of mendicatory trickster, q suspicion
very naturally presents itself, which, un-
I'll better Informed, / do not careto state,
more openly. Yet Thought which must
ere this have arisen in The minds Of the
simple Hindoos. | will present more fully,
and, perhaps, more metrically, TO their,
contemplation 4
/" Who tbinketh to buy viIluiny with gold, r
Shall ever find such faith SO boushl--so Sold"
AT anyfrste. one thing is sure: that the
Age Of Progress. whether actuated by,
hire, or the mere intrinsic disloya of it's
conductor, is trying 10 do work, for.
which the. enemies of human freedom,
rightly understood, might we'll be sup-
posed 10 reimburse it--a work to- make
angels weep, and all the /" satanic my
rladslof the knom~Nothing CounciIssthrin
joyously in their Gery lairs. A work that
will resonate euphoniously upon the
heart;strings of this rabble. rout' of
shameless men, inhamed With wine aud.
paSslon-animRte the souls of this motley
group. more loathsome and obscene than
the bestial herd that Ihronged 81 the tenn
pics OF the Cyprian goddess. as they ga.
Their round the foul orgies of political III.
cense and debauch. in a wild Satun,aia.
OF rampant vice. unseemly as a dance of
Satyrs or unloosed demons at the high
carnival Of Tartarus n =
do not allude to the reckless mutila.
ton by which. through his columns, he
has reduced the tongue which Milton.
wrote and Patrick Henry spoke to be
barbarous billingsgate and unintellisibIe
jargon-aa mutildtion which has deyoiyed
upon the respected ghost OF Lind1ey Mar4
ray the role OF a grammatical Prom6ttie.
us, with progressive editorial yu!ture
forever preyiug on his tenderest parts of
speech. l do not mention any Of his mi.
nor crimes against morality, his putrid in.
fidelity, the characters he has so unde.
servedly traduced, and the virtuous and
respectable females around whom he has
wound the insidious ivy Of his unhoIy.
love. and the iendish surfeits of ram.
pant lust even upon one who, through. The
Influence OF an empty blunderbuss and a
pair of brogan boots, welded by an en-.
ragged and dishonored parent, is now his
nearest ofkith and KIM do not speak of
the time when, in the heat OF malhematical
ardor, be repaired 70 an adjacent STATE 10