Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-28

A CLEAN RECoRD-Can any body tell what
clean record is2 That's what we want to
known. Had Thomas Jefferson, JAS Madison,
Chief Justice Marshall, and others of our now
belOw-ground great men, clean records
Such stuff asis daily being emitted by some
of the journals of this State, TO show up the
soundness or unsoundness of some of our living
politicians, lis enough to physic snpe." 1t
is indeed! Its niger, only niger, and niger
continually.
We suppose, however, here's sound one-a
''rale clear grit" who writes as follows to the
Richmond Enquirer:
The day has not yet arrived when the Vir-
ginia Democracy shall, in convention, be forced
to say that they have no Democrats with clean
records! Soon after the Southampton affair,
when the confidence of many was shaken, as
regards the institution of slavery, the Hon.
George w. Summers gave vent to partial aboli-
ton proclivites. In 847, in the face of light
and Knowledge Mr.. Letcher superadds treach-
cry to crime, q mean politically by positive
abolition blow, struck at the bosom of the
mother (Virginia) whose Bible teaches that God
established and upholds slayery. Now, in the
year 1910, George w. Summers became can
didate for the Office Of Governor Of Virginia.
The genius of the man threatened to overrun
the Democracy of Virginia, and would, 1 verify
believe, have done so, had lie not by Democrats
been charged, arraigned tried and convicted of
abolition tendencies. Now, MessrS. Editors,
who is most guilty-Summers or Letcher? 1
ask you, gentlemen, Editors of the true Demo-
cratic organ Of Virginia, to decide Let the
people know-let them know if that which is
criminal in Wing is justifiable in a Democrat.
Let it be so decided, and the days of our party
are numbered. Again, Messrs Editors, Just
glance at the political stripe ofthe gentleman who
addressed the communication to Ruffner inYit-
ing him to publish his insult to Virginia. Hear
them say to him, we do not expect you to con-
fine yourself TO the speech as made, but go it
blind-we will back You. Yes; who were those
gentlemen? How many Democrats were there
in that list? 1t has to me great deal of the old
Federal, Central power, liberty killing, ''nigger"
eleyating, Wing smell:
Now we put it to the common sense of every
body,f tits not the most ridicuiousstuffa and nom
sense that even Eastern Virginia abstractionists
ever wasted ink upon, TO be trying to write poor,
bald headed John Letcher, into unsoundness,
when every mothers son of them knows that in
SO doing they faint the i'early fathers" whose
names we have cited above, all over, from head
TO foot, with exactly the same lcprosy.
Here arc the cases of Judge Summers and
John Letcher, two veteran politicians, both pc
cuniarly interested in the .'institution"-
of whom,have been tried and-not found wanting,
when tried, in fealty to all the laws of Suite
institution" and all, who nevertheless are this
day branded and ostracised. And why p
Mark it, we ask why Because they have
subscribed to and reiterated some of the same
some of the Identical opinions that several of
our most honored and most illustrious dead put
on record long before them. Talk about Alb
sOlutism-Jugger Ultramontanism, or
any other repulsive ism you have a mind,
but reckoning into the estimate the day and
age and country and the theory of the Govern
ment under which we live, and there never ex-
listed anywhere more relentless, inexorable
and exhorbitant tyranny than the niggcrism Of
these abstractionists
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