The Kingwood chronicle. [volume] (Kingwood, Va. [W. Va.]) 1861-1861, 1861-03-16
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MEssRs. EDITORS

MESsRs. EDITORS
In the Chronicle Of the ID inst, notice
communication signed S'Vox Populi'' pur-
porting to be reply to my communication
Of the 23d ult All who have read the two
communications must be convinced that Vox
Populi has put upon my. COMMUNICATION CON
struction which it does not warrant. / am
no Office seeker nor never intend to be. What
is there in my communication that would JUS
tify him in getting 50 enraged ? There is too
much truth in it perhaps, which IS something
he is stranger to. Whether the chaste,
classic appelations "Demagogue, trigger
settlers, disappointed office seeker, and
kindred phrases are appropriate Or not ssVox
Populi is the best judge, as he IS replete in
slang phrases and high sounding nonsense.
Pardon me, Messrs, Editors, if borrow some
Of Vox Populi phrases for prefer to ad-
dress gentlemen in their own vernacuar -
Who are the trigger settlers Verify they
are the very men who now think honest men
shouM speak, and expect, and intend, upon
4 the empty cry Of Union and no party to
ride into Office over the heads Of gallant
people. BY many the trigger settlers are
denominated the Court House clique, and,
in part, this IS true; yet those who are post
cd know that said clique has its branches in
all sections Of the county. The harem Of the
yelled prophet may be in Kingwood but
his vicegerants are stationed in every neigh
borhood. But / return to examine the rela-
4 tive truth and merit Of the two | said that
/ the late election for delegates to our State
4 Convention is claimed as a Wing victory.
What say the Journals, all over the country
In Virginia the anti-democratic papers claim
/ it (mild term) as an opposition victory,
and III the Northern States it is claimed as a
| BlacA Republican victory Which horn Of
the dilemma will 'sNox Populi select? Cha
meleon-likc, hc can at will, be red Or blue
but to pretend to be democrat, is an insult
70 The intelligence Of the democratic voters Of
Preston. Again | said the Breckenridge
party in Preston are denounced as disunlon-
ists Singular concessions 'vox Populi'
acknowledges he is guilty, but justlfcs his
untoward impndence by asserting that sew
en-cighths Of the secessionists, are men who
II they voted at all voted for Breckenridge.
I, gentlemen, voted for Mr. Breckenridge, not
because he was found in bad company,
nor because he was John c. Breckenridge Of
Kentucky, but because he was placed upon
platform which was preeminently national
and conservative, Nor have forgotten that
those whining sycophants who now cry
Union and 'Disunion, did not dare in
the late Presidential canvass to assail the
principles Of the Breckenridge Democracy,
while they invariably dodgel the sSquatter
Sovereignty dogma Of Mr., Douglas Alas,
Mr. ~Vox Populi, = fear you are not post
ed either, Or you would not dare to impose
thus on the credulity Of the hard listed yeo-
nlanry Of Preston county, after taking the
position you did in the late Presidential cam
paign. But sVox Populi' tells Us that
the people have been deceived the first,
and perhaps the only truth in the whole com
munication- he fails to tell Us when, and
BY whom 1t was on the 4th day Of February,
1861, BY him and his coadjutors. Did not
casion, report to the people Of the county
that there was party in this county opposed
To the Union Were not the nominations of
Messrs Brown and AIcGrew-both worthy
men virtually made before the county con
vention met? Were not the people told that
those were the Union men andsby sending
them to the convention, the Union would be
safe2 70 complete the imposition, were not
letters written from the town Of kingwood
urging delegates to come up and vote for
McGrew and Brown, and their expenses
would he paid prorided they stopped " the
| Jlnoa House 2 If these are not facts. will
Mr. Nox, please inform the voters Of Pres
ton why It was that "a midnight cry was
raised On the night proceeding the election
that the .disunionlsts had organized and
would Be at the polls and defeat us unless
We send our ,rise men to all the precincts to
Instruct the people hor n rotet | say here,
and challenge contradiction, that q more
stupcndous fraud was never practiced upon
our intelligent people than .Nox Populi and
his friends prtcticed On that occasion, Yet
Of course he and they ate not demegogues.
Finally. have Messrs MeGrew and Brown
I done anything ia Convention to prove them
selves better Union men than those who we're
! denounced as dsunonists before the election.
] IF Mr. Brown friends feel fattered that the
New York Times puts him down As Black
] Republican, do not, nor do think he is
ameanable to the charges Ihave confidence
] in both our delegates, until [ see them sur
render our rights {God forbid they should)
and in that event they viii desire the execra-
tions Of all true Union men One word be-