The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1862-06-05

For the Register.
"NAUGHT BUT WAR NEWS CAN
BE READ"

citing times The mania for such newl
seems to have euyeloped all classes, anc
now days little else is read, spoken oil
talked of. Whom friends meet the frs
salutation is "wha's the news from The
sea! OF warp The physician is called
TO his patient--bis chief conversation is
about the war--orthe diseases, aud mis-
forunos incident .bereto. md Of the
woundel, crippled, and MANNED. The
lawyer connot argue case, but bs must
refer to something connected with the
war. The minister Of the gospel cannot
ascend the sacred desk without inter
spersing and intermioging more or less
in bis sermons anecdotes and incidents
witch have occurred in tho war No
collection in groups of men or women
can be found throughout our entire coun-
try, but the chief and all absorbing topic
Of conversation is the ,oar nc,os.
Why is this SO? Does any one find
fault? Certainly not. The rsosOn that
the feeling and mania (if we may SO call
it,) is SO universal is plain and natural
A foe to our government has arose in
our midst, and formed itself into the most
gigantic rebellion the world ever wit
messed. The very pets wac had flourish
ed, fed and fattencd, on the pap and
milk ofthe government, now became the
movers and life. sprinss OF this wicked
and self-devouring rebellion. Judas and
Arnold, bayc over been thought unpar-
donuble traitors, but their crime sinks
into insignifcance whom compared to
that Of these God .forsaken rebels. The
very snake in the fable which bit tho
hand that warmed it into life, did not
exhibit any more Of the venom aud spir'
it of hell, than do those feeders and
taRcney at the public crib show now in
their atlemp. to overthrow the govern
ment. 1t is not, therefore, strange that
our people should feel such oveTwhelm'
ing interest in the war.
This rebellion must be put down, or it
will suck the lire.blood of the govern
ment. Hence every loyal and honest
man and woman will say, "lei the cost
be what il may the rebellion must be
crushed out" Perhaps there has not
been in any decade of the earths' exis-
tence, or in the epoch Of the history OF
time a parallel case A people SO high
ly favored, and blessed with all the lber-
| ty and freedom which man is capable Of
enjoying. With peace and prosperity
unequallcdin any otherpart Of the globe.
With soil and climate adapted for the
production and growth Of nearly all
things necessary for man; having wealth,
health, peace and prosperity in every
department throughout our entire do
main. We have been gazed at, and &c.
knowledged by ;he civilized world as q
nation "highly favored and blessed Of the
Lord" Could any one in the midst o.
this bliss and happiness enjoved by oul
poopiS, have supposed o. N.l'tytd" I0at
in the very lap and bosom Of the nation
there wasa rebel serpent, pulsing breath
Ing aud lurking Had President Jack
son hung John @. Calhoun, in 1882, foI
his reasonable course, SIS he was con
templating TO do, lhia serpent Of rebel
lion would have been destroyed in ON
bryo, and oul country saved from the
poisonous venom which it now belchc'
forth Iftoo generation" to whom
the Saviour adhered himself "boon guilty
of all the blood that was she'd from
righteous Abel up to that day surely
the leaders in this wicked and uuholy re,
ballion, arc guilty before Heaven Of eve
" drop of blood she'd or may be shed
in this unnatural war,--and will be held
accountable before the Eternal rribu
nal of Justice for every sigh, and for ov,
every moan, and every stroke of sorrow
which have emcnatcd from, OF picrcOd
Tho suffering heart oflbc poor widow aud
helpless orphans, made by these worth