The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-09-16

have already given healthier tone to our
: financial system.
A CARD..-Candidate for Con.
.. 5ei5 greSs. ,tsg.--
Among the number of names announced
to the people of this District as candidates
for Congress at the coming election, we
lind the name Of E. NJ. Norton, of Wheel
ing; and without detracting from the claims
OF any one else, we assert that he unites in
himself characteristics which plsee him far
above all others. Raised partially in the
city of Richmond, to heritage of poverty
he started out in the world with no capital
but his own strong arms. What he has
accomplished the city of Wheeling bears
enduring monuments. After the great fire
at Pittsburg in lS45, he left that place to
find some suitable location where skill as
mechanic, and his energy as aworking man,
would find fitting development. Previous
to that time all efforts, eyen those
of the millionaire Shoenberger of Pitts
burg, to develop a profitable iron
business in Wheeling had failed, but this
Virginia Yankee, coming back again to the
bosom of his almost mother State, shower.
ed upon her every energy he possessed
With five thousand dollars which Norton
had saved as a nail maker, he joined com
pany under the style of Hunter, Morrison
& Co., and built Nail Factory on the spot
where the Baltimore and Ohio Depot now
stands. The Virginia Mill now at Ben
wood is that establishment. The poor boy
who was left at ten years of age with his
fathers family dependent upon him, and all
younger tnan himself without friends or
education, became not merely q blessing to
them, but the chief manager in
this successful concern. Subsequent
ly, he withdrew from il and organ.
lied an association of working men now
known as the Belmont Mill, on the princ.
pie that labor should be directly interested
in the success Of the establishment, by
giving to the operators themselves the
profits. The result has been that the Bel
mont Mill has enriched every one that has
ever been cannected with II; and as the
same principle was subsequently introduc.
ed into the Labelle Mill, the success there
has been not less marked The working
pardner felt that be was laboring for his
family and for himself, and not for somo
favored capitalist. The prosperity of the
establishment has been such that Wheeling
nails have now reputation co-extensive
with the country. and whie the pioneer es-
| tablshment of choenberger has been closed
for years, it was reserved for the Bel
mont Mill, under Norton Achcson a
Co, to lease and run their machinery night
and day. Is this not record Of which the
working men in this District ought to be
proud? Does it not give assurance that
their interest will not be compromised in
Congress BY Mr.. Norton? While tho ars
tucrats of the past have sunk into their
graves, leaving but broken estates, NJ.
Norton has accumulated n fortune and
made every associate he has ever had, his
brothers included, rich. The Same chsrac-
teristic has been shown in tho beauty and
taste with which he has adorned bis rural
home, coDfessedly the most cultivated in
the neighborhood Of Wheeling, and now,
i, like the enterprsing Broderick, of Cali
fOrnia, who, from his humble sphere as a
mechanic, represented that distant State in
the Senate of the United States, Mr.
Norton aspires to an honorable sta.
ton, not merely as party man,
but as successful American mechanic
who, in our midst, more richly deserves
that distinction than he who, when the
new State trembled in the balance and had
not cent to buy postage stamps, came
voluntarily with his aboundng love Of coun.
try and proffered bis means 10 sustain it,
Without tho loan which Mr. Norton made
at the time, it is possible that West Virgin.
ia might not now exisc as State. Arc wo
TO hesitate in regard to such acts? Are
those who stood back at the hour OF tho
sorest trial, who hesitated at the critical
moment to the very last hour, aud did moth.
ing, to be allowed now to push him away
from the vantage ground be has attained
As the prosperity Of the City of Wheeling
is largely attributable to the working policy
which Mr.. Norton inaugurated, lst the
mechanics and laboring men stand by their
| best friend Look To the character and an
tecedents Of those who oppose him. What
have they done for the working men, for
the new State or the nation, az compared
with him. 4.r
As an original friend Of the Pre- ident, A.
an unwayering Union man, be will posses,
| influence at asmngton which bnt lew, ~
any other, man can command, and a. this
portion Of our State must depend for the fu
ture, for its progress, upon free labor, let
the champion Of that labor and enterprise,
the man who, for bis whole lifetime has
fought for the principle that labor should
command capital, instead Of capital com
manding labor, be promoted TO the position
Of our Representative. His bold and fear
less character, strong will and persevsring
industry can do much for Us. See 10 il,
working men, that you give him your sup
port. In every presence, under all circum-
stances, in all places, he has stood, and
, still stands, the unwaveripg, un6inching sd-
vocate Of your advancement and interests;
you can never lose your rights land inter
, ests in free government with represents.
. tives such as he. He will hold and guard
, it for you as the apple Of bis eye against all
, usurpers and agsinst oil doubters -
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