The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-02-28
UNDERGROUND Work.


UNDERGROUND Work.
We are not, as some may suppose,
altogether ignorant of the vancouver
ing and underground work of certain
Of our quondam friends in this vicln-
ity. Nor are we much alarmed for
the injury that may accrue to our
enterprise from it. Men who have
not moral stamina sufficient to pre-
sent an open front in support OF any
course they may espouse, are not
men who will exert much influence,
or from whom much is to be feared.
We are only induced to notice it,
from the fact that one of the fabrica-
lions emanating from this secret con-
clave, having been circulated some
distance from home, has gained cred
it, iuasmuch as the source was not
we'll known. The report comes to
us somewhat in this form ;--"That
our paper was backed by a club of
ofice-seekers who were in the back
ground furnishing the means for its
support, while we were their tools
acting before the public.
Now we wish, once for all, frankly
to deny this charge in toto. We
have not become so far destitute of
something to employ our time, th-,'
we should descend to be the tools of
club Of office-seekers, or any other
club. We come before the public in
our true characters. We have nei-
Their asked nor do we receive aid
from any man: or club of men, gra-
tuitously The tactics, therefore, OF
this party who have set ahoat such
fabrications, are shown very clear
" in this one we have taken the
pains to disavow. Knowing us to
have a few friends who are willing,
and have used their efforts to aid ia
increasing the circulation Of our pa
per, this party would stamp such as
"office-saekers,' before the public.
in order to discourage them from CIV
ing us any further assistance.
Having thus freely and fully dis
claimed there being any truth, or
even shadow of truth in this report,
we hope our friends will no longer
allow themselves to be influenced by
the base Vaccinations of these men.
We have nothing to say, nor
could we reasonably object to opposi-
ton to our paper, any more than
could public man to the creed
which he adopts, provided that OPP
position were conducted in an open,
manly, and dignified manner. But
when a set of men will endeavor to
screen themselves from view, deal in
lies, and use any and every kind of
disgraceful craftiness for the purpose
of defeating an honorable enterprise,
we feel justified in denouncing them
in the strongest terms, or if so IN
clined, exposing their names to the
public. Did we desire to deal per-
sonally with the parties in question,
they are not less known to US than
are their acts. Nor are they uu-
known to any who are generally &C
quainted in this community. They
are men, some of whom from our ear
Hest recollection have been practiclng
cozening hypocrisy asa science, where
by to accomplish their purposes
They are men in whose countenances
the sun never beheld the faintest
shadow of integrity. They are men
who, at every opportunity, are found,
"squat like 8 toad at the feet of
those in power, seeking by their
plausible art, to augment their con-
sequence. And it is to be expected
that they will yet crawl into some
lucrative posts, by the same means
which satan adopted in entering Par.
adise. Whether we shall be made
q stepping stone to their elevation
we leave with our friends to deter
mine.