The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-29
The Reputation Law in maryland.

The Reputation Law in Maryland.
The following items which we clip
from the Baltimore Gazette serve to illus
trate the working OF the registration
law " in Maryland Ii we wonld save
West Virginia from a similar fate VIC
must prevent the election of a radical
Legislature this fail The Gazette says
that in Baltimore "four hundred and
eighty.eight voters have been registered
in the Second ward. In 1860 this ward
polled fifteen hundred and sixty-one
votes.
In the Tenth ward four hundred and
nine voters have been registered This
ward polled in 1850 seventeen hundred
and thirty-one votes, or more than fonr
times as many as are now down as quail
fed"
A correspondent Of the same paper
writing from Kent county says;
81 am native of this Statei have been
o voter here for fifteen years; have al
ways paid my taxes, and i'll all respects
have been law-abiding citizen, against
whom has been lodged no charge, either
criminal or immoral, and who has hereto.
fore labored under the idea that he held
the respect of the people among whom
he has 80 long resided; and yet, notwith
standing all this, l AM at this present
writing under a ban" Why? Simply
because attempted to obtain RICH, |
have exercised without let or hindrauce
for fifteen years-the right Of Il freeman
only-the right to rote.
Three weeks ago / went before the
Board of Registers Tor the First Election
District OF this county, to have my lame
REGISTERED as a voter OF said district. After
taking the oath prescribed, and, as /
thought, answering all questions put to
me satisfactorily, WAS told they would
let mo know in few weeks what would
be done. A week pa sed, and no charges
were laid against ME. Finding that 10
one would come forward, they canraSsed
the neighborhoOd, aud at last found two
parties that came forward, first secretly
and then publicly, and swore to u con-
cocted lie, which was immensely relished
by the Board Of Registers. After the
farce ola trial. at which my intormers
were allowed to state and re-state what
they p.eased, contradicting themselves
time aud again, was not allowed to say
O word, or would be committed to Jail.
1T is said in the neighborhood, in con-
sequence Of my Acknowledgement by the
Board Of Registers, that am to be in
dioted by the court of the county for per-
jury and treason. 4"
II am not charged with violating any
law, State or national; no immortality is
alleged against me; am charged by
these two informers that sometime during
the war, they do not remember whether
it was this year, last year, or the year be-
tore, that il their presence alone, / srore I
spoald pile brush against the house of Union
men and set fire to il With my o,on hands-
they alleged said SO many things, but
this is all they could recollect. was
not permitted to cross-examine these two
',r;tnssses" by the Board And now l am
disfranchised, and an indictment for per
jury and treason is hanging over my
my case has frightened all decent ! er.
sons away from appearing to be register
Cd, and, / am told, not three Democrats
in the district are registered"
The radicals in West Virginia have
adopted the tactics taught them by their
brethren in Maryland in endeav oring to
secure the adoption of an amendment to
the State Constitution. They will pro-
badly learn also the lesson of iniquity
taught by the registration law unless good
men are chosen members of the next Leg.
lslature. -