The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-06-05
For theiRegister.
Clarksburg and Fairmont.
CLARKsBURG, June'2, 81

EDITORS DAILY REGISTER - nave
been at different times s%ojourning in
many of onr West Virginia towns, and in
truth must say that in none ofthem have
1 felt more at home, at anytime, than in
this good old town of Clarksburg. This
time l am so charmed with it that / en-
terrain serious notions of making it my
permanent place of abode. The people
are kind, conservative and disposed to do
right in all things to all men. You sell
dom or never meet that style of Yankee
here, whom Horace Greedy yarns his ne
gro friends of the Southern States to be-
ware Of On the contrary those persons
from Yankee land who have made their
homes here, since the commencement of
our unhappy civil war, are as a general
thing men of enterprise and skill, whose
exertions will assist materially in devel-
oping and bringing to light the hidden
treasures O. the hills which surround the
place. There is company of Light Ar!
tillery now here and most of the boys
are from your city. They are commanded
by a Lieutenant, and are as complete a set
Of gentlemen as can be found in the SER
vice anywhere, | understand they expect
to leave for Wheeling soon to be mustered
out Of service. They will carry with
them to their Wheeling homes Il prayer
full God speed from many Clarksburs-
ers. Imet to-day, by accident, a gentle
man from New Creek, Hampshire com
ty, who was present at a mass meeting of
the citizens of that county held a day or
SO previously. The meeting ! believe
was called by the Radicals for the pur-
pose of organizing an opposition ofsorne
sort to the policy of the Administrations,
in allowing returning rebels to reside
amongst them. Messrs. K~arskadOn, Sheets
and Adams, noted Radicals, made speech
es of the most ultra character, and took
strong ground in opposition to the rules
laid down by the authorities both civil
and military, for Il observance. o. ID,
Downey Esq took the stump in favor of
law, order and good government. He
laid naked the treason of the Radicals;
showed the meeting that Kaiskadon &
Co., were the worst enemies Of the peo-
pie, aud upon a showing of hands had
the happiness Of being in the majority
nearly two to one.
Marion, poor old Marion county, is, |
am informed, yet under the heel of the
oppressor. A few men, black at heart,
cold blOoded and cowardly, generally get
together a number OF youngsters filled at
times with bad whiskey, and lead them
forward to riot and disorder. Robbing
and murder We're committed in omen day
on many occasion during tho past four
Il ..,,r, TrgfinAc nf tha panan I'm. l.. fro
| ~quently refused to ISSUE the proper writs
forthe arrest of the perpetrators, because
| the unfortunate victims were alleged
| sympathiserS with the South, and all
| that was to be done at any time in order
| that this party of progress and high Mo
| raj principles, might stamp you a sym
| pathiser, was to vote the democratic
| ticket. The authorities of the State of
| West Virginia, have on two or three sue
| cessive occasions declared election results
| void because the democrats were success
| full. Old MI John Michaels than whom
Il better union man does got live, vas
| elected three successive times Justice Of
| the Peace for his precinct, but would not
| be permitted to serve because he was a
| democrat. Only Il few days ago a party
| of poor misguided unfortunates returned
| to Fairmont from Dixie, aud were scare
ly given time to breathe freely, after the
| night had set in, when these valiants
waited upon them with a demand that
| they leave town in fifteen minute3 The
| men who lead in this business are with
| out much character or standing, have
| little or no interests in the town or
county and are mostly new Coners.-
Il ltnv-,,,,nn p,.a,,n, \, Gill, ,,-.,. e
what is going OH out in these parts: he
is fully informed. Attorney General Hall
is greatly to blame. His political friends
are the evil doors. A word from him
would put a stop to the lawlessness that
| runs riot i'll Fairmont and surroundings.
| The Governor will not interfere, His
| Attorney General has not a word to say,
| except words ofcOunscl for the men who
| have illegally assessed, and by force and
| violence collected, nearly six thousand
| dollars from the Mcclellan men of the
county, The people suffer, and there is no
one to redress their evils or right their
| wrongs. But tue time is at hand when
expressions and tyranny must cease, and
when the laws must and will he impair
| TALLY enforced. The treedom-loving peo-
| pie of our mountain State will rise in
| Conservative grandeur. Then will the
good old Democratic county of Marion
come forth as of yore, with her sixteen
hundred and fifty odd Democratic votes
on the side of law, order and the Consti-
tuition, and against the advocates of
mobocracy and negro equality and all
their attendant evils.
Respectfully yours, &c,
i o. p ht O'T.IT