The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-16

their rights as the soldiers OF our sister
States. We say to the soldiers, come one,
come all to the Clarksburg Convention =
DECEMBER IL, 1865. 3. l.a.a.a q. .llss.2ss.sz
REPUBLICAN" correspondent of the
Parkersburg Gazette, addresses the fol-
lowing communication to the Editors of
the Times, in relation to their continual
attacks upon Gen. WILLIAM L. JACKSON;
GENTLEMEN: AS one of your subscr-
bers, feel annoyed at the daily attacks
in your paper upon William l.. Jackson
Esq.
Has it ever occurred to you that IN
stead of injuring him politically tnat
YOU are advertising him for SOME lhpoi-
tant Officer Perhaps for seat IN tne
senate of the United States. The KIND
| of ,ling donc uttered in your paper does
not damage Col. Jackson; he is too smart
= noI;tician not to see his advantage, and
coi,rt all such pop-gun attacks; they only
| .dy,artise him into an Importance he
lid not acquire if left alone. Neither
| Io, NOR ouestion his ability; he is
| shrewd, calculating politician, and per-
sonally popular amongst his old &C
o1ainfances, and if he can manage to
9et himself we'll abused, and his name
Constantly kept before the public, he
will certainly be under many obligations
TO those who, by their frequent and I'M
called for ridicule, have made HIM out
prosecuted man, thus aiding him III re.
pairing the damage he has done himself
| in taking ND arms against his country
Col Jackson has been playing truant
from school, he has come back and OF
course will take his proper place at the
foot of the class, and | propose to let him
work his way up at his leisure, If he can.
He has returned like thousand others,
who having seen the folly of their ways,
| acknowledge they have sinned and are
no more worthy to be called our leadars'
The war is now over; We are the VIC
tors; mercy should take her seat on the
throne beside Justice We are one peo-
ple. one family; we have quarreled,
| FOUGHT and conquered, now let us be
| friends. II was family quarrel, let It's
memory be buried in the eternity of the
| past w. L. Jackson has done nothing
more against the Government than five
hundred thousand others; he tried TO
break ND the best Government in the
| WOlIt. he WAS lOiS 1hoiho i"' WV
| slave which in his opinion the strong arm
| the Law could nOt-other rebels did
| the same. Your advertising Col. Jack
| son as ranking General Jones ut the
| time the Oil Wells at Burning Spring
| were DESTROYED, is 90 truly ridiculous
| that it is unnecessary to follow the sub
iect further. My policy would be to
| take mp and accept the new order OF
| things as we find them. President John
son. in his glorious work of reconstruc
ton. is pardOning his thousands every
week: | think we, of Parkershurg, can
afford to forgive one or two erring broth
ers without hurting ns much.
| Mercy for the mercifUl; let US be one Of such
| It seems TO me like cowardice to harrow
ND the shed blood, and uncover the quiet
bones of the slain, or ever boast OF our
conquest in the hearing of a conquered
and subdued antagonist; we should offer
| i'm exchange for an honest contritlOn, an
equal amount of manly forgIvness, ana
| let time which sets all things even, blot
out all the painful recollections OF a ira
| tricidal war, bequeathing the results as
| a glorious boon to posterity, who will
| come ND in their generations and call US
| blessed And when this nation again
becomes a unit, the church North tand
| South reunited; broken hearts healed 1.-THE
| desolated States re-peopled, the shed
| blood washed from the linte!s aud TIRES
| holds of consecrated homes, the tears OF
the widow and orphan dried, the dead
| Patriot remembered, the living reward,
and the widow and orphan fed from the
| Nations hand that made them such;
A. oh no
dess Of Liberty will sit smiling with JUS
| tice in her lap, quoting from Pope;
Teach me to feel anothers woe,
| And hide the fault see,
That mercy l TO others show
That mercy show to me-"
| As GOOD A REPUBLICAN AS ANYBODY. a
WEST Misunderstanding of the for
| nation of the State of West Virginia,
the Spirit of Jefferson says:
1t is curious to see how little weight
| the voice of the people has had in the
matter The counties of Logan, Cal
houn. Nicholas, Mcdowell, Mercer,
Greenbriar, POcahOntas, Webster, Nor
gan and Pendleton, having a white pop
ulation Ofabout 80 400 never cast vote
| for the Convention that submitted the
| question Of the new State to the people
nor for member Of the first Wheeling
| Legislature-nor for the Convention that
framed the Constitution Of the new State.
The counties of Fayette, Wyoming and
Mason never cast a vote for the new
State or its Constitution, In 1860 the
vote Of Braxton was 754-it cast but SO
for the new concern; Barbour, with a
vote of ,269, cast $50; Boone, with avOte
of $50, cast g; Hampshire, with a vote
of ,9l5, cast l57; Hardy, with ,f79votes,
cast 1872; and PendletOn, with 929 votes,
cast llG The whole State, as it stood
at that time, cast but about 10000 votes
out of y voting population of about AZ,
600, and, in these latter days, Jefferson
county, with vote of over | 500, cast
only some 81 in favor of going over to
the Mountain State rs some Of its
friends delight in calling it
interesting News 9iems
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