Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-08-28
IN TIE FIELD.


The radicals of the County of Jefferson,
intent upon holding on to the positions of
emolument and honor. have ''hung their ban
ner on the OUTER wall,' and on Saturday
week met at Shepherdstown, over on the
Maryland line, where they placed in nomina-
ton full-blooded, iron-clad radical ticket,
to receive the votes of the favored few at the
ensuing election.
Prominent among the actors of the Con-
Tention which made these nominations, we
notice the name of the venerable and veno-
nous ex>judge of this judicial district, Rcn.
Lewis Penn Witherspoon Balch, whose zeal
in the radical cause is almost a consuming
fire. Not the near approach to the grave,
over which his enteebled frame seems to be
lettering, nor the recollection of courtesies
extended by him to officers of the Confed-
crate service, nor the promptings of common
decency, seem calculated to keep this old man
quiet he must be a participant in all the
wicked and relentless doings of the radicals of
this county; he will "pitch in, and all the
Pompous glory of Joe Chapline, and the lily
suited honors of George Koonce, can't keep
him in the background. There is only one
man in the county who can do the work
which the devil has assigned ex-judge Balch,
and that is himself The sins of long-life,
now perhaps protracted beyond the three
score years and ten allotted to frail humanity
suffice not to crafty the malice of this
weak-bodied, but weaker-minded old man, but
he must needs thrust himself forward on &C.
casions appropriate and inappropriate, to vo-
NIT up the bile which has accumulated upon
his dyspeptic mind and disordered nature for
the pastfve years. On this last occasion he has
acter for malignity he has raised himself to
the very summit of radical admiration, and
tickled with the grandeur aud sublimity of
of his position, he gets off set of resolutions,
which are not even ereditable to their author,
poor as were his qualifications for the job.
That our readers may have the benefit of
this last effort-and we would to Heaven we
could assure them it would be the Zast-we
append the resolutions as we find them in the
certified proceedings of the county conven-
ton. In these proceedings we read that at
the appointed hour the meeting was called to
order Immediately, after which Hon. L. P.
W. Baleh, as the chairman of the committee
on resolutions, reported the following: ="
ResolUed, That the patriotism, ability,
frmness and loyalty of his Excellency. A. +.
Borenan, from the time he came in to the
Office of Governor of West Virginia, to this
day, demand the appreciation of the entire
Union party, and that he deserves to be re-
elected to that exalted office.
ResOLUed, That we endorse the Registry Act
and the Constitutional Amendment.
ReS0tUed, That our delegates to the next
legislature from this county, be instructed to
procure if possible an alteration of the law
concerning free schools, so that each county
shall support their own free schools
If this doesn't strengthen the backbone of
Arthur L. Boreman, Governor of West Vir-
GINA, so-called, then poor mans plaster
would be Intellectual Sic transit gloria
nlundi.
This g Union" County Convention was
rich thing. In fact, it was big thing; per-
haps it glorious thing. Weak-mindod
and credulous conservatives are duped into
the belief by President johnson and Others
that the Philadelphia Convention was grand
affair, but the Philadelphia Convention had
no 'Hon." Joe. Chapline to preside over its
deliberations. and no ex,Judge Balch to head
its Committee on Resolutions. Doolittle ana
Cowan, where are ye now? And then the
Philadelphia Convention didn't make nomi-
nations, but the ':Unton" County Couveu-
ton did
For the House Of Delegates, they have
given us again, the inimitable Kooncc. We
mean George, whose hide was hung on the
fence IN May last, in a contest for Supervisor
with Jimmy Reed. But Georges talents aud
ambition are not so citcEmscribsd as to be
content with the verdict of the people in one
township. He wants to try his strength
again with the voting population of the
sswhole boundlcss continent" of Jefferson
George had to have colleague, and as Nc
Gurdy had apostatized, a new man had to ems
ter the arena. But radicalism had fit sub
ject at hand, and the '' JnfOn' County Con
vention trotted him out.
The mantle fell upon David Billmyer, of
whom we know little and care less. We only
know that he is in bad company, and deserves
political chastisement for such association.
For the Sherifalty, we are furnished the