New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-17
WEST VIRGINIA.

This State holds an election for township officers on
the 4th Thursday in May, when Constitutional
Amendment restricting the Right of Suffrage TO loyal
men is to be ratified or rejected by general vote.
The Union State Committee have therefore issued an
Address to the People wherein they say:
For ourselves dscaiming all desire provoke now ag
taon 10 Old or TO pursue In any spirit OF mere
vengeance lnoe Who 80 'one ahu 30 uSclp NiO1t.u '
and the country we look only to the adoption OF such ply
win certainly TO Us the legitimate results OF me
dearybough victory by which at the last loyalty tumphed
treason in tie field Of battle As matter Of plain com.
sense all of know that the overthrow OF that
By force OF did not change the sympals
OF single person who IN any way aded OF
Reason teaches US that only the character not the spirit OF
the warfare has ceased The amu Of the Rebellion lives on
And the Of present danger Is that longer
confront it under It's former cOor but under specious dis
uses well calculated TO deceive at the first glance In
this State is aTrayed under the name Of the Con'rd
IRE party after having for years been the ally Of hc radical
destuconss Of the SOuhof those who would not have
had they been successful In the hope Of dividing the
profess the most ultra support Of the President and his policy
restoration. 1t denounces Radicals the true men who
Coincidence simply because these true men are determined
not to restore to power and influence Rebels who resigned
dissolution Of the Union Men VITO wore the Rebel uniform
years leading editors and directors Of his so
called Conservative party Men who never recognized west
Virginia State Tor single moment during the Rebellion
are aspranis for the control OF the State And that large
vaoasy made up from the overthrow and scattered
debris Of the Rebellion who voluntarily ablured their ale
glance the Commonwealth and who voted throughout
marshng Of old under the lead Of these organizers OF
this Conservative party
A Conservative State Convention was held az
Clarksburg on the 18th inst, wherein % Of the -
Counties were represented. 1t Of course resolved
strongly in favor of President johnson and against
Congress, the Freedmen's Bureau, and the Civil
Rights bill. They were Jealous for allowing Rebels
to vote, but dead against letting Negroes do So
A Clarksburg letter toThe Bheehng iateiiigeHcI
says:
Taking the declarations Of this body claiming they 40 20
b. loyal 10 the United States # curious what interest IN
its proceedings manifested By the returned Rebels Of this
and county am strongly reminded by the faces see
here around the aud Of the CouOuse and
among the body the delegates OF the stormy meetings Ia
this County the Spring Of 1891 when Garlic ard Lewis on
the Union side Robert johnson and Ben Wilson on tie
Secession side oanVassirg for the Richmond Convention
freely with the delegates In the Courtroom laugh
ing chatting bltOlhOug. aud In conidenuh conab WIN
them see this Robert Johnson who shouldercd hi
uke and into the Rebel army early In the Summer Of
l6 and Wm j. Cooper who advocated Secession here with
al the might he could nfnse into bis paper TIE Rgs and
who having done a he could destroy the Government and
TIE people here living under his protection marched with
johnson Join POIterfed and did all Ia bis power as
armed Rebel % ph the work Bee also here The
face Of Judge Camden fe of the Confederate States whom
Last u this Court. House in May. ls6i sitting black
thunder cloud under the excavations Of Frank Perlon
Chen scarcely known 10 lme) who making one OF his
most telling speeches to enthusiastic Union meeting
faces here VI who lacked courage 20 Illustrate
their principles did the three named but who cut now
by the hope that somebody will beay the country into