The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-22
FROM MARION COUrTY.
The Legislature-D{sfr
Indignation of the People The Eff
fecis OF Prescription.

feCts OF fPrOseriptIOn.
WORTHlNGToN, w. V. Feb. 30
| Editors of the Register:
| have been calmly looking at the
course of our Wheeling Legislature, and,
feeling as do, in common with other
citizens of our State, an interest in the
laws that are to govern our people,
knowing as we all do that the laws of
a State havea great deal to do with the
promotion of the welfare and happiness
of the people, / am at loss forlanguage
to express my astonishment that through
sinister motives or party ambition any
set of men, claiming to be represen-
tatives of free people, could so far dc.
part from the rules or examples of legis
lation given by men OF talent as we'll as
patriotism for the purpose Of expressing
or disfranchising the great majority of
their constituents. l am fully satisfied
that, within the range of my observation,
the class Of men they propose TO disfran.
chise pays iltO the treasury two thirds
Of the revenue. the loyalists, as our
representatives see proper to call them,
having their money invested ia govern
ment bonds, and thereby exempt from
taxation. Is not the case one OF easy So
luton Is it not apparent to minds OF
the least discernmeut that IL Is their
whole object to discriminate in favor of
the party that supports them, and op-
press, by thelr unconstitutional leglsla-
tion, all who presume to opposeE Have
not several OF the most candid OF
them declared that they were not acting
tor the masses, but tor the Ioyalists, OF,
in other words, those who supported
them2 Now, sir, / ask in the name OF
God, do they suppose such discrim-
iuation will be tolerated, do they even
expect to carry the honest portion OF
their own party with themI No, sir, l
know numbers OF them who have here
tofore acted with the party, who declare
that they will not so far depart from the
teachings Of their venerable fathers as to
recklesSly plunge themselves into the
whirlwipd OF fanaticism whittier their
leaders have gone. The people are, in
the main, honest, and all that is neces-
sary to concentrate their action III the
right direction is to inform their minds
as to the policy of these demagogues, and
they will oust them like rats FROM a
burning barn. The country is broad
enough for us all. The constitution OF
the United States, properly interpreted,
aud the laws made IL pursuance Of that
instrument, are sufficient guarantee,
q l,XTh ni1T
lives. our liberty and the pursuit of
happiness are not in peril. Let us look
around us aud see what is necessary to be
done in order to relieve us in this hour
of our couutrys calamity Who are
those who oppose us2 From whence
does this opposition haii l am tree to
say that it is the spirit that opposed the
extention Of our territory il is the same
spirit that voted against recruiting aud
supplying our army ia Mexico it is the
spirit that hung witches in the New
England States; 1t is the spirit Of the
Greelys Wilson's, Summers, Stevens and
others Of like religious and political
faith; it is the legitimate offspring OF
abolitiUuism, EnoWnothlngism and pro
scription, aud unless there is a combined
effort of all the elements composing the
opposition TO this tanatiCal party, our
country, once the pride ot our people
and the refuge ofthe opp essed Of every
nation, Will become a hiss and by-word.
Theu let us rally to the support OF our
Executive whose Jackson nerve remains
quiet and uushakeu amid the thunders
ofnegro artillery While we have such
a CAPTAIN the ship of State will gently
glide over the surgiug waves OF our po,
Iitical Storm and the constitution OF our
country will he indicated and the laws
eXecuted-whether upon pretended
friends or upon enemies. NJ