Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1866-08-11
For the KeglsleI.
The State Convention.
Jefferson County, August 8.

call ublisbed in your paper for Union
convention. II Gays, AFTER requesting the
townships To send delegates 10 County
Convention on The 18Th of August. that
said Convection will "send delegates 10
"a State Convention which will convene
cat Pa,ker.burg, on the S0th day OF Au'
"gust, for the purpose of nominating can
"didales for State Officers, Congressman
land State Senator's" 1t is to this por'
ton of the ell desire to draw your al.
tention. Whilst worded as glibly, and
paraded to The public view as ostentstous.
y as though but the NEST harmless YER
beage of party usage, il insidiously bears
the seed Of an anlirerublican principle
seed sown by the extremists o: the day.
and which, greatly fear, will spawn
foul incubation Of wrong that will event
ualIy sap the v'als Of free government. In
preserving our Union, after the fiery bap'
tism through which she has passed, we
should also be careful 10 preserve civil
liberty.
But to return. The call says Con.
gresham for this Congressional District
shall! be nominated at Parkersburg ! |
cannot for the life of me see what greater
importance attaches 10 Parkersburg than
should belong TO Columbus, in Ohio. or
Detroit. in Michigan, when matter like
This is concerned. in which the people q
the Congressional District alone are d.
recrly interested. But further We are
told Stale Senator TO represent Jefferson
and Berkeley counties 10 the legislature
must also be nominated 3, Petersburg !!
Snblmily of wisdom Quin.escence Of
principle We douo, not the orlglnaiors
Of such parry rule will some day be the
Saviors of The Republic. But. gentle
men. why not 60 the whole measure and
nomina Delegates and county officers al
PaTkersbutg Also ? What is the relative
Off, renee between Stale Senator and a
Delegate to represent us in lhe Leglsla'
lure ? H we have 20 right 10 nominate
the one III our Convention, why the 9th
er
But. Mr.. Edi'or. the trainers o. tha'
rulc Know as well as do, tina, 3 party
issuing such call ten years ago soul4
have been so ing '.ou<ly defeated BY
the people Of every District interested as
10 hardly have tue leueri,y /" subscribe
10 n"".nel ntc Al. This G0vIuMeni was
made by lie people. for the people, and
for the protection Of HE rights of the peo-
pie. The rebellion was claimed TO be an
infringement Of those rights. and was
oveTshrawn that they might be maintain
ed. But are the tendencies Of the times
of such a character "a to satisfy lover ni
his country that our Government Is being
administered in all its correlIalive branch.
es with due regard to the maintenance
OF lis anterior purity a? Whilst we are
bearing On all sides Of OM States whose
Constitutions have been discovered BY
modern statesmen 10 be anti.repubiican III
their bearing, is it not proper that our neW
State should be careful to weed OIL, every
symptom Of ilIiberallsm. and DaiDlsID a
free Constitution IN violate
Neither members Of Congress nor Stale
Senators should be nominated IN Sale
Convention. at poin, foreign TO The pe"-
pie directly interested, where an rndne
influence can be brough, to bear by un-
scrupulous politicians. !, is net only un-
just, but gross wrong never get st'empl-
ed by any other Stale. The County
Convention Of the 18Th, should send forth
its most solemn protest agains. the further
continuance OF such damaging measures,
ere ,iue and long usage render their ab-
r,gation difficult.
A UNION MAN.