The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-03
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In the debate on the constitutional
amendment which proposes to disfran
chse all alders, abetters and sympa-
thizers of and with the rebellion" one
Mr.. Riddle is reported as having declared
that if they, (the radicals) did not adopt
the amendment the rebel hosts would
take possession Of the government
Here, then is an admission that the
political power Of West Virginia is in
the hands of minority Of the constitu'
tiOnal voters, and that that minority, III
order TO retain that power, must perpet
uate this fragrant and unprecedented
outrage upon the majority This in a
government claiming to he republican :
Iu power 10y accident for nothing but
AN accident Gonld ever have placed such
unworthy and incompetent men in the
position they now occupy they propose
to T@Tpetuate then authority 10y an act
of most lawless and INSCRIPTIONS ty
ranny Small Al intellect as most of
these men are, yet presume they are not
so imbeCle as not to know that the har
mony and prosperity Of the State re.
quires a liberal and generous policy
toward The majority whom they are
pleased to designate and denounCe as
rebels Their Conduct therefore. can
only be explained by the assumption
that they are so utterly selfish rs to en-
tircly 10 sc sight of the interests Of the
State in the contemplation Of personal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mr. Little is aiSo reported as having
said he had came to Wheeling "to rep
resent the 1Cydl men OF his county and
would vote for their interests Now
those whom Mr.. Little desiguates as
"IoyGl nor" III Mercer cOunny, are about
as ono to ten He is not the choice of
more than oac in ten Of the constitutions
nj voters Of Mercer. As legislator lie
is the offspring OF accident. But / would
ask him whether. during the canvass in
this comfy in October last. he did not,
up to the day of election, proclaim that
he was opposed to applying the test oath
to rebels in that county, and whether he
did not on the day of election, in a
speech which he made at East River pre-
cinct, state that he had so proclaimed.
but as the rebels had two days before
brought ont a candidate Col FRENCH
lie could not blame the Union men if
they should then determine to apply the
test. though he did not wish to be under
stood as advising it
| will also ask Mr. Little whether in
that canvass aud especially at that place.
and in that speech, he did not state
that he was opposed TO the test oath
and constitutional amendment" and
had voted against them in the legisla,
ture, and if he did not read from the
caves and noes OH those questions to
prove his assertion. and if he did not
then and there pledge himself to favor
the repeal Of the same if elected ! Mr..
Little dare not answer these questions
in the no1Gtirc. The fact is. in October
last Mr. Little had a little axe to grind.
and he resortcd to a little political trick
to accomplish it, and | think the people
will have little account to settle with
Mr.Iittle when he returns from the lit
tie legislature to the county of Mercer.
A word TO Mr. Cassidy, who accideR.
tally misrepresents majority of the con-
stitutional voters of Fayette county.
/ ask the aforesaid Mr. Cassiday
whether be did not assist in drilling the
Fayetteville Guards" a rebel company
commanded by Cantain R A. Bailey!
Such questions may be troublesome.
just now, but you must bear in mind.
that you are biz men now, and greatness
cannot claim exemption from many petty
annoYances You know lion was made
roar oy an impudent flea that crept into
us ear hence the expression "a flea in
nis ear an Inconvenience to which sham
ieoted ~
he who ascends to mountain tops shall find
Ire iofuest peaks covered with oiou6s and snow