Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-05-22
THE BOARD OF REGISTRATION.

THE BOARD OF REGISTRATION.
Every movement made by the radicals of
this county-whether of political or reli-
gious character-seems to be inspired BY the
devil, and executed by his most accomplished
emissaries. They do nothing right, and out
rage decency in all their undertakings. The
prominent actors have carried things to such
an extent recently, that the few decent men
who remained in the party are hauling off tor
more congenial companiouship; and very soon
we hope to record the complete extinction
and lnhospitable burial of this political and
proscriptive monstrosity, and the consignment
OF Its malignant adherents to that oblivion
which the hand of forty resurrections will fail
to reach
Politically, they are worse in their inflic-
tlons upon the community, than were the To-
Gusts which destroyed the substance of the
Egyptians, or the potatoe rot which produced
the famine in ireland. In fact, there is no.
thing between the vault cf Heaven and the
charred gates of Satans kingdom, that is the
equal of this party, except itself-and we
very much doubt if the Plutonian regions
were surveyed whether anything worse could
be found within their confines.
The wire pullers and beIl-wethers of this
party are either knaves themselves, or think
the people are foolS-aad it. matters little which
horn of the dilemma they SEIZE Flesh and
blood may tolerate great deal, but there is
point beyond which " endurance ceases to be
virtue, and that point the radicals of JEFF
ferson have long since reached and are now
setting their pegs far beyond The board of
registration of this county, we presume, has
completed its labors. What has it done p
DISTINGUISHED fully two ftths of the legal
loyal voters of the county, for the sole pur-
pose of carrying the odious constitutional
amendment. And who are the members of
this board upon whose shoulders the mantle
OF the devil has fallen in such ample folds !?
Butt,
Fleming,
McKeUin
The first of this trio should stand for the
whole, for surely this board of registration
should be made the butt of the co"rmuni y
generally, if the matter was not one too Sc
rlous for ridicule. Zadoc never had any fixed
principles; could neither be regarded as fish
flesh or fowl" OF Fleming we know very
little, except that we learn from reliable
sources that, in his capacity of shoe maker,
he furnished our Confederate soldiers with
most excellent cavalry boots while the war
was in progress. McKevitt is less known to
us-we never have seen him to our ledge
and if his appearance corresponds with his
acts we shall not weep for sight at him.
lie is new comer-a northern man-vomit-
ed up, we suppose, from the sur-cnar9ed
stomach of loyal" Massachusetts or some
other radical locality.
In their little brief reign, so far as their
power extended, they evinccd a greater de.
gree of tyranny than was ever displayed by
Nero or Henry VIII, of England. We can
not think there are three other men in this
county who could have perpetrated the out
RACES, they did without at once initiating the
example Of Judas by hanging themselves.
Fleming and McKevitt, ifthey have any self:
respect, may dose yet, but we have no such fair
hopes Of Butt