The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-17
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Ostracism Of the Vicious.

The Greenbrier Independent informs ms
that one DR.. J.F. CALDWELL has been
expelled from a literary society in the
town of Lewisburg, because of his be-
ing totally unworthy of the privileges
of the society. This man CALDWELL, as
many of our readers are aware, is per-
son who has become notorious for his
persecution and annoyance of his politi.
cal opponents. His leading traits are
said to be vanity, lust ofpower, intoler.
ance of opposition, total mental and
moral depravity, terrible vindictiveness
and the most unrelenting cruelty. Al
these and every other trait which con
tributes to the constitution of the socia,
pirate and tyrant, are largely developed
in his character and have eminently fit
ted him for the official position he holds
He is one of Governor BoREMAN's
Registrars, and kind of gen.
eral utility villain, whose SER
vices are invaluable to an Executive
like ours. In serving with unflinching
fidelity the exalted purposes of his su'
perior in station, if not in iniquity, DR.
CALDWELL has made himself an object
of loathing and disgust to the respecti.
bility and decency of the community in
which he lives. He has prosecuted and
harrassed his neighbors in every man
ner which his diabolical ingenuity
could suggest. He has instituted a reg,
ular system of espionage upon their per,
sonal, and even upon their domestic af-
fairs, and has laid bare the sacred pri,
vacy of the family circle before the pry-
ing gaze of a brothel bully like NAT.
HARRISON, and the inquisitOry curiosity
of a still more exalted person
age, whose private department is
nnimpeached simply because con-
slant official corruption leaves him
no time for petty vices and follies. AS
a neighbor, CALDWELL is n curious, im-
pudent and annoying mischief-maker
"a citizen, he is q malignant busy
body, common nuisance and n social
pest; as an officer, he is corrupt and
INSCRIPTIONS tyrant, who deems it his
sole and highest duty to use his place
for the persecution of his personal enc
mics, the degradation of political Op-
pOnents and the attainment of party
ends, Thoroughly and heartily sick
of his Outrages,l his tyrannies and
himself, his neighbors have determined
to visit upon him all the penalties
of entire social ostracism, and We bid
them uvu-sprcu III tuuir "vIn. Iris Ca
pulsion from the literary association to
which we have referred, is but one OF
the countless means of partial re-
,'ress. if not of entire relief, yet under
the control of the victims of that class
of men IF whom CALDWELL is the true
representative, and we are compelled
TO say that the sufferers should prompt
ly and universa uy avail themselves OF
all the methods Of legal retaliation
within their reach. The ban OF public
censure, the communi.'ys scorn, the uni
versal e1ecration of the persecuted, anc
that total severance of p, ,"rsonal, point
ical and business relations which VII
transform these petty tyrau Is mo
despised and neglected class III soci a
Ishmaelites, are the slow but ehectual
remedies for the moral pestilence which
their presence breeds.
There is no doubt that men such as
these are almost making existence a
curse to vast majority of the people in
remote sections of this State, particu-
larly upon the Southern and South
eastern borders, and tho prosecuted
owe it to themselves to bring to bear
the influences that alone can right these
wrongs. The peaceable and suffering,
who have so long submitted without
complaint, should at least make these
barbarians feel the force of public opin-
ion. Treat them as you would any
other outlaws. Avoid them as you
would any other criminals. Make them
the lepers of your community whose
sight is frightful and whose sting is
death, and consign them to the solitude
of their own corruption, there to remain
until the leprosy is cleansed. There is
no reason why radicalism on the borders
of West Virginia should not respect the
rights and liberties of the citizen just as
it respects them here, and if those who
are wronged will use the proper remedy
the same freedom and liberation that
exists in Ohio county, will pervade the
,entire State. Liberty must always bt
defended by its possessor. "Who would
be free, himself must strike the blow