The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-06


Editors of the Register;
| desire to call the attention of the
public to few of the causes, that have
contributed, to make some of our best
citizens, aliens to the State of West Vir-
ginia Never before did men use more
base, foul and unnatural means, to rivit
the chains of despOtism upon vanquish-
ed and powerless people, than did the
radical leaders of this county.
Their dark deeds of perfdy are only
cqualled by the consummatiOn of the
unholy work, in which their Unsuitable
thirst for office, inveterate malice, and
diabolical prejudice, prompted them to
engage,
The pathetic cry of self preservation
uttered by the leaders of the radical
party fell with cOnvicting power upon
the ears of their ignorant and deluded
satellites who rushed to the ballot box
determined, if possible, to forever wrest,
the youthful State of West Virginia,
that 80 long and nobly struggled for ex.
existence, from the hands of it would
be destrOyers (so-called.)
Many of the aforesaid leaders were
unscrupulous enough to try TO create
the impression, and their followers
stupid and ignorant enough to believe
that the Constitutional Amendment was
a question upon which every State in
the Union would vote, and that failure
to adopt it would plunge the United
States into another war, more terrible
and ruinOus in its consequences than
the one from which it has just emerged.
The registrar of this township register
ed all those whom he knew would vote
for the amendment whether he saw
them or not; but many of those whom he
believed were opposed to it were pre-
vented from registering their names
until after the 1lth ult., upon plea of
sickness and business; but he told
them, however, (knowing at the same
time it was false,) that they would be
permitted to vote. Thus many of our
best and most loyal citizens were de-
prived Of the privilege of voting
Passion, prejudice and malice swayed
the public minds, of our Board of Regis
tration, and justice was Stunned as q
walking pestilenCe, during their solemn
hours of meditation.
One man in our town, who made him
self conspicuous among rebels, by advO-
eating secession, voting therefor, joining
a rebel company, running for two or
three offices therein, in the spring of
1868. and | think after the lst of June,
(but having aspired beyond his reach,
became diSgusted and staid at hOme,)
was permitted to vote, because ho Iasely
and cOwardly, not from principle, de-
cIarad himself in favor of radicallsm.
The very men whom five years age, he
encouraged in their reasonable designs,
and with whom lie acted conspicuous
part, he has basely betrayed, and now
seeks to punish.
There is still another citizen of our
tOwu of whom | would speak; who was
also prominent rebel in the spring of
1S6l-but who has long since repented
of his sins and follies, and is bow hold
ing office in our midst, and is strong
advocate Of the most cruel and extreme
measures that his dark imagination can
coDjure mp. But when unprincipled men
betray their party and join another, it is
necessary, in order to prove their SINGER
ity and ingratiate themselves with their
new associates, to advocate aud support
extreme measures.
| presume, in order to complete the
scheme Of tyrrany which has been so
successfully prosecuted, our next Legis-
lature will pass an act requiring all per
sons who are aliens to the State to depart
from its sacred soil. LOYAIsT