The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-24
The Di.Ioyni,y ofthe BORDER Counties.

tendance.
The Di.Ioyn ni'y ofthe Bs-dcr Counties.
1t cannot be denied that there exists
in many of the counties in this state
bitter feeling of hostility to the radi-
Gals. Indeed, it would be wonderful If
such were not the case. In some of the
southeastern counties nine-tenths of the
people are under the radical ban. They
have been insulted, wronged, oppressed
and prosecuted almost beyond forbear-
amce. They have been deprived of every
civil and political right !; they are de-
MED even the poor privilege Of express
ing an opinion diStaSteful to their rad
ical and intolcrant masters. They are
excluded from the courts, either
rs Suitors or attorneys, and the
efforts of their radical neighbors
have been continually to cypress and
never to protect. About one man in ten
i'll Monroe county is permitted to vote,
and that one man is generally the mean
est, lowest and most deSpicable crea-
tnre in the community. They are I'M
der the dcSpotic sway of 4 Judge who
was once rebel, is now Il radical land
has always been scOundrel, no matter
with what party he professcd to act or
what disguise he assumed. This
man has been vested with the
power of appointing the tools he
desires for the consummation of his
purposes, and elections by the people
have been abolished or set aside by his
order. In some instances, having been
unable to procure citizens of the State
sufficiently vcrscd in villainy to execute
his behests, he has brought in strangers
from other States and appointed them
To hold important offices; offices not
LEGALLY within his gift, and which not
even the people themselves could right
fully bcstow upon any person who Is
not a citizen of the State.
Under these circumstances, we say 1T
is not strange that the people do not
love either the Judge or his appointees
and do not feel kindly towards those
who have stripped them of every right
Bt Bt fFfEe gpvA4 vAq5di i4saE and inNs have Visited
could invent. The meaneSt worm that
crawls will turn to sting the foot that
grlnds il in the earth, and American
citizens will have to become far less
than men before they bear, without
some show Of impatience or resentment,
the outragcs which the radical party
has put upon the people of the southern
counties in this State. 1t is therefore
without surprise that We have read Of
recent affray in Monroe county
in which one OF the citizens
received wounds which will probably
cause his death, and that his aSSailant
narrowly escaped lynching at the hands
of the long patient but not utterly sub
dued people. The occurrence, as related
by the Union Register, Il newspaper pub
nsneu Ill the IOWll NIltIC thc uISbul u
ancc took place, was as follows:
"On last Friday week, in Union, Cyrus
Newlin. of Philadelphia, who was APP
pointed last winter Prosecuting Attor-
ney for the Circuit Court of Monroe
county, shot. and, it is feared, mortally
wounded William Shirey, citizen OF
the county. Shirey. who was under the
a r e, nj taI u
versatlon in which Newlin was engaged,
and finally invited him out into the
street 10 fight. Newlin immediately
drew n pistol and fired at Shirey, the
ball striking him i'll the left side, and
coming out on the right. Shirley ran up
to Newlin, when the latter fired again,
this time shooting away Shlrey's right
thumb. Newlin was arrested and lock-
ed mp in Jail. There was some DISPOSE
ton manifested by the citizens to lynch
him, but up to the last accounts he was
still in the hands of the law"
We presume that this version of the
story is more nearly correct than that
published in the Wheeling Intelligcncer
yesterday morning, and it is not quite
SO bad as was there reported. But, rs
the Intelligencer has chosen to give the
affair political coloring and to regard
il as an indication of the "disloyalty
of the people of Monroe county, we are
willing that the radicals may enjoy all
they can gain by this Interpretation.
If the people of Monroe county are
H,t h., m
pressors, is there any cause for wonder
What benefit, what blessing, what pro-
lection has the State government OF
West Virginia ever conferred upon
thems What have the radicals OF
West Virginia ever done TO merit or win
the love of the people of Monroe
county, What generous act has Judge
NAT HARRISON ever done to earn their
respect, or what allegiance do they owe
to the man who was brought there from
Philadelphia and appointed Prosecuting
Attorney before he was citizen OF the
Statei When, last winter, they sought
redress for their grievances and reliei
from the oppression of their unjust
Judge, the man who appeared as the adj
vocate of the people was assaulted and
beaten in the legislative hall, and the
criminal received license to harrass and
annoy still more grievously than before
Their protests have been disregarded,
their petitions spurned, their entreaties
spit upon, and now the radicals seem to
be surprised because these people don't
love them and are not "loyal."
There is one way to make the people Of
the southern counties of West Virginia
loyal, and only one. 1t is plan the
radical party has never yet tried. Treat
them like men. Give them the privileges
to which they entitled by the Constitu'
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