The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-09
I.nie of the Deslruciives
o. S. LONG, Secretary.
Wheeling. June 81, 1866.

We are told that among paIo"i'" ~
tions. comets and eclipses are regarueu
90 the beralds of indefinite calamtles'
both public and private, and that TO
these phenomena are attributed all tne
m;sfortunes which may thereafter betall
an individual or a tribe. A prevailing
p.stilence or an unsuccessful hunt, de-
feat IN battle or a sullen wife is referred
directly to the baneful influence of these
celestial omens. The superstitlous saw
age will readily regard fatal famine as
the production Of darkened sun, and
will discern an intimate connection be-
tween the presence of a haring comet
and the debility of a stomach which has
been deranged by the labored digestion
of tough Missionary steak. 1t would
seem that modern Radicalism, in adopt
in" the brutal habits of barbarism, has
also assumed the conclusive style of rea-
soning peculiar TO that class OF mankind.
Tho lucid logic Of the Wheeling HtelH-
gtncCr, IA accounting for the occurrence
Oh confagTatiOns throughout the coun-
try, is admirably illustrative Of this idea
The deyilisn spirit of rebel ion" Is
araveiy stated to be still alive and at
work" and the frightful deeds of the
fire demon are satisfactorily explained
on tIo supposiJion that we are now hay
ing a new era Of rebellion in this terri
bic iuceudiaIy shape Such reasoning
is what might naturally DO expected
from the organ of a party whose policy
embodies the vindictive ferocity of un.
civilized man. and il heathenish fallacies
appear in Radical augmentation, it is
probably because the logic and the Gus
toms of barbarism are closely allied, and
the men who adhere to tho one can hard
Iy be expected to avoid the other. We
therefore presume that the non caUSd pro
cdasa fallacy Will invariably be used to
saddle upon Southern hercsy all the ills
of the nation
Hereafter should pestilence or famine
at any time alllict our people we may sx-
pect another specimen OF ratiOCinaGOn,
q IGFeieo Islander and the sage oracle of
Quincy street will undoubtedly trace
the hand of treason in all those vista.
tiOns which to common sense will reveal
only the finger Of God, Cholera, in his
estimation, will probably appear as
simple change Of programme on the part
of irrepressible treason, which abando9s
its assaults upon the body pOlitit, Nicely
to rack the bowels of loyal, fruit-oating
humanity with cramps and gripes. For
yellow-fever, he will perhaps. SOC no
other cause than the resolutions Of -,
of which it will be the Incarnation, and
rs long as patent UuiGnism remains 10
be veXed with fears Cffuture retriVutiOn,
so long VII dis. loyalty, uutamed, crop
out i'll feyors, -. and pest Every PIN
ply eruptlo,Lo i SMALL poNM'i' contain the
virus OF rebellion 10 be detected by the
sensitive nostrii- Of our aStuto lOgiCian,
very year OF short crops and famine
viii be a repetition through natural
agautics Of The cruolties which starved
out prisoners at Andcrsouville, and
every season OF drouth will be referred
to the Vaccinations O. accession, inton'
upon consiguiug devoted patriotism L.
another, if not coo!cr world, where
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