The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-11
For the Register
The Union Banner"
20, WILEY, you have missed /
Welcome, welcome home

This is the title of a weekly paper just
started at New Creek, Mineral Co. W.
Va, the first number OF which we have
Just perused la defining his political
status the editor remarks that these
are progressive times" and gives his
readers assurance that lie SHALL shape
! his course as events may render necesSa-
~" From Il perusal of his article We
are convinced that be intends to keep
pace with the times, and step 10 the
music of the extreme radicals.
These are progressive times " indeed,
and such progress as the Nd'.'is are
making is truly wonderful Tho word
Union has become talismauic tncma for
these political hypOcriteo who
Steal the livery OF Heaven to serve III"
Devil in, ~
ana preach what they never ln'cnd 10
practice They pirate about the Union,
buy greatly prefer party power t" any
and all benefits Jhat'the Union, NV value
OF the Constitution can confer On Its
Gevotees The times are truly progress
We" Whna the original thirteen States
form Il themselves into = Union, the
mcauiug Il that wold Was very different
.rO.u tuIj which Is HON applied 10 II by
:. cuYtaiL class Of lattcl-day politicians,
" Ia, alIa.at6 ~ ;ael4s Ives the exclusive
ri rri 10 decide what shall constitute 10y,
aitv ana uui0nisln. At ULe iolm ton Of
The UuicA tie word was Synonymous
with The Fadelal Government lJ was
tormed by tha wise confederation Of
states, each de)egating a certain portion
If its Sovereignty 10 the Fedora. Govern
menr for tho mutual safely aud benefit
of the who4e yet each State retaining
enough of its own sovereignty 70 control
its own Individual and local affairs. But
now, according TO the political dictionary
of this progressive party, the word
Union means absolute consolidation
and the total abnegation of all vestigeS
of State sovereignty.
Such, indeed, seems to be true Senti-
ment of the edition of the Union Ban
ner," and so extremely progressive"
would he desire the times" that who
soever should differ with him or his
parry on the question of Unionism,
should be disfranchised and denied every
privilege guaranteed to HIM by he Con
stitution. Such a Union rs was formed
~ our forefathers-formed by Washing
ton and his compeers-formed by those
who understood its legitimate meaning,
is not the Union this editor would cher
ish with the fondest hopes for its perpe-
tuity. He is a hot bed plant of the
Sumher.StevenS school, whose mush-
room popularity has been forced by
"these progressive times" the accelerat.
ed growth of which is about TO be
checked by the sturdy production of
true craftsmanship as foreshadowed by
the President He is rara arts, not at all
indigenous to the cline in which he is
DESTROYS of constructing his nest. He
is not, to the manor born" but of i'm.
ported stock, for none else would assume
the iHeroulean task of endorsing the
radical rantings of our late asinine Leg
islature. And moret han this With
Falstafian courage he assumes the cham
pionship of the Constitutional Amend
ment which was so glaringly clergyman.
dered through by the enforcement OF the
test oath, and halls it as a glorious act
such sentiments are inscribed on his
banner which, exultingly, he filings TO
Ine p!eeze and asks the support of all |
VINO 1avor permanent peace, a speedy |
anu satisfactory reunion and the perpetu- |