The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-22


Send down a military satrap to hold
us in subiection, 10 make US keep the
peace, TO make rs observe the laws
which you enact for our government,
and never let us be heard, never let our
voices be lifted up in this law-making
body by protest even "
Thus spoke Horace Maynard in 1868,
but we find him in 1866 acquiesciugin
the theory and hob-nobbing with the
men that he then denounced, and con-
Tossing himself slave And this man,
who in 1868 plead so elOquently for the
right Of representation, comes to West
Virginia and makes speeches in favor OF
disfranchising twenty thousaNd citizens
of our State. Even if he is enamored
with his bondage he ought to have
enough regard for the record he made
whilo ho was still freeman to refrain
from dragging Others down 10 share his
political degradation.
Nj Maynards exclusion from Con
gress is directly in consequence OF the
state suicide theory" which he now
seems to endorse but in Mr Stokes case
VIC presume tie isi oath presents an ad-
ditioual obstacle Mr. VIM. B Stokes is
another Of the men, according to the In
tUigsreer Of yesterday morning, whose
voices rallied the libeity.loyiug masses
throughout the mountains and valleys of
East Tennessee, and who were expected
to instruct West Yirginians in their
duty The following letter written by
Col. S.oka- in 1861. shows how he raj
lied them
LIBERTY May lU, I-6l
Ih. Joln Dacaa, NclilqrWe, Tennessee
DEAR SIR have just learned from a
friend that there are some gross misrepre-
sentatous going the rounds in your sec.
ton in regard 20 my position in this try
inc crisis, and, for the benefit yourself
and Others write this:
have been Jealous advocate of the
Union up 10 the time Of LlnCOln's call
for 1900 troops; that being IN riotdttoa
Of la,c, and for Ge slLjugatigR cthe South,
/ commended G0uan0r Harris for his course
and for dmiEg the state, and resisting Lin
coin TO the DOiut Of ttg bayoHet, and hare en-.
rolled mn aams as rOGmteer TO resist his
ucupati0a. | have, in Congress and out.
opposed coercion-apd all forced meas
ures-belieying that IT was better to re-
copniZs the iudepoudcuCs Of the South
EN- COnlederacy than TO atlenlpt 10
coerce them back.
/ have always opposed secessioni but
claim tie right OF revolution, ana the
right to resist oppression OF the teGerai
Government, and throw off their allegi-
auCe TO the same when that oppression
becomes ntOleTable. That ttmc has
aosr come have been, and am now,
for standing 10y the Border slave States;
for they areIO be- the great sufferers dur
inc the conflict am opposed to being
tackled on 10 the Southern Centcdcracy
at present (cXCept as mIhtary league)
But when peace is restored, If the two
nations c1unot live in peace, let all the
fifteen slave States elect delegates, meet
in convention, frame their constitution,
and submit il to the people for ratiiica-
ton
The South ought 10 be a unit during
the war, by al means had announced
myself as n candidate for reelection,
but on seeing LuColn's proclamation for
troops, abandoned the canvass at once,
aud am no candidate claim to have
done my duty in trying TO heal our diff
cu.ues and restore peace. That having
tailed | shall now march forward in the