The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-21
FROM MARION COUNTY.
tiOn-Citizcns Disfranchised With
out Cause.

ont Cause.
WoRTHINGToN, May i, 1866.
Editors of the Register:
The time is passing rapidly away, and
the oath is drawing nigh when the fate
of the constitutional amendment will
be made known. or the sad fate of
number Of our respectable, wealthy aud
talented citizens revealed Perhaps ere
this is published these facts will be made
known, but my intention in writing this
communication is not to discuss politi-
cal issues, or the probable results of the
adoption of rejection Of the amend
ment," but TO communicate to you and
the numerous readers of the REGISTER
some facts relative to the registration
of voters in our CLincoln) township.
Our Registrar is the brave, talented,
equitable William Fox, Esq, whose his
tory is so closely allied to everything
that is honorable in this township-that
it is needless to speak of him further,
After the citizens had registered, Of
both parties, the radicals began to serve
notices" on the democrats to appear
before the county Board of Registration
to show why they should not hare their
names stricken from the list Of voters
(Messrs. Cromwell, Steele and Layman
compose that BOard) The first person
we shall notice that came before the
Board was t. +. Martin, high-tOned,
respectable gentleman, who was drafted
and furnished a substitute for the last
call The witness against this geu-
tleman was T G.. Metz, who had been a
scces,Onist, and acted with that party,
started for Dixie" and also committed
some acts, (best known to himselt) for
which the home guard were going to kill
him, but to save himself he volunteered
in the Federal army, Just before the war
closed. This gentleman has all at once
transformed himself into a very loyal
and respectable gentleman, Gin the est-
nation of the Board His evidence
was, that at some time, Z. f. Martin,
with q number of others were collected
together on the premises of the said
Martin, for the purpose of going South
Mr. Martin proved by two witnesses,
Spencer Parish and Clement Davis)
that he wasuOt there on said night; aud
also, Parish testified that when he Par.
ish )I~poke OF going South, lie dlssuaded
him from going, and he did not 60.
But according to the opinion OF the
Board, said MarCin had given aid and
comfort TO persons in armed hostility
against the Government, and his name
was stricken from the list
The second case was that OF I /
SJurm, man whose loyalty is unques.
tionable except he does not think an
African quite as white rs = Caucasian
Mr.. Sturm being out hunting one day
accidentally came in contact with a
"reb." whom he knew very well, and
he tried to persuade said reb ~ to
give himself mp. and refusing to
10 so, Stum reported him to his
brother Felix, aud for doing what
they have taught was the duty OF every
loyal man. he was dIsfrauchised. The
third and last We shall notice is that OF
John + Parish and his brother Michael
At certain time, when the militia ware
called for by his EXccllency Henry Nay,
Cbetter known, perhaps, by the appella'
ton Of Chief OF the Nay government
they refused to attend his coll. THIS
was testified to by their aunt; but be
fore she would make oath to the fact, To
port SAYS that Mr Randall promised to
get her dress pattern, aud II she could
not attend. said Randall was TO give
her son So,C and pigs to testify 70 the
same overt act On this evidence they
were disfranchised These are Only three
cases out of about fifty, Of which you
will hear more anon.
Such is the spirit OF radicaii5m IN this
country. They are determined to rule
this country. They have governed By
the influence of the bayonet 50 long that
they conclude it a matter of course, and
! indispensably necessary TO the well
| being of society and the preservation
their own party. Desperate ehu5 Ie,
ouire desperate means" and the radical
party is in its last throes oil dying
! despondency, so that it requires stlmu-
Iants TO preserve its life this Spring
we'll nny they have test Oaths OF the
most stringent type, and men of the
most base and reckless character To
| carrv their dirty deeds into execution
for soon-very soon-tkeir epitaph will
ba written. This country is similar TO
oil others in popular commotions and
civil wars. and there always has been
and always will be 4 certain class Of
,ndsrtakers thrown 10 the surface
mere machines IN the hands of others
n accomplish that which they would
not dare do themselves.
Rut Mr. Editor the charm is passID E