The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-29

| no enemy appeared After these Ieats OF
yaior, "enough to sink navy as the
war cloud thickened, he grew pale, sick
ened and retired to the shades eft friend.
ly hospital, where his tongue did such
eoodly service for the cause that ne be.
came q "Pet," and there heightened out
a service to his country of thirteen full
months. Disguised with army regula-
tions and the leniency of the govern.
ment, he babe adieu, amid the curses and
excavations of his command, forever to
camp and hospital.
At home, in his coveted element
from dangers exempt, our linn II
should say Captain smith dlstn'
guishsd himself greatly. He joins the
Shome guards of kindred spirits, be-
comes D selfappointed government de
| tectiye and infermer; an agent for Chase
Athaneums g. Co; opens for the benefit
Of the community little Bakery on
his own hook; assumes dimlnutlye
Brownlow in denunciation and invectlve
and Butler in principle and practice.
| If not ahead, there is no article in the
creed of the intensely radical party he
has not espoused; no ultraism he has
not adopted He has been all and by
turns an AbolitiOnist and an Unionist
| for determination, confscation and agra
rianism, and now, for Congress, the Mu
latto Convention, disunion, Stevens and
negro suffra &c.
He certainly deserves well OF his par
| ty. A fearless and boisterOus uttefance
of these opinions is distinguishing
characteristic Of our pet" Captain
Smith Every equality man" from the
Governor down owes him homage
Tim falls far short of the gentlemar
from Doddridge in such common thing
as photography and orthoepy, yet he il
| infinitely his superior in party estima-
ton, from the firmness and tenscity OF
his composition. 1T is no fault, only q
misfortune of the Captains" say hlh
| friends, that his genius should have
been left uncultivated. Had he received
collegiate, an academic, or even few
! school courses, from his habit OF loud
aud much talking, he might have made
a Sumner, an Anna Dickinson, or even
reached the opulence of Frederick
Douglass. :,
Of his colleague, Bore-man, the well
| beloved brother of certain Governor
of recent Quaker city netoriety, shall
say little, since he spreads himself be-
fore a community that knows him. lie,
too, is one of the sweet scented shrubs
of the fragrant party, the big Thomas
cat among the little mousers Of our
county. He isAonc standing candidate
in peace aud war Like an old stager
he il fond ii the crack of the
whip. Defeated as Wing, Know
Nothing, Democrat and Wing again,
he now, with a perseverance wonderful,
flaunts the banner of the !"What is IL
party, and modestly accepts q d0HOtc
nomination. He graciously offers to
make or execute the laws as the good
people may elect. Like the unlucky
gambler, growing desperate at repeated
failures he doubl, his stakes, although
the chances remain the same.
This, Mr.. Ed or, may appear plain
talk. aud somewhat personal, but the
truth is, their social and political status
precludes dignided notice. -.
Confronting these wide Awakes,"
and in striking Contrast socially and po-
litically, stand rheir opponents. j. A..
Foley, ESQ, of d, ddridge, and Judge A.
D SSper, of TYR. What glazing dis
| o,nouiou -TheEs 20 NO sauivooation. NO
trickery, no dodgn the issue by these
gentlemen. Prompt and fearless defend
ers are they of the Constitution, of the
rights Of the people and the honor and
| perpetuity of the State. Proudly waving
the thirty six sta red banner of the great
National party, they walk forth
among the people proclaiming, now, as
in '6l, the supremacy of the Constitution
and the Union OF the States. They, I'M
like Smith and Is Jreman, hide not them
selves or their principles; they are out
in rerson and .rds among the people;
comparing views and buttetlng the mad
waves of fanaticsm.
A bright and glorious day has dawnad
upon US and is diffusing its glad and
health.inspiring light. There is a hope
ful antagonism springing up against this
heretofore privileged class. There is a
growing detern nation OF the majority
of ouI t,eople u eXtTact the root OF this
radica problem This people, i'll The
main. 70 tired o. -Jrife and its promoters;
OF tie negro and bis hypOcritical
tIieuds;- with Il blinded relig-
ious AID politic; intolerance;-with pull.
uit pol tics and .uctified officials, (wear
els of he liver Of heaven to serve the
devil j. )-tired an ipquisitorlal ortho.
doxy, aasumeda arbitrarily set up as a
standard TO mt sure their loyalty
DISCUS ed with loyal leagues and all
secret sworn so,ieties;-with seeing ouI
sci oolS and scho laws perverted to pr.
vato #ud party ends;-tired of being
brand, At as Coo perhsads" aud Butter.
nuts" after hav < braved and subdued
HE on, mics Of | zion at the point of tie
bay ODt and q used, as parents and
hrOthe of thes scared veterans, al
being yled ira ors; in a word, sick OF
the pr fence, tn deceit and the domi
ueeiipg spirit OF he fire and birthstone
party.
In view Of til; 70 facts, the future is
already detern iued Solicitude has
grow into cert" IRty, and whilst victory
sits securely upo', our standard, rejoic
ings mot loud but deep"-of unfeigned
and unaffected pleasure, fill the hearts OF
every lover of law, order and harmony
| CUDGEL.
N. B. The d. u. Johnson stock, in spite
OF lay and clerical influences, is at pre-.
MUM and advancing. He is rolling the
ball in gallant style over the footprints
of the rule or ruin" party. Making
THE currents of their yellow blood
| Ooze to the skin asd stagnate there to mud.
Letter from Nicholas County.