The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-28

heaped upon them. What, suppose you,
would have been the population of this
State to-day if no constitutional pro-
scriptions and test oaths had been i'm.
posed'f If the doors to Southern immi-
grafton, under the ban of the military
rule, now spread over ten States, had
been thrown wide open, and the same
Inducements held out to them that is
held out to immigrants of the Old
World, who doubts for moment but
that our adult population by this time
would have been nearly doubled, aud
our State making rapid strides on the
high road to prosperity.
We would not to-day see our most en-.
ergetic citizens leaving the State, and
others folding their arms in passive in
difference, saying nothing can be done
to improve our condition, or stimulate
our people to acts of industry and en-
terprise under your regime. Sir, the
people say you will have difficulty this
year in many Of the counties of this
State, to collect your revenues. Money
never was scarcer and taxes so high as
at present. Your registrars are telling
upon you. The seat you so much covet,
may not yet be reached. The taxpay-
ers of the State are becoming active,
and are beginning to thiuk and act for
themselves. They have not yet been
able to see what has been done with the
monies heretofore paid 10y them into the
State Treasury, or any benefits that
have accrued therefrom.
A strange infatuation is coming over
the minds of the people. Your regis
trars in Calhoun county a few days
prior to the May election, struck off all
known Conservative voters in the conn
ty; but the Radical veters counselled
together, and said this thing must now
stop, and elected in every township a
Conservative Supervisor. Enquiry is
being instituted all over the State,
AMONG the masses, to know what has
been done with the monies they have
paid the tax -gatherers, aud what is best
to be done to release themselves of the
load that hangs so heavily upon them.
The time is at hand when they will not
longer be deceived by the willy smiles
and deceptive batteries of designing
politicians. 90 -.
They are opening their eyes to the
scenes around them, and are willing to
hear truths from old friends. The old
pass words of rebel and traitor that used
to be so effective have lost their charms.
The tightening of the registration cords
is getting to he pretty generally under
stood. Self promotion, at country's
sacrifice, to seat in the United States
Senate. is attracting general attention,
and eliciting the condemnation of all
honest men. The Taxpayers are un-
willing to longer pay the costs. They
have already bowed their necks and
borne load which has well nigh broken
their backs.
Party lash and the. ban have never
failed to destroy the best governments,
and blight the most prosperous coun-
tries. The struggle for power and
place has been the curse of all the gov
ernments, and will, if persisted in, de-
stroy ours. The lessons which history
teach, you should not lightly or silent
ly pass over. The hate of the Oppress-
ed and downtrodden people of their Op-
pressors is deep and fearful. They re-
men ber their wrongs, and wait patient
ly to avenge them.
Retributive justice, is slow, but sure.
1t has made its visits in all the past,
and will not be neglectful in the future.
But, we opine, that you will, ere it is
too late. save our party from the terri
BILE abyss into which we are about to be
plunged, by restoring to the people,
under the benign influence of whole
some laws,the blessings of good govern
ment. What we want most at this
time, to embolden our people, and
arouse them from the political paraly-
sis which is strangling our infant State,
is men at the helm, possessed OF en-
z larged views, and self-sacrificing patri-
, Otism.
No people can long be happy, and no
country become rich and populous with
ons-half the population denied rights
r and privileges accorded to the other
I half. The governments of the Old
, World afford striking illustrations of
, the evils of such policy.
: Sir, onr friends say something must be
3 lone to change the present rule, or our State
! ciu be rrecked, and our people inrolred in
common ruin
Very respectfully, your friend,
. JOHN SMITH, SR.