The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-13
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Thc Amy OF Once, Holders.


Thc Amy OF Once .EloIdcrs.
81 We recently published a statement
ffuu the Clarksburg Conservative show
IN. that there are, in the cOnnty of Har-
fisou. il6 Offices 10 nc filled
Nd - many iacumeantS I" he
Ga r,u,tcd ut Ike expense. of the
aax-payc,~. The statement having
he,.u ,I!ir, ~ question, !he Conservative
:tropascs 20 revise it's list, with the ex-
"a, :at.on Of adjiag loo 10 II. 1t says
# j. ra,. i.mr We made ont the list we
ki4ra We did not have them all, but
prrl,!..d cr-iug, If We made any error
~ :. :, OIL Tie side OF charity.
= STEc ohic,; of the Il ,lical party, in
multiplying the petty offices in onr
midst To such an extent, is very clear.
II was to enlist upon the side Of Rddi-
calSu all the small aspirants III every
commuaity-a class of people who rally
ID tie patty which dispeuseS the offices
--aud thus strengthen and perpetnate
as powrr. These officials are the work
M suIen of the Radical party throughout
,fhI> state. They support 1t, circulate
jis documents. ricctIOnvcr iOr i;s candI-
hats. cheat for II, lic for it. and swear
in il, and the panty i'll turn
fewa,,, them with these cheap places
thc t. 3,,vj of their aspiration. We re-
member that in Lewis county, two men
of this class short time age held. be-
8wrrn them, at least a score Of these
little Offices, :" vbjSA ii6+S had gained
a title Ly the hardest and dirticSt sort
81 wors. 1t is through such means
fhat tIrrrI.u of Radicalisn is perpet-
natrd, 5ll the people pay the cost.
RadirlliS.n employs is agents hut the
las .p.yrss loot Use Gii,s.
FEo q OF inr 90 CoOpcrniioni>i>."
III, is.,.ut jhc w"u;l-hc operation
SIS" az the recent Richmond Radical
Convention j. rlicltius considerable Ge-
risiou. 1t will bc remembered that
BOrrS. PiEIPolNT, CHANDLER and other
so-callrd respectable Republicans" pro-
pOsed To unite with the Virginia negroes
So carry the next elections, the recon-
perSe for their ''co-operatiOu" being the
leadership of the party aud the pick of
.fhc ohic,- Their example was followed
by many ANXIOUS ''cO-Operatiomists"
Rom the interior Of Virginia. Such men
as RNNuoIrU. SoUTHALL, COLEMAN,
AIEX,HprE and others were in
spircd with the spirit OF the mar
tyrs, and resolved 10 sacrifice themselves
on the shrine. of black, Radiealism, ex
&es.iiug in return u similar cOmFenSa-
Non To that Songht by Boris and
CHlXuLEG. The coOiuess of HUME
carr aud his darkies in deliberately
kichiuy AL this aristocratic respecta-
bility out II doors, is cqaalied only 10y
Ithe c!:agrin and discontinue of the
kicked. Ii is said that they all left
Richmond in great disgust, PrERPoINT
heiug especially disgruntled.
Thc EHqa;rsr and Eramiacr has the
following pointed reflections
PThc unfortunate and misguided white
men, whose offers of political atiliation
Eith their late slaves were rejected with
arerv insult which a negro mob conld
inflict. occupy the most unpleasant pre-
1teau,ant in which Virginians OF cul-
.fnfc and private rcspectabiiity could he
laced by anything less than crime.
..liry are very much in the condition OF
ssiesrrtrr> who. instead of being reward
I'D by ih, euc:sy. are led forth by the
sprovost mlr>ia! and hanged upon the
'.asareSt tree.
believing tba; they would be receiv-
I'll with open arms by the freedmen,
they burned their ships before they
Had effect Il - secure landings, and have
hern bari, Il heahlong into the Slough
ef Br>pond. by those who, they fond.y
hopvd. wonld .levate them TO office.
81 i soldier ci TIE gnard of Napoleon,
mi fought LTayrly il al the cam
,,ai ,:s o: that aIrIt Captain, and
rscarcd urhurt. was in his old age bat
,terrd "a death by a viciOus ram. The
veteran said that eathpOsSessed no ter
rors. Int i; was painful to reflect that a
soldier who Laa followed the eagles of
france from Marengo to Waterloo
should be battered TO death by d-n
BLACK RAM Many of those whose aspi-
.rations Were trampled under foot by the
mob of Richmond negroes, have been as
politicians put to the sword too often to
frei very acutely the pangs of an ordi-
nary defeat, but the agony of having
'their humble prayer for admission into
the mongIel ranks of the Radical party
,rrjected by the freedmen, must have
been very terrible.