The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-09

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gro passion against the white
population. After incurriug the
penalties which, at that time, fell upon
those who stirred up insurrection, he
fed the State, Wanted in the North his
offense and prosecution, sought Yam
kee sympathy on thescore of his viola-
tion of law in Virginia just rs an escaf-
ing pick-pocket would appeal to the
pity of q community of thieves, and
made himself generally conspicuous
and ridiculous under the self.choseu
title Of "the Virginia exile" His pres
ent position is due to the niisfortunes
Of war; it is one of the incidents of rev.
olution, which, like sudden flood, Of
ten leaves the bottom rail uppermest.
But his own language on last Morday
is the best comment on his character.
The Judge who would make his official
place the vehicle of the annexed utter
ances would use his fathers coffin for a
dung cart:
Another subject of thanksgiving is
presented in the very constitution of
your body, furnishing ocular evidence
that the age of caste and class cruelty
=. lnranta1 nd Tho nf Snoftna
and equality breaking through the
clouds of persecution and prejudice is
now dawning upon ms. And strangest
of all, this city of Richmond should be
the spot of earth to furnish this graci-
GUS manifestation. Richmond, the
beautiful and abandoned seat of the
rebellion, looking as comely and speci-
GUS as Q goodly apple or gilded sepul-
chre, where bloody treason fiOurished
its whips of scorpions. Richmond,
where the slave trade SO long held high
carnival, where the press has found the
lowest depths of profigacy, where
licentiousness had ruled until probably
q majority of births were illegitimate
or without the forms of law; where
the fashionable and popular pulpit had
been so prostituted that its full fed
ministering gay LothariOs generally
recommended the worship of what they
most respected, pleasure, property and
power. Corresponding to the Pagan
and NEUROLOGICAL ideas of Bacchus,
Mammon and Mars. ".
Gods brutal, partial, passionate, unjust
II was as if the fiends prevailed as
ax fha thayo il.I
And fixed on heavenly thrones should dwell
The freed inheritors Of hell
So soft the scene, so formed for joy,
So cursed the causes that destroy"
The author of the above is naturally
the champion of the proposed conlisca-
tion robbery and the apologist of the
great apostle of miscegenation, THAD.
STEVENS, whom he apostrophizes as "a
patriot statesman, venerable alike for
his age and for the blessings of educa-
tion, culture and improvement he had
conferred upon his state and country, q
statesman greatly eminent among his
fellow legislators and by common con-
sent cf successive Congresses acknowl-
edged as a leader and father with IL def
erence that neither Clay, Fox, the Pitts,
nor even Cicero, had ever known. This
noble man we have seen assailed with II
bitterness and falsehOod peculiar to
the authors and leaders of the rebellion,
its pimps and apologists, and for WHAT
Why, for proposing that few of those
who had been chiefly instrumental in
filling the land with woe, and mourn
ing, and debt, and taxation, and who,
like the late Secretary of the rebel fl
nances, had made millions by blockade
running and by speculating npOn the
general distress, should, out of their
princely estates, contribute one-tenth
of the damages they had done, and at
the same time exempting from penalty
all the great masses of those who had
been drawn into the late war. This
humane statesman also proposes not to
punish any with that extreme vigOr
usual in civil wars, and not even to the
extent exacted by every European ma
tion in ordinary foreign wars. Was
such moderation and clemency ever be-
fore so abused and insulted'
May this grandest old statesman Of
our country and age, this honor to hu-
manity and light among nations, still
continue to shine among traitors, not
withstanding the advance of years and
disease, and may we yet be guarded by
his wisdom and beneticence until the
great questions now pending shall be
decided in the interests of peace. pro-
gress and freedom
Such balderdash as this, together with
few original references to the dis
loyalty" of the newspapers Of Virginia
and savage dig at "a relic Of the bar
barism of slavery" by which negroes
were not allowed to ride in the street
cars with the whites, make mp the sum
total of Judge UNpERwOoD's charge to
the grand jury. Virginia's sins may
be many and gross but terrible indeed
must have been her transgressions to
merit the curse and retribution of this
mans presence upon the judicial bench.
An Oil Fever AbrSnd.