The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-08
II 0ke.us POcus.

A man named j. L. HOkE, an import
ell West Virginia Senator, edits a paper
in Martinsburg which he calls the
Berkeley Union. Some two or three
weeks ago heattempted, by staggering
threats, to scare the Spirit Of Jefferson
into abandoning its exposures of a gang
of rascally Radicals i'll Jefferson county.
We presented specimen OF those
threats to our readers at the time, and
called attention to the infamy cOuched
in IA proposition to publicly attack the
regulations of defenceless women, in
order to protect n lot of corrupt and
worthless knaves from the con sequences
of their villainy. We very freely ex-
pressed our opinion of the man who
made such villainOus and cOwardly
proposition, and this week We are ia
yored with Mr.. HoKE's reply. 1t is rs
follows:
The WHEELING REGIsTER.-We read
al account u few days ago in the Boons-
boro' old Feitor, of a thrilling adven-
ture that n certain professor had with
a den OF black snakes. He got one un-
der his heel and crushed the life out of
il, and then they came at him from all
quarters, raising their black Shiny
bodies, and sticking out their forked
tongues,like so many fiends incarnate.
Well, two weeks ago, we saw hit to ad-
minister a sound blow upon copper
head in Jefferson county, and 10! like
the aforesaid den of black snakes, its
brothers come kissing and belching out
their vile, sinking slime, thinking to
overpOwer us by their foul stencil. Of
all the nasty, dirty things in Gods world
we know of nothing SO vile and low as the
Wheeling REGISTER. The parties who
run il must at some time or other have
been loafers around some fish market,
where they picked up all the dirty slang
with which they daily and weekly re-
gale their readers. We have often no
ticed it's editorials during the sessions
of the legislature, but thought it un-
worthy OF comment. 1t talks about
female character, &c.,-all we have TO
say on that subject is, that if any rebel
woman stoops so low as to read that
paper, she is no lady, and as class, has
descended even lower in the yawning
abyss of treason and crime than we
thought they had; and for heavy boots,
why just try that on with your chivalry.
Examining the above article critically,
we would say, first, that its author has
q perfect mania on the subject of snakes.
This is not uncommon with men OF his
habits. He was exposed by name
through the pIess of his vicinity, q few
months ago, for drunken and beastly
behavior in ball-room-behavior
which We only hint at when we assert,
that it is said to have included every
thing in rudeness and indecency that
could offend the ears, the eyes, or the
nostrils of respectable assemblage.
without going into details, we will
state that the result, as given by the
local press, was his immediate expul-
sion from the hall and his thorough and
irretrisvable social disgrace.
We have, in this little reminiscence,
a clue to the mental condition in which
the above article was written. The
editor has evidently been attending an
other ball. The delusions of delirium
are upon him; snakes spring up in his
path, and his Imagination breeds worms
and vipers. Like "Parson BULLIN''
when beset by SUT LovENGOoD's liz
ards, "the hell-sarpents hev got him."
The depl0rable state of the "loyaP
editor disinclines us to pursue the sub
ieet much further, but it is sometimes
we'll to "answer fool according to his
folly, lest he be wise in his own con-
ceit." He is pleased to affirm that "of all
the nasty, dirty things in GoD's world,
he knows of nothing SO vile and low as
the Wheeling REGISTER" We would
modestly suggest the ancient aphorism
Man know thyself."
If the REGISTER has become slow" it
is because it went to his level to notice
him, and if it is in any way "vile" it has
become so from contact with the muck
rake of the Berkeley Union. The ele-
CANT gabble about "loafers" comes with
little force from man whose fortune
would have been made years since had
"loafng" been remunerative; the fresh
and original allusion to the "fish mar
ket" falls very fat from the prowling
shark of the police courts, and the vet
eran dead. beat sucker of fester-gut
whisky. Let US hear no more of
'loafer" and .'fsh-market" from this
vagabond, rum-guzzling representative
of eel-skinning Yankeedon, who would
have starved long ago had he eaten no
loaf but what he earned, and who now
derives his only nourishment from the