The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-04
Letters from the People.
E FROM GRANT COUNTY.
The GoveFnsr's MessaSo-Lsyaity On
she Berder-Test Oaths and fheif
Effect.
CREEK, GRANT Co. w; Va,
Ian. 30. 1866.


Effect.
LUNEY's CREEK, GRANT Co. w. Va,
Jan. 80, 1856. :
Editor Of the Register:
The Governor, with his usual aud &C
ity, aud mendacity, too, repeats in his
silly and puerile annual message, his
charges against the people in some OF
tho counties bordering on Kentucky
and Virginia; charges having no foun-
dation in truth or fact but just such as
that most corrupt scoundrel and Judge,
Nat. Harrison, would delight in max
ing his equally, corrupt master, the Gov
ernor, believe, in order that he may be
able to hide his infamy from law and
justice, which surely will overtake him,
and the Governor too, one of these days.
When people, like rulers, are disposed
to do wrong and deny justice to their
fellow men, it is quite an easy matter
to hatch up some flimsy apology for
their nefarious conduct. Precisely is
this the case with the Governor and
Nat. Harrison. The people in these
counties will not become loyal to Rad
ical politics, and hence they are in re-
belliOn to the constituted authorities
of West Virginia.
If they would bow the knee and wor-
ship Arthur l Boreman & Co., they
would be loyal enough for any pur-
poses or offices. Their manhood would
not permit them thus to degrade them
selves, and consequently they are 80
disloyal as to require the positive pre-
sence of United States troops! Wonder
if the Governor of West Virginia
thinks, for one moment, that any per-
son having one grain Of common sense
or self respect, believes one single word
contained in his charges against the
counties. He certainly does not. He
reproduces his old "hopes and wishes
to the effect that, by the assembling of
this present august Legislature, it would
have been his duty as well as his pleas
ure to have recommended the modStica-
tion and repeal of some of the restric-
tions now deemed necessary to keep
Arthur /. BOreman and his crew in Of
flee, and others more competent and
loyal out.
Everybody knows perfectly we'll that
he states sheer falsehood when he
makes such q statement to the world.
We know, and so does Arthur i. Bore
man know, that 50 soon as these "test
oaths," &C., are removed, his party is
gone forever in West Virginia.
A continuance of these "test Oaths'
upon our statute books will necessarily
demoralize and destroy the people. Test
oaths only show to the world the weak
ness and meanness of those who enact
them, and are only adopted to relieve
their authors in power, and keep out
their opponents. But history teaches
us that they always result in the entire
destruction Of those who make and sup
port them. Such is the inevitable fate
of all the test oaths and their friends in
West Virginia. God hasten the day.
p. S.-Since the Supreme Court OF
West Virginia has declared test oaths
constitutional, which will the loyal
Governor and his radical legislature
recognize rs the law of the country, the
United States Supreme Courts decision,
or the West Virginia decisiOnf
If We are to have test oath for edi-
tors, why not have one for doctors, mer-
chants, farmers, preachers, mechanics,
and one for young people to swallow
who wish to enter upon marital Iela
tionsi Better pass one for their antici-
pated offspring for fear they may not be
loyal. JUSTICE.