The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-25
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Morning, July 25.
Tribute Of Respect.

deserts, III IlDeial spirit. we snal
not even ask him TO assume the position
usual with creatures of his class in re
ceiving a salutation of sOle-leather
Upon the person of most scallawag'
there is qnarter specially devoted t.
the reception of kicks. With HoKE il
isditferent. Cut where you will, yor
fnd rump steaks. Kick where vou will
the kick goes home. Whatever strike:
the man will strike the usual target fol
the boot.
He assails us i'll an article in whic cl
falsehood and iudecency are SO promi
nent, that we know not whether 10 style
him u blackguard liar or lying black
guard. To avoid mistakes We proclaim
him TO be both. He denies that he was
ever publicly denounced as dirty
drunken brute. A sober liar wOu.d have
made no such denial. He knows that
the Ner Era did thus expose him, and
that he tried To rebut the evidence
which it produced. A mans character
for soDriety must be very dubious when
has to be established by oath and
affidavit. 1t is still more suspicious
when counter public accusations allege
against it the most filthy and
offensive drunkenness. Such, how
ever, Is the case With the rot
ten reputation of the gin-swilling
vagrant OF the Union.
He further denies that he is a
Northerner by birth. He is not
an imported villain, but native
homemade scoundrel of Berkeley
county. We confess that We had un-
derrated the facilities of Berkeley for
breeding that sort of stock. In fact, We
had an idea that the crop-eared crea-
ture came from town up North, called
Valley Forge. 1t seems We con-
founded place with practice. 1t
should have been bond forge" Does
the skulking scab-scratcher perceive
the point: Need we remind him of
those forged county bonds which se-
cured STEINMrTZ Il situation in Mounds
Vile, and which may yet place the
editorial dung-digger of Martinsburg
by bis side
He "was boru in Berkeley county,
four miles from Martinsburg." If the
fragrance of his youth was similar to
the odor of his maturity, we suppose
Martinsburg knew of his advent pretty
soon after it occurred. -Four miles! !!
ut one end; villLiuous
stink-pot, filled with extracts of skunks,
buzzards, rotten eggs, kings evil and
HoKE at the other! Unhappy Martins
burg.
This nose-twisting compound OF a
thousand stenches prates of his South
ern origin and Yankee principles. We
had sample of those principles" III his
threat to vilify the the regulations Of
ladies in his neighborhood merely to
crafty a gang of worthless hounds
whose rascalities were indefensible. If
that is his sfyle of principle" he can
do with it as he does with
all other uncleannesS within his
it. Principle, for
sooth! He has no more use for prin-
ciple than blind owl has for daylight;
he knows no more about it than n dog
louise knows of decency, and cares no
more for it than some lecherous. stall
wart orang-Outang cares for the Sew
enth Commandment.
This mushroom upstart from the Rad
ical manure pile. has the effrontery to
sneer at the supposed poverty of the
REGISTER, and to affect doubt of its
financial responsibility. 1t lays no
claim to wealth, nor does it enjoy the
of Il conn ectiOn with Grim
inals and the support of forgers, but it
can yet keep even with the world, and
especially is it able to square accounts
with the pretentions pauper of the
Berkeley Union. 1t makes no boast of
,ts prosperity, bnt if j. T. HoXH's skin
were as black rs his heart, and such stock
were now worth the purchase, it could
buy a score of his kind at full yalua
lion, and double the investment in
twelve months by having the gang reg
nlarly scraped aud the scales sold for
pixies and purges.
The editor of rhe Berkeley Union
shows himself to he rs deficient in COM
mon sense az he is destitute of princi-
pie; he asserts that the editor of the
REGISTER is addicted to vices similar to
his own. We mention this assertion
merely as an evidence of the blind des-
peratiOu of his rage. He strikes with
all the fury and venom usual with
wounded snakes, but his aim is wild
and bis poison impotent.
Let us conclude our criticisms upon
this beautiful bung-hole of seething
swill-tub. He processes to be South.
ern man. yet he disgracefully persecutes
his neighbors of his mothers sex
because they can tolerate neith-
er the original Yankee, nor the
base imitation, of which he is shin
ing sample. He claims to be virtnous
yet have his very words the SAVIOR
the worst of vices, practised in the cheap
est of places. Heprofesses temperance
yet can talk in no language so well as
that which describes the ways, the prac-
tices and the disgusting results of a
drunkenness which staggers and spews
and wallows. He assumes oil the hon
est airs of loyalty 2 bnt who shalt say
that srENMITz should have met ,th'
fate Of felon alones .-'a. Wv