The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-14
Col. Lot Bowen 10 the Editor OF The
National Telegraph.

GENERAL NoRTHCoTT-The election is
over. l have not replied to any ofyour
criticisms on my character, civil, mill
tary, or moral or, as to my designs in
becoming candidate for seat in the
House of Delegates of West Virginia.
You, General, will not deny on tender
ing you my announcement for publica-
tiOn in your journal, that suggested to
you that in the event you would get the
nominees of the radical party TO go for
the following measures, that / would
decline my announcement and stand
out of the way: For the repeal of the
Registration Law, for the repeal Of the
Lawyers and Suitors' Test oath, for the
repeal of the Dog Law, for the repeal of
all laws establishing so many unneces-
sary Offices, and school interpretations,
against African Suffrage, and in favor
of the redemption of government bonds
by legal tenders-greenbacks. This
being declined, yOu published my an
nouncement, and thus it was became
candidate on an independent ticket.
Upon the above principles have can
vassed the county in opposition to
the radical nominees, and though hav-
ing lost my election, ] have carried
with me seven hundred and seventy
three of the voters of the county, in de-
fiance of the radicals of both parties,
and the principal part of the bond
holders of the county, though a few
honorable exceptions are to be found
among the latter class General. / ad-
vocate the repeal of the registry law
from the corruption that it works, and
from the enlargement of kindly feel
ings it produces, giving an opportunity
to bad disposed men to wreak personal
stitutional Amendment is full and
sufficient bar against all dangerous per-
SONS to liberty. Putting mankind at
large upon their honor is much better
means to secure safety to republican
liberty, than the establishment of one
man power. The lawyers and suitors'
test oath is but high bid for crime,
and tyranny ia the former case. In
the latter case it closes up the avenues
to Justice, and but shields the very worst
species of mankind in all ages of
the world, and is known to be the
worst feature connected with the his
tory of the war. for one have never
fought and hazarded my life to secure
such vile prerogatives over any portion
of my race. The whole features con-
nected in the premises are but coward
ice and false principles. "Truth will
vindicate itself when left free to combat
error" and none but towards will dis
trust it. The government bonds should
be redeemed at once by legal tenders,
for this very good reason: The people
of this country have never been nor
never will be able to sustain the pres
ent rate of interest OH money. In the
first place, the government pays from
six TO seven per cent. semi-annually in
gold, equal to ten in currency, and still
the bonds form the basis of the circula-
ting medium, on which the national
banks are established, and these banks
declare dividends annually of from
ten to fifteen per cent, making in all
from twenty to twenty-five per cent.
to the bondhOlder-a heavy income
on money. With such state of none
taIy affairs as this, who would be so
vain as to even hope for nations life
to be continued. assure you that the
continent had better be to-day on fire
than to suffer such q state of things at
the hands of the Shylocks and monied
autocrats. Croakers may say what they
please on the subject, but every penny
of this money comes out of the bone
and sinew of the laboring masses of the
country.
The present surroundings require that
we come to the rescue of the country
from the grasp of the Shylocks as from
the grasp of treason, and declare that
we will allow no twenty-five per cent.
interest "a the circulating medium of
this country. Mr. "Grey-Back" and
Mr.. "Blue-Back" are alike interested
in this matter, and it becomes US to
join hands in remedying this great evil.
A few of my brave boys have been de-
coyed FROM me by the false spirits. The
time will soon come when they will see
their error and return to the celors that
are true. am we'll aware they never
fought to enslave themselves and their
fellows. If / understand the thing
right, they fought to save liberty for
themselves, and their whole cOuntry's
people. / try to cultivate a kindly
iotllHS lOI III III race auu uopc w ooo
them built up q great and good peo-
pie.
l am congratulated that / have run
best where j am best known. This is
no bad recommendation to man. My
own township gave me majority over
all the candidates. / am proud of this,
and have a right to be; and could
l have visited the other portions of
the county and consulted fairly
with the people, the numbers
would have stood vastly different. /
trust in the future my doctrines will be
better understood, and if they never
award your humble writer an office he
hopes they will award office to men who
dare espouse them, and himself in COM
mon with his countrymen, will realize
the advantage of their adoption.
/ am, General Northcott, yours re-
spectfully, LOT Bowen.
October %, 1867.
FOUND DEAD.-A negro man named
David Moss, left his home in Columbia,