The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-06
Letters from the People
FROM RITCHIE! COUNTY,

RITCHIE COUNTY. NOW, ZCth, lO"''
Editor Of the Register.
Sir, having seen nothing from TINS
portion of King Arthur's Dominion
for some time, l thought l would drop
you line, and after congratulating you
upon the result Of the late elections,
give you few lines upon the nature OF
thirgs, and the acts of the mongrelltes IN
this county. Our people are honest, IN
dustrious and desirous of doing what is
right, fair and honorable, but the bright
ones that have swung the scepter In
this county for the last six years, are
composed of the scum of her social caul-
dron, and having plunged their cat ike
claws into the very heart of society
are hard to shake loose, as was EVIL
denced by the result of the late elec-
ton, when mongrelite as you are
aware was elected to the Legislature.
Elected in the interest of bondholder,
high taxes and Niggerism. NotWith-
standing one of the highest, purest ana
best men in the county was the Demo-
cratic candidate, a man was elected who
is notorious for nothing but his ignor-
ance. Eli. Riddle, q fit Representative
to Riddle through all the trash OF Radi-
calism; this person was elected by about
two hundred votes, falling off of about
two huadred for the Radicals. There was
at least three hundred Radicals that
did not vote; they begin 10 see their er-
ror, and by another year will vote the
straightout Democratic ticket, notwith-
standing the lashes. the cat of ninetalls
and the whip of scorpions, that the
thieves, murderers, robbers that COM
pose the leaders of Radicalism bring to
bear upon them. Then the tools,
spies and informers that Arthur lst
has in this county to do dirty work, de-
ter great number of our voters from
the polls. They are afraid to vote their
sentiments for fear of having their
names stricken from the list of voters
by the bullying towards that compose
our Board of Registration. But thanks
to fortune the late elections have let IN
a streak of sunshine that will penetrate
the innermost recesses of Radicalism.
Sufficient light was let III this
time to give the Congression-
al District to the true friends of liberty
by at least forty majority. So there
goes the self constituted candidate for
Congress from this District next fall.
The good sense of our people will leave
him at home, in an employment better
suited to his nature and abilities.
This nasty loyalist who aspires to be
a representative of honest men, is hound
ed on by the magnates of the over loyal
and Jealous Church who publickly an
nounces herself from her pulpits as be-
ing the loyal Church. These lunatics
who boast that they have the destinies
of West Virginia in their hands, who
have not sense and judgment enough
to know that joining Church and State,
has been the bane and curse Of all Ma
tions and People, dare to desecrate
Gods wholly Temple by such vile slang
as would disgrace fish market. Upon
last Saturday evening it was announced
in the Methodist Protestant Church, In
Harrisville, that on the next evening,
the cause Of the split in the conference
at Grafton would be explained, and
such an explanation and such language
as was used in making the same, hope
never disgraced any Church before, and
l hope never to see the like again. The
thick sculled petifogger who has this
Circuit in charge, is disgrace to any
community or Church.
Anathemas were hurled Ipon old
John Clark and other ministers In
that conference in q language
and style that would disgrace
n maniac in the Sponging House ofWest
Virginia. In the name of God have we
come to this, that honest upright hon
orable men, will sit cody by and hear
a blaspbemer and Demagogue stand up
in Christ's Church andinstead preach
ing Christ and him crucfied, call the
ministers and members of any other
Church lairs, traitors and Rebels,
forsooth because those men could not
come down to level with such men as
he Could we expect anything else
but that our land should be filled with
murders, ,robberies, and midnight assassi-
ations when we had such men in sleeps
clothing teaching by example. The
public press has of late been giving ac.
counts of clerical indiscretions and /
hope she will continue to show them
up in their proper light until the fear
of ridicule and exposure will deter such
as / hear referred to from their ungedly
and unrighteous cause, and more anon.
ENQUIRER.