The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-11
Letters from the. People.
FROM WAYNEG6CNTx0

and j mean just what say, and speak
the truth. 1t is not used and applied
to protect tho purity ef the ballot-box,
but is used to punish men who have
had the good sense and Independence
to vote against the party in power IN
the State. Some thirty or more voters
in one township have been summoned
to appear at the Court House on the
9th inst, to show what right they have
to vote. The parties have no knowedge
of the cause of their being summoned,
and do not know what will be required
of them to prove the right" All of
them are now on the register, and most
Of them have always been considered
the true-blne loyalists, aud their loyal
ty was never questioned by any one.
Some of them have been charged with
some acts of disloyslty in times past,
were last year summoned to answer, aP'
peared, disproved the charges, and de-
cided to be good voters. Now they are
summoned again. not knowing wheth-
or they are, to be stried" again, or
whether, when they appear bsfors the
board OF registration, some new charges
will be prefsrredS Bnt it is known of
all menthat these voters did not sup
port Boreman and Carroll last fall. If
this is not an application (or misappli-
cation) of the registry law with ven
geanee, by what term wonld you de-
scribe itf
Now the Board Of Registration kne'r
they could prove nothing against these
men that would deprive them Of voting,
even under the hateful law of last win
ter. They know they have notified men
TO appear whose record is clearer than
some of their own. They knew they
were sumnoning men before them whose
LOYALTY was much less questioned than
that of their own President. And they
know very well that every man they
summoned in the one township referred
TO, has lust as good right to vote as
any one of themselves. And they also
knew they never could carry the county
i'm any election for their party, even
after, the passage Of .CarrOlPs bill to
change the township lines, and make
five townships out of eight. And that's
what's the matter.
What do you think of summOniug old
n,en, who have voted over fifty years,
who are too feeble to ride to the Court
house now, aud who were tried last
wear, and pronounced all right Does
| il app.ar TO You and your readers that
we are living under free government !
| Is it republican form Of government
in reality, where such outrages are
committed And is it really true that
the sufferers by these transactions have
! no remedy, Old men who have been
respected all their lives by their fellow
citizens and 'neighbors, who have Tor
forty wears or more been entrusted with
public offices ofresponsibility, and who,
I during the war, being too old TO mix IN
the strife of the times, kept out of it as
much as circumstances would allow, and
took no part in it voluntarily in any
way, were once examined With wit
nesses. and acquitted of all charge OF
disloyalty, are now summoned TO ap-
year before three irresponsible fools, to
show what right they have to vote.
Well, many of the men summoned
cannot 90 to the Court House to an
swer; others feel that it is too hnmilia-
ting, and some have made mp their
minds to wait and hope. The law is
made to say: Upon his failure to appear
with satisfactory proof, &C., che shall
be stricken from the list.s All, there's
the point-and good point It is-for
the Radi-s seals!
But how long will these petty tyran-
nical enactments serve these hernia
phrodite politicians. Not leng, as
look at the progress of political affairs.
BrOwnlow oppressed Tennessee and
poor young West Virginia are the two
love specimen of the meanness of ex-
treme-or, Radicalism. - These two
States ars behind oil the other States in
the South, not because their Legislators
do not provide universal suffrage. but
on account of their selfish and illiberal
policy in making and administering the
laws. -y..nss
A young man named Johnson Queen
was killed in the upper end of this
county two weeks ago.
The soldiers have been removed from
the. Court, HDuse, TO Ceretlo.J It'was
found that they were not needed there
(or any where else in the cOunty), and
they were transferred to q point easier
of access for supplies. Seven were LETT
behind at the Court House, and they
had q panic there last Sunday night
that reminded us of the scares We used
to have in '6h Nobody shurt though
tie soLliers disch srged four or fiyeshota
one at pony around the corner OF the
Court House, and another at post OH
the piazza Of Mr.. Adkins store. MIR. j.
c. Wheeler declares that some rebels
were after him and the county jailer.
As good Union men and soldiers have
been in the county offices since the war
tine Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, and Re
cordsr, officers in the Union SarDy-and
have been IN the habit Of going nnd
coming all over the county whenever
and wherever they have business,
and have q performed all the Ndul
ties customary Osndp requisite for
such Offices, and have never, in any
manner, been interfered with, or treat
cd In any way but with respect, from
the summer Of l66a to tbe present time,
people are curious to know what J. c.
wheeler has been doing, that anybody
should be after him, True, he wrote b
slsnderous and obscene letter to Cover
nor Boreman and the members Of the
Legislature, lying about his neighbors
there at the Court House, but he took
that all back in another letter to the
West Virginia Joaral, printed at
Charleston, and il he had not, the peo-
pie had made up their minds to let him
severely alone," in view of the fact
that his scurrilOus letter caused sol
dien TO be sent to the Court House, pd
the soldiers would have money, and the
soldiers would spend money, and they
who were slsndered had rooms to rent;
and forage and dry goods and laxuries
to sell. I9G,ta b7sd1iG IGNAT.
Partiss in Albany have purchased, at
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