The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-22
Letters from the People.
MONONGALIA COUNTY.
SMOKY HOILER, MONoNGAHELA I
County. WEST VA,

MONONGALkA CODN 4 .
SMOKY HOILER, MONoNGAHELA
COUNTY, WEST VA. J
Mister Editur:
Bein myselfa stranger about your
sity. and having hearn of your paper
down there whar the Legislator sets,
/ thought / would drap you few lines
to publish in your paper to let the Leg
islatur know how awful things are get
tin fixed up here, and to pray their
honorable body to do something to pro-
tect laryalty up here in this moral vine
yard. And Mister editur, there is
man OF some sich thing down there
in the Sennit or Legislator one call
ed Young, from way down yonder
about Po-ka-hound-u or some siCh
place; of you could only see him l
know he would fix it all rite; for Mister
editur, am mighty laryel myself, and
have hearne he istoo.
Now Mister editor, want YOU to tell
him and our Delights there, that et they
don't do somethin soon for our party,
the Copperheads will have every thing
on their side, except dogs.
O Mister editur, tell them it is awful I!
awful! how the Copperheads are a
foolin the people down here.
1t is too much for loyalty TO endure
the way things are goin now days;
last summer, Mister editor, as you
hearn, it was very dry here, we hadn't
any rain of any account while the dry
weather lasted; well that is nothiH here
or there; but / was agoin to say, and
had great many taterS planted, and
because it was so dry, my said taters
were "rery small and .tew in a MHp Sc
you see Mister editur, / was agoin to
plant them all ont again this year, but
awful to tell, jist when l was gettin
ready, grOund-hog day come; and don't
you think as how, the pesky ground
hog actually seed his shadder (for
to tell the truth, l am a
feared its all copperhead work. and
now my tater plantin is all knocked to
mush, and my aforesaid taters are ut
for nothin in the world but TO send TO The
legislator. And Mister editur, what l
want you to do, is, to see Mister Young,
and eur members from Monongahala
and ask them to try and do somethin
with that old rebel ground log, for
something must he did, and that soon,
or loyalty and our party must so down
in this neck of woods. Astonishin to
tell, but nabour Jones actual
" seed the ground hog, and gist
as |, or any other loyal man would OK
l., lr.CsaI IN full guif pf
rebel gray, from head to foot, on that
day, so he was; and then and there
showed himself with asmuch impHdeHce,
as if he wds General LORgsteet himself.
Now do, Mister editor, tell Mister
Young and our delegates from Mononga-
hela, TO do something with said ground
hog some way OF other.
am not a legislator to be sure, but
| was thinkin' as how it would be the
easiest way, as our party in Con-
gress does in such cases, TO make law
changing his color to black instead of
gray. You know our party in Congress
did 80 with the rebel General Long
street, and it is now all right for our
party. do tell them that there is a
great deal in colour now a days-Or eff
they should think it unconstitutional to
do thus (though don't see that the con-
stitushun should stand in the way of
our party,) then ] suggest, that they
pass law declaring that said ground
hog shall not, while he wears his coat Of
gray, interfere with lawyel peoples ia
terry Dlantin, any how, and the Sm shine
on them days, shall be null and void.
Or if there is any trouble in doing
that, let en-, at least, make a law re-
quiring said ground hog before he is al
lewded to look at his shadder on them
days, to get the certificate of two honor
ably discharged soldiers, to the effect
that his ground hog-ship, is black, aud
not gray; and tell EN- in order to make
the work complete, to get his excellen-
cy, Gov. BOdr-man to issue his procla-
nation declaring said law to be a law,
until reversed by the courts, and then
as a clincner do tell mister Young and
our delegates, aforesaid, to do as our
party in Congress does i'll such cases, that
is, pass an other law forbidding all
Courts, State and Federal, to hear or
take jurisdiction of any case arising
under the Royal Proclamation aforesaid.
And du tell our deligut McClasky to
have the matter referred to the Conf
NIFTY on Grievances and Agriculture,
with Ferguson, of Cabell, as Chairman,
or some sich thing.
And now Mister editer, | expect ef
Mister Young, or our Delights aforesaid
should learn OF this letter from me,
they will request Il copy; ef they do,
please give them IA printed copy, as
am afraid they haven't learned enough
to read my hWdIu6R manuscript.
Iu conclusion, Mister Editur, tell
Mistur Young ef lie charges me any
thing for his trouble, that am goin
to raise heap of squashcs this next in
comm in summer, and will send him a
better one than he ever had in his hat be-
fore sure, and that he may know that l
am sound. Tell him my sentiments is,
loyalty and SdmbO, one and insepardble.
SHELLBARK.
=. S. tell that other man down there,
called Notwithstanding, that
prints that other paper down there, that
if he is mind to, would be proper
glad he would publish this letter in his
paper for tie good of our party.
S, for ever
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