The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-13
The Cou,+n,ion Crisieized.


the recent State Convention. A well
known minister of the gospel was ac-
customed TO remark in reply to the
abuse Of the ungodly, that "he knew
he was doing good whenever he sue
ceeded in making the devil mad"
Upon the same p-.nciple the members
of the Convention may derive encour-
agement from the disgruntled condition
of our contemporary.
The resolution in regard TO the status
Of West Virginia, pleGging the Democ-
racy to her maintenance rs a State, is
regarded 10y the IatelligeRoer as designed
to alIay popular suspicion. Had such a
resolution been omitted, then we should
have heard that the Convention failed
TO ackusw ledge West Virginia as a
State.
1t has not been long since Hon. c. D..
HUBBARD, III a Congressional speech,
incorrectly declared, in substance, that
West Virginia was not recognized in
Democratic Conventions or platforms.
The IHtelligeHcer now condemns the par
ty for making any such recognition.
The criticisms of these Radical represen-
tatives, remind us of the lines on free
will and necessity in religion:
You eau and you can't,
YOn will and you won't
You'll be damned il you dc,
You'll be damned II you don't"
We are glad to know, however, that
the political salvation fths Democracy
is net st the disposal of these hypercrit-
ical individuals.
The ConyeutIon's resolution was per-
fectly proper, not only as sxpounding
Democratic sentiment, but as an answer
to the indirect assault made By Con-
greSs npon the State Of West Virginia.
That body, through the Reconstruction
Bill, declared the Government of Fir-
ginia to be illegal. Denying the legali-
ty of Virginis's Government, it also de-
MED the legality of West Virginia,
whose creation WAS an act of the Vir-
ginia Government. The Radical party
having assailed West Virginia, her only
true friends have defended her. That
defence is now objected to by the Intel
ligeRcer, journal which upholds the
measure that denies the legitimacy OF
this State. Such objections may very
properly come from such source.
Our cOtemporary further assails Cap
tain SPERRY, the delegate from Green
brier, aud insinuates that he was con-
nected with the rebellion. When We
inform him that Captain SPERRY served
with credit in the Union army through
ont the Late war, he will probably de-
sist from his attack upon q gentleman
whose proof of patriotism has been
somewhat more practical than his own
The InteIHgencer is further displeased
because in the Conventions address
"there is not so much as a single word
of censure OF reproach cast upon the
men engaged in the rebellion" We
think the malediction business may bt
safely left to men like the editer of th'
IntelliQencer. That was his favoritt
mode of fighting the rebellion while il
lived, and now that it is dead, he howl:
around its tomb and preys upon it'
bones. Not possessing the instincts o.
the jackal, the Democracy do not thu.
deport themselves.
If our neighbor will observe, the. ad
dress does not refer to several othel
events which were quite important il
their day, but are quite finished at th'
present. The Revolutionary War wa
such an event; so too was NoAH's flood
We remind him that
old politicians feed on issRes past.
And totter on in blunders 10 the last
If the Radical party chooses to turr
backward and present its posterior'
10 the future, it is welcome to th'
kicks which it merits and invites. Th,
Democrats do not propose 10 b
guilty of any such improper pOsturing,
We will meet the demands and issues
of the day, and if West Virginia Radi
calisn can learn nothing from Ohio his
tory, it will evade all these, discourse
of the worn cut themes Of Copperhead
ism and rebellion, and thus plays itsel