The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-11
Letter From Marshall County.

HUBS LANDING, July 8, 1868.
Editors of the Register:
The question is asked, where did the
Republican party come from In reply
| would say that the Republican party
of this country is as old as our govern
ment, co-existing with the same. When
l say the Republican party. l mean that
party which has always been true to
the Constitution and laws of our coun-
try.
But the party now in power calling
itself the Republican party, is of recent
origin, and is made of the fag END of all
parties, swallowing all of the odious
and abeminable principles of several de-
funct parties. The present so-called
Republican party has propensities some
thing like the buzzard, which causes it
to sail over the better principles of the
dcfunct parties, and swallow with hun
cry avidity that which is putrid.
The old Wbig party was insane OH
the tariff question, internal improve
ments, &c. These principles became
putrid, and the Radicals swallowed
them up. We had q party known rs
the Know Nothing party, who were
vociferous in their anathemas against
all foreigners and Roman Catholics
These principles became putrid, stale
and odious, yes, mean enough for food
for the so.called "Loyar Republican
party. We next had the old Abolition
party, of the true Garrison type, whose
watch word was: Down with slavery,
peacably, if we can, and fercibly if we
must" This party existed for several
years under the lead of some of the
worst men that ever lived. 1t finally,
so far as name is concerned, became
dead, rotten and putrid, and emitted
such horrible stencil that it could find
no place of interment, only in the nasty
stomach of the "loil" Republican party.
From the foregoing, we soc that the
present Republican party has its epigas-
trie regions filled to repletion with the
corrupt and abominable principles of
the several defunct parties. Such a
conglomerated mass of filth and corrup-
tion must in a very short time destroy
the party.
This party, with its corruptions, has
been in power over seven years, during
which time our country has become in
vOlved in q debt which the youngest
child living will never see paid; our
Union has been destroyed; our labor
has been oppressed and taxed without
our consent; our best citizens have been
disfranchised; soldiers have been court
martialed and shot for things they could
not help; the innocent have suffered
death upon the gallows; eur State and
National officers have plundered the
people; a portion of our citizens have
been taxed till ID amounts to oppression
and the rich bondholders exempted;
our Southern States have been rendered
barren for want of encouragement and
oppressed by the negrs; all species OF
crime and corruption has stalked forth
through the land under the sanction OF
the "loil" Republican party.
This party has pilfered, robbed and
oppressed the people for the last seven
years until forbearance has ceased to be
virtue. She has spread her phylac.
teries far and wide, and has encompass
ed land AMI sea to make q habitatior
for devils. She has lived on wine
honey and the fat things of the earth
but day of fearful retrrbution is close
at hand. Yes, in less than n year, thi.
party will be dead aud cast to the foul
winds Of the earth. The name will bt
despised and forgotten. The peopl,
will sing for her the same funeral dirg'
that was sung for certain "Schrofu
larie :"
When it lived, it lived in clover,
And when 1t died, it died all over"
BEN. Bolt, Jr.