Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-07-14
THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN.

We published last week the proceedings
of the Conservative County Convention, held
at Harper's Ferry, on the 9th instant. We
were present at that Convention, and were
gratified at the spirit evinced. 1t gave us
renewed hope that the rascalities and frauds
of the unprincipled radicals who have ruled
this county, are to meet with resistance
that must result in their overthrow. There
were men there who have heretofore quietly
submitted to these outrages, but who are now
alive to their own interests, and who mean |
to have their rights, or visit the just conse-
quences of their disfranchisement upon the |
heads of the INSCRIPTIONS emissaries of radi-
calism, who have ostracised them merely be-
cause they could not control them in the in |
terests of the radical party. We may expect
some bitterness in the campaign upon which
we are entering, but the Democratic party OF
this county does not mean to submit longer
to the unmitigated scoundrelism Of Boreman
and his appointees, and it may as we'll be IN
derstood in the outset, by the Board OF Reg
istration, that Joe. Chapline and Anthony
Turner cannot deprive men of their rights,
on the fimsey pretext that they are not loyal,
because they have the independence to think
| and act for themselves. If they make such
au attempt, things will become too warm for
them to find resting place within the boun-
daries of this county. And we say this in
no spirit of bullying bravado, but give it as the
feeling which we believe actuates every mem
Der of the party who has suffered wrong at
the hands of these corrupt and unprincipled
men.
If the radical party can carry this county
by fair means and a legitimate registration,
no word of objection will be uttered, and no
act of violence perpetrated, but If they persist
in continuing the frauds which have hereto
fore marked their career, they will not find
tame submission. Already Chapline and
Turner have made their boasts of what they
intended to do and have publicly declared
that if it becomes necessary to secure success
to their ticket, one hundred and Jifiy names
will be stricken from the list of registration.
This is the spirit with which they enter the
campaign, and this must be met by the opposite
party with determination not to allow such
|
On Saturday week the representatives of
the different townships will meet in this town
for the purpose of nominating candidates for
the Legislature and the various county offices.
The men placed before the people BY this
contemplated Convention, are not to be
cheated of their elections by the ncfarious
| schemes heretofore resorted to to secure rad
ical success. When men allow their names
to be used to promote the interests and attain
the success of party, they do it with the
presumption that the party will not only
sustain them with their votes, but with the
expectation also, that the party will protect
them from the frauds and corruptiops of their
opponents. And this much the Democratic
party will owe to its candidates. They must
sustain them at the polls, and see that every
they must further see that no spurious ballots
are cast for their enemies.
Past experience has taught US that there
is no meannes5, ao~triekery, no corruption, no
dishonesty, to which the radical party in this
county will not readily resort, if theyare not
! quenccs For three years the party has sus-
tanned itself by system of knayery which,
if there were any justice to appeal to, would
consign the leaders to Imprisonment for life,
or at least for long term, in the peniteri-
tiary, but having the court with them, pre-
sided over by a partizan Judge, who owes
his position to corruption and fraud, who is
incapable of doing justice where the interests
of his party are inyolved-and who has
smcared his judicial robes with the filth aud
stencil Of radicaIism--the bascne5s Of Chap
line. and the Unborn dishonesty Of High Over
Anthony have found an immunity that has
cmboldened them to. push their frauds to
point " beyond which forbearance ceases to
be virtue" and where resistance to tyrants
becomes obedience to God"
And now, the proposition is plain one
| We are to have an election for national, State
and county officers. And we mean, as party
that it shall be an election, and not the regis
tered eRict of a nest of swindlers. Foreman,
and Chaplinc, and Anthony Turner, and 9TH
ers, are cautioned against throwing any inn
pedinent in the way of an honest expression
of the sentiments of thepeople of this county.
They are notified to desist from their course
of shameless fraud. The party that is seek
ing to restore the Government under the Con-
stitution courts no mob and desires no vic,
lence, but it means to have its rights, fairly
if it can, forcibly if it must.
IMPEACHMENT AGAIN.-Mr. Thaddeus
Stevens, in the House of Representatives, on
Wednesday, brought forward another In
! parchment.