The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-23
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An Address 10 ikc Legislature Upon
the Asylum Ouirages by MIR. p. Va.
Hale of Weston, West Virginia.
To the s.csi.Inturo OF West Virginia.
WESTON, LEWIS COUNTY,
w. VA, Dec. -, 1867.

W. NA'l ICS' A-O''
Gentlemen 1T is well known to the
public that / have been for some time
past engaged in bitter strife with GER
tain officers of the West Virginia Hos
pital for the Insane. | desire 10 men-
ton Nathan Goff, President of the
Board of Directors, as au honorable ex-
ceptiOn. This contention arose, as will
appear in the course Of this article,
from my opposition to the ambitious
and corrupt proceedings of the Medical
superintendent, DR.. Ralph Hills. In
compliance with the duties of my posi-
tiou, and il justice to the interests of
the Hospital and State, / have for some
time past been compelled to watch him
closely, and although he has not scrupled
at any means to cloak his villainy, yet he
has not fully succeeded in binding OF
deceiving me. | have tracked him,
step by step, remorselcssly, and intend
to pursue him to the end, and will listen
to 10 compromise. The interests of the
Hospital and State demand that this
hypOcrite-this wolf in Sleeps clothing
be exposed to public view. In due
time | will recount some Os his evil
deeds, which should brand him with ev-
erlasting infamy. Since his connection
with this Hospital, he has been notori-
ously ambitious and selfish, and has sac
rificed its interests in various ways in
the management of the construction of
the building; and by an unjustitiablc
usurpation of power and authority, he
has obviously been grasping after the
control of the finances. He and his
family are living like pampered fowls,
and yet their capacious maws are in
satiable.
Early after the organization Of the
present Board of Directors of the Hos
pital, DR.. Ralph Hills, Medical Superin-
tendent, and Richard p. Camden, one
of the Directors, became connected with
the control of the National Exchange
Bank of Weston. At the first meeting
of the Board of Directors, an effort was
made to remove the Treasurer of the
Hospital, Mr.. George A. Jackson, and
substitute an officer of the National Ex-
change Bank, who would perform the
duties of that Office for the use of the
money. The use intended to be made
of this money was evidently to specu-
late in the currency of the Exchange
Bank of Virginia, then selling at dis
count. Ientered protest against the
removal of the Treasurer, and defeated
the fraudulent scheme Of DR.. Hills and
Camden, thereby deprivjng- them of the
use of S75, 900 to barter for the Exchange
Bank currency, and thus rendering my
self exceedingly obnoxious to them. A
series of petty strifes now grew out Of
almost every proposition presented for
the consideration of the Building Com
mittee, composed of Camden, DIR. Hills
and myself, the former generally disa-
greeing with me, and no matter how
plain the question, DR.. Hills would not
decide in my favor against his very par
ticular friend, Camden.
To such an extent did this hostile
feeling prevail, that it at last became
necessary to add two other members,
citizens of this county, to the Building
Committee, in order that the work upon
the Hospital might be prosecuted with
eut delay; and Mr.. Allen Simpson and
Major Anderson were appointed, but
were soon summarily discharged from
the Committee, as they did not snit the
purposes of Camden and DR.. Hills. l
deem it proper to state, in this connec-
tion, that in my official capacity as
President of the Board of Registration
of Lewis County, it became necessary
to cause the name of Richard P. Cam
den to be stricken from the list of vo-
ters, charges having been preferred
against him for various acts of disloy-
atty. This added to the already fully
aroused desire of Camden and DR.. Hills
to force me from the Board Of Direc