The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-09-19
THE CAMPAIGN.
FROM LEWIS COUNTY.

Editer of the Register:
Let us take a retrospective view Of
the ground fought over during the pre-
sent campaign, and you, with me, will
say the great Democratic and Conserva-
tive party have everything TO make us
hopeful of the final result. Your cor
respondent has travelled through most
of the counties of our State, and what /
say you can count on as reliable. First,
The great masses of our people are
awake, fully awake to the issues in
volved in this canvass. Those issues
being plain, we meet them manfully,
soberly, aud with sound argument. Our
Radical friends are prone to bring forth
dead issues. War that is past, with
all its horrors. With appeals to. the
worst passions of men, presuming that
the majority of mankind, like them
selves, are base, sordid, and non-fcr-
giving, and fail to see the true issues.
Their speakers make long and loud
harangues; they are listened too, and
soon forgotten. Our speakers grapple
manfully with the only living issues,
taxation and the restoration of peace
and tranquility, to our distracted coun-
try, pointing out the dangers to be shun-
ned, thus arresting the thinking facnl-
ties of every true patriot and lover of
his country and its institutions, and up
OF reflection they see the dangers
that beset us in the Radical ex-
tension of rule, they are deter
mined on change, and change
they will have. Not only are the old
men awake, but the young, who shoul-
dered his musket and went forth to the
field to maintain the principles which
the great Democratic and Conservative
party are now fighting for. The people
are awake-reading, thinking, and
above all, acting-and Vest Virginia
will be redeemed and placed with her
sister States of Ohio and Pennsylvania
as redeemed and regenerated. To this
end the people work, and we have
everything to encourage us. The
registration is doing its part.
When the tools of King Ar
thur strike one name from the books
that should remain, two honest Radicals
vote with US. This is strictly so, as
many of your readers can testify. The
masses of the people mean right and q
gross wrong they will condemn. Here.
tofore they have acted without thinking.
Now they will reflect before acting.
Our people are so just and comprehen-
sive in every particular that reflection,
calm and dignified, is only wanted to
win the erring to our cause, and let me
say to the workers in our party keep
aloof from lew billingsgate style of ar
gument: as our opponents have adopted
this style, let them have the field uu-
nolested. We have sound doctrine to
inculcate; they have nothing to found
an argument upon; they advocate NO
principle coBgenial to our people. Ne.
gro equality is their broad plank, con.
cealed by fimsy and silly appeals to the
masses on old issues, and that the "col.
cred troops fought nobly." Your cor
respondent has travelled over
many counties in our State re.
Gently, conversed with the people
freely and knows that right will pre-.
vail at our coming election. The peo-
pie have felt the expressions of Radical
State rule, are awake and sensitive
to ever ry wrong placed upon them, be i,
great or small, and know its authors
and the self interest which impelled it
They know already why Governor
Bsreman recently appointed Ralph
Berkshire Judge, to fill the vacancy oc.
casioned by Judge Harrisen's resigna
ton. They know full we'll why Harri
sons resignation was not received long
ago. They know that Arthur l. plead
with Mr.. Harrison to hold to the Office
until some one was nominated on the
State ticket to fill the vacancy, fearinl
! an appointment by him, befsre nom
ination was made, might possibly effec
his prospects for U. S. Senator. Th,
people we'll know that the appointment
of Berkshire at this time, when Their
will be no session of the Court fo
months, was uncalled for and onl,
another robbery of the State treasury
to further his own particular interests
They also we'll know that Boremal