The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1868-02-06


A sample Of Democratic love for the
soldier.
Most Of our space is taken up this
week with the Governors Message, and
consequently can not give our usual
Legislative Summary, The message is
M able State paper and viii well repay
perusnl,
THE WHEELING DEMOCRATIC CON.
SENTATIVE CONVENTION.
Dr.. Editor
After we had looked carefully over
the ''ad dress" ofthis toncIavo Of apoto-
szers iorths enemies of universal liberty.
anil the sworn and bitter foes Of repuJIi-
cansm, we thought It but right that the
readers Of the Register should know what
ID the spirit nad purposes Of that mon.
grc party in this State, whose "adlnss"
is before tho people. Il wonll be a
rrui4lcss aud almost endless task, 10 no
tice MI the points in this address. The
truth is, they have said TOO much, the
document is swompol in It's own filth
the doom that awaits it and It's authors
isiOIicared in T. spiri! tha! inspired it
These men write as though the people of
West Virginia knew nothing of their
pnst history, or TINT totcll the ru,h, 10
them, would ne like telehing a hog, the
rudmen' of mathematics, ., II the loyal
men Of West Virginia and elsewhere,
arc guilty of an effort oiear down this
glorious fabric Of human liberty. reared
upon an baoisel in the blood Of the pa
trinls of the revolution, then have they
toll the truth, If the loyal people of the
country are gully of meeting in secret
concIaves in ten or cllyen States Of this
Union, anl there shut out lrom moral
gaze, cOntivel the helIish purposes Of
dragging those States from their moor
Jugs in the bosom Of the Republic. then
they have, in this dress, told the truth,
If ithai been the RalicaI party Of the
country. that opened up the destructive
batteries upon the nations guard at Fort
Sumpter, in the hOrbor of Charleston =
and she'd the blood Of her sons in tire
behests of treason, then this aldress Of
this Democratic party is true" But did
they DO iiA They say ",hewar has long
since ended" But they fail to tell the
people, endcI only on the battle field
Il it we're not true that tho very same
men, with very few exceptions, who
fought for four long bloody years, to de-
stroy Constitutional Liberty in this land,
are now with a few aposlates-s shame
On them from the Union side, with the
rebel democratic party, who Tough: the
loyal army in the rear and with lavish
expenditure of money, and with all the
talent they can command, fighting for
the achievement OF what they failed to
cQuiTe in appealing to the sword; il this
we say, were not true, then what they
have said in this address might bs be.
Iieved. But tie record which is written
in blool. AMI the roar anI lin of bat
tie, AMI the l,shIesS bones OF 500, 900
fallen heroes, with testimony unb,o-
ken and terribly united say it is false. -
If the loyal men Of the nation, haya dc
stroyel all distinction between the trai.
or and themselves, if they have suffered
the vonquished TO pluck tho laureIs from
their own brows, aud have frustrated by
their own m Misconduct. their designs and
purposes in prosecuting the war for the
Union, if they have cnr'anChised rebels
and restored them to the places from
which their treason Justly de5ars them.
aud have with the sam1 breath, cursed
the true aci tried fricn ls Of the Uaion
and 10 now Il INIT that the doctrine Of
secession is hight, then we repeat it, what
this address, has said is true. Bat who