The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-27
Letters from the People.
FROM WOOD COUNTY.

LAUREL HILL, W. Va, March 25, 1868.
Editor Of the Register:
The Democratic Club of Union town
ship, Wood county, met at School
House NJ, 2, on the evening of the 2lst.
A large and respectable audience of
both parties had assembled long before
the time set for the meeting. All man
ifested spirit of alertness and action
never before exhibited in this section
of country.
The meeting was called to order by
the President, n. Richardson, Esq, and
after the appointment of Vice Presi-
dents, J. G. Nigh, ESD, was called, and
addressed the meeting IN his usual
earnest style. He said when he came
out of the army he had been mobbed
and hissed down by stay-at-home Radi-
calls, and called rebel aud traitor; that
he had taken all the iron-clad oaths
West Virginia could invent; had served
his country honestly and faithfully on
the tented field, and yet the loyal
Board of Registrars of Wood county
would not allow him to vote; he had
seen the time when he could not speak
for his rights; he thanked God he could
talk now. After reviewing briefly the
political situation, in conclusion he said:
FELLOW CITIZENS: While Congress,
only partially representing this g'eat
nation of frcemen, are bowling savagely
over the impeachment of the President
all 4 ha nd Gnl V
necessary to make the farce appear scan
dalous and ridiculous in the eyes of the
world, glorying in their own shame, dis
turbing and exciting the worst passions
of the human heart, breeding discOrd
and disunion throughout the land, vio-
lating the most sacred principles of our
free Government, attempting to abolish
or subvert other CO ordinate branches of
our Government to their misrule-
while all this is going on in the
National Capital, another Court is
in session, Court from which
all others derive their vitality and pow
er and from whose decision there is no
appeal a Court were the errors and
misdeeds of statesmen, politicians and
soldiers are tried and condemned.
This Court represents not partisan or
bondholding interests. 1t represents
the just and liberal voice of the people
of the whole Union, and its decisions
affect alike each of the thirty millions
of people who compose this great ma
tion. Its mandates go forth, regulated
alone by one great common law, the
CORStitatiOH Of the United States, and no
power on this globe dare oppose; the
press, the teacher, the orator aud pa |
triot are in its councils as attorneys. |
And while the so-called Senate is i'm |
peaching the President they elected.
aud while the Legislature of this little |
State is impeachiLg a constitutional
and noble Judge, this great Court is
trying case of impeachment too.
There stands at its bar on trial the Rad |
ical rulers of the last eight years, COW
cred with their record of infamy. The |
witnesses are the thousand and one
despotic acts of the party; the blood of
three hundred thousand stalwart
men sacrificed by and for party
purposes; the sobs and cries of
twenty thousand widows and or
phans: the testimony Of one hundred
thousand tax payers, and last but not
bearing the endorsement
of a long line of statesmen and sages,
and eighty years of peace and prosperi-
ty. The workings Of this court are 81
lent but incessant, comprehensive yet
minute, from day to day the testimony
is drawn cut, its pleadings are heard,
and its wisdom will decide. Next No
vember is the time set for its decision
and this great impeachment question
wiH be decided. The edict of this court
will go forth like resistless wave OF
fire; the voice of mighty people, from
Maine to California, from the Lakes to
the Gulf of Mexico, will hnrl despotism
from our land forever. The verdict of
the people will save the Union and
make the people free. .r. !
The meeting, in the midst of the ut
most enthusiasm, adjourned.