The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1868-04-23
From the MnrgOnlOwn Post;
COMPLETELY or THE NORTHERN
BASTARD DEMOCRACY WITH
TNE RERELLION.

BASTARD DEMOCRACY WITH
TIE REBELLION.
The professions set up by the jeff
Davis Democracy Of West Virginia as
being, par e.rccllcace, the pcculiar guar,
dams of loyalty and Uaion, is without
ou example for urpituie and mendaci'y,
TIC history Of political aailgonisws in
this country furnishes no parallel ofsuch
. sommersault-s change Of base,
as has besn made by the late rebels add
their al'osiu tbi, State, ia advocating
Un'on after ihe.faiiure Of their efforts
for toor years openly and secretly for
the success Of secession and treason.
Their present devotion TO the COnsii-
tuition snd UGion is rather overlone-
F, ,iti, almost teushiog! Why, they even
gave in gheir adhesion 10 the lately "bo
gus Satca Of West Virginia as an "oc.
comp,i.hed. focrl" Their advocacy Of
he right Of secession. and threats to
kfTg mr. BafE6 fiS'S ii'7 eysss'u tiiis county
| fegn,ti,diioniIiy, Of course -for they
a;c now. osipl86l, great sdcklGts for
tho Cons,itaioaj are riyilly remem
bered By score Of viclinsto whom such
threats we're made, i; all, we suppose.
to be taken in a P,c%iokiaa sense!
fine was tbcn1lho tile they n'g seek
to appropriate --thot'Of DemocraI was
the synonym Of patriotism and public
yiru,; but since the completely Of
Buchanau with the Rebellion, the name,
as party shibboIe;h, has justly lost the
"ch,rm Of its inyipcibililY." Those in
this State, with fs& exc csption', who are
aov ringing the chang's on The olI title
or name Of on,e pretty good old party
were, during the late struggle, either
rebel, or rebel sYmpathis'rs, Their
moral completely with tho Rebellion
eli0ga to them -onl like tue poisoned
shirt Of Nesu', will cling to them for a
generation set.
When you show ttcm by irroiu'ablo
facts that a "deuocral" was in The Pres
iden,ial chair in 1860 aud 1861, and
quietly and complacently permitted sew
en- States to secelc, to organ'za iormii"'
bic armies, TO elect delegates to q Con
vcnrion a, Montgomery, Alabama. to
complete tho work of disrupting the
UGiou, to steal forts, ar:onals and minis,
and treat tho lawful authority of the
Goyeromsn, with contums'y, this dem
ocrstic President acQuiescod in all this
open overt treason, and,gravcIy inform
cd the country that he had no consi'u-
,ional power TO cocrce obedience to the
Iawsl Thus this last official Illustration
Of a democrats President was about as
deem in the treason then rampont in
birh places as jeff Davis or JSbn c
Bnckinudge, also democratic rebels
When the war begun the bastard de
mocracy in Congress opposed appTopri
atoms to pay our brave soldiers Il
the various State Legislatures, in Ih'
conventions OF this infamous party, eve
~ obstacle that menilcity or ingenul'!
could devise, we're thrown in tho way o
, Of a prompt suppression Of thorcbeIIloa
But lurthc laid andcomiorr' given will
such q gusto By these bastard democrat
thus prolonging for years o blood.
wor-tho conflict would have endo
without any great sacrifice Of life or ex
pcndiure Of money
With these utrocious "reminiscences q
their past course, will any intelIigen
Union man be now dsceited BY unmcan
ing professions, or plicc any coniideho
in ayerments Of patriotism such hypO
critics may make?
II would bo about as consistent fot Lh
! iocsndiury who applied tho torch !
your house, wh'u tb, conplsrauon