The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-09-02


affection, or relationship, Suppose this
rest oath repealed AMI all praclicing, what
harm can happen 10 the Slutel How can
ii etfec! tho State? | will tell you, my
Conservative Republican friends, who |
will hereafter call anti prosCriptioaists.
The people would have wider range Of
selections of their legal advisers with
smaller charges Tor business dome
Have you no recollection when lawyers
got scarce during the war, how the fees
rose and how they have been kept up
Notwithstanding the legal immigrants
from other States SO kindly invited by
your laws, of the very highest !aleRt and
morality (?) that could be spared from
tho nsighbOring States, AntI-proscrip-
tionists insist upon men being put 10
nomination this fall, upon the platform
Of repeal Of all these test osths, for If
you do not, il never will be done In
my opinion six out of every ten lawyers
ia this State are Conservatives really or
nomioally, yet what have they done to
aid 10 the removal of this test oalh?-
Anylhingl Point the 10 the bar meet
iugs, to their resolves, 10 their petitions,
TO any discussion of the hardsbips OF
these laws before the people, 10 any
evidence whatever that they have labor.
ed toad in restoring their excluded
bre,heren 10 the bar, Look 10 il, ye
down.rodden and apparently profess,
ion forsoken and starving prescribed
lawyers Of West Virginia. l say look
to it, and look TO your conservative Re
publican nerghbors and friends for any
relief you are to get and hereafter be
grateful to thos' 10 whom your gratitude
IS due.
Before close this article beg leave
TO say thst there is one man in the
State. a soldier during part Of the war
and Judge during the remainder of it,
that never thought that the public Off
GERS test oath applied to lawyers, who
coninucd TO qnaliiy lawyers during the
whole Of the year 1865 in his courts
without administering he les; oath. aud
when the lawyers test oath was enact.
ed and there was no escape from eofor.
cling these proscriptivs and oppressive
laws, he resigned his Judgship aud rrti-
red to private lie peace and content
mcnt All honor to the man who rose
above the passions and PrejadicCs Of the
hour, who retaining proper sense OF his
own dignity and the dignity of human
nature, who when the war Of arm end
ed also 10 bis own heart stiIed the wsr
Of passions, who would not pander to
power, to prejudice and revenge. Long
may he live an example to Others aud be
beloved by those ho had doubly couq'
uered-cooquerod by hard blows in The
battle field and conquered by kindness
and humanity when the war was over
Long may he live, and when he dies his
grave will be believed with the tears Of
gratitude from the eyes OF the secession
lists and their descendants That man
is Judge Jtfrrson H. Samues of CabeIl
county, and formerly the Adjutaot Gen
era Of the restored government Of Vr
GINA
Nor eau We close his article, without
reference to Judpe WIN. L Hindman, OF
Kanawha county, who though young in
the profession, when called to the bench
by executive appointment, took the pc
sition with the full knowledge that the
proscripionisl's guiIlotne was hungry
for the blood Of those who might have
the independence to disregard dictatiou
aud think and act for themselves, who
daring TO venture the opinion that the
decision Of the Supreme Court of the
United States were more likely 10 be
right in principle than the decision Of
the Supreme Court of this Stale upon
Constitutional question and ought to
control his action, fell victim to his
devotion to constitutional principles,
A few-very lew such men as them
on the bench and at the head Of affairs
in this State at the close Of the war
would have prevented much oppression,
suffering and heart. burning in this State,
MYRTILLIS
The Labor Congress at Philadelphia
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