The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-23
aJeremi.d from Joseph.

Doctor j. +. CALDWELL, President of
the Greenbrier county Bhard of Regis
tratiou, written by himself We giveit
space because he thinks he
is entitled to a hearing. This
must excuse the appearance of the old
rogue's maundering. AS we give him
hearing, so for want of something more
interesting, we tender him our personal
respects. You, J. f. CALDWELL, are an
old man, too old to be multiplying Your
sins if your future be deemed worth
considering, but not too old to perse'
we're in unmitigated villainy If half
your neighbors say about you be true,
and therefore not too old to hear little
plain talk for the edification of your inn
periled soul.
Your letter is now in print. Take
it and compare it with that OF ALEN-
,SprR WALKER, and recall the forgotten
honesty of your early life to decide up
on their respective merits. Divest your
self OF your perverted Judgment, your
relentless preiudices and your moral
rotteuness if you can, and ask the re-
generated CALDWELL if he is not
ashamed of the utterances OF the cor
rupt and corruptible CALDWELL as they
ann~r in the unfamiliar society OF an
honest mans opinions.
WALKERS letter is the earnest ana
emvhatic indictment by a deeply ln-
;ured man, of vicious and remorseiess
petty despot. He sets forth your char-
acter. CALDWELL, Just as he knows 1t to
he. Your neigkbors confirm every WORD
that ne writes to your discredit' and
sometimes volunteer opinions OF their
own CALDWELL, which if you were not
case hardened in your sins would make
the, retribution of iniquity thrill
ia rough every fibre of your illustrlous
carcass.
You say we don't know ALEXANDER
WALKER. Possibly we don't. But we can
iudre him from what his friends an"
associates, respectable and honorable
men of our personal acquaintance, say
,f him. Hence we have declared hin
to he a fair-minded, upright RepublI
can. We are sorry we cannot form II
the same manner our estimate of your
amiable self. But it is the fate of the
social Ishmaelite, exiled from all de-
cent circles by his own acts of outlawry,
TO have no honorable friends and asSo'
] ciates. Such relations with such men
are emphatically, mot for JOSEPH,
We therefore weigh you by the opinion
of those who know you and desplse you
We would like to modify the CONCLUSION
by the infusion of our milder estimate
of those who know you and DO not de
spise you, but unfortunately for you
CALDWELL, we have never been aoIt
to find any such man. We never
talked with a man from your section OF
the country, venerable JOSEPH, who dld
not rate you among the meanest things
that crawl.
For these reasons, a defense of yonr
self, even over your own name, CALp-
WELL, can have no weight. Your charac'
fer for dishonesty and villainy is so well
established that the presumption is IN
favor of any article You may write be-
ing very rascally production All
this comes of having the worst reputa-
ton in the State, if You will allow us to
make the suggestion. .
The contents of your "piece' itself
JOSEPH, are against you. You driVei
through the most of it, and a
we verify believe you lie through
the balance. For example: lou
tell us about the perverseneSs OF your
4 rebel lawyers; and you complain grie
yously because some seventy members
of your church did not want to resign
their church property to some ten or
dozen savage saints in Israel like your
self. Now this has nothing III the
world to do with the controversy and Is
nnre drivel. We can't exactly
saw it proves nothing, bat if we wete
compelled to state what it does prove
Joseph. we would reluctantly admit
that you and your partners have nc
more right to that church than to the
) purses you would have stolen had YOU
genius found its "sphere" upon the