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

affection, or relationship Suppose this
test oath repealed AMI all praclicing, what
harm can happen 10 The Sluiel How can
ii effect 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 !aleR and
morality (?) that could be spared from
tho nsighbOring States, Ant-proscrip-
tonists insist upon men being put 10
nomination this fail, upon the platform
Of repeal Of all these test oslhs, for if
you do not, il never will be done. In
my opinion six out of every ten lawyers
10 this State are Conservatives really or
nominally, yet what have they done to
aid 10 the removal of this test oalh?-
Auylhingl Point the 10 the bar meet
ug8, TO their resolves. TO 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
brelheren 10 the bar, Look 10 il, ye
dowo,woddon and apparently profess
ion forsoken and starving prescribed
lawyers Of West Virginia. | say look
TO it, and look 10 your conservative Re
publican nelghbors and friends for any
relief you are to get, and hereafter be
grateful to thos1 10 whom your gratitude
IS due.
Before close this article beg leave
to say that there is one man in the
State. a soldier during part Of the war
and q Judge during the remainder of it,
that never thought that the public off.
GERS Test oath applied to lawyers, who
continucd to qnaliiy lawyers during the
whole Of the year 1865 in his courts
without administering he test oath, and
when the lawyers test oath was enact
ed and there was no escape from eofor.
cling these ptoscriptiVe and oppressive
laws, he resigned his Judgship and rrli-
red to private lie peace and conteut.
mcnt. All honor to the man who rose
above the passions and PrNjndices 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 in bis own heart stIled the w9r
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 coma
uered -cooqu by hard blows in he
battle field and conquered by kindness
and humanity when the war was over
Long may he live, and when be dies his
grave will be believed with the tears OIL
gratitude from the eyes OF the secession
ISIS and their descendants That man
is Judge Jefferson H. Samuels of Cobell
county, and formerly the Adjutaot Gen.
eral Of the restored government Of Vr
gnia,
Nor eau We close this article, without
reference to Judge WIN. L Hindmao, 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
prOscripiouisl's guiIlotne was hungry
for The blood Of those who might have
the independence to disregard dictstiou
aud think and act for themselves, who
daring 10 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 q
Constitutional question and ought to
control his action, fell victim to his
devotion 10 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 hearrburning in this State,
MYRTILLIS