The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-11-27
This address was signed by six out of
eight members comprising the commit

eight mempors coihPfisiub sho oonn
tee. The other members presented a
substitute asking Congress to admit the
State, but at the same time to require
her to guarantee to every citizen equal
rights. The substitute was voted down
and the address adopted by au over
whelming vote. Therefore about thirty
members of the Convention withdrew.
This is the second rupture Of the
Radical party in Virginia. y A GER
tain man, when his second wife
died, split the tombstone ! over
the grave of his first and placed
one half above the remains of his sec
ond. Soliciting fair idamsel: to be-
come his third. she disposed of him BY
remarking that "she didn't believe that
tombstone would split again" 30 with
Virginia Radicalism..55 1t has been cut
down so fine, that the power which .'S
Gould distinguish and divide :, .,5i
A hair 'Iwi1t South and Southwest side,Y >
would be unable TO divide itfurther.
But this address is fine illustration ci
the unreasonable and disgusting mean
ness of prosoriptive Rsdioalism- For the
simple reason that WELLS and his
gang we're beaten, the assembled
scalawagsrie and carpet 'baggery Of Viz
ginia demand the exclusion Of the
State, the invalidation of the late elec'
tion, aud the ordering of q new one
under such conditions as will compel
their success, or failing in this, the re-
cognition of so much of the former cleo
tion as will GUST the Successful Asandi,
dates and instate the defeated ones. II
baser or more villsinous proposition
was ever broached even by the noble
army Of carpet. .baggers, it has not
fallen beneath our notice.
The hungry hell-hounds want plum
der. A hundred dollar Office for 4
twelve mouth. would tempt your carpet
Dagger 20 mortgage his.soul for eternity
He would defile the grave of his grand
mother for a clerkship and trade the
bones of all his ancestors for place
upon the Board of registration. Give
him a constable's saddle. bags and he
will render daily equivalent. in square
perjury as long as the position pays
Set him on the judges bench and ht
will agree to recompense the party
that placed him there, if a suitor by de
cisions, if q thief, by his discharge
Offer him any place, high or low, hon
orable or disgraceful, whore impudent
knsvery may make the living for which
il is too worthless to work, and there-ii
no rascality that he will not undertake
no scheme of rottenness and basenes tt
which he will not pledge his fidelity.
Virginia was rich field fo
the operations of these plunder
ing scoundrels They had swooped
down upon her from the be
ginning of her distress. Her misfor
tunes had attracted them as death
draws yultures. Now that the State
no longer PROSTATE, has shaken them
off, they seek the aid of the Government
TO bring her again into the dust that they
may gorge upon her vitals. They wan
legislation, test osths, muskets ant
bayozets. inst as the good sense OF tht
country is waking up to the enormitie
of prescription, they want it renewed
with now devices attached to make /
more oppressive in its effects and NOR
surely promotive of their rascally pHr
poses. 1t is possible that Congress ma.
lend them practical aid. The respec to
bic men of the country are all in favo
of Virginia's immediate admission, bu
the past has shown the reckles
readiness of Congress to defy public
openion for the sake of power. Bot th
rejection of Virginia, although bad 70
the State, would have one good effect
1t would call out such an emphatic pro
test throughout the North and West q
would completely wipe out the Radica
majority IN the House of Representa-
tives. 1t would greatly hasten tn
downfall of the Radical party through
out the country.