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

Tie I}avenswood Nc,cs takes occasion
10 its last issue, TO read Us a lecture lor
the course we have pursued 10 regard to
The enfranChi>emenl Of the late rebels
of our STATE, and in the same article at
tOmpts 10 road Us out Of the Republican
pOr'y. It says
"Our leading men--ihoso who mado
the State and love il, still believe in the
doctrines of the Chicago platform, They
think that nearly all the cx rebels, Gre as
hostile. as ever and that it is not yet safe
TO trust them with the b,lOt .-not that
they would punish them, bur that the
welfare OF the State demands their exclu-
sion from the polls
We wouldlik to know il we did not
"help to make the Slater" Certainly We
did. We done all that we could in our
bumtlo way TO bring it about, We love
it too, and because We love it, we odYo-
cate lis welfare, and desire to see the
Republican party show u progressive
spirit, liberal spirit, mSguanimous
spirit towards those who were SO pufor-
tuna!e, 10 an evil hour, as to take up
orms against the State and general gov
ernmeDt and wage war. But for his
act Of theirs, they have been severely
punished by our laws. They are COM
PEELED to pay taxes. to work roads, 10 do
military duty, &c, Yet they have no
voice in the government cannot vote at
ony election, cannot bring suit for
money due hem, because of test oath
that any man who is inclined to act dis
honest can peod and which they mus
lake or sufefa Don,suil, aud many Of
them are prevented from pursuing their
usual hvocaIiOns bee ause ola test oath.
which they cannot take. Does the cdi,
tor Of the NctoS believe such prosclip-
tive laws are right? We believe that
the welfare our State demands blOttiag
out of all such oppressive and proscrip
tive laws from our statutes. No man
who is thus prescribed can be expected
to help build up the State by using and
lnanin5 his money to develop her vast
mineral RESOURCES, BY these laws i'm.
migration il retarded, and it will OF be
otherwise u0til all such laws are wiped
out. Aud here we would ask The editor
Of The NecS what part ho took ia the
form alton Of the ne8 Sairl If We a7e
correctly informed, lie COX no part at
all. We bleve he was born within lis
borders, but until within lev months
past, has been q resident Of Klnsas II
this be true, what right has be to lee lure
US for our course? What right has he
bread US out of The party? What right
has he 10 dictate to the Republican party
the policy it should pursue toward its
late foes? We have no objection TO be
ing locIured by any one "who helped
TO mako the State" but we do proles,
against any lecture as to our course by
anyone who is notyot citizen or voter
Of this State, as in The case Of the cdi-
tor Of the Ns0s.
Agoia he says the "Regiaer anil other
late converts of the miscalled Liberal
Policy will soon find themselves GU, in
tie cold, or in the arms Of the Domocro.
cy which would be worse il they do not
rotrsce their steps," For the bcneit Of
the editor Of the NeD,, we would say,
that we have no fears Of beiug "left
out ia the cold r." nor are we afraid that
we viii b. found 'ia the arms Of the
Democracy we are firm ia cur belief
thlrtha time has come when It is safe
70 remove every disability now placed
upon many good citizens Of our State,
and that we can advocate such a policy
without falling islo the EARNS Of thu
DomocmCy.s We claim to be as good
a Republican, as any in the STATE, and
tuer one than the editor of the Ncl03, or
any one that is in favor Of further pro
scripion in this or any other State. y
man who would thus procrJbe his neigh.
oors, after every DANCE to the govern
mcnt and the State had passed, is not
\ Republicor in any sense Of the word
Bda then, when wo take into couSidra
lion chat the NeDs is controlled by o
Ger ain clique in Jackson, who desire to