The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-01-17
An UpriRht Judxe.

Its representatives. NAT HARRISON il
the best known exponent of West Vir.
ginia Radicalism. He has instigated
more of the mean measures, aud done
more of the dirty work of the Radical
party than any other man in the State.
And in whatever he has done or been,
the party has invariably endorsed him
When FOREMAN set at Daught the will
of the people and appointed him Judge,
the party cried out amen. When the
Legislature made him petty despot OF
the then Ninth Judicial District, with
power to bind and loose, remove and
appoint all officers, and regulate and
rule all matters in his District, al.
though grosslyviolating the Constitution
in SO doing, the Republican party hearth
ly approved the act. When the Radical
members of the Legislature kicked
Colonel HoUNsHELL out of the Capitol
for proposing H. PRISONS impeachment,
the whole Republican party went into
convulsions ofjollity over the exceeding,
ly entertaining transaction. All through
five years course of official usurpation,
tyranny and outlawry and private
lechery, de bauchery and vil!ainy, Nat
| HARRISON has had the moral or immor-
al eight ofthe Republican party to sus.
tain him against his foes and to console
him under all the social and pubic dis.
grace that has been incident to his infa.
nous career. Aud when less than six
months ago, a proposition for his re
moval was mooted among the people
who were daily and disguised witnesses
of his general worthlessness, the Repub'
licin Governor of the State, representing
the Republican party of the Stats, al
lowed NAT HARRISON to control regis
tration in GreeDbIier county, retained
HARRIsoN's creatures in place as regis
traTS and thus c)nnived at the election
of men to tke Legislature whom HARR1'
son had selected TO vote and work
against his proposed Impeachment.
1t is chiefly as representative Re
publican that HARRISON becomes inter
eSting in connection with the facts We
now proceed to rarrate, Ga the third
inst, there were taken at the Office o.
Captain C. A. SPERRY, Justice of Lew
isburg township, Greenbrier County
three affidavits, to be used in the pro
posed impeachment proceedings ageins
HARRISON. The atfilnts were of the
gcntler s,x, dainty damsels whom il
would hardly be delicate to describe a:
negro wenches, but whom we may bOr.
row from "loyap nomenclature to de
scribe as ladies of color. The facts tC
which they deposed, albeit they were
entirely within the range of "trooly
loil" prac .ice, were not such as would bt
sac dby strict construction of th'
Seventh Commandment. Not to put too
fine point upon it, the saddlecolored
sisters, NANCY PERKINS, JANE REY
NoLps and FANNY WHITE, deposed tc
the existence of such tender relations
between themselves and Judge NA7
HARRISON, as are popularity supposed
to need the intervention Of clergy
man, license aud a ling, and which
even then, outside the domains of BRIG
HAM YOUNG, one man cannot lawfully
maintain with more than one represen
tative of the opposite sex. These gay
and gushing creatures further deposet
that Judge HARRISON had established
an institution in the town of Lewis
burg analogous to that known in Tur
key as a harem, with the possible differ
ence that the house that NAT kept wa
free to ell comers and filled with blush
ing beauties not of Caucasian but o
African descent. That the Judge is tn,
practical patron of this establishment
the amiable atlantis leave no room T.
doubt. ..-r
OF course the taking of these affdavit
soon reached the ear of the Judge. 1
also came to his knowledge that the!
were taken under the supervision o
ALEXANDER WALKER, a practicing at
torney in his Court. HARRISON, b,
somemeans, procured counter affidavit
from one of the colored sisters, the love
Ily PERKINS, rather limiting than declar
ing that her first affidavit was procure'
by improper means. He then issued {
rule against WALKER to show caus
why his name should not be. strickel
from the list of attorneys for suborna
tlon Of perjury. On last Wednesda!
the rule was served, HARRISON having
kept his Court at Lewisburg in session
two days longer than was neces
sary for regular business to tr!
the case. Trial was ordered q
once, although WALKER desired {
postponement to enable him t.
procure d the original affidavit
and the attendance of Captain sPERRY
i material witness, who had gone Il
/ Wheeling. This the Judge refused
He sent for Miss NANCY, read to her tn,
; second affidavit, and asked her If it wa
true. She replied that it was. Thel