The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-02

through this state even NATHANIEL must
admit that under proper conditions OF
vigor and persistence, success will occa-
sionally wait on the mission of the
independent Press,
ITO hunt Corruption from his midnieht den,
And hold the monster up, the scsf OF honest
men," A.
While regarding the official deceass Of
this eminent nuisance as public bless
ing, everybody will appreciate the force
of HARRIsoN's hit at the Republican
leaders who have used him so long and
who have now deserted him 80 shame.
folly. he pathetically describes him.
self as "the first victim of the Let Up
Guillotine." We are almost moved
by the reproach, 81. did expect
them as Republicans not to permit
me to be sacrifcedas Republican upon
the altar of common enemy which
had helped to fight as we'll as l could for
the last four years. We beg to add,
Had but served my COP with halt
the zeal 1 served my party, He would
not in mine age have left me naked to
mine enemies" NATHANIEL expected
better treatment and better fate
From the day he cut loose from the
waning fortunes of the Confederacy to
the present, he has been devoted in his
attachment to "loyalty," Jealous in its
service and full of good works. In that
behalf there was no villainy he would
not undertake, noscdkruption he would
not share, no persecution he would not
put through. What to him were the
fortunes, the rights and the suffrages OF
the people when weighed with the high
er interests of "loyaltyf" With as
calm zeal as was ever witnessed at the
racking of q Christian or the roasting o.
Quaker, he reconstructed his rebel SUBJ
jects under all the rites and ceremonies OF
confscation, Imprisonment fine and
prescription. Whatever agency was
needed to make sure the calling and
election of Radical nominees in his re-
gion, HARRISON stood ready to put in
operation ,and when occasion demanded
the extremely efficacious application OF
the bayonet, the honorable Judge always
furnished the proper "Alfred-Davids"
to the authorities and the bayonet was
applied. Can anybody doubt the use
fuluess of such a man in the service OF
such partyi We pass by his peIjuries
and corruptions on the bench, his selling
of decisions and his partnershipsin crime
We ignore the scandalous portions OF
his career, the amours he was wont to
leave the bench to consummate, his
colored harem in Lswisburg, his ballet
dancers in Wheeling, his "ministering
angels" in Pittsburgh. We dismiss his
"Hebellion record his office-seeking
and his oatb.takirg under the Confed.
eracy. Leaving all these things, SO
commeudable in "loyap estimation,
entirely out of sight, we
say that HARRIsON's services as
a partisan alone have entitled him to
the lasting gratitude of those whom he
served, instead of the shabby requital
he received. No infamy Of his
ever failed to be endorsed by the lead
ers at whose bidding he acted. They
have constantly encouraged him and
doubtless specifically directed him.
Now that the winds of public opinion
are blowing adversely they desert him.
They make scapegoat of him to carry
away their sins. But they will not be
permitted to make a merit of his taking
of. The Republican party is response
BILE for him, and cannot get rid of him
by making a parade of casting him Oft.
As he goes into that lasting disgrace
from which there can be no redemption
in this life, let those whe for years have
backed him remember that the award
ing of penalty in one case is no bar to
its infliction in another, and that out OF
the multitude who have oppressed and
cursed and prosecuted the people not
one shall escape his reward when "time
at last sets all things even"