The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-08-18
Fixed Facts Can be Altered.
IE THREATENS REVOLUTION!
B0LSTERoUS APPEALS TO TIE
BASER PREDJUDICESI
Mother, Brother, Neighbor, Save
mo from tho Niger Boyll!
VOTE FOR ME, Oh VOTE FOR ME-
HE BELOVED Niger NINETY
EIGHT TIMES IN THE CLEAR!
ToM1INsoN NowHEREa

We'll, the great would-be coming man"
Of the Democratic party, the man who has
the hardiliood to undertake to retrieve the
many defeats the Democracy has suffered
in this district at the bospitablo hands of
the poor laboriug "mudsills Of Republic
canism," has been to Point Pleasant. -
Hereford has hcurisbod his brush, and the
! painting is doscired on the wall He
touches up his dauby picture with two col
ore, tue spotlcss white with the somhre
black; but spreads on fSc coats Of black to
one Of white, which intensifes the former
to bright ebony. His picture 10 care
lass cbservcrwould represent fine speci.
men Of Afitaaa clad in neatly fitting So
ger clothes, with tho Goddess Of Liberty
in the background holding. in her right
hand the corau copia up-lifted over the
cousccratcd head of this "Son Of Thunder, +"
while tho Goddess in her left hand, which
is thrust downward, holds the Democratic
party in meek subsection.
Now, this is the true logic Of the picture
Gf it has any logic in it.) But close OBJ
server Of paintings and other productions
of art. would see nothing in it but the old
story again and often told, to-wit: Mig
ger in the wood-pile."
But Mr.. Hereford is not only noted
person for colors, but he is also man of
words, il not of good deeds. He has spo-
ken, and what do we hear; echo answers
back from tho massive walls Of the Mason
county Court room, in accents too plain to
be mistaken, "a reed shaken by the wind;"
a man too weak to endure even the smoke
made by the car Of empire as it marches
on in its inevitably triumphant way; man
who is such moral covurd. that he fears
that when simple justice is done his fellow
being, the Heavens cont fall" and is
now trying to work on tho hypochondria
Of the people and make them believe the
'.Heaven,s will falP' at tho sight Of justice
done, whether they will or not. Now, we
can inform Mr.. Hereford that the people
of this county, Except the democracy are
not at all subject to that loathsome disease,
political Aypo; aud they don't believe there
is going to be such o tremendous eruption
in the elements as he tells of They have
heard warnings aud dark threats from his
side of the question, away back early in
1861, and yet they did not take the advice
of Che would-be "Oracles;" neither did the
"Heaveus fall" for their not taking it
But, alb! the viles of Heavens just wrath
did fall on such as followed these false lea
ders.
Well, on finding that the people did not
rise in earnest Indignation at his JoIstcrous
appeals, made as they were to che IO'ccst
preQjulices and most cordrdly fears Of
whi'cA the human heart is susceptible
Flo then called them dead, morally. social
" dead, and began to utter, in dark,
mysterious way, threats of storm-colorcd
battle cries, and deep revcrborating thun-
ders Of dark and dismal revolution, while
he cries in one half spent breath, father,
mother, brother, neighbor, save me from
the embraces of the niger boy" and in
the next breath he says, "there is way to
change these fixed facts besides rcsorting
to logislation;" then in that mysterious
way, again, he adverts, by WY of illustra-
ton, to the armed revolution Of 1776.
PECK AWAY