The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-11
OUR COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT.
MOUNT ERISA, May !, 1870.
Editors of the REGISTER;

me Tor the first time, and coniG-S IL IL
Il gem of excellence in its way, eminent
~ worthy It's very distinguished authors.
Any man who after reading it atten-
lively and without prejudice, still re-
mains unconverted to the "new ideas
developed by thewar," must be possessed
OF mind obdurately opposed to the
progressive spirit of our new era"
The style is graceful, easy and concilia-
tory; the language simple and unosten-
tatious; no gorgeous metaphors; no
passionate appeals, and like the niger
cry, Hot Corn, in New York, is both
sonorous and interesting. We are
grayely informed that at was the Re
publican party that subdued the rebel
lion, and that 1T was the Democratic
party that inaugurated and carried on
the rebellion. And when those four
profoundly learned men and incorrupti-
BILE patriots tell us all this, we must
certainly believe them. 1t was not the
Democratic party that called the Stars
and Stripes Haunting lie and demand
cd Fan abolition Bible and an abolition
God. twas not the Democratic party
that boosted of taking our black Israel
ties from the land of bondage to freedom
through the red sea Of white mems
blood; nor was it Democratic legislatures
before the war that set at naught the
OF the Supreme Court of the
United States, nay declared it should
be resisted When men resort to this
kind Of nonsense to crItch up their
party, they exhibited a recklessnesS very
unsafe and dishonesty repulsive to
dcccucy and truth.
The so,called Democratic party pro.
fesscs no principles Is their not an au-
dacity in that worthy the lowest serf of
this mean faction? Radicalism holds
that the State is above the people and
can do as ii pleaseS with any or all of
those rights which from time immemo-
rial have been claimed by the people
the whole people-as inalienably theirs.
Now we Democrats hold that the State
is Il corporate agency or power, made
10y the people for the people; that its
duty is to see justice done and personal
rights and property preserved and pro
tected and not suffer any violation Of
those rights it was organized to protect
1t should act for the people and not for
itself because it is the servant not the
master
Radicalism declares the people have
no rights, no liberties, but what they
derive from the States; and on this
declaration they have acted. Toimpose
disabilities on large portion Of the peo-
pie was a mendacious act of the most
Infamous usurpation; and to tell us that
the removal of some ofthose same disa
bilities was an act of charity for tie p'r-
pose Of closing past controversies as stated
in this address, is Il taunting insult to
the noblcst manhood of the State
Having made all the people cit=cnSa and
all the citizens equal before the law, it
now seeks only to maintain and per-
pctuate the benificent results it has
achieved. ''ln the same spirit it has
promised through the majority in the
Legislature to relieve from political
disabilities vet resting on them fully
onc-half Of the people of the State. If
all the citizens are equal before the law
for all the people are citizens-how
could those disabilities be resting on
them? The generous consistency here
doe. much credit to the Legis-
latuIc and honor to the committee
who drew up this mastery adj
dress. And so in West Virginia,
what was once considered sacred duty
is now but an act of charity, and what
we regarded as rights are now but mere
" favors to he bestowed at pleasure
through the condescension of party
The Radicals have made of the State a
political hospice, where our white men
NAV 90 when in distress and ask our
black and white janitors fora little char
ity. o, those ne'o ideas are indeed a
blessing. Who would not die for the
prrpetuity of our new era? Settled
issues are not to he touched by the De-
O, no! Why should they?
Are the RAIDS afraid to have the smell
stirred up? Our centralized usurpatiOn
at Washington-the destruction OF State
rights, taxation, the debt, railroad cor
porations, moneyed monopolies, the be-
stowal of the public lands, shameless
our registration law. &c,
&c.,-these unsettled ISSUES will rise up
like ghosts in the paths of those modern
reformers of the Rc7r idea and new era
order.
These things will not last long; the
people still retain their liie-loving ira
ditionS, and though Constitutions be
burned and thrown to the winds, the
old first principles live to guide us to-
day. The question to be considered is
how long are our people to be abused
by this faction, through their registra-
ton laws and other proscriptive meas
ures? How long are we to be treated
as aliens unrcprcSented and unpro-
tectcd? Shall the negro be invited to
the rights we once enjoyed, and We he
savagely repulsed? 'How long, @
Lord, how long,
Some gentleman informed the Htelli-
qencer that jeff Davis drinks whisky
and uses such words as damned Yam
KEGS" Congress ought to put stop to
this. To damn the Yankees is crime
too horrible to think of much less re-
peat; better a thousand times curse
God and die" How well the gentleman
knew where to take his sinking fish to
market Jones flight from the North
Carolina X. K and that, go well to-
gether. There is only one way of
bringing the contumacious jeff TO a
sense of his duty, and that is, let Butler
get Congress to impose canonical
penance on him, have to wear sack
cloth and ashes for thirty days fasting,