The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-07-02
The NV Radical Stumper-T0m
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| f"ltoiS olthe Register
The OLD adage "a drowning man will
catch at astraw," was never more hap.
PLY eXemllitied than in the action OF
the Radica Convention, lately held at
Parkersbmg, when the poor renegade,
Tom. Swanwas brought forward as the
head and ffont of its dignity. Walter
Scott in ole of his inimitable works,
dc, cribes a r'negade who left the Chris
tain Crusade Army, and went to Saladin
TO bctray his friends and comrades.
Saladin LOOKED on the souless wretch,
his cheeks became more bronzcd, his
eyes more tiey-"You who betrayed
your brothers and countrymen cannot
be trusted by Inc, such crime deserves
death and be cut Off the traitor
head with one blow Of his scimitar
Swan who boasts OF having served
through the late var in the Confederate
army now comesto the footstool of this
abominable party ,snd abuses and insults
his hetters-and this party lost to every
conviction of honor, with unbound ac.
clamation as its teacher, this poor mcr-
cenary creature. What commentary
on radicalism
In the month OF MAY, 1861, first
saw this champion of the South, IN
Charleston. Kanawha, recruiting h!S
company; and all the ohstreporous,
frothy, declaimers, then heard for
bitter war he was the most senSelc.S
and most furious. At that time jenkins
moved quietly through the streets.
Patton was calmly at work, but Swan,
the veritlble Tom, was all fuss and
feathers In after days he always
knew more than his commanders, and
he was always impressed with the be-
lief that he should strike the decisive
blow, when the Union army would he
enlightened enough to know he was
somewhere Ask any soldier Of the
Union army in kanawha this question
GLORIOUS rebel as he was, would Won
not, loving the name of Soldier and
honorable man, rather sleep with Pat
ton covered with wounds, than live the
fellow of this poor heartleSs coward
He lost his vocation for killing on the
field OF a desperate apl ortunity, and
since the war he has picked up the
trade OF numbering orator Are there
any among h> new friends to save H.
from his wrath--that wrath so dreadful
when his soul j. in his tongue and hi.
chilled heart within has no warm pull
/ tons?
And few havcurrncd ont orator, ia
lac not tell the Rudicals that they grc
the tir.t old party, reserved ?-and dIu
! he not even tell them that he wa
bound to the poor miserable, shrlrc'
led, cowardly democracy for only tire"
years OF during the war and whcn
( the confederate buttons could he TAO
LONGER worn on his coat lac was free to
stick on others. Has Tom no friends
at Washington ?-"all blood relations to
INV Lord Donoughmore? -liow many
OF his old friend, in Kanawha ''o'"
recognize him? Was it principle that
caused him 20 cut his moorings from
old associations, and live among them
today: the foulcst evidence Of human
depravitv, sneered at by every brother
niger, and inSulted in shameless fam.
iliarity bv the white debris of his "r'"
/ friends
He took, since the war a wide sur'c,
of the situation, saw the four year error
at glance, and caught - il by inten
ton the governing idea ofthe progressive
PARTY. Believe him now, and the whole
South WAS rotten. every general Il foo.
every statesman an idiot Providence
saved from the Surging ocean of corrul"
ton, only one man to he the moral and
political Regeneration OF his country, and
that man his Tom. Swan.
Tom. must prepare few speeches
they are just the things to suit. The
Radicals here need an elaborate orator,
and no man can be found more to their
tastes and intelligence than the ncom-
parably grand eX.Conicd Colonel trom
Charleston, Kanawha.
1t is said the Governor was delighted
with Toms speech, and even Ephralm
Bee swore he would have Tom. high
cock-a-lorum Of the resusicitatcd, Il
Clamprus Vites. That will he hi
| element.
The rencgades are a cheap class, for
considering their immaculate purity
thev ought to be esteemed. In the
bicher order of their type there was in
Ireland an Armstrong and Reynolds
here in America IN Arnold; and IN
the lower order in Ireland the great
representative characner Jimmy
q Brien-here in America we have had
many during the Surratt trials, but the
least and lowest of all ! have read "'
the only one ! know, ~, the eX,C"'-
fed Colonel of Kanawha (thc Parkcrs'
burg market house orator.. The most
miserable of the $4,000 disfranchi-e'l
men in this State. Spurn the infamous
| liar and libellcr-the best among the
Radical party paid him as leader AMI
call him brother
The ignorant man may be excused for
crime, but no sophistry or argument can
cleanse this vile thing from the foul Ii
ease that on him.
The destroyers Of the country wiz,
spurn the Constitution, and would have
the people the creatures of Genital
lied despotism at Westinghouse,
work TO make this State mere c n
rressional tool, can have no filter chil
of adoption from the South than he wiz,
betravs his former friends and curse
the graves of those whose virtue am
heroism his cowardly heart can neve
emulate. Jerry " NEIL,