The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-08
Federal Soldiers DISTINGUISHED.
Governor Stevenson RespOn-
sible for the action and
fnactiOn Of his tools.
.The Registrars must do some
thing, or the loyal State
ticket will be De-
feated."
Effect of these Outrages upon
the People.
Harbour County,

the law. A large number Of voters was
in attendance, many Of whom had been
summoned, while some were new appli-
cants for registration and some were
legally qualified voters who had been
stricken off by former
Boards and now applied for restoration
The Board struck off the names OF
Three Hundred and Tioenty-',co coters.
The Board then adjourned until Tues
day, giving their solemn promise to
those who were in waiting for reglstra-
lion, that their cases would be consld-
cred on that day. Tuesday morning
they met, but soon adjourned without
doing anything. The people, among
them many Republicans, refused topper
NIT the Board to depart without action.
A guard was formed, as much for the
protection of the Board as TO require
them to do justice, and they were kept
in the town of Phillip until Wednes-
day morning when they met IN the
Court House, remained few minutes
in session; and then went home without
having fulfilled their promise and with
out moleStation. From Three Hundred
to Five Hundred citizens, of ages rang
ing from twenty-one to eighty-iour
waited from Monday morning until
Wednesday noon in the hope that the
Board of Registration would put their
names upon the list Of voters.
Among those summoned and stricken
off were five soldiers who each had in
his pocket a certificate of honorable
discharge from the Federal army.
Berkeley County.
The names of men who have been
voting for two or three years were
stricken from the list of voters 10y the
Board at It's meeting on Monday.
Among the number is that of dis
charged soldier, who served three years
in the Federal army, and young man
who was but twelve years old when the
war commenced. The name OF A. j.
Thomas, the Peoples Reform candidate
for Sheriff has also been stricken of,
in the vain hope that it would secure
his competitor election-Nc'r Era.
Wood County.
The Board of Registration for Wood
county met in Parkersburg on Monday
and in defiance Of all law, in total dis
regard OF the rights Of citizens, refused
to enter upon their books the names of
any of those who during the height Of
party feeling, as it existed just after the
war, were stricken from the list Of
voters. At the time that their names
were erased from the registration books,
the passions growing out of the war
were still seething and boiling over, but
now the case is different, men : pas
sions aud prejudices have cooled down,
and naught but cool, deliberate and
wicked determination to debar some Of
our most respectable citizens Of their
dearest rights, can be pleaded as an ex-
cuse for their conduct,
1t is difficult to find language to ex-
press our contempt for the conduct OF
this board on Monday last To see such
and respectable citizens as
James NJ. Stephenson, &. II. Foley,
DR.. Clark and others, who have been
among us for life time and contributed
by their public acts and private means
20 the growth and prosperity of our
refused voice in the govern
nent Of this country, whilst every ne
,ro who comes along is pattcd on the
back and obsequiously registered as a
voter, is sufficient, it seems to us, to
urn the stomach of any respectable
white man And what have these men
lone? What act of treason have thew
been guilty of? Does any sane man
mean to say that such gentlemen as
these are less competent to cast a vote
han any ignorant and unlctterrd negro ?
.Parksrs6,iry Gazette,
az Marion County.
There was quite large crowd of citi-
:ens of this county in town on Monday.
o see the Board of Rascals about their
light 10 vote. There was about one
hundred and fifty who had been pre-
.iously outraged-thc Board call it
stricken otf"-among- whom we re-
ognize the largest taxpayers of our
ountv. We hazard the opinion that
hose spoken of represent over one mil |
ion dollars worth Of property, but
wing to the necessities of the Radi |
al party and the rascality OF
he Board, these men have no I
oice in the management of gov
All OF these men have taken
he voters test oath and had their names
laced on the registration list, but the
Governor directed his minions here to
trike off certain number of men in
farion county, and-the Board obeyed.
these men are worthy of disfraHchise-
lent they have sworn falsely. Why is
no prosecutions for perjury have
cen commenced at the instance of the
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