The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-26
The Radical Game-Let the People
be Forewarned.

The Radical Game-Let tue feOphe
be Forewarned.
The leading game of deception and
fraud which it is the purpose Of the
Radical party in this State to attempt
to palm off upon the people in the com
inc election is this: To pretend that
they are in favor of repeating all those
odious restrictions which they have i'm
posed upon twenty-five thousand white
people of West Virginia in their con-
stitution and laws. Conscious that such
impositions were dictated by partisan
malice, and founded in injustice and
cruelty; and still more conscious thatthey
have grown too odious to be sanctioned
or endured by the honest portion OF
their followers, they now find 1t neces-
sary in their rapidly declining strength
to play the hypocrit, or be ignomin-
iously expelled from the places and
power they have so shamefully abused.
Their artful leaders now say that these
disabilities were merely war measures,
and confess that they are justly odious
and should be repealed This, they
know, is almost the universal public
sentiment in this State and out of 1t
amongst honorable men. But to re-
tain their power, they claim it to be
their peculiar prerogative to abolish
these impositions themselves, and in
the coming election will appeal To the
cupidity of the people, under promises
founded in deceit and fraud, to permit
them to retain the power to do so.
The Radical support given FLICK. 5
amendment tothc Constitution last win
ter, originatcdin this sharp scheme ofde-
ception; and if il be left to the eXecu-
ton of the 'bitter-enderS, it will cvap-
crate in smoke. Under the shameless
restrictions which their legislation has
thrown around all their odious enact
ments, it takes two years to strike any
of their shackles from the limbs OF a
suffering people; so that, if the poltl-
cal criminals who committed these
ourages upon private right and
public justice, are entrusted with the
power of repeating them, it will simply
be az absurd and stupid as the appoint
ment of "rogues to catch rogues. The
next Legislature, if continued Radical,
will reverse the action OF the last Legs
lature, limited as it is, and tasten so
many additional manacles upon the
limbs of the people as to perpetuate
their reign for long and disastrous years
to come. Power once stolen from the
people was never voluntarily re-
stored to them by the tyrants,
and wrongs perpetrated, are never re-
dressed except by the outraged. The
sacred constitutional liberties which
make the English Government the best
in the world, were only won when the
indignant people throttled King john on
the memorable plains OF Runamede; nor
would the liberties embodied in the
original constitution Of this country ever
have been achieved, had our torctathers
trusted to the mercy OF King GEORGE
and his tyrants.
Are the good people of West Virginia
so blind, or so cowed by oppression, or
so confiding in false prctenses and prom
ises, as to be seduced into the belief OF
such promises as the Radical party
now make to them when they see the
scepter is in danger of departing from
Juda? If the Democratic and COnser-
yative elements Of this State, like those
of Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland,
are permitted to take possession of the
Government they will soon correct the
evils. and remove the expressions which
Radical legislation has fastened upon
the people But if their work is
entrusted to those who have committed
the outrage, and can only survive by
perpetuating it, our people may content
themselves with long years of misrule
bv the colored mans white party that
dominccr- in this State.