The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-10
Regisiratfou An Morgan County.


The Board Of Registration Of Morgan
county met at Berkeley Springs on last
Monday. The Board consists ofJosnPH
Booze, JACOB CASx and a person named
Burr Their conduct was fully up to
the standard prescribed in such cases,
and earned from the Governor the
commentator of good and faithful
servants How they earned it will
appear from the following report Of
only three cases which we clip from (
the Morgan Mercury:
I. Nicholas Michael had been strick-
en- off without legal notice or opportu-
nifty to be heard. He was charged with
having employed substitute, and came
before the Board prepared to prove
that he was away from home, eluding
the rebels who were hunting him to
conscript him, when his mother, with
out his knowledge or consent, employed
a substitute for him. Refused hear
ing, Boone in the affirmative. Here
we wish to state a significant fact, that
Cam distinctly told Mr.. Michael that
he could tell him chow You can get
your voter We leave the inference
and conclusion to others.
= Mr.. Cyrus Dawson (stricken of
without notice., petitioned for hear
ing, and being refused Boone in the
affirmative), he asked, through his
counsel, C. II. Day, Esq, that the petit
ton and refusal be recorded; which
was granted (Mr. Boone otsecting on
the ground that under the law Mr..
Dawson was entitled to hearing, and
such record and refusal was violation
of the statute). Nt
3. Robert Johnston, who was about
eighteen years of age at the commence
ment of the war, desired to register
but he was questioned as to his occupa-
ton during the war, and having satis-
fed the Board that he staid at home,
and supported his mother, majority OF
the Board-Boone and Butt-voted TO
register him; but no. with an interJec-
ton more iorcible than refined, Cam
insisted that Butt should change his
vote, as it had been clearly proven that
the rebels had forcibly fed their horses
off Mr.. Us grain, and that the
Young stripping was too cowardly to
slaughter the whole party, and rip
the horses olen and take the grain out
OF their stomachs, and was therefore
under the ban Of the law. To which
exhaustive argument Butt yielded, and
became the butt of ridicule. We ven
der whether the windy, noisy and bla-
tant patriot forgets that when the rebels
took him prisoner, instead OF consign-
ing them to traitors grave, he, trem-
bling and quaking with fear, followed
Ike a sheep TO the shambles. And
when they found him worthless and
contemplate burden, ordered him to
20 TO a certain house and wait until
. Ferrall called for him, actually went
to the place designated, and waited in
craven submission 10 the commands OF
a rebel, until brave young girl, the
only occupant OF the house, plying him,
showed him how to get away. We
can prove this, and more.
Now it so happened that in his cleo
tioneeriug tour at the expense of the
State, Governor STEVENSON was at
Berkeley Springs, on Thursday, October
9th, just three days after the officers
of his inquisition had completed their
work. The facts in this and other
equally bcinous cases of vio-
lation OF the law, were
brought to his attention, and he was
urgently desired to interfere and COM
mand that the law he obeyed. He
said that he was sorry for the sufferers;
that he could do nothing that it was
now too late, &c, &c, al nauSeam but
privately signified to certain of the dis
franchised that, under some circnm-
stances, they might be permitted to
vote. Desiring to place him fully
upon the record in relation to the mat
ter, the editor of the Morgan Mercury
wrote him letter soliciting a reply,
but, up to this time, no letter from the
Governor has appeared, nor do We be-
lieve than any reply will be given.
Last year, Governor STEVENSON did
not think the 18th of October too late
to interfere with the Board of Registra-
ton in Jefferson county and appoint a
new member who would be subservient
to the demands of the Radical leaders
there. He has always found il con-
vienent to interfere whenever his agents
were not striking off enough names
from the list to ensure the success OF
the Radical ticket. 1t is never too late
for him to interpose in the interest Of
Acknowledgement He can use the tele-
graph TO authorize the deprivation OF
legally qualified white citizens OF their
rights under the law. But when ap-
pealed to in person at the scene of the
wrong, while the outrage was yet fresh
in the minds of the people, he attempts
to evade responsibility by pleading that
il is TOO late to enforce the law. Too late
to put the names of legally qualified
voters upon the list; too late to inter
fere with an unscrupulousan and irrespon-
sible Board of his own creatures, who
were signalizing their devotion to him
by striking from the list legally qualified
voters who do not think WILLIAM E
STEVENSON pure-minded statesman or
worthy of election to the United States
Senate
We trnst that candid and honest men