The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-08-10

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TO THE NON.vOTERS or MASON
COUNTY AND THE WHOLE
STATE OF WEST VA.
Ladies'
Toyou. we make our last appeal,
TO aid, with your most feryent zeal,
To.nullify and abrogale-
The CONSTITUTION Of this State.
Matrons, maidens and widows, how do
you like the manner that your husbands
aud lovers; your children, your fathers
and brothers, have been treated for eight
and more long years past? How do you
like the treatment they, and you, have re.
ceived under this blessed constitutional
originating in usurpation and State secess.
ion; and aourishing on your m!sfortunes,
and on your expressions; and made by
pseudo representatives, mainly without
constituents, and where there was any con.
stituency at all; that constituency in eight
cases out Of ten, were the merest minors
ties imaginable!
Matrons, could you restrain your hus.
bands from going into the rebellion? No.
And when they did 60, were you to blame
for it? Would you not have preferred that
they should have remained at home, to
have aided in your support, and to have
been your protectors? Yet how were you
treated on that account, at least ostensibly?
How many of your houses, in the dead
hour of the night, we're entered by armed
men. Il will not say, were pseudo soldcrs)
in the pay and subsistence, and under the
orders of the government Of this State;
under the pretcnse of searching for arms,
or copspirators, alleged to be secrcted there,
and yourselves aud your children, alarmed
and frightened; aud your property, even
childrcn's, and your female habiliments,
pluudered or destroyed before your eyes;
and your houses ultimately burned, and all
this, under this lovcly and blessed constitu.
ton (?)
Fathers, you that were too old, or if not
too old, had no inclination to 60 Into the
rebellion; but had sons of age, as free as
yourselves, whom you could not re-
strain and who did 60; how were you treat.
ed, for what you could not help or prevent?
Your horses taken, Your cattle aken,-
yourselves militarily seized and carried to
those military bells, Camp Chase or to
Wheeling, or otherwise imprisoned, and
torn, aud kept from your families; all un-
der this most sweet constitution, which ad-
mittcd Of the passage oflaws, that not on (.
" protected your plundcrcrs, imprlsoncrs,
and oppressors, from suits for damages;
but also from criminal prosecution for the
outragcs perpetrated upon you, and many
of them-wiful, wicked and wholly un-
necessary, Outrages too, growing out Of,
not anything you did, or threatened to do,
but because some malicious ueigbbor, for
some wrong, real or faucied, did to him
years before the war, whispered in the ears
Of men with arms in their hands, aud fed,
clothed, paid, and differed and uniformed
by the State, and yclcpcd county guards,
| (D that youhad no warm feeling for the
Union.
Ladies Of West Virginia, whatever be
your condition; whether ma'ron, maid, or
widow, remember how many Of you were
summoned to 60; and were forced to go,
before grand.juries of the Federal as we'll
as State Courts, and were sworn; and com
PEELED to give evidence against your faith
ers, your brothers and other relations. -
Remember, too, how many ofyon were Ia
ken by governmental orders to Wheeling,
with its filth, and jibcs, and jcers, aud u-
humanity, and otho: military prison bells,
to cocrce you, to take an oath so distaste-
full to you, and kept in durance there, uu.
til you we're forced to take that oath; aud
all this was done under tho protecting 9gis
(D Of our existing constitution, and radi-
cal lovcd, and radical made constitution.
The liberal party wish to auuul an in.
strument made apparently with view to
tolerate their outrages and expressions; and
that not only did tolerate TEN, but still
shelters the perpetrators Of those wrongs,
under its protecting wings! Talk to your
lady friends, relations and acquaintance,
and ask them to implore upon their knees
(aud if that humble position is Intellectual,
TO 60 upon the knees Of their hearts
their male relations, friends and acquaiut'
ances, to vote for the convention, to oblitc.
rate q constitution, that has witnessed your
oppression, degradation and sorrows, more
numerous, and more CALLING, than ever
was before inflicted upon the female por.
ton Of any christian, or even any civilized
community, whether christian or not.
Do you wish to preserve constitution,
that witnessed your degradation-your
sufferings, and your sorrows-that not on.