The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-24

his indiscretion be was elected to fill
hat position and had to serve for that
sum. The First District organized the
Democratic party in this State, and by
means OF great labor, in season and out
Of season, day and night, redeemed the
State from the Infamous rule Of pro-
scriptive Radicalism, for which Mr..
Price and his class seem to think You
deserve to have dose OF that proscrip-
lion from which you released them.
The fact is, The heads of a few very
well meaning gentlemen have become
somewhat turned by the Unexpectedly
large majorities given last fall for
the Democracy, in one section Of the
State; and they are no longer right
sure that the Democracy Of another
portion of the State have any rights
they are bound to respect. They will
soon outgrow this feeling, however.
Considerable allowance should be made
for them, as they are young 10 the
cause. When they become veterans,
they will become more discreet. The
further they get from the time when
some Of thu n were kissing the pro-
scriptive hand that oppressed them and
rawDirg upon the h ign priests Of i'll
gotten power, the more tolerant they
will become Of these who generously
and bravely fought their battles in
fighting the battles of the great princi'
pie which undeslies our system OF
free government. do not desire to
he considered personal, but your
readers may, for themselves, make such
personal application as to them seem
best. In many communities could be
found, three or four years ago, one or
more fawnipg, cringiug, SOLDERING
creatures-the most contemplate
snakes that ever hissed-who courted
and earned the appellation of Radical
Rebel" and few OF them ] regret to
saw, have found their way to positions
of trust. When the tide came that
carried with it success, these gentlemen
were found perched upon its highest
billow. There are men akin TO the
original secessonists. like BoremaD
Eph. Hall, Rob. Brown, Ed. Maxwell
and other recent leaders Of the party,
whose cornerstone OF faith was pro-
scription of those who remained con.
sistent and honest 10 their convictions
Of right and duty.
l regret to see Col. Ben. Wilson, Of
Harrison, offering the following resolu-
ton in Convention:
Reso,ced, That legal interest shall be
at the rate Of six dollars upon one hun
dred dollars for year, and proportion
ally for a greater or less sum, or for
longer or shorter time and no person,
upon any contract shall take for the
loan or iorbearance OF money or other
thing, above the value OF such rate.
This looks little-just little, per-
demagogueing, since one Of
the strongest arguments the friends Of
the Convention made against the present
Constitution, during the last canvass, was
that there is too much attempt at legis-
lation in it. A Constitution, we all
agree, should be simple, containing but
little beyond well established funda
mental principles. Everything that can
be left TO the Legislature should be so
left. And every subject like that Of
regulating the price of any commodity
or the produce Of either the farm or
workshop, should be left to be regulated
By a law which is above and beyond all
statutary law-the law of supply and
demand.
Your people should not fail to enter
a very decided protest against this
species of legislation by the Convention.
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