The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-15
From the Border Watchman.
The Modern Story Of Jacob.

Now it came to pass in the days OF
Stevenson, the Governor, while the
Radical harlot was yet young, that she
did eat and drink over much, ran riot
with the peoples money and placed
great chains aud CALLING letters upon
their limbs, and deprived the people OF
their rights and liberties, so that they
were sore and afflicted. She kept the
peoples daughter from the school room
with cruel oaths, and she drove the
people and the peoples son from the
courts and made strange laws, and she
lifted the servant above his master, and
strange men with black faces and
woolly heads were seen IN the jury
box and the witness stand, but the peo-
pie and the peoples daughter were not
allowed to sit in these places. And she
took these strange men with black
faces and woolly heads and she led
them into the hotels and parlors, and
sat them down to eat and drink with
the peoples daughters, and the people
murmured, and a great cry went
throughout the land, and they rose up
in great wrath and drove Stevenson
and the Radical harlot out and stripped
them OF their power. Now the people
trusted Jacob, and they took him up
from the streets, and they washed his
sores and put robe on him, and lifted
him up to the ssat where Steven
son and the Radical harlot sat,
and they made a ruler OF him.
And for awhile the people loved him
and obeyed him; but it came to pass
that Stevenson and the Radical barlot
grew faint and hungry and longed to
SOP from the peoples flesh pots again,
and thev went to Jacob and said, the
people no longer love thee and have
promised their blessing to Camden, be.
cause be helped to strike the chains and
calling fetters from their limbs, and
thew said, we are hungry, let us dip
again into fhe flesh pots and we will
help thee TO get back the peoples bless.
ing that is promised Camden. And
Jacob said, can this thing be ? and q
Colonel of the Hog Men that stood 10y
said, "Aye, Jacob, let us do it and they
will make you Senator and give you
fine linen and horses, and ], too, will be
mighty man"
Then" said Jacob, give me your
birthright and l will 90 with you. y
And Jacob that had been loved and
honored went with Stevenson and the
Radical barlot and from that day Jacob
was one OF them. And all the people
hated him.
Now it came TO pass that the people
sent Camden out to hunt venison and
gather up their lost rights and liberties
and to make new laws and put away
the laws that Stevenson and the
Radical harlot had made, so that
the peoples daughter could not be
driven from the school-room and
the charge OF the children, and the peo'
pies son could not be driven from the
jury-box and the witnessstand and
the Radical harlot said to Jacob, now
is the time to gain the peoples blessing
while Camden is out, and Jacob said
how can II for the people will know
me and smell the scent Of the Radical
harlot, for you and Stevenson have had
YOUR hands on me? And she said you
can put on your old Democratic clothes
and they will not know you. And Jacob
went out to dress himself to gain the
peoples blessing, but it was dark,
and he put on Stevenson's clothes, and
the people knew him, and he smelled
of the Radical harlot, and they rose up
and stoned him and drove him out OF
the land. But they took Camden and
put new robe on him, and lifted him
up and made ruler of him, and all
the people loved him, for he made new
laws and took away the chains and
letters and set the peoples daughter
over the children and the peoples son
in the jury-box, and the people were
happy, and they waxed and grew to be