The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-05-08
GEO. W. TlPPETT, Editor.
POINT PLEASANT, WEST VA,
Thursday, Nh: May s, 1873.
IN A RAGE.

our paper, coupled with personal aud
abusive TRADE against ourscIf Why all
this, VIC arc at loss to know The joint
stock concern, which is managed and con.
trolIed by an idiot or a fool known as the
Immortal" Trussel, immugincs aud says
that ever siuce the removal of the JOarRai
to Clifton, we have by insinuntions aud
personal abuse of the editor mud paper,
been trying to iDjurc the Jo~nal. We
unhesitatiugly and most unquuliicdIy dc
ny the accusation There is not word
Of truth in lit is false from beginning
to end We ask both the Jomaai and our
readers to point cut single line or article
in any Of our issues, which can, turn aud
twist it as you please, be construed into a
personal attack upon that paper, its editor,
or any one connected with it. If the cdi.
tor can find such an article rs he alludes
to, he will confer a favor both upon us and
bis readers by publishing the same.
1t is not our purpose in this article to
enter into a personal fight with the "sickly
concern" at Clifton, but merely to defend
and vindiCato OurSclf from the false
position 10 which the Journal seeks to
place US before the people. Aud we would
have him understand, we do not promise
that this shall be our course in any future
article, 1.-The persists in making these
unwarrGnted and ucallcd for attacks upon
US, we in scIf.defcnce, shall reply in kind,
and let the people Of Mason county learn
"Wbat we know about an Editor" and
fthe frail Trussel.work don't give way
under the heavy load which the Trussel
will have TO carry, it will be no fault Of
ours. We are 10th to enter into such q
controversy, knowing as we do, that it is
not palatablo to the reader, but let the
consequences be what they may, when our
character is aSsaled We shall not shrink
like cringing coward, from defence Of
it, whether it be by written articles, or in
any other manner. This is duty, the
trst law of nature compels US to obey
lisa duty We owe to ourself our family,
our friends, and our readers.
1t is true that the editor makes our ar.
ticlc on the Louisiana affair a pretext for
the assault on u1 because We exposed his
bold and impudent attempt to garbc aud
msrepsent the affair at Colfax, by saying
that it was brought about by white Dem.
Democrats. Because be was not permit.
ted to saddlctbiS riot upon the Democracy,
he grows violent and fumes and Sweats,
aud blows and swears, and threatens and
abuses US. We repeat again that the ne.
grOcs, (of which race the Journal is the
especial champion, were the aggressors,
that they had been preparing br this very
riot several days before the fight took
place; that white women and children had
been lusuIted by them, purpOsely to com.
pei the white people to make the attack
that two or three white men we're brutally
murdered before the white people struck
q blow in defence Of themselves, their
homes, and their families. These uuwar.
rantod insults to white women aud child.
rem, and the coldblooded murder of these
white men, brought on the bloody engage
ment. In this battle, though sad the tale,
justice was swift, aud about one hundred
negroes we're killed and wounded We
glory in the bravery and courage of the
white men Of Colfax in rosenting tho re.
peated insults by negroes, of their wives
and daughters, and damned BE- the editor
whether Trussel or any other, who uphoIds
and defends the negroes in thor enormous
and'6endish crimes, which are perpetrated
daily by them upon the white people OF all
the Southern States, The negroes are
backed by a viDdictiyo President, aud sus.
tanned by the United States troops, and to
The white men is all the more honor and
glory for resisting the attempt to degrade
aud iwpovcrsh them, aud place them be.
low the negro,
1t is loft alone for the oditor Oftbo Ma.
sOn County Journal to shed great tears Of
,Eupnthy for the "poor colorcd man and