The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-02-26
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tenor of their ways, and their ways for
tunately have been those of pleasant
ness and peace. The effect OF the late
misunderstanding" in the House, has
about subsidized; the gentleman from
Ohio, and the gentleman from Jeffer-
SOD, have clasped hands across the
bloody chasm, and the warning ele-
ments which so recently obscured fair
natures face, exhausted by the violence
of their own efforts, have sobbed them
selves to rest. As our Barbour county
Shakespeare has it:
Nov Is the winter OF our discontentent
Made glorious summer by the coming OF
And ali ths clouds which lowered about
In the deep bosom Of the ocean buried"
In the midst OF this EZRA OF good feel
ing" | sit down to write out my contri.
button to your columns. And just here
let me say, that while | have no dispo-
sition to play the part OF critic, upon the
productions of my fellow scribblers, aud
while approve OF candid and truthful
criticism, even though it be sweeping
and severe, there is little doubt but that
much of the correspondence forwarded
from this point during the session has
been extremely partisan in its ehsrac-
ter and some OF it has been malignant
and slanderous to the last degree.
The immediate occasion OF my saying
this much has been letter entitled
Side Shows at Charleston" published
in the LatelHgencer OF the 18th inst,
which indirectly charges upon your
own county members, and the Chair
man of the House Judiciary Committee,
habitual drunkenness aud neglect Of
duty.
There are other statements besides
this contained in the same letter that
are entirely unwarranted by facts, but
to this particular one there is no fitting
answer to be made, unless it be the his
toric reply OF Horace Greeley to some
of his own detractors who believed that
fiction was stranger than truth.
The fact is, aud the testimony OF all
who have had the opportunity OF witness
sing their course, will bear me out In the
assertion, that'there are no members con.
nected with the present Legislature who
are more constant in their attendance
upon the sessions of the house, more
indefatigabIe in their labors upon their
Committees, and more assiduous In
their attention to all duties imposed up
on them as Representatives Of the people,
than these same gentlemen thus ma
ligned, and | can conceive Of no reason
Tor their being singled out as the OBJ
iects of such unwarranted abuse unless
il be the existence OF some private
ploue, or because OF the fact that Who'll =
sale abuse of the present Legislature
and all connected with it, seems to be
fashionable among the Knights of the
Quill, at the present time AS to the
latter, ! can only say that the fashion
has been about worn OUT. The two
houses like all other representative
bodies have made their mistakes and
blunders. Some OF them they can and
will repair, others perhaps may remain
uprepaired, but when it is re-
membered that nearly all the work
OF the present session has been
of a general instead OF special char
acter as formerly that they have been
compelled to frame general laws that
would answer the necessities of all Sec
tons, however widely they might differ,
instead OF providing for each by special
enactment; and that they have been
surrounded, from the beginning, 10y all
the perplexities that attend upon legis
lation under new instrument; it would
seem a. though some degree OF credit
might be allowed them for what they
have accomplished, and that the mono,
tony of Misrepresentation and condem-
nation, might be occasionally varied by
little recognition OF the good that has
been done. That such recognition will
be general, l do not expect. Were the
legislation so Tar, made up as in former
days, of appropriations for BRIDES over
the Tug Fork OF Big Polecat," or to
complete the survey of the "Melchisidek
and Pizzerlnktum Turnpike" it would
of course be appreciated by the most
careless observer. As it is now, the
"framers" must look to different class
for proper valuation OF their services.
The House has been engaged, for the
past two days, in considerit z an amend
ment proposed to the Jury bill hereto
fore passed by the Senate, viz: that the
word white" be stricken out wherever
it occurred, and the amendment was at
one time carried but subsequently re-
considered and lost. 1t is now propose
ed to amend it so that our ''colored
brethren" who require the services of
jury, may have one of their own color,
and the proposition meets with some
favor.
The Senate is working upon the
"Fee Bill" and the indications are that
it will be passed substantially as re-
ported bv their special committee.
think there will be no material
change made to it by the House. 1t
seems to be generally conceded that
great injustice has been done the coun.
ty officers by the change, and the dis
position to repair the injury is, with few
exceptions, a general one.
The question OF fixing a time for adj
tournament, begins to be mooted, and
the last of March is mentioned as a
probable time for winding up"
Among the social events OF the ses-
sion, the most pleasant have witnes
ed, was the complimentary dinner ten-
dered by the citizens OF Charleston to
the members Of the Legislature and
State officers last Wednesday night
Whether It was "a cop to cerberus,"
or whether it proceeded from natural
love and affection for the members was