The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1873-03-20
GEO. W. TIPPETT. Editor.
POINT PLEASANT, WEST VA,
Thursday n; March 20, 1873.
THE DEATH OF A REPUBLICS
HONOR.

50 plainly, that We adopt it as lead
or for our paper it being NOR
full aud better than We could write upor
the subject treated Of The Dcmocm
says: John Wilkes Booth assassnalcc
the chief magistrate Of the Republic
There are mcR living who done worse
They have assa3sinated the republics lion
or. The wretchcd young man who muir
dercd Lincoln, whatever may have been
bis motive, was qtleast not prompt y 4
greed. q money. DllhneJras his.
pt,FxSyetEilI bssthfd ldetS:sS.sa saint
compared 70 those shg,5gSisir places Of
high trust, moauly, betrayed their country
for dollars aud zcspiS Judas was pure
beside them, for be hung himself Would
for the land. and its people, that these
traitors might follow bis example!
Wsuso no hyPorbole when we call them
traitors, add their ats tho most dtspica.
ble of troasons We are tame 10 express
sion when VIC say they have assassiqntcd
their country's honor Had they been
men of lesser note, their guilt had been
less shameful, and its consequences less
pernicious Between them aud other
criminals it is the difference. between the
desertion Of the drunken trooper who stag
gers over to the euemy's camp, and the
studied and avaricious treachery of Bene'
dict Arnold.
For who are those men who to-day are
looked upon with scorn by all who are
honest Of thrty-cight millions of Amori'
cans? One Of them is cx Vice President
Oftur proud and grand republic; and an
other of them is the Vice President elect
and their companions in tiffany are Sena'
tors and Representatives in the Nntiona
Legislature, For that reason We say they
have assassinated the nations honor, fol
they, representatives of the States and o
the people, reflect upon the States anc
upon the people the drshonor they have
brought upon themselves
Our people, after passing their cruel or
deal of civil war, we're exhibiting to an
admiring world their brave endurance Of
its after evils, aud we're hopeful of Gstab-
fishing their ,ountry's position as among
tie frst-tLe first, perhaps, Of living na,
tons.
What has been the reward Of their en-
dura1ce-what are their hopes worth to-
day? Can their Rcpublanism bare it's
front before Empires and Kingdoms, when
its most trusted and most Iy.honorcd
representatives are bowed in the dust oil
their shame, with more dcbasing stigma
upon them than the ragged cut-purScS and
sneak.thieves Of Baxter street, St. Giles
or any other vico,troddeu locality in tbes,
or foreign lands? Lift the veil from The
worst features Of imperialism and royalty
and it will no. expose so hideOuS de
formity as our poor, humble republic show
to-day.
It'll possible that the people may no
generally have yet realized the extent o
the degradation into which they have beer
plunged by their dishonest representatives
tits probable that now the popular hear
is beUumbed aud Paralyzcd by the strange
ness aud euormity Of the crime. But tn
people must soon awaken to a conscious
ness that this Credit Nobilia exposur
strikes, the hardest, deadliost blow that la
ever been dealt the principles of Self.goy
eminent in its struggle against other form
Of nationality.
Should the freedom. seeking masses Q
other clime8 despair, should our own coun
trymen ultimately despair, the secret Q
that dependency will be found in the his
tory ofthe Credit Mobilier investigation
We will not believe that Republicauisr
cannot survive even such humiliation
but should this be its death blow, th
names Of the exccutioners will be inscrib
cd upon the tablets ofin(sny: Schuylc
Colfaz and Henry Wilson, Vice Prcsi
derts, actual and elect; Senators Pomeroy
Scho6eld, Patterson, Hooper, Caldwell
Representatives Harlan, Garfield, Dawes
Kelly, Bingham, etc, and whoever ma
be condemned to an Immortality ofignou
jty upon The shameful scroll.