The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-18
Editors of the Register.

September 18th, 1874. -
Editors of the Register. --
How sweet is memory In decrepid
age, bv its influence We are enabled 10
retrace the past. Oh, often, so very often
it uproots matters that would SUIT us
better had memory ceased its rootings.
Dear REGISTER, do you study life IN It's
various phases? We do-ED. Its dreams
so transitory, its actions SO full oil
yacillation. Yet, with all "as
the snow fakes on the river, once
white, then gone forever" Not always
so. saws the Alchemist. of your helghDor,
the b.teLLioenceT the author OF series on
Evolution, or Darwinism. 1 love that
author, simply because his articles has
brought many balmy sleeps to my wea-
ried ewes, and regret and muchly miss
his eve shutting articles. Yet as life, ne
has passed away and another has appear
ed on the arena, fully as effectual III
placing us in the wide spread arms OF
morpheus. Reviewer, Ofof the Calvanis-
tic catechism. l read and sleep, Dut u
Calvinistie dream .r of gobilns
damned ,.f.. and .ngspirits! Writh-
ing in fire and birthstone is not so pleas
ant rs IN dream of Darwinism. Once
monkey. Now Senator. But Ilttle
has all this to do with what | have to say
on the first proposition. The morning
MteLliqencer IA good paper. l like 1t for
its eccentricitieS and able articles on
sleepy subjects raked from the ashes OF
the past, Il Rame 50 familiar, ana places
that name at his mast head IL candi-
date for Congress in the Second district.
w. r. Wiley. chosen by no convention,
although "Back Crook assembly rep
resenting star actors in the vlrtuous
drama were in conclave, met and
adjourned, modestly requesting Its loot
lights, men and supes to help lead the
innocents to slaughter. That after the
contamination of the laws may eXclaln,
THE. blood is not upon our skirts.
Years ago the name of W. T. Wiley was
accidentally nominated as II candidate
for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.
Those good old days of Know-NothinS-
ism, with its grand old pass word, None
but Americans on guard to night, looms
M fresh to memory. The cycles
Of time may blunt memory, yet 1t
is not wholly etfaced. That glorious
old know-nothins lodge room, and
"Cranmer's' speech within sound, urg-
ing to stack muskets in the hall ready for
defense against visionary enemy, the
Catholics and foreigners. Our hearty
amen. Memory So sweet. 1 remember
w. T. w. His vacillations Tor evolution,
NAV say the correspondent of the Mteut-
genccrl trace him down to the memorable
times of 80 and 81. His status as men,
Der of the Richmond Convention; his
fight and halt at Winchester; that
speech to fire the Southern young bloOds;
the writer meeting him on the streets OF
Morgantown en- route to the assembly OF
the masses looking to u separation OF the
State; that sad rebuke for being so reck-
less; his determination to resume his seat
at Richmond, NC. Memory, why 80
vivid? Our meeting mt Washington
Hall in the city of Wheeling; his triple
allegiance speech; the turmoil of that sad
cry of hang him, not in the sweetest
cadence lingering around his parlor
door. The next day the reconciliation
and prospect of L. ). s.; MARY had a
little lamb.
Memory is often ladened with sweet
incense. We follow briefly. The Will
lev. So-called, amendment, the first act to
give him reputation. Ask n. W. Camp
bell if this is not miSnomer. Did not
Archie originate it? The war, with its
horrors. came. We would forget it, w.
T. W., and his blank life in the [. 5.
Senate. 4 worthy man, good Sunday
school superintendent and temperance
lecturer, misplaced. He originated
nothing. advocated less. He showed no
tavols in his high official capacity to
single son Of the "storm born child.
But let Us turn and in brief review the
life of the standard bearer Of the Dem
ocratic party of the Second district, the
Hon. ChaS. j. Faulkner How wide the
contrast The statesman, the diplomat!
In wears agonp in the halls Of Congress.
he stood commanding the protoundcSt
attention Of such statesmen rs Clay
and Webster. coping with them for SUI
premacy in debate. Look again! See
him ~ the representative of this great
republic at the courts Of proud
France. Then away back into the past.
His name in the Virginia Convention
To-day his name is coupled with honor
and greatness. Look upon the respective
and respectable photographs as drawn.
| like the works of Dean Swift, his Gull
liver on his Travels among the Pig
mics, goldsmith" and dear old "Stcrnc
and his Tristram Shandy." Each contain
II lesson for to-day. But the Second Dis
trict is holy ground, belonging to the
Morgantown Post, Judging from the
Caudlc lecture administered to the htri-
Hg,Hccr some days ago by BOland. So l
shall retracc my steps and get back upon
ms own dung hill the glorious First.
Col. Wilson left Us few days ago, full
of vigor and vim.
The political affair, of Lewis are still
in swaddling clothes. y recent issue of
the Democrat contains card of Hon.
W. r.. Arnold, declining to he a candi-
date for the House of Delegates, for the
reason that the Democratic nominee for
Congress in this district is his brother-in-
law. The honorable gentleman is full of
consideration and sympathy, and | adj
mirr in him the reverence paid to ties of
con>angunity. We have now four cam
didatc> in the field, fairly and
Squarely on the corners, and pay
ing the Dsmocr0t for chin music
other candidates will be on the tapis the
coming week. For the life of me l cant
see the fruit they are grabbing after.
Can't be honor. Never as vet has any
of this precious commodity chung to the
persons passing winter ut the p. :.
in capacity of law maker Can't be
money, for Senator B. loaned his all last
winter and vet patiently awaits the re-
turn of his ducatS. Now right here,
sweet memory is again called into requi-
Sition. does it serve Ion right, when it
saws next winter I. s. s. is to be chosen.
Have we have a Cpne1On or Patterson in