The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-08

against the present corrupt party dom
Iination controlling this Hlate. Whole.
some truth Is seldom plainly told through
q partisan press 10 q cajoled and misguid
cd people, but We wish right here I,
chronicle, In one Of the Oldest and mos
reepectableA journals Of the Slate, o few
brief but patent facts, Tefscted directly
from the surface Of current events. ThI
first decade Of public administration oVel
the restored government OF Virginia,
and that OF this State was conducted sub
stantiallY under q military domination
whose leaders lacked Craftsmanship,
who were without elevated principles q
character, and who were utterly want
ing In enlarged capacity, and compre-
hensiVe good sense; their dynasty was
therefore rejected, and -ighomihlouEly
oVerthrown, by the indignant uprising q
an outwearied people. To these, such ar
administration long extended after the
close OF the war, and in defiance Of the
spirit and sense Of the terms Of surrender
at appomatox, appeared none other thar
an ignorant, inscriptions and inexcusa.
Ole outrage upon common right, whose
memory toraoolh, will iurnish What III.
webster called 70 shameless and polluted
public press" the pabulum upon which
10 least for years to come.
As q succedaneum TO these meagre,
terocious, but In the main, land especially
IN pecuniary and fiscal point Of view,
honest public zealots and proScriptIOnists,
we have miserable sgglomeration Of cor
rupti0HtStS, equally senseless and wanting
N statesmAnship, OF the head Of our pub,
lie affairs Ofcourse, we refer not 70 our
worthy but unfortunate Governor, whose
executive influence with his party Is re.
duced TO q nonentity, but who Is all the
dearer In the affections oil q grateful peo-
pie, because he has been almost murder
ously impaled upon cruciflx, reared for
him by a partisan Kingdom of public
peculRtors and .desperadOes. This inla=
nous coalition of'public riDgmastefs Il
composed on the one hand Of a disbanded
and demoralized league of Cain marked.
Spots.wood.hotel junta conspirators dub.
bed great men" before the war, because
l'of their sufVile sycophAncy 10 the slave
oligarchy Of the "Old Dominion" but
never statesmen, returned from their
wanton holocaust Of fire and sword, to
crave the special amnesty Of Foreman and
Butler (See page Is off QbG Private
Acts OF the 4lst CoDl res, approved
March 9TH, 1870, whereby TO wriggle
into place, and spoil, and power, and
on theother hand, a filthy and putrescent
group OF money mongeB, pdblic cons
tractors, army. scavengefs, spectators and
radical franchise brokers (see the public
acts and votes in the Legislature Of the
great d. G. D. himself not later than
1868, who in tho late war were prone
alike to merchandise in the throes Of the
living and the bones Of the dead, 90 that
they could but put. money in their
purse.Y 4 Qtthe iormerslist, look b GID.
camden, Johh BiannsnI j. NJ. Bsnhet,
A. +. Raymond, ]. Hoffman, Ben. Byrne,
and last, and doubtless least Of all, the
ford, sanguine and gorgeous dressing
g0pn" member Of the late Constitutional
Convention, Sam Woods. On the other.
hand, look at the file Of ]. N. Camden,
81. G. Davis, Henry s. Walker, Lewis
Baker and the Jacksons at large. What
an aggregation have we here Of land
pirates, government traitors and treasury
|crackanen? Deem not this mere fancy
sketch, for, however widely drawn, it Is
based upon naked though startling facts
existing in the deplorable present Of this
young State. Again, let me Teiterate-
the people oil this State now realize that
its government is In the hands Of
men the crimes Of portion Of whom
surpass those oil Cain, in conjunction with
another wing OF their party, whose COM
ponents are in a direct coalition with
these foulest Of criminals, ioi the purpose
OF despoiling the people, plundering the
public treasury and ravishing this young
and inexperienced Commonwealth Of
whatever public virtue remains in her.
But how may a continuance oil this state
Of affairs be avoided? Simply BY the
Republicans oil the State, in the various
districts thereof, adopting the same course
pursued at the election oil Governor
Jacob. To him they now owe it that this
State Is not an utter political pandemoni.
um. Is there any abnegation Of vital po..
litcal principle in such.a course, anything
more than temporary abandonment Of
Of q petty and mischievous psftisanship 2
MIR. Jefferson was himself 8 Republican
and detested slavery ssthoroughly as Mr..
Lincoln. The Republicans OF this State,
in their late crusade tor liberty, Oganized
in Wheeling May Is, 1861, were mostly
ofshpots Of Democracy, hopelessly cor
rupted from having become warped from
the political indoctrinations Of Mr.. Jefier.
con, 10 the foul behests OF the slave
breeding oligarchy. Thisspurious South.
erp Democracy, by virtue OF the touch
stone OF principles, inculeated3 IN THE.
hearts OF the American people by the
illustrious founder Of Democracy Itself,
has been forever overthrown, and the
denomination of human slavery, as it were.
\ stricken from the code and creeds- of
earth's civilization. With this Herculean
labor done, cannot the Republican party
msgnaninlously and wisely extend the
hand Of fellowship TO Democratic inde-
pendents, who are aiding them against
the corruptions and practices, Of those
whose, present party coalitions would
regSSip by policy what Democrats have
To the Republicans Of Barbour county we
say once for all, "let US at this crisis for
bear any Republican nomination, and
unite to support Mr.. Boteler, the more
especially sS he Is admitted to be almost
the only equal, in ability and experience,
otthe very able and experienced Faux
ner. Suppose fellow Republicans, that
on the, contrary you determine at Port.
land, 10 make nomination Of one Of