The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-11-09
up.hur cOunIy...Ma.sachusctt.


allowed his spinal column TO arise to 10
improper auglC. lie flies of ut a tau
gent" and
Forgetting the locality where he grew,
lie ttiuks himself tue Lord knows Who"
And, taking as his pattern tue exam.
pie Of his Radical brethren of the
Press, he trans his quill with scandal
and With SCof, bu. lis 10 very foul it
won't 60 off,"
And all about question Of gcogra.
ply,
I'VE arc the criminal.
We had the audaciIy to say, when
rejoicing over the election returns,
that Massachusetts (meauiug Upshar
county, sends Democrat to The Leg.
stature By 96 majority"
This was the head and front Of our
offending,
But the stern sage of tue Delta de.
mics that Upshur county is MaSsaChu-
tctts--in short, 10 positively scout,
the idea that the territory embraced
within the limits Of the county nforc.
said is, would or could 10 anything
like the Land Of Wooden Nutmegs aud
the home Of Beast Butler.
We have been thinking, (sinee Mc
eleciiOaO that be is about right aud,
Tin consideration Of tue premises" VIC
take it all back,
Massachusetts would secede from any
county that would send as good a
Democrat as Thomas Jefferson Farms.
worth to the Legislature.
We capitulutO, surrender, give in,
knock uudcr, cry Pteeari, tSkeyour-
foOtotfmyueck, ctG..-vith or without
the hOuors Of war, as the Delta editor
may demand.
No more shall It be Massachusetts.
Nary time!
Tho man who darcs to refer to Buck
hammer as the Land Of Green Ginger
shall DO incontinently squrlchcd, Cx.
tinguishcl, knocked down aud dragged
out, land all that sort Of blarsted
thing"
Ii shall DO BuckhannOn, the pros.
porous county seat Of the good county
Of upshur, located near tho gcographi.
cal centre Of "Our young and growing
Commonwealth" and not bounded OH
tho east by tho cod fisheries Of the
Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the
State Of New York, on the north BY
Vermont aud New Hampshire, aad on
tic south BY Colts Revolver Factory
and the State Of Connecticut, as some
ungodly persons have asserted.
Woe be to the wretch who shall dare
to sluuder tue good county Of Upshur /!
Should such william exist, let him
be designated, and his scalp shall dan.
gle at our belt ere two mOons have
passed.
Tho galvanized transformations
who hold forth in our sister county
shull no longer bo insultcd by refer.
cncc to tue place from whence they
Gamo.
1t vas formerly said that West vit-
ginia was 10 Upshur county, Upshur
county in BuckhannOn, aud Buckhan-
uon III Massachusetts,.
Now We put it to the unobfusiicatcl
reader, Low does this statement agree
with Mitehcll's Geography?
Docs it not plainly appear that it
was Democratic lie, gotten up 10 the
interest Of the Southern COufcjeracy
This must have been thus, because
Mr.. Nlitchell's book is authority on
the subjeC. OF the location Of territory
on this terrestrial sphere.
OF cOrrso it was q rebel lie :-aud
we swear las they do in Indiana
"BEOAD and DEDAM'') death aud dss.
tructiOa to any living creature who
shall ever again repeat the SANDER y!
As daughter Of the COuaty Of
Lewis, which we kaoU is 10 the State
Of West Virginia, how could it UO pos.
siblc for UPshur county to be "way
up Mort IN dc land Oh freedom I"
That idea is positive absurdity,
and should be Immediately abandoned
by tue foolish people who have hereto.
fore entertained it.
And besides this, you may judge o
county by tue company it keep,
Now our neighbors over 10 Upshur,
having taken very seunblc aud ex.
ceedingly. proper view Of tho condition
OF things, have initiated the example
Of tho 'rsbel element" OF the mother
county III olecting Democrat to the
Legislature.
Good people!
Happy people
Bully, for item
We Join hands aud circle to the
left, )" singing q song Of great joy, as
sung by some friends Of ours WIN re.
hide in Upshur county, who visited
this place silco tue election. 1t read.
eth as follows.
upShar county Il my lOmei
America my nStitn;
Tommy ]. FafnENOrlh 10 our man,
Aal blessed be ereatiOnl
u. S.-NOv 5-Sinoo tho above
'was,in type, We have heard from the
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