The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-29
OurSew constitution.

From the Grcenbrier Independent.
Our present organic law seems To- hay"
created 4 great deal OF apprehension IN
the minds ofsome professional politician
at this late day. We can readily CONCEIVE
how this NAV occur with Radicals, but
We are ut a loss to know how it may be
so with those protesting tob be Democrats.
While the instrument may not o. all
that We might desire, still it is better than
the one it superseded The Convention
that framed il, was largely composed OF
gentlemen of experience IN legislative
assemblies, beth in this and other States;
md it is admitted by all That it was the
most talented and the ablr,t body "i men
that has ever assembled 10 IT," State
one oi the principal objections urged
is the county court system. ne S""'
stitution does not force tins tribunal on
any county in the State. The people
may adopt that or any other tribunal ol
inferior ia 'sdiction, Il majority OF Ms
people NAV want; 50, that If any county
has "A county court, il is the fault Of her
citizens and not the Constitution. y
great many persons in the county OF
KanaWha. for instance, were opposed 10
the .hoOp-p pole Court, rs it was derlslve-
" called, but when an opportunity was
given her people to change the system,
majority otcd against .thc change, and
in favor Of the obnoxious tribunal. 50
it seems. with most of the objections TO
the instrument When put to the test,
they amount to nothing.
In the recent argument of the Capital
Injunction case, before the Circuit Court
O! Kauawha, Judge James IL. Ferguson,
Of counsel for the plaintiff, is reported 10
have said, N substance that ~" had
been mad at himself ever since he had
voted for the new Constitution In
making this point it wa- in support OF
the Radical idea that the new Con-'ltu-
ton rr-opencd the Capital question. This
is Il base fabrication, and no one knew
it better than Judge Ferguson The
Judge was Il member Of the
legislature Of 1871, which passed the
Co hil, and an effort was
maze II. ,u,, .->iOu 90 remove the Capi-
tai from Charleston. 1t is also we'll
known that Judge Ferguson got the
credit for having killed removal that
session of the Legislature. We do not
think this J. the reason of the Judges
repentance. The new Constitution Is IN
popular in Kanawha just now, and the
Judge having recently become citizen
of that county, he wants to goto the next
Legislature, and he has placed himself
astride of that hobby to accomplish his
purpose. But he win fail to reach the
goal To which his hopes are tending, rs
sigually rs he did when he voted for
the cali of Il convention and sup
ported the new Constitution. Neither
party wants him, and neither party will
support him. We do not believe he was
ever in favor of the new Constitution
from principle, He knew that that in
strumrnt forbids the enactment of in!a-
nous teSt-Oaths. such Is he was the au-
thor of. in this State, and that il inhibited
the enactment of registration laws. These
two deviltrlcS of Radical hatred,
enacted tor the oppression OF
honest men. are specially for
hidden in the Constitution. Should
the Judge succeed in going to the Legs
lQture. tuf which we do not think tire
i the remotest chance Ec will be- prohi-
ted from prosecuting II Judge for sustain
Ing the decisions Of the Supreme Court
Of the United States, and, after procur-
Ing hs removal by partisan legislature
accept the appointment to fill tn" vacancy
made by such removal.
And 50 with the other objections to the
New Constitution. When YOU sitt them
to the bottom. it will be found that, as in
the two cases cited majority are in
favor of 1t, or else personal advance
mcut and the hope Of personal gain
prompts the opposition to 1t, 1t suits, rs
Il general thing, all who are IN favor OF
the greatest personal liberty consistent
with our form of government, which Is
too honest and liberal for narrow, selfish,
loelid Radicalism, and It's 5igotcd fol-
lowers. OMEGA.