The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-12-27
Got Hts Rack Hin.
Editors OF the Register.

! ieoAs vi tne Register.
ln the issue of the IntelIiqencer of De
eember 10th / find communication
signed "Jusiice," in which particular
reference is made to an article written
by myself over the signature of "Unus, u
published in your paper few days since
can with the writer plead ignorance
and say that / do not know who "Jus.
tlce" is, but | think I have correct views
OF what justice is, and when one assumes
to himself to persoDify that quality and
attempts to defend Wells, Kellogg, Pack.
ark, Stearns, Chamberlain, Anderson Ell
I'd onsne genus, can but think of the
old trick OF stealing the livery of Heaven
to serve the Devil in. The sentiment of
his article shows that it has been dipped
from the same stagnant, filthy pool that
has proven so prolific to writers OF his
ilk. From then he learns to faunt the
bloody shirt, and charge treason and re-
bellion upon every one who has the au-
dacity to lift warning voice in the hour
OF danger and thus seek to avert the COM
ing storm.
If it be treason to charge corruption
upon the Radical administration if it be
rebellious to warn the political knaves
that they had better pause in their dirty
work; if it be treason to call upon the
people-the whole American people,
without regard to party-to resist,
peaceably if they can, forcibly if they
must, all eucroachments upon their lib
critics, and let those who have been
placed in power know that they are
merely the servants OF the people, then l
am rebel and a traitor, and Justice"
can make the most of it, l am thankful
that Washington made the names of
traitor and rebel rs glorious as Benedict
Arnold did that Of loyalty odlous.
Justice" admits that his party has
made mistakes, but its greatest mistake,
according TO his opinion, has been Its
leniency TO rebels. MardJiLe dtctu! The
outrsges perpetrated upon tho people of
the Southern States in the name of law
and right; The nsurpatlon OF
power; the disregard of the sacred
behests of constitutional provisions;
the destruction of true republican prin-
cIples; the enormous public debts OF
every Southern State whose government
has been in the control of his party, Gre
ated by the wholesale theft of the car
pet baggers and scalawags forced upon
those States and sustained by the adj
ministration, constitute items of this most
gracious leniency. God save us from
such leniency. 1t is very evident That
the Radicals did make mistake and
hence the dirty work they are now doing
to recover from the results Ct that mis-
take. That party thought the negro
vote secured to it for all time, and with
that, and the disfran shisement OF whites,
it could sustain its hold on power and
patronage and perpetuate ad tryintsunt its
reign of lawlessness and theft. BY the
recent elections and the overwhelming
majority for Tilden, they see the hand
writing on the wall and know full well
that Othellos occupation is gone, if the
will of the people is to be respected.
But according to the views Of Justice"
the majority for Tilden is discreditable,
because. as he says, nearly all OF it
comes from the States that tried TO des-
troy the Union Then why the great
effort to secure the votes of three ofthoss
States for Mr.. Hayes? If to receive the
votes of these States, or any OF them, ls
evidence Of disloyalty, surely the stan
dard bearer of the great party that saved
the country, to which Justice refers with
such apparent satisfaction, would nave
~ such foul blot upon its political record
Edged tools are dangerous, especially
when they cut both ways, and passing by
the fact that such flimsy, womsn y efforts
to escape the force of II popular majority
should not find utterance except by n
demagogue. | would advise Justice"
to lay carefully away weapon So dan
werous to his own cause.
sincerely hope that war may be
averted, and | will have no opportunity
to ties. the charge that l would be stay
at-home soldier" and not caring
to give utterance to high
sounding declarations of personal
bravery ever attempt to detract from
that quality in others, l leave justice
to enjoy his own opinion on that subject,
feeling that il he is rs regardless OF dan
ger as he is of the soundness of his asser-
tions. he will make good soldier IN thaI
grand army that is to give the Quletus
to the hydrs-headed treason presented
to his jaundiced vision.
In conclusion, l will add, that when
party, entrenched in the Notifications
erected by its own administration, boasts
so loudly of its loyalty, and denounces
all who do not subscribe to its dogmas
and bow to its will as traitors and rebels,
while it is laying its polluted hands upon
the rights of Constitutional liberty, 1t Is
high time to sound the alarm, and re-
gardlcss of the advice of justice, cease
nv scribbling," | shall continue, teeoly
it may be- but earnestly and honestly, to
call upon the people, the true rulers OF this
Republic. to stand firmly by their rights
December q, 1876.
HINES