The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-01

,ut had become alarmed and snutfed the
,attle from afar of; upon hearing oidt
Mr.. Tucker, of Virgins say in Congress
hat this wss not 4 4atiSn Aof ssintsll
ND thsrefo ~. had baekisd5on his arr
sort{ noa AeafS hs was government
oficsr, drs& inFS big rolnd salary), but
becauce he WA sfraid. II he did not, ME-
Tuckss would scatter our government
IikeSA bundls of Sticks. he then !
wepf over tho downfall Of "Gentle.
man George Pendleton," but had
not a tear to shed over the poll
teal remains of Colfax, Babcock, Bel
KNAPP, Robesou, and host Of similar un-
fortunate comrades in arms. The great
statesman Thurman he pitled, because ne
had been thrown over by the Democ-
racy. He would do we'll to save
his pity for Bristow, Custer and Blaine,
as the Democrats propose to make an
Alexander Hamilton out OF Allen u.
Thurman during the next administration
He had many personal remarks to make,
and yet did not want to be deemed ego
tlstic. Among others he stated that he
had accepted dose OF Democratic
whisky on his way to the convention,
that had crooked him up IN the shape OF
the first letter of Samuel j. Tilden's
name, which was, no doubt, an sccepta-
BILE piece OF information TO his Republi-
can auditors, some of whom, in all prob.
ability, wished he mad remained crooked
up until after the November elections
After he had pestered the boys with such
nonsense for about one hour, ne closed,
by wrapping the CORY shirt around Gen.
Coli, and declaring, in sense, that
there ought TO be no change IN
the government from the fact that the
Republicans had the Democratic mule by
the tail, and if they once let 90 they
would get kicked clear cut OF exist
ence.
Then up rose Ex-Governor Teste-osth
Stevenson who, casting his eye around
him, saw in front four postal clerks
and two niggers; on either side a United
States commissioner and whisky
gsuger, and above collector and
deputy, and his soul was filled with
much joy.
The ex governor is really approaching
his cottage, and should be retired by the
Republican party on a pension. His
speech indicated that his mind, never
strong, was rapidly undergoing decay.
1t was conglomeration Of wild asser.
tions, tadpole tales and bloody shirt
abuse, and it would make its author
blush TO read it in print were his mental
faculties as strong as in days of yore.
He is riding three hobbies IN this cam,
paign-the niger, the county court and
the lesi stature. lie stated that the
Democrats had nominated for Presi.
dent a man who had been the
paid attorney for great rail-
road corporation, forgetting that just such
IS Goff's position to-day. Oh, unhappy
Governor! Why did you sound the key
note Of your own candidates defeat?
He Dragged about having, during his
arbitrary rule, by means of the test oath,
prevented Henry NJ. Mathews from
taking a seat in the Legislature, to which
he was Justly entitled by the sutfrages OF
the good people OF Greenbrier. SUCH
treatment alone after the conditions OF
General Lees surrender, should be the
means of electing Major Mathews this
fall.
He could not say that the state taxes
were augmented, but declared there
was not SO great necessity for state taxes
now as there was when his party was the
head and tail of the government. They,
of course, needed them Tor registration,
election purposes ard house rent. he tried
to produce the impression that the kepub'
lican party had built the penitentiary'
the ASYLUM, the University and the
thousands of school houses that are scat
tered over the state, and that they lett
nothing for the Democrats 10 do IN this
line, when he we'll knew that six years
ago. when the Democrats came into
power, there was hardly school district
to be found that was out of debt, aid
nearly all of them had defaulting COL
lectors. The penitentlary was but q
stockade, but one wing of tho asylum
was completed, and small building had
been put up tor an university. And
now what is the true state of affairs? The
debt of almost every district has been
paid oh, the tax tor building purposes,
with few exceptions, reduced to mere
nominal sum. A commodious peniten
tlsry:has been erected, the asylum is'ap-
preaching completion, with ample room
Tor the governor and his supporters, and
the handsome University buildings
speak for themselves.
The Governor asserted that the state
officers had been increased in number
with increased salaries, then he winked
at the $1,000 postal clerks, the innocent
whisky guager's eyes sparkled with sur
prise, the deputy collector shouted ego
on" and they all united in prolonged
howl that would have done justice to
the noble red man of the forest. After
which the assembly dispersed, not salts
lied in the main, for they had left their
homes to hear something good, great and
noble, whereas they hao been treated to
a cong lomeration Of vulgar anecdotes,
foolish expressions and unfounded asser-
tions, coupled with low appeals to the pref
udices and passions of men, seeking, as 1t
were, to revive the dying embers of the
late unhappy civil struggle and totally
devoid of those better senti.
ments that elevate mankind above
brute creation and make them
brothers and friends. We ask for bread
and they give US stones. We demand a
solution of the financial problem, and OF
the hard times, why the idle want for
work, the hungry for food, and the naked
for clothes; why our manufactures are
hushed, our furnaces idle, our enterprise
broken, and our penitentiaries filling up
with men guilty of stealing the neces.
saries of lite, while their families go 10
swell our overlooking alms-houses; and
We are told that the southern wing OF the
Democratic party were once "rebels, T."
and therefore we have no right to ask
such questions, but our only rights is the
gallows, and yet this is free America.
Great God! l would rather die on the
battle field pierced by my enemy's bay
onet than to be stoned to death by de-
grees IN time of peace by friends.
1t is human 10 err, but 1t is divine to
forgive, and there is very little divinity
let in the hardened breasts Of pretended
Christians who cannot forgive the erring