The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-05-22

A Scriptural History Of the Coun.
~ Court system in West Wiz.

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q new law for the land.n
8. aye shall strictly observe that Il
not like unto the old law for that IL II
abomination unto ns.n
{. iHBht 70 shall make laws like unit
those which our fathers loved, and thei
laws Ihall ye restore unto us.n
EsGoW many Of the lawmakers, eva
fifty and six, were Of The sect Of lawyer
which are q cunning sect, and skilled b
deceive the people.
8. And many came also from the San
country which lieth in the South, ant
these are also called mossbacks.
8! And they believe in the tradition
and whisky Of the fathers,and believe no
in modern inventions.
10. Bat WOrship the County Court ant
reverence It. 81 p
IL. Aud when the chief men had a..
sembled themselves together they counsel
ed thus one with another, saying:
IL. This people clamor for something
they know not OF, and do long for thl
images that have been cast down."
10. sWe will make 4 law that will b
pleasing unto them and iair 10 look upon
bat which shall deyour their subslanc,
ruin them utterly !.
IA. "Their substance shall be wasted
and their cows and their o1en shall b,
cold by the taxgatherer,n
10. aAnd it shall come to pass in those
days that they shAll cry for relief ant
shall find none, yea, they shall long fol
the old law but Il shall not BE-"
10. "For they have laughed Us to Scorn
yea, they have eve abused the craft
whereby we get out living.o
II. IAnd this will We dove will se
up the image that was worshipped Of old
even the County Court which their faith
ers did reverence"
10. "And will say unto them: This il
your Court, and in it ye may becom,
Judges, even ye and your sons and you
brothers, and Il shall come TO pass that
they who know not the law shall be mad,
Judges thereof"
10. aAnd every man who hath a Gauss
OF ofEense against his brother shall come
before this court and shall not, as in for
mer times, give ten shekels Of silver to
the lawyer TO plead his cause but he shal
plead It himself and shall prevail.
20. "And the lawyer and the Office
holder shall starve or shall become
hewers OF wood and drawers Of water fol
US, selah."
q. aBut we will devise this matter
cunningly and 1t shall come TO pass tina
the people shall not understand the law
nor the Judges know the meaning
thereof"
%. aAnd they shall not decide the mat
tiers Justly and then will they come unto
Us and much gain will We get thereby.
%. aFor we will say unto the
court that Ia law which Is not law and w
will stir up strife among the people"
"a. And this saying pleased they who
were Of the Sang reglon,and they who wer'
Of the sect Of lawyers, and 1t was don't
even as they had said.
%, And many laws did they make
which are not written in this book bui
which were cunningly devised to deceive
the people.
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we're from the North and from the East
believed not in the things which were
done, and spake against them but the
moasbacks prevailed.
q. Now Il came to pass when the peo'
pie throughout the land knew what the
Lawmakers had done that many were
wroth thereat.
IS. And said: u We will not fall down
and worship the image which they have
set up, neither will We that itrule over
US and our children"
%. Then John, whose surname wa
Jacob, who was ruler over that land
made . decree, saying:
80. That the people should come to,
gether 10 the eighth month, and on The
22nd day Of thereof, and should say wheth'
or these should be the laws Of the land.
81. And there was much dissensior
among The people and many OF them
knew not what 10 do.
SO. Then were assembled together
many Of the leaders OF the sect which Il
called Democrats, and they counseled OIL
this matter.
SO. And some said that every mar
should do Whatsoever seemed right In bill
own eyep, but these prevailed not.
"a. But = decree was sent out that \
any Of this sect would not speak OF these
new laws that they should be cast out Of
the synagogue and should be q an un'
clean thing, yes, asa bolter among the
people.
not obey the decree nor heatken unto y.
So. But these prevailed moi, and thu
laws which the lawyers and the moss
backs had made became the law Of th'
And the image which the fathers had
voIshipped was set up and Judges were
elected Of the people, even OF they who
knew not the law.
So. But the acts Of the Judges In the
land Of Welzsl and Of the many thing
that they did, loi u,
80. And how the people had BURDEN
laid upon them which were greater thar
they could bear until they cried aloud to-
relief, behold, It will all be written II
these Chronicles.