The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-09-04

tOi them, who did that cheering,
men who knew through what storms
of blood and dangers Of death q
man must pass 70 make a record
like that; and they honored the
brave man who had fought against
them, and who was not ashamed for
them, his former enemies, to exam
inc his record. And when those
men heard the man who had denied
them their votes when they return
ed. to their birth place after the war,
get up and denounce,a soldier for be-
ing a Union soldier and good one,
they felt no sympathy with Brown.
And there were Union soldiers
there; men who had worn the blue
through the war and would carry
their scars through lifs-and they
too knew that that record did not
mean that Captain Hassler was q
Republican, but that ne was a sol.
der who had distinguished himself
in the same army in which they
had fought. They knew that the
gallant and neritorious services in
front Of Petersburg" for which Hass.
Ter had won his breyet, did not mean
political services. And these men
were astounded when Brown got mp
and attacked Hassler for having been
a Union soldier.
Yet that is what he did, and all
the denials and denunciations he
ma make cannot, wipe out the re-
cord Of that terrific outbIrst Of villifi-
cation and abuse. II was not only
an attack on the soldiers before him,
or upon the Union soldiers, but upon
all soldiers worthy Of the name.
There never was a good soldier yet
but who admired a good soldier,
though he was his enemy; or who
would take from him one leaf Of the
laurels chad won in honorable war.
And now, all over this country, flow
ers are laid upon the graves Of Fed
eral dead by Confederate soldier, and
the last resting place Of brave men
who wore the gray is holy ground to
brave men who battledin the blue.
If there was any Of this feeling in
Browns closing speech we failed to
catch it.
We regarded it, and no one could
help regarding it, as u brutal assault
upon a soldier and his cause, made
by politician beside himself with
rage and chagriu. If his language
did not justify this, we will withdraw
the charge, We have heard copper
head" speeches in the North during
the war, and rebel speeches in the
South during and after the war, and
have heard the most rrenzied appeals
of "bloody shirt" Republican speak
crs-but we never heard tho soldiers
Of either army abused by any one
like Brown abused them inhis speech
at Ripley on the 9Th day of August,
thirteen years after the war had clos
ed. Wencver heard the Union army
denounced by any speaker as the
"lawlcss rabblc Of the east, yam
kee regiments of bullies and thieves
invading our milk houses and meat
houses" "the scum and lice and filth
of New York invading the sacred
suil," &c. But Brown did this, and
for what? For votesl Stirred upthe
passions of the war, that had been
slumbefing for u dozen years, in
hopes that he might induce some
Confederate to vote for him. In this
a correct report? Is it better than
the other one?
1t is this record that Brown is
afraid of. He made it himself, and
he shall stand by it. If he did not
make it, there are five hundred men
who know that he did not, and our
word for it will, be of no use. But
we say, in the presence Of these five
hundred men, that he did make this
record, and more; that every word of
that report was tru:, as is every one
of this.
We know the kind of a report
Brown would like to have seen in
this paper, and that report would
not have been true. The one pub
lished was. That is all the differ
ence it makes to usand to Mr.. Brown.
There is no doubt that the entire
Democratic ticket will be elected IN
old Mason.
Those Democrats who are going
into the third party HpSement, are
only doing themselves an 3hjpry.
We predict that:not a third party:
candidate in the United States will
be elected to Congress, tins fall,
whoop.hsrup for our candidates,
during the Fair rs,4s.-a a.
The democracy is on the record in
hostility to every measure tending to
destroy the power of the masses and
hlbild up a money dcspotism, and is
equal to every emergency, to secure
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