The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-19

truih OF my arSuueut' Tou'u ioioi
YOU to the time when the bold Saxons
wrenched from their pusillsnimous ruler
at Runnymede, that most powerful
guarantee of the peoples liberty.
The provisions CT Magma Cnarta ought
to be craven on the heart of every lover
of liberty. We brought the corner
stone of our Republican government from
Runnymede. Hallam says that from there
dated the inception of liberty in England.
All, both rich and poor, noble and peas
ant, were smensble 10 the law, and this
is essential to practical liberty. All Eng
land must protect the Englishman where
ever he goes, against the expressions OF
petty rulers. But reverting to
OUR OWN COUNTRY,
VIVA. mean our riots; our bank failures;
mobs breaking into our prisons and TAX
ing the law by violence in their own
hst DIS; our losthsome bands OF masked
mobs breaking into peaceful dwellings;
our stuffed ballot boxes; our mobs at cleo
tions armed and equipped for their
nefarious warfare; our oath-bound socie-
ties, sworn to oppose the laws OF society,
such as the Molly Msguires; and our
labor strikes, striking at the right OF the
peacesble to labor al willH
What mean our tsrdy Judicial pro-
ceedings and the acquittal OF SO many
known criminals?
All this is the outgrow.n OF growing
public insensibility to crime and disre-
gard of law. 1t is not enough to say that
it is the natural consequent OF 8 civil
war, but we must endeavor to find u
remedy for the mslsdy.
We want a free suffrage unintlni-
dated, uatrsmmeled suffrage, which is rs
absolutely necessary to the body polite
as blood to the body physical.
All the power of law and public senti-
lnent must be brought to bear against
this growing evil. There must be no
compromise with the criminals who thus
strike 1T the root of our government.
Lleuency to them is treason TO the State.
Applause.
In regard to strikers, if we take our
sympathies as our guide, we may be re-
luctsnt 10 condemn, but they derrogate
the law and must be condemned.
The rights of labor must be protected,
but that is accomplished only by the su.
premacy of the law. In ell conflicts the
poor are the 10 ers. Legal reform is the
work of profound and honest statesman
snip, and not of riots. The ballot is the
lawful weapon, and mightier than the
bludgeon and the torch.
Another crime l must notice, crime
of the deepest dye, whose losthsome odor
is permestIng our whole country, and
that is
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION,
which is seeking to lsy violent hands on
the fair escutcheon of our country. Can
Republicanism not overcome this evil,
and re-estsblish honor and justice2
Never can 1t revive while this evil sur.
wives. Honor is chsste goddess.
Even West Virginia is not tree from
corruption. When she applied for al
mission to the Union it was with the ex.
press understanding that she should pay
her proportion of the old Virginia debt,
but not one cent OF il has ever been paid.
Young men, see to it that the honor OF
the State be redeemed.
Our common schools and UNIVERSITIES
are the power which will restore the
spirit of patriotism to our State and ln-
.use love of justice into every commu
nifty Applause.
Punishment should always be swift as
well as certain. Our grand juries should
be prompt in the execution OF their duti, 5.
Jefferson truly said, eternal vigi-
lance is the price OF liberty" Laws, 10
command cheerful obedience, must be
so framed rs 20 appeal to the reason OF
their subjects. Bacon has said in his
quaint way that government, in order to
30 successful, must above ali things OBJ.
serve policy in order that money
be not kept boarded but
circdlsted; for money is like muck, not
good unless it is spread.
Universal popular education is neces-
ssry to the supremacy OF law. This
would give our people better idea OF
the law than is evinced by the acts OF
our former State representatives.. Our
codes resemble the "Witches' Cauldron"
in Macbeth
"Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye OF newt, and toe OF frog,
Wool OF bat, and tongue OF dog,
Adder's IoTk, and blind worms sting,
Lizards leg, and owlets wing,
For charm of powerful trouble,
Like hell OF broth, boil and BUBBLE.
Prolonged applause
Laws must always derive much o!
their power from the dignity and order
with which they are administered. Party
platforms and Presidential csmpaign;
will never accomplish the necessary re
form in public sentiment. This can
come only by well educated people and
the surgery of the ballot. Well may We
say with Cicero. 80 tempora, o mores y
tor certainly our manners need improve
ment. Burke regards manners as most
important In the life OF n nstioL.
De Toquevill compliments the Uaited
States py saying that the manners OF
the United States are such rs render i
the only nation capable OF maintaining
Democratic government" Manners
depend on education. There Is Il crest
evil arising In our country from
the great variety, the heterogeneousness
of people OF all races. religions
characters and conditions. How shal
these heterogeneou elements be recon
ciled? Washington, in his time, men
toned a National University Gs moSn:
OF rendering our people more homoge'
neous. He mentioned also, in his will
the evil influence OF sending young men
OF America to England to be educated
where they would imbibe ideas inimics
to free institutions. But now, in many
of our schools we acknowledge no rival
in our industrial and mechanical schools
no superior, and is it not time that We
should throw oil our literary vsssslsge &c
Eurooe2
Here is gentle challenge to your pa
triutism, Young men. In fifty yesrs We
will have one hundred millions of Eng
hsh speaking people in our country
Have we not perfect freedom of spcect
and pressH We have books of AL kinds
We have beauties of nstuIe surprising
ancient Greece, whose literature reflects
the rocks and fields, the woods snt
mountains the flowing brooks, the spark