Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-11-01

OF West Virginia. even In the northwest
crn section Of the State. were southsr-,
men AT heart. And the shameless traitors
to their State and their brethren had good
men seat to Camp Chase and there i'm
pfisoned, and even held the wives OF sucn
men 20 be participants In what III ,se
cattle called treason No known "rebir'
could vote or hold Office whilst this con-
ditIon OF things lasted. The inability Of
the southern sympathizers TO take the
iron-clad oath kept them out OF Office a'It
caused the Offices 10 be occupied mot
hlled) by the enemies OF old Virginia.
Such men as Judge Hayward, Judge
Woods and Judge Green returned to their
home in West Virginia In 1866 TO find that
they would not be allowed to practice
their profession In that State. These three
men we name as showing what sort we're
prosecuted and prescribed by Mr.. Bral-
ley's friends from 1861 TO 1855. These three
men all became judges OF the Supreme
Court OF Appeals OF West Virginia when
the south once more got into the saddle
In that State; but no thanks 20 the ai1ers
and abettors in the work OF worrying the
southern people and treating natve-0oin
Virginians as aliens and out-casts because,
in war as in peace. they stood by Their
old mother
IL the people OF Augusta county had
before them copies OF the Infamous seques-
tration laws and disabling Laws and other
proscriptive laws which were passed by
the bogus Legislature OF the bogus State
OF West Virginia they would never think
OF electing one OF that gang OF ignoble
sons Of noble slres 20 represent that
county in the Legislature OF Virginia.
West Virgnia's true sons would ask you
not to do 1t.
Let us not be misunderstood. We blame
no northern man for having been Union
man. Such men saved the Union from
disruption. But we hold that 10 save the
Union is one thing and TO be a party 10
the division OF Virginia Is another thing.
Especially do we hold that the men who
prosecuted the southern saints in West
Virginia committed q sin which should for
ever bar them out OF the favor Of all
true Virginians.
1t may be that Mr. BoGlcy Is a Pennsyl-
vanian by birth or that he was not guilty
of participating in the wrongs to which
we have called the attention OF the people
Of Augusta If 80. we shall OF course not
Insist upon CHASING him with the un-
worthy West Virginians whose shortcom-
ings or rather crimes. are the subject OF
this article.
But we did not set out with the inten-
tion OF saying what we have said. We
intended merely to ask why Augusta
county should. as Lord Dundreary says,
flock by herself? Her Prohibitionist
members OF the Legislature would enter
the caucus OF neither the Republican
nor the Democratic party. They would
have no influence in shaping the important
work Of the General Assembly. They
would elect no judge. Not even in the
choice OF her nominees for judges would
Augusta have any part. seeing that all
these will be nominated I'm caucus.
How Will Augustus Prohibitionist candi-
dates stand affected on election day as
between the Democratic and the Populist
candidates for the State offices? They
pretend to have candidates OF their own;
but II is only a pretence. In the absence
OF nominal candidates the Prohbitonists
would have to choose as between the
Democratic and the Populist candidates.
SO they "Ict on as II they were in dead
earnest in supporting their nominees.
But they have no hope Of success-not the
least hope-and ought to be compelled to
SHOW their hands" They are either for
O'Ferrall or for Cooke.
Let Augusta county do her duty. We
are confident that she will. That noble
old county will never desert the flag Of
the Democracy.