Year: 1868

From the table of election returns
which we publish in another column,
it will be observed that it is within our
power to carry West Virginia in Octo-
Der next. How can we most success
fully accomplish this RESULT


BY work-earnest, energetic, yet call
tiOus work. BE alive, be active, not
forgetting the Scriptural injunction:
BE ye rise as q serpent, yet harmless
as a dove" WOrk-but be careful to
work with wisdom and system. Then


First. Talk to your Radical neighbor
on the deplorable condition of our
country. Make no appeals to his pas
sions, but to his judgment, his reason,
hispatriotism, to all those good qualities
which help to make valuable citizen.
Show him that he has as much interest
in the prosperity of the country, in the
reduction of tn. taxes, in the payment
of the public debt, and the preservation
of the purity of the ballot-box from the
pollution of negro-voting, as You have.
Loan kim your newspapers to read; in
vite him to accompany you to your
meetings and hear your speakers; urge
him to candidly read, hear and consider
both sides. 1t can do him no possible
harm, and he may get information in
this way which he will be thankful to
you for hereafter.


Second. Arouse your luke-war or
careless Democratic and Conservative
neighbor to the magnitude of the strug-
gle now going on. Show him the i'm.
portance of individual exertiOn upon
the part of every friend of our cause.
Every man has his influence, and it is
his duty to exert it.


Third. See that every one of yeur
neighbors is properly registered in am
pie time. Don't put this off; nor don't
depend upon any Committee to look
after it. The most efficient committee
for this and all other political pur-
pssss, is the COMMITTEE of One," COM
posed of yourself. Township, County,
and State Committees are often more
ornamental than useful; but when they
do their best it is not much in ccm-
parison to what each individual man
can do. The Township Registrars are
bound by law to register all who did
not voluntarily participate in the late
rebellion or advise and counsel others
to do so, if they apply for the purpose;
and the County Boards are compelled
to restore to the lists all names that
have heretofore been stricken off with
out trial or proper cause. See, person
ally, that your neighbers make the
proper application and assist them to
see that the officers do their whole
duty, in all cases.


Fourth. Form neighborhood and social
Clubs. Have them meet at your own
houses, these pleasant evenings. In
vite your Radical neighbors to join you
in a temperate and candid talk on the
questions to be settled at the polls.
Call to their minds the immense ex-
penses of the Government; the crush
ing weight of the taxation necessary to
meet them; the continual increase OF
the Public Debt; the impoverishment
of the fairest portion of our country by
"bayonet reconstruction the subjec.
tisA of the entire country to negrs dom.
ination by handing over to that race the
balance of political power; the pro,
scriptive legislation in our own State


which paralyzes industry, prostrates
trade, and drives from our border:
many Of our most desirable citizens
Reason with them as neighbors would
talk and reason on any important private
business transaction. Show them thai
q change of rulers cannot make the con
dition of things worse, and it is fair t.
assume that it would make them mucl
| better.


Many other ways of adding to tn
certainty of grand and glorious vic
tory in West Virginia at the next cleo