Year: 1868

Eye of newt and toe of frog,


Wing Of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind worms sting,
Lizards leg, and Owlet's wing


as is served ap for us in this so-called
message.


The Governor seems to have turned
his annual message into a sort of politi-
cal 'sewer," through which all the ac-
cumulated filth of the Executive De-
partment of the State Government is
made to pass, suffocating the people
with 1.-THE rankest compound of villain
ous smell that ever offended nostril.


Certainly, any person not acquainted
with the facts, but taking for truth
what his "High Nastiness" has said
about Barbour county, will be ready to
cry out, like the Kings son, Ferdinand,
that


-"Hell is empty.


And all the devils are here"


We feel greatly relieved to learn that
the Governor obtained his information
in regard to Barbour from such indis-
putsble authority as "the President of
the Board of Registration; and of others
of the most intelligent and respectable
citizens of the county" Now we all
know about the intelligence and respecta-
biHiy of the aforesaid President but we
would like very much to know who the
"others" are, and then doubtless their
intelligence and respectability will be pat
ent. Barrin' the Governors well-known
character for truth and yeracity, we do
L hnryAvar that thnrn
individual in the county, of any intelli-
gence or respectability whatever, who
did not condemn the Governor for
sending soldiers here just previous to
holding the October election. The OBJ
iect of the Governor in sending soldiers
here at that particular iuuctUre was ev-
ident to the minds of the most obtuse.
All intelligent men know that the act
was not only an outrage and an injury
to this county, but that it was
also an injury to this section of the
State. The Legislature, ofcourse, will,
this session, appropriate several thous
and dollars more for the purpose of
aiding immigration, but they ought
to know by this time, that the Gov
ernor's conduct towards this Sec
ton of the State has counteracted
the influence of more than hun
dred thousand dollars, and they
might as we'll appropriate the peoples
money to induce the Car of Russia to
settle among us as one of Boreman's
township registrars, as to throw il
away for purposes of immigration while
the Governor proclaims to the world in
his message that peace cannot be main
tanned in various sections of the State
without the aid of soldiers.


When the Governor says the officers
executing the registration law "were
set upon with fire arms" &c, he stulti-
ties himself by stating as true what the
President of the Board of Registration
knows to be an unmitigated lie. The
officer who started the report that he
was skot at admitted publicly in the
Court House and in the presence of the
| Board, when he was attacked in regard
to the matter, that it was lie, and
also that he was not in the Ieighbor-
hood at the time, where and when, he
was said to have been shot at.


| But why does not the Governor give
the public the benefit of the informa-
ton he received from Henson l.. Hoff,
ESQ.,? Surely the Governor is too honest
a man to conceal anything intention
ally for political purposes


Mr.. Hotf was member of the first
West Virginia Legislature-is known
and acknowledged as COED radical,
aud one of the most intelligent of that
party in this county. He wrote to
Bureman that sending soldiers here
was burning shame and an injury to
the cause,' and all other intelligent
men were of Mr.. Hoff7s opinion, and the
election proves the correctness of their
views, Tor there was falling off in the
radical vote of more than 300.


We admit there was deep feeling
entertained by a great maHy people,
when they learned that the villianous
board of registration had notified five
hundred and one of the legal rioters of
the county, to appear before them, and
prove their loyalty-that meant-satis-
fy the said board that they would not
oppose the election of "Muttou Howes"
for the House of Delegates, and upon
failure so to do their names would be
erased. Is it to be supposed that peo-
pie possessing any manhood at all,
would submit without murmur, TO
such an outrage, at the hands too, of
the most yenal tools, of most partisan
and detestible executive.


The Governor shows in his message
that he is conscious of crime in this
matter, and that too Of so infamous a
character, that like Banquos ghost, it
continually rises up to condemn him,
and like Achilles,


Consuming cares lay heavy on his mind:


In his black thoughts, revenge and slaughter


roll.


And scenes of blood rise dreadful in his soul


Radicalism is such guilty coward
that it is continually being frightened
at it's own shadow, and whenever any
of the representative Radicals pass
through an honest community they are
afraid of being assailed for some crime
Even the valiant Howes and the pom.
derous Drummond, when they passed
through Phillippi on their way to
Wheeling, concealed themselves in a
covered wagon until they got beyond
the bridge over the Valley river. Poor
fools; they are not only cowardly, but
ashamed to be seen, knowing that they
represent only four hundred out of two
thousand legal voters in this county
Do honest and upright men feel and
behave sol Had the men who e1ecut-
ed the registration law been honest il
the discharge of their duty, they never
would have felt any fear in the dis
charge of that duty. Honest and hon
orable men are not terrified at the
sight Of their own shadows, but
knaves and villains always are
By means Of oppression and tyran'
nv, men may succeed for \ time
but their own infamy is sure to defeat
them in the end. Political dema.
gogues may succeed for q while in de-
lEding the people; by base means, ny
political trickery and misrepresenta'
tion, they may succeed in retaining the
reins of government for a season, and
in this way only does A. l. Boreman re.
tain his present power; but soon the en-
lightened aud better Judgment of the
people will regain its throne, and then
Boreman and all his blood-thirsty vam'
pires willrealize indeed, that "wretched
most wretched is the fate of that man
who deserts the plain highway of coz.
science and of candour for tha dark and