Year: 1867




party to bring about that desirable OBJ
jject, that there are yet persons in the
South border counties who are unruly,
and rebellious, that the laws there are
violated, and the lives Of Union men
endangered, and that in consequence
of the unlawful doings of these bad
men, he was compelled, very reluctant
ly, to call on General Grant for mill
tary force to be stationed there 10 keep
the peace and see that the citizens
should be protected in the enjoyment OF
all their political and religious rights.
What hypocrisy! Who believes that
Governor Boreman wants fraternal re-
lations to exist amongst the people of
the State or countryf His every official
act proves the reverse of this, for it is
in the elements of hatred, revenge and
discord that he and his party live, move
and have their being. Give the country
peace, let the people have time for a
! few calm moments of retaetion, and
such men as A. /. Boreman and his party
would 90 down into depths of infamy
never to be resurrected, and only re-
membered to be despised and hated as
dreadful pestilence, that once swept
athwart the country, and like the ST.
moon of the desert, blighted all our
fair prospects as a nation. Away out
in Greenbrier and Monroe this keen
eyed and sagaciOus Governor of ours
can see and take cognizance OF every
infraction of the laws, for it Is there
that his OK is gored, 4 but down herein
Marshall. right under his eye, a county
in which he once lived, organized mobs
can be gotten up by the leading men of
his party, and acts of violence perpe-
trated by them such as would disgrace
HottentOts. For instance, houses of
peaceable citizens were forcibly enter
ed, and females rudely treated, men
who had served with honor i'll the war
of 1912, and the late civil war, insulted
and forced to fly from the place of
voting, the undertaken with his hearSe
on his way to bury the dead was
pelted with stones and his life seriously
endangered, and this infuriated banditti
of the Governors party actually walk
ed the streets of Moundsville at noon
day, putting at defiance all law, both
human and divine, threatening death to
any and all who would not vote the
radical ticket. All this occurred last
Nav, OH election day, and yet with 4
full knowledge of the facts above mar
rated, and no attempt Oh his part to
suppress these mObs, whose conduct was
disgrace to any age or country, he has
the assurance to tell the people that he
very earnestly desires that peace and
harmony should prevail amongst them.
The garb of deception does not cover or
hide the Governors selfish motives any
longer. The people now see him in his
true character, and would advise him
that when he writes his next mes
sage to talk about anything else
but eace-making, for with all his
sophistry he cannot convince the people
that he wants any such thing; but rath-
er tell them that he is an advocate for
negro suffrage, negro equality, and that
the negro shonld be fed, clothed and
educated at the expense of the laboring
white man, and then the people would
believe him sincere, for it is the con-
summation of this most grievOus outrage
upon the interests and honor oi the
white laboring classes that he and his
party are now putting i'll peril the very
existence of the nation to accomplish.
While speaking of this mob of the Gov
ernor's party, it might not be amss for
me to say here, Mr.. Editor, that the
sheriff, the prosecuting attorney, the
cii nit Judge and State Senator,
all citizens of this county, were
eye witnesses of the outrageous conduct
of these bad men; and yet it was suffer-
ed to 90 on in all its hellish fury for
two whole days, and when the injured
parties asked for protection at the hands
of the Court, Judge Caldwell actually
made mean, low-hung political speech
to the grand jury, abusing the DEMO
cratic party and arousing the prejudices
of the jury, all of whom were Radicals,
against their political opponents, and
the whole of his harangue was to the ef-
feet that 10 punishment should he in-
flicted upon any one that would kill or
abuse Copperhead or Democrat.


MARSHALL.