Year: 1867

There is an old Roman adage handed
down to us through Latin literature,
care sigpat0s, "beware of marked men" !"
In proportion to their ability and prom
inence for evil are they ever to be the
more Stunned by those among whom
they move. Why it should be so that
theyhre evil in their actions through
life is not much TO the point as against
the fact itself that ia at least large
majority of cases they are a curse and a
nuisance to the community which they
disgrace; but we suppose it arises in
great part from peculiar habits formed
10y associating continually with those
who sympathise with their apparent
misfortune. From early youth to old
age they are accustomed to have their
own way far more than those who can
stand upright among their fellowmen,
and this begets an unusual arrogance
and impatience of restraint. Again the
fact that no one will lay violent hands
upon cripple gives such people impuni-
ty for all the diabolism which naturally
arises in the mind of him who through
intrmity is brought to brood over dis
parity which distinguishes him from all
around who are created in the form and
image of their maker. A bitter, malici-
Gus and morbid spirit of evil possesses
them. 1t runs riot without check or
restraint, until they grow into internal
or external warfare with all who
appear in their distorted vision
to stand in their path. Had they
perfect forms, limbs and mem
bers their overbearing arrogance
would be cured by suffering the usual
penalties of experience long before the
attainment of manhood. But the GUS
toms and sympathies of society prevent
the inculcatiOn of those sharp lessons of
experience received by Others. Gradu-
ally but surely the milk of human kind
ness dries up at the fountains within;
the principles of justice, gratitude, and
all the gentler attributes which form
the gentleman are swallowed up by the
stormy passions of vindictive selfish
ness and the grovelling spite of mean
and narrow mind, until they give them
selves up utterly to the promptings of
Satan and the tiends of hell.


Shakespeare, who never fails to reason
ont natures peculiaritics i'll men, thus
makes the point clear in the words of
Gloucester, afterwards the bloody King
Richard Ill.


II that am curtailed of this fair proportion,


Cheated of feature by assembling nature.


Deformed, unfinished, sent before nv time


Into this breathing world scarce half made up,


And that so lamely and unfashionably,


That the dogs bark at me, as l halt by them;


Why 1, in this weak piping time of peace,


Have no delight to pass away the time,


ITulaSS IN IN shadow in the


And descant Oh mine own defOrmity;


And thcretOre-Since cannot prove lover


To entertain these fair wellsp0ken days


l am determined to prove villain,


And hate the idle pleasures OF these days.


Plots have Land. inductions dangerous,


BY drunken prOphesies, libels and dreams


To set my brother Clarence and the King


In deadly hate one against the other"


What history records and poets have
sung, the characters in romance and in
real every day life have confirmed until
the Roman adage has been re-enacted
and modernized, and we have hcen
taught to "beware of marked men,


The editor of the Wheeling REGISTER
is we'll known as belonging to the cate
CORY of marked men. He is one of the
world club foot and who are not in the
least backward i'll allowing it to ''stick
OUT We first heard of him in public
career, rs a slasher for the columns of
the Clarksburg Conservative. In that
comparatively limited field the vim
which no manifested in sustaining the
rebel cause and besmearing with vile
personalities every Union man with
whom lie came into contact, called him
into the notice of party who in bolst-
ering up "lost cause" which being
conceived in tho iniquity of prostitu-
tiCn and begotten by the devil, are
obliged to bring themselves to the sur
face by dragging down good and true
men to their own demon level. Thus in
the capacity of scum on the filthy pool
of secession came this pitiful specimen
of unmade manhood to the surface. He
attracted the attention of the soreheads
of the rebellion by the boldncss and
vindictive character of bis personal as
saults upon Union officials throughout
the State. Having become welded to
the damnable cause of the most damn
able of all rebellions, and fully enlisted
under the banner of its natural par
ent, the father of lies, the artii-
lery he employed in every attack
was uniformly charged with the most
unmitigated of lies for the creation and
ingenious application of which his nat
ural and acquired venom and vicious
habits of thought fitted him in Il pecu-
liar degree. He was marked man,
and for the dark deeds of the modern
democracy he became q shining mark
in the cess pool of their dirty designs
upon the country, and especially upon
the new State of West Virginia. His
ability to defame the honor and to steal
the good name of his fellow-men at
length secured him wider field, and he
was called to the Capital of the State,
and there hired to illuminate filthy and
lying ISLANDERS upon the Governor and
oil other Union officers of the peoples
choice.


Thus is FOREMAN justified. 1t is a
worthy defence of that eminent Chris
tian, and could hardly have been i'm
proved, if, instead of inspiring it, he
had written it. We leave our readers
to select particular gems. Our admira-
tion is expressed in the aggregate,
when we give 1t the beneht OF re-
spectacle circulation. We are sorry
that we have not the name of the per-
son 10 whom was confded the heroic
duty of its composition. Author and
article should be embalmed together.
Especially should the writer be distin-
guished for his success in proving that
because an All-WiSe Providence has
visited upon au humble well-wisher of
our State. and people, severe and
hopeless affliction, therefore ARTHUR l.
FOREMAN, Governor of West Virginia,
is unquestionably pure, patriotic and
perfect.


From the New York World.l


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