Year: 1876




II seems almost incredible that there
should I've one human being in the whole
land who could respond to the sentiment
expressed in these lines. The character
of Abraham Lincoln is no well known
throughout the civilized world for NIL the
kindly virtues that adorn and redeem
our human nature that it il difficult to
imagine the most intense negro hater in
the land exulting over the cruel man
ncr Of his death, And yet there are such
men and they are not all OF the vulgar
sort cither-as the case Of Hamhleton
proved.


Bnt this is moi the particular point we
set out to call attention to. We had
reference to the point made by Mr..
Schurz in regard to the irresistible pro-
pensity Of the Democracy, wherever they
gain power, to fall into the arms Of the
rebels. Itis notoriouslyso in this State,
AZ u glance at the Democratic State
ticket reveals This ticket is headed by
aman who did his best-whatever that
amounted to-to destroy this govern
ment He not only sought to destroy the
general government, but along with it The
State government Of West Virginia.
So bitter was hia hatred Of the state
ship of West Virginia that he enlisted
in movement after the war to
detach the counties Of Greenbrier and
Monroe from the State and carry them
back into old Virginia. And yet this is
the man whom the Democracy have put
forward 10 be their standard bearer and
representative in this great contest
Thrusting aside men Of Union Nntece'
dents, they found man not only
thoroughly rebel in his record, but like
wise thoroughly anti-WcsL Virginian In
his sympathies.


But this is not all. The Democracy Of
West Virginia-that is the Democratic
Icadcrs-are 80 pronounced in their rebel
proclivi.ies that they took up another
man who did his best to destroy the Gov
ernment Of the United States, and along
with it the State OF West Virginia, and
nominated him for the position now held
by their nominee for Governor. In other
words, they nominated Robert White, oil
Hampshire county as their candidate ioF
Attorney General-the man who Is to be
the law officer and counsellor OF the 9TH
or man who wanted to destroy the Gov
ernment of the United States, and
Of West Virginia, and, failing in his
attempt, afterwards wanted to carry his
portion Of our State back into the
old State. These two will be a good
match if they come into power together
tho one to interpret law and the other to
execute it. In questions affecting the
relationship Of West Virginia to the old
State, as for instance in the matter OF
the unadjustCd debt between them, we
should prefer to have adiIlerent stripe OF
officials in power.


But these two are not all the personal
illustrations that the Democracy Of West
Virginia have given us OF their very de.
cided confederate preferences. Ii We
arc correctly informed, every nominee or
their State ticket, save two, is graduate
Of the Confederate army or Of the Con-
tcderate civil service. In other words
six out Of their eight State nominees
have the necessary Confederate certificate
as to the genuieness Of their De-
mocracy. With such men as these
to rule over us in WcsE Virginia, and
With Price and Faulkner to represent us
In the United States Senate for the next
six years, and Col. BcR Wilson, Ben
Martin and John E. Kenna to represent
us in tho lower house Of Congress,
our Confederate complexion as one OF
the sovereign States Of the "solid South"