Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-03-04
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SHINNsToN, VA, Feb. %, 1851

SHINNsToN, VA, Feb. %, 1859.
Messys Editors This community has been,
for long time past, infested with lawless
set of ignorant Migrants who have been great
cause of annoyance, and, indeed, of alarm, to the
respectable and worthy portion OF the people.
A few have continually cried out against them,
while others, who are timid, conniveRt their
misdoings This horde Of ruttians, for years past,
and ut present, are headed ana led on by man
named jackson Everson, who has Lcen declared
an outlaw by our Courts of Justice. He, with
his clan of uutaught unCivilized creatures, have
rendered the of this part of Harrison
County, odous and infamous abroad. No won
der, indeed, for neither life nor property is safe
here, and the immediate prospects of the coun-
try are blighted by the influences Of this band
of miserable wrctches.
The inquiry might be made, why they are
tolerated? Why the pOople do not raise up en-
! Eaasse, and drive them out of the countryI-
| In answer to the inquiry, can only say, that
| for several years, warrants have been out con-
| tinually against EverSon, and the people were
disposed to let the law have its own course,
hoping that, with the taking of Everson, the
others would diSband, and that law and order
would again be restored. But, one development
after another opened the eyes of the people tn
the astounding fact, that tue officers entrusted
with the issuing and execution OF the process OF
law, are corrupted and SO far failed to discharge
| their duties that this execrabls outlaw has been
roaming amongst us in safety.
| 1t is an indisputable fact, that intelligence is
! conveyed to Everson of the issuing OF the war
rant before it reaches the hands of the officers
| and beyond all doubt, Some one who Is intimate
with the Clerks Office at Fairnont, has repeat
eddy been guilty of the act, and thus his friends
arc always appraised when TO be ON the look out
for an officer, and so vigilant are they, that no
man, known TO be officer of the peace, can
approach Shinnston, or vicinity, either by
day or night without notice being given to
Eyerson.
This state of things became inlolerable, and
the citizens determined to make the arrest
Accordingly some time since, several citizens APP
preached and entered n dOggery where EyersOn
has been harboring, with the Intention of taking
him, but unfortunately he was not then in the
ROOM and before hands could be laid on him he
was appraised of his danger, and he made his
escape on horseback. Since that time he
has been absent from the place, and his friends,
the most abandoned and depraved beings, haye
threatened the lives and to burn the property of
those, who, as high.minded and honorable
men, were attempting to enforce the laws
land for the protection of their property and
the suppression of msdemeanorS nightly enact
ed here, the respectable portion Of the citizens
organized might watch which has been an
awful nuisance the night narauding ruttians
who the night Of the - OF this month,
assaulted one Of the watch with rocks, but were
put TO flight 10y few shots from q revOlver.-
for the arrest of the person who fired on them
lin selfdcfence. They have syInpathizer in
| Clarksburg, in the person of the contemplate
Editor of the CldrksJurg Register, who has, in
n late number of his paper, condemned the
course of the citizens upon the information given
him by few of those ruftians whose oaths are
mockeries. and charged the disturbances in our
community to party prejudices."
Some of our peacc-loving and law-abIdlng
citizens in the county, who are Democrats, have
been imposed upon by this false pretcxt Some
of the most respectable and intelligent members
of the Democratic party are taking active steps in
the proceedings ofthe citizens of this place. They
! know tits not party feeling that has given rise
to these disturbances and that our iissentiOns
and troubles here have all been caused by class
of persons who call themselves Democrats, but
! who, in fact, have not intelligence enough to
classify them with any political party, and who
seem to have made it the sole object of their
| lives to subvert law, order and decency.
We invite persons of all parties, who are res
! pectable and worthy, TO unite with us, and en-
deavor to restore this county to tranquility,
industry and sobriety 'f
We object to no mans politics, but we do
object to mans character, if it's a bad one,
and it is duty we owe to God, and to our laws,
to soon evil.doers, and to bring them to justice
We want it distinctly understood that we modest
no person whatever; but we do intend 10 defend
ourselves and property at all haZprds. people
had better be visited with Earthquakes and
famine than contend with the "powcrs that be-
! at ClaIkSburg.
We have come to the conclusion here to make
one desperate effort to renovate things this
Spring, and il we fail we intend to pull up stakes
and leave for some place where it is not penal
offence to teach children to read.
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