Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-27
PubItShed BY 'Request.l
WHRELING. March. In lRs:
ge Q. l6tuTglss, MorgantOlVn, ia,

0i1Sl y uS
DEAR; SlR:-At the time you made ap.
plicationlto mefor an appointment as Dep
.nty Marshal of the United States for YOUR
County, you came recommended by many
loyal men of yourstown aud It's, Vicinity as
a gentleman who unfliuchingly stood bv
by the Government which yon appeared
anxious to serve, and it,afforded me pleas
ure to confer such power and authority as
is vested in Marshal. fully believing that
n 1llconsulted the best interests oF.the Coun-
~ In selecting you, one among other ap-
ipllcants, for that important position.-
Since l have bad the honor 10 hold the
position of U. S. Marshal it has been NV
study, without respect to the political bias
ofthe applicant, to appoint as my assist
ants such gentlemen only as felt cOnfi-
dent could be relied on in every contiu-
gency, and such only as felt assured
would stand by. thegovernmept and exc
cute its laws, if all other men in West Yir.
ginia should assail and desertfit. lam
pained to believe from representations
made to me, that in your case I5have been
deceived; rs am credibly informed that
not oplS in your conversation, but in your
Journal, you assail almost, ii not quite, all
the measures deemed important by the Adj
minlstratlou to crush this accursed rebel.
lion; and that you have come to sympa-
.thiZe, associate with, and encourage those,
who it they had the power, would stop the
wheels of the government, by Withholding
from it, both men and, means, aud place
West Virginia, aud the whole couatry. at
the mercy, and under the controiSo OF the
'despots who have plnnged the Nation in all.
abe horrors o fntefnecfne and tratricidaI
swar-a war which is desolatings our once
happy country aud which you cannot fail
to know, is waged for division of the
Nation, and the overthrow of the liberties
and rights of the more humble, liberties
SO richly hitherto enjoyed in com.
mon by all classes of American citi.
zens.r If the representation made
to me as to 20 ur hostility to the measures
proposed by the Government as necessary
to defend and maintain those sacred rights
and liberties inviolable for all iLs citizens
against a conspiracy for their overthrow,
are true, and ] have no reason to doubt
them, your position as a Deputy Marshal
lie incompatible with your opinion and
efforts in oppositioD, and it can scarcely
be expected of you that yoH will
labor to execute laws obnoxious to you,
with devotion so necessary to our couu-
try's salvation ut this trying crisis as de-
mand, and as all loyal men expect from,
From these considerations, and further be-
cause / am determined SO far as am an
actor stoyimpart no intluence norscousider-
atioh1to5any one e!by means of office, who
seeks to makeause ofhit,to drag my neigh
Dor, myself. and our, children under the
heelofthe tytants of Eastern Virginia, who
manifest by their every act that.iE we are.
even replaced that they mean to vent their
utmost malice upon those who have had
tue manlihess to seek the separation Of the
State or haveas patriots only can, stood by
the peoples government, both State and
.Federal5 through evil and good report de.
termipsd at every cost to preserve the
priceless inheritance procured for US by
the bloodand toll of our tathers, aud at the
instance of those whose influence procured
you the place, Itdeem itmyfmpetious duty
to- inform you that you are no longer a
deputy MARSHALL of the United States.
sis ui Respectfully Yours, tiE
u ~. ~, 'e' z21n,s +. N. HoRToN.
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