Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-05-08

FSAASf ElAONASASAS aNA eu6At sLlG he0H
Government "for the sequestration of th,
estates, property aud effects of alien enc
emtes, and for the indemnity of citizens o
the Confederate States and persons aidip,
the same in the existing war against thl
United States, passed on the sOth of Au
gust, 1884," and published by the Rebe
Attorney General on the 18th of September
of the same year. Let us see Who wsy.
subject to its prOvisions:
"1:a All citizens of the United States
except residents of Delaware, Maryland
Kentucky or Missouri, or the District OF
Columbia, or the Territories of New Mex.
ico, Arizona, or the Indian Territory south
I'of Kansal.
"2. All persons who have domici
within the States with which this Govern
ment is at war, no matter If they he oiti.
zens or not. Thus the subjects of Great
l-Britatu, France, or other neutral nations
who have domicil, or are carrying on
business or traffic within the States at wal
with this Confsderacy, are alien enemies
under the law.
3. All such citizens or residents of the
States of Delaware, Maryland. Kentucky
or Missouri, and of the Territories of New
Mexico, Arizona, and of the Indian Ter
ritory south of Kansas, and of the District
OF Columbia, as shall commit actual hos,
tility against the Confederate States, or aid
or abet the United States in the war against
the Confederate States"
Well, under this law, the robbers who
took for their file leader Floyd, have done
thriving business. Receivers were
appointed, and, from what revelations have
occasionally come up from the region
cursed by their rule, very little has escaped
the eyes of these human vultures. They
appear to have swept into their remorseless
grasp everything that could by any means,
any inquisitiou, be reached; and their
plunder squandered in career of blood
shed and murder, they are beggared for all
that. That they have been active enough
is proved by the manner iu which they
have proceeded, the character of the per-
sons, and the property assailed. The Lou
isYille Journal some time since copied from
the Mobile Register, of February l4th, a
portion of an advertisement, two columns
long, of (" sales under and by virtue of de-
crees of sequestration, j" in the case of athe
Confederate States against the following
named alien enemies"
81. Hunt Adams, Adon Smith. william
Wyatt, Samuel E. Gilbert, VIM. Lawrence.
D. w. Tomliuson, ]. E. Sheffield, heirs of
Hardman Dewess, Isaac Bell, Jr., Eben-
ezer F. Gazzam, Augustus and Alexander
Steller, heirs of John W, StelIer, Alvin
Pealei Elihu Day, James L. Day, as guar
dian for the children of Charles Reynolds,
Henry Bright, Charles Poultney, Jesse D.
Price, Stephen Colwell, as executor
of the last will and testament of
Samuel Richards, John E. Gardner,
James Barnes, Addison Gage, Allen Good
,eu, Josiah IngersolI, Reuben Post, r, G.
Cracheron, 7. o. IuRersoll, John B. Kirk
patrick, Sophia A. Kirkpatrick, G. d. Iu-
gersoll, Noah j. Cateline aud Ephraim
Caterline's heirs. to wit: Noah j. Cater
line, Mahala Griffith, Merrilla Hoods, Sarah
Jane Smith, Rebecca Scots, Mary Shin,
Layiala Douglas, and the heirs of Joana
Trabue; Lewis Hunt, as trustee Of Susan
L.. Lunt; : certain heirs of Lawrence HILL.
to wit: Siloom Won Selingus, jerome L.
Hill, Stephen T. Hill, and George Hint,
certain heirs of Jane Ann Suder, viz: Ar
thur 7. Butler, Martha s. Bullock, Eliza
beth NJ. Jones, and r. D. Hopkins Joshua
Bragdad; Matilda Bull, executrix of vii.
liam G. Bull, deceased, James l.. Day, John
Gnnnry, Israel Sheldon, ]. D. DePeyster
ogden.p
Thereader has glanced over the forego-
ing list and marked how sadly suggestive
it is of merciless tyranny, of graspipg
greed for plumber, which could spare not
even the estates of orphans ia the hands
of guardians, where the plunder was need
ed to prop up little while longer the
detestable despotism inaugurated by JEFF
ferson Davis, and welded in part by that
conglomerate of all that illustrates crimi.
nal covetousness aud reckless disregard of
property and life-Judah P. Bepjamin.-
When we learn-further- the "prop-
erty consists of church-pews, negroes,
banks, insurance and other stocks, and
real estate" that the decree operates
against ''trustees of beneficiary bequssts,
executors and administrator, tOomsa and
heirs at law, 2 the utter infamy and cruelty
ofthe thing is made plain to all, and ought
forever to hermetcally seal the mouths of
every traitor, or sympathizer with traitors
here, hitherto tolerated in his abuse of the
National Government.
Looking to the action of the Confederate
LEADERS, aud to the fact that they are en-
dorsed in all their length and breadth by
certain people on this side of the lines ;
considering that after. the exhibit which
two years has furnished of proof that their
admirers here cling to them, sanction their
policy and applaud their misdeeds, what
more just than they should be compelled
to associate with them live under the rule
of those whose policy they Affect to admireP
Is it NOT high time that traitors, all along
the border especially, should "go to their