Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-23


-esponsib!e name
Barbour County Add ubtIon-The
:eeeSSityG of Redress and Preven-
So tar as We have observed 70 bill hs.
re: been reported in either House of the
Legislature emboJyiag the rscomnend.-
tions Of the GovesnsrI message touching
the arrest Of prominent disloyalists as host
ages foE the return of sucb non-comba,aut
citizens of the border COUNTIES as may be
from time TO time abducted by Irregular
predatory bands of guerrillss or secret
rebel emissaries. Ia our Judgment the
Legislature should not delay with this i'm
portant matter. The Governors recon-
mendation appeals not onlY 70 tie patriot
ism bat to the individual well-beiug Of eT-
cry loyal member Q! the Legislature. No
member Of that body has any guaranty
that he will not when opportunity ofers be
dealt with just as the loyal Sheriff of Bar
bour county has been dealt with, and Just
~ Mr.. Roberta OF KanaWha was dealt with
last year. Certainly every one of them
must see the unusual danger to which the
loyal officials and the prominent private
Union citizens Of such counties as Barbour,
Randolph, Tucker, BFaxton, Lewis, Kama
VIVA, Putnam, Cabeil aud many other coun-
ties are exposed, it be decided that they
can be carried of with impuni;y By rebel
iucursors assisted By their disloyal neigh
bOrs. Are they willing that such out
RACES shall go uuprovided against aud uu-
avenged? We cannot believe it,
1t would be grossly derelict to expose In
ion men in any such manner. And the
consequence will be that respectable,
trustworthy aud prominent loyal raen will
not assume positions of responsibility aud
exposure. If it is understood that sheriffs
can be taken from their homes 10 the dead
of night aud dragged away to the Gypsy
camps of the rebels there will be few citi
zeuT who are worthy to hold such positions
that will accept Of them. They will uatu-
rally reason that the office ia not worth the
Ve1ations Of mind, AMI the bodily danger
which they will be compelled to undergo
We are surprised that any loyal member of
the Legislature should delay or hesitate
about this grave matter. We had hoped to
see ere this most stringent bill prepared
and offered and adopted, and wo hope that
the week will not close without seeing an
act of the most liberal kind passed.
Gentlemen of the Legislature, this is no
time for half way treatment of such out
rages, They demand at your hands the
fullest redress aud prevention. Not loyal
man among your constituents bat who
will agree with us. Only rebels and pre-
tended Union men will find fault. Aud it
is useless for you to try to concilia.e such
men in such m expensive way. You
cannot afford it. You will see the result, IS
Of it. You will see your people, and es-
pecially your most Trustworthy ani loral
neople fleeing from their homes at mid
ght to escape abduction and all its suffer
IS and depradatious. Aud you will see
$50 great falling of aud decentralization
in the Union sentiment around you. Your
people, the best of them, are only human
beings, aud they cannot be expected to
work earnestly and efficiently for the cause
of the Union, when their work is sure to
expose them to secret seizure aud captivity.
We devotedly appeal to you to do some
thing in this matter. Do not let the Barbour
county outrage go unatoned for Enable
the Governor, if need We, to arrest every re-
bel in that county, and hold him and mete
out to him exactly the same treatment that
is melted out to the worthy and uuror-
tunats Sheriff. who, by their couuivance
and cooperation. was the other night sto.
len from their midst.
The Vote ON the stay.