Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-08

one County ana ths DrAft-The As /
tion Of. the HOARD, OF suPerViser7S'
ReViSSgsd. M M e3f
Editors InteIligeaesr: k kE
1Wish through your columns to make
aone comuaents upon thelate eeIlon q. w ny
Board Of Supervisors in reference tome
county levy. l do not wish 10 remark up
on them censoriOusly, but IN spirit Oi
candor. ---------------
The IevyinR of q bounty for the seventy
four men Who enlisted under the imPfss-
sion that they WouldreceiVe county OOun-
I ~, was simply an set Of rigid 3ustiee 'as-e
fmanded by every principle OF honorsole
dealing, but in levying bounty toI some
two bundled and forty other men who END
listed and received the government bounty
| without promise or expectation OF eo1n=-
| " bounty, however we'll Il may SPEAK Ior
| the heads and hearts of the supervisors
was, in my humble Judgment, mistake:
j The expressed sentiment OF the meeting
4 at the Court House Wasin favor Of leYytng'
i 3 bounty to pay the Beyentyrf four men
4 who we're. entitled 70 receive u, and 20
/ provide against the impending draft. The
i instructions of the meeting had that extent
and no more, While, then, the action OF
4 the Board exceeded the INSTRUCTIONS ana
i expectations of the people, 1t failed TO pro-
Il vide for the emergency At PresenE upper
n most IN the minds Of the tax payers. II
would not have required the Supervisors
4 to levy one solitary cent more had they
Ifulflled the express wish Of the people in
Il Offering q bounty Of three hundred dollars
70, eli. ihe quota under the present call.
, lLet the figures, speak for themselves 10
Ipay the bounty OF two hundred dollars to
Il the two hundred and forty men who en-
listed between the I'd day Of March and
! the both of June requires levy for fOrtyE
eight thousand dollars, which sumnas far
as the present emergency is eonserped,
!. might es we'll be tied in . bag and SINK
in the, sea- To pay the two hundred and
! forty dmen now required bounty Of one
hundred dollars, viii require q Levy for
Twenty. four thousand dollars msking the
aggregate seVenty-tWo thousand dollars, q
sum exactly sufficient TO have given the
men Who would enlist under the present
} cali, o bounty Of three hundred dollArs.+--
) The provision for paying the volunteers
: twelve dollars q month In addition to
: his government pay would not have added
anything 70 our IaIee under the suggested
aFfanRementmore than is already provided
for by the action OF the Supervisors, while
!. coupled with q three hundred dollar boun-
ty It would have acted az q great sweep
net and brought In all the menin this and
other counties whO had the least notion Oi
d enlistinR. maintain that the action Of
4 the Board was uuWiss, in that while Il did
not lay too heavy tax upon the county
! itlfSkertheless rendered tWo-thirds Of the
ahfdeht so levied perfectly futile. H 4
10 The whole arrangement looks like an
old Congressional dodge 10 kill the main
bill by loading it with destructive amend
ments. d If such WAS the design of those
who shaped the bounty question before
the Supervisors, they failed, and have only
rendered theH county liable for forty. eight
thousand dollars, without making the peo.
! pie feel that they have received an equiya-
lent. The tWenty.four Thousand dollars
levied for the present bounty is useless,
4 utterly So unless the different townships,
by subsoriptio raise sufficient sum TO
make the bounty paid in hand TO their
quota Of enlisted men amount 70 three
hundred dollars. ga.gI Es5i.il4a - ''
Il say, unless, because other counties are
giving larger -bounties and of, course those
enlisIing will have themselves credited to
those counties until their quotas are. filled.
The Supervisors cannot plead that they
were .aetuSIed by a'spirit of economy, be.
cause, as already shown, the sum proposed
Il and actuallp levied iB sufficient to bave
paid three hundred dollars 70 every man
needed under the present call if ii had not
been burdsned with the two hundred dol
lar arrangement. ulgi ,Hui'3- o. '''N2
Thus Ohio county, which has heretofore
stood up the worthy compeer of her sisters,
is 70 be upjustly stigmatiEed as having
grown cold by Hndisturbed prosperity as
having refused the Widows mite ont Of the
hundreds Of thousands of dollars which
the necessities of the government has
thrown into her lsP, to pay the men who
may be willing to insure the centinuapcs
of the quiet she hasnenjoyed through ell
thisWar.l0gs sG1'ii lFgib tfy 7ss a.
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