The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-16
A Card from an ohio county soldier.
~ VALLEY GROVE, Ohio Co..,
Sent. II, 1863

), =. VALLEY GROVE, Ohio Co..,
Sept. II, 1865. J
EDITORS IntelIigencer
One or two circumstances of recent
date have impressed me, and am de
strous to say few words through your
columns.
Onthe4 th of July, dinner was given
i'll Finley's Grove to the returned sol
diery. AFTER. dinner some persons were
ordered of the grounds because they
still held principles inimical to the well
fare of our country and its institutions.
At the table these persons crowded in,
and many. of those whom il was in
tended to honor were forced away.
Wishing to iniure no ones feelings,
they quietly retired. Although there
We're three settings of the table, many
found not room. The "braye" are noted
for their modesty, and did not "Shove
in" Nictunls and Vinnds Were in end
less prOfusion, and all We're filled to
complete safety. But the CALLING idea
of being all but trampled upon, in
their Voracious scramble, by men who,
I while we We're risSiug all to obtain for
; themselves, and us, country and
peaceful future-wished us to fail, and
what not in the way of evil, &c, &c.
"HOu know too we'll the story of our
wrongs" And to sum up all, called us
I ID AbolitiOniSts, an epithct to their
minds implying every crime and mean
ness under the sun. And now-I for
bear; would they could appreciate II
few plain words.
y few evenings since, John Knote
stopped at one of our pleasant country
I retreats, where those tired of city life
come to spend few days or weeks.
AS he sat i'll the door, noted by many u
pasSer-by, and wiped the sweat from
his brow with ull the nonchulnnce of
one who is entitled 10 the rights" &c,
his connection with the past was
thought over.
There were also those who had passed
through the streets of Richmond ms
prisoners, while John Knote stood in
the door grinning at their condition.
His stay Was not long. He was Or
dered away by, know not who. He
/ went to Wheeling; it is shame that
he can remain there, and have a proba-
bility of getting back his property.
He len a good home to fight against
the very country that was protecting his
family in his absence; to aid a conspi-
racy more damnnble than Catalina OF
4 Guy F;wks ever aided, because against
II country under which he had acquired
wealth and every blessing man could
ask.
Not six months ago, the writer of this
With many others, and this knote were
I not six miles apart. He was doing all
his cowardly nature would let him, tC
ma for us graves around Richmond.
Z We appeal to the sense of the commu.
nifty. Is it not hard to have such meu
live in our immediate presence; who
have tried to cut our throats, and with
ours, our countryis? We will not toll.
crate mob law, but if they must Iiyelei
il be with the brand upon them, W.
cannot trust them. They have broken
oaths the most sacred. AT Richmond
they passed laws to take our property
from us: They not only stole from oul
Government, but stole away, and now
would steal back again.
The lenity of our Government saves
them. Its people love order, but in
gratitude to our honored dead, muir,
dered, starved and tortured by the aid
and appreciation of such men as John
knote-and in sympathy with Their
widowed, orphaned and Impoverished
families, I conjure our fellow-citizens
not TO lightly regard the return of such
men,-not to take them by the hand
not to countenHnce them mt all. Drive
them out by your frowns-causc them
( to make their abode with strangers, and
let their places here be filled by those
not known to us in former times. Let
las have misguided men from the South
for our quOta-men for whom there is
the partial excuse of birth and educa-
ton, and not men like John KnOte and
others who have no such excuse.
] AN OHIO COUNTY SOLDIER.