Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-08
PRRsTON oo6NTY.


ship was held at PeadsVille, Preston Couu.
~, West Virginia, on Saturday, June 81,
1865, for the purpose of expressing their
views with regard to persons who have left
their homes in said township and gone into
the SO called Southern Confederacy and
takeD up arms against them and against
the Government of the States, and who
may hereafter attempt to come back and
live smOpgat them, and also to express
'heir views on other important subjects
The meeting was large and attended by a
large number of ladies. About 2 O'Clock
The meeting was organized by appointing
Capt Isaiah Kirk. president, and Henry j.
Parks secretary. A motion was then made
and carried that the president appoint a
committee of fVe,to prepare preamble
and resolutions to be presented to the
meeting; whereupop VIM. B Zinn. Rev
Mr.. Branch, Thomas Watson, RawIey
Watson, and james Read were appointed,
After the committee had retired few
minutes they returned and reported the
following preamble and resolutions, which
was unanimously adopted:
Believing, as We do, that all persons who
have voluOtarily left their homes snd gone
from amopgat us and taken up arms with
our enemies,i who have been doing all that
was in their power to destroy our lives, our
property and our country, and by their
giving aid aud comfort to theaenemy have
shown that they approved and aided in
the cruel and wretched treatment the Union
soldiers received while they were in the
hands of the enemy of their government,
which could be considered by no civilized
nation as anything else than cold blooded
and WiAul murder, nnequalIed in cruelty
and brutality in the history of the world,
By them coming beck and attempting to
live smouRst us would produce contention,
strife, ill,teeling, and perhaps bloodshed,
We have, therefore, thought 1t our duty,
In order to preserve the peace of the coun.
try. to adopt the following resolutions:
ReSotUed, That we most earnestly request
all persons who have left their homes in
Valley Township and taken up arms in
favor of the so called Southern Confeder.
aoy sgainet the Government of the, United
States never to attempt TO return to said
township, believing, as VIC do, that their
own safety and the peace Of the country
will be much promoted by their staying
away, and that their return to said town.
ship would be attended with evil conse.
quences 10 themselves.
2 That we most heartily concur with the
opiui"n * reBsed by the Attorney General
# the United States that all persons who
have voluntarily left their homes in the
loyal States and taken up arms in the
50 called Southern Coutederacy against
the Government Of the United States have
lost the right Of residence where theV for
merly lived, and have become disfrauchised
aud have no right to vote or hold any Office.
civil or military, 10 the United States, :
3. Aud be it further resolved, by the
people Of Valley township, that we feel II
to be our indispensable duty to express
our disaPprobauon of the manner The funds
Of the people, which have been set Iapart
by the legislature Of the State for the ed
ucatiOn ofthe children of the country,. have
been and arc likely to be wasted by giving
e1irayegant salaries 10 the officers con-
nected with the Free School system. u
That We are friends to the Free
School policy aud wonld be glad to see it
prosper, and answer the great ends for
which It was designed, but without a prep
er system Of economy on the part Of those
authorized by the law to control it, it must
and will go down. The people will not bear
TO see their money expended in extraya-
CANT salsries in order to enable a few ma
ooos to live In sthuenCe on the money that
ought TO have been e1peoded in the edu.
cation of the children Of the country
o. That we most sincerely believe that
the salary Oft otrhesuperinteudent of schools OF
preston county lie s1trAVRgantly high and
onRht to be reduced; this opinion Is founde d
upon the fact that webelieve that when the
'uPervisors of the county will require him
to make report showing the whole num-
Der of days 1--WE don't mean pieces of days.
that he has been eDRsged with the scboolG
OF the county, they viii find that he is get
"og too much money for what service be
renders, aud every dollar improperly ex,
pended in that w"y ts robbiug Ihe echiIdreu
! OF the country and rendering the system
unpopular With the people.
That the foregoing preamble and res.
olGtions be forwarded 10 the wheeling In.
'etti9eNeer and Mofgantown Post, with 9
request that they be published, aud tha
other loyal papers of the State be request
ed to copy.
Union Meeting IN sAampshlre County
Al a meeting Of tho cinzsns of Hamp