The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-01
lieutenant Governor Jacob.

The telegraph announced, few days
400 the return of Lieutenant Governor
JACOB, of Kentucky, from his DANISH
meut to to the South. His case was one
of that large class of arrests which
brought dishOnor only upon those VINO
permitted, suggested or executed them.
The intended victim is more honorable
than his opprcssor. .-,...-.
Governor JACOB was arrested at his
holm, il Kcntucky, on the nth OF last
November, by order OF General BUR-
RpIDGE. whose name deserves to be writ
ten in the history of this war along with
those OF BUTLER and HUNTER and PAINE.
Without accusation OF trial OF any sort,
Mr. JACOB was escorted by military
Guard and ON the 10Th of November,
nlaoed outside the Federal lines, and or
dered not to return during the war under
nenalty of death. He was received as
prisoner by the rebels, and permitted TO
90, Oh parole, to Richmond. There he
remained until he got all opportunity OF
sendino n letter to President LINCOLN,
which was afforded him by Mr.. PREM
r1rE's visit to Richmond. He received
nermisSion from General GRANT, on the
9Th of January, to return within the Fed
eral lines, and proceeded at once to
Washington He was Internationally
released from arrest by Mr.. LINCOLN, and
permitted to return again 10 Kentucky
and resume his duties us Lieutenant
Governor OF the State.
AS i'll the majority OF cases OF tins KIND
now Aappily dying out forever, private
ualice and resentment was the moving
cause of the arrest. There seems to be
noroom for doubt that DR. BRECKENRIDGE,
once eminent for his piety and honored
for his biblical learning, but now notori-
GUS for his political bitterness and intol-
erance, was moved by sinful revenge to
compass the arrest of Governor JACOB
II will be Il blot upon his name so long as
the history of these times is remembered
or read.
In the Louisville Democrat of last Sat
urday, Governor JACOB publishes an ac-
count of the circumstances of his arrest
aud exile and the causes which led to it,
We extract the concluding portion OF his
letter which, in its indignant denunci-
alton of the wrongs he has suffered, can
hardly,be surpassed. He says;
Many gentlemen of distinguished abil-
ity in Kentucky denounced the Presi-
dents policy as much as did, or any
one else. No one was arrested but Col
onel Wolford, Paul Shipman, of the Lou
isville Journal, General Houston and my
self Why we four! Because we were
the only ones that, in order to defend our
selves, had to denounce this apostate
priest, Dr. Breckenridge. Par mobile fro
rum! Breckenridge, Burbridgel Master,
tool. What has hot Kentucky suffered
upder their miserable rnles Violence,
nlunder-State filled with guerrillas by
their policy, Efficient only III one thing
the arrest of loyal men who will not
bow to their arbitrary sway. hundreds
were shot without trial by order of Bur
bridge We're all guilty7 God only
knows.
Imagine this petty tyrant of Kentucky.
A pink checked black haired, pretty
feliow-cheeks suffused with chronic
drunkenness "a head the shape of anot-
fashioned sugar loaf, and with the. most
nowerful microscope It would be impossi-
Bile to detect the first ray of intelligence;
under the complete controlrof inordinate