The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-19
Our Correspondence.
pARDoUR COUNTY.
PHILIpPA, Oct. 18th, 1866
Editors I,lteliigencer.

Editors I1ItettigeMcer aa..
The largest and most enthusiastic
mass meeting of the caihpaign in our
county, was held on the 18th inst. Gen,
L. NJ. Harris, Hon. d. D. r. Fnrnsworth
and DR.. ID. S. Pinnell were tho speakers
of tho day.
Gen. Harris showed ably and con-
clusively that the so.Called 'Nntionnl
Union Party" fostered ms it is by Presi-
dent Johnson, is nothing more or less
than combination of the CopperhenCl
and Rebel elements. That this conli-
ton would have been formed sooner
had 1t not been for the "line of bayo-
nets" during the administration OF
Lincoln. These and many other fucts
he so forcibly set forth that our people
can now clearly see who are tho enc.
mics OF the oOuntry's welfare.
He very happily explained the mean
ing of the words "RestOre the Unionr
which appear in large letters over the
name of Col. Ben Smith, in notices for
hLS meetings. He said that these cabnl-
iSttc words meant "reStOre us to pow-
or" and that the Conservative Plat.
form OF Reconstruction asked for moth
ing less, and that they had succeeded
SO far as to seduce Andrew johnson.
and make him n despicable tool to nc.
complish their purpose. The General
need not have wasted time on this point
.OA W uoNo Ioo many pEhClCnl llInS-
tratiOns to be mistaken as to the Giev1E-
LSh intents of the "recOmStructed."
The terrible and pending evil" ne
gro equality was well exposed: The
General made some hits which caused
the Conservatives present to blush with
shame. What is more remarkable, one
of our citizens who spent six weeks OF
last winter lettering around the Lind
Sey Institute and pretending to repre-
sent Barbour, squlrmed and grew pale.
we bad thought he was so completely
lost TO all appliances of sense and -rea-
son that no never would be made to
understand the folly of his course. But
the General made it so clear that oven
a fool could not fail to comprehend.
The negro humbug Is we'll done for in
Barbour.
The exposition of the Congressional
reconstruction principles were present
ed in IA manner that every one present
could comprehend, and it is needless to
add, received the appreciation of all
the tried lOyalists.
Messrs. Farnsworth and Pinnell dis
cussed questions OF local rs we'll as ma
lonnl Interest. The people of Bur-
bour know NIr. FarnSworth's oppo-
nent for the Senate, n. Ii. Taft, too we'll
for MIR. h. to have any doubts as to the
result. Ye eX-Coufeds, if they even
vote for Taft will do it because they can
not help it thus time. 1t would do DIR,
PinnelI great injustice to omit to men
ton the fact, that his speech was worse
than grape, canister or Greek-tire to
our rebels. The Doctors style of SYM
pathizing does not suit this peculiar
district. He is too plain about treason
and its punishments.
A rich scene occurred at the close of
Gen. H's. speech John II. WoOdford
Esq, one of our oldest and most re-
n h fHtRT A..
circumstances OF an outrage upon the
people of his section of the county,
by removing a post office which had
been established for more than twenty
years. He said as he was with his
neighbors directly interested in the
matter, he made some inquiries to as
certain by what means this removal of
the office had been accomplished. He
found that the petition was principally
signed by returned rebel soldiers and
aVowed "sympRthiZerS," and that the
head and front of the offence of the
Postmaster was that he did not support
"my policy" and that to get this tittic
slice into the hands of the friends of the
administration, this little office was re-
moved four miles from its original To-
cation in order TO have it where an ex-
rebel soldier would handle the mail
matter. Squire Woodford said that
about the time OF the johnson Conven-
ton at Philadelphia he was on the
fence. He had been II consistent Union
man throughout the war, and hoped
that II national party would do much
good. But as he had been a lifelong
Whtg,he tnstinctively smelt the odor or
the old Democratic carcass, and came
0ntiunequivOcally on the side of tho true
unionist. He is host of himself. His
example will do us much good. We
owe an apology to our rebel friends,
ut kNNF . L..
hao been in the service, very indiscret-
y brought to town two stands of
National cOlOrs. II was an offence.
Poor ignorant hirelings, they supposed
that the rebel white and blue, and star
spangled was still their cOuntry's ban
ner. To tlaunt such ensigns in the face
of a.. J.'s friends is committing an un-
Pardonable sin. Should Moses come
thlS way no need bring no flags, for his
dear people will have none of them.
Their "loVed ensign" went down with
the "lost cause" Our Boys in Blue did
not presume that the sight of the flags
would produce such a feeling, since SO
much had been said about "thirty-six
stars" The lines are we'll drawn here,
ana there is no concealing the fact that
the rebels are unanimously for John
son, not because they love him, but be-
cause they can use him.
think there is no doubt but our
meeting will enable us to report a gain
at the election. We call on all our
friends in the different sections of the
State to aid us. We have had it hotter
than New Orleans for six years. We
hope to finish :the scOtched snake this
ia!l, and thereby remove the stigma
which has rested upon Barbour since
the memorable May of 1861. We hope
the result of our fall election will be a
victory of more permanent value than
that we gained June Sd, 1861, and that
the discounted rebels will understand
that they are to remain in the bnck
ground until they are as penetint as
the prodtgal son. BARBOUR.