The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-10

dent himself from recent Indications
seems to be entertaining doubts of the
success OF the experiment he had DrO-
tracted until he had almost alienated
from him the great party to which
alone he can look for political support;
ana should ne once become thoroughly
aware OF theingratitude with which his
Kindness has been receiyed-how con-
temptuously these men regard him as
their tool; never in the past has Andrew
Johnson, either as Senator OF Vice Presi-
denti denounced and scourged them, as
Andrew Johnson President OF the Uni
ted States will in the future.
As evidence that the charges prefer
red are not without foundation, a brief
recital of characteristic incidents of the
last six months may not be without in
terest.
Just before the commencement of the
April term, Judge Harrison received a
letter at Lewisburg (already published)
authenticated by the certificate of Col.
MCPHERSON, Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Greenbrier county,) threatening him
with assassination if he proceeded upon
his Circuit. In various forms and from
various quarters, intimations of the
same purpose have reached him since.
at the September term in Greenbrier,
and while the court was sitting, "A mob,
who composed part of n meeting called
for the purpose of endorsing the action
of the $50 calIed) National Convention
at Philadelphia, passed a series of reso-
lutiOns denouncing n. Harrison, Judge
of the Circuit: Cyrus Newlin, Prosecu-
ting Attorney Of the county; E. S
Phelps, Presiding Elder of the Netho-
dist Episcopal Church of the district,
and - Dyer, resident minister ofthe
same church, and appointed commit
tee to seize the Judge upon the bench
and duck him and the others named, in
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interference OF prominent citizens, and
perhaps the consciousness that the at
tempt might not be without danger, pre-
vented any effort being made to carry the
threat into execution. In this CUnionl
township, the registered voters were
prevented by intimidation and threats
of violence, from opening poll, and
when at one o'clock the effort was
abandoned, the court house was taken
possession of, and in disregard and de-
tiance of law, over one hundred and
twenty votes cast by unregistered and
DISTINGUISHED residents of the county.
When, twelve days later, the Board of
Supervisors met to count the returns,
the effort was made with unblushing
etfrontery to compel them to count this
vote, and the president threatened that
if it was refused they would be stoned
out of town.
Lewis Ballard, Sheriff of the county,
bad been notified in certain Districts
that he would not be permitted to coll
lect the taxes.
Within the past few weeks a negro
boy was shot at without provOcatfon
and wounded, and the witnesses me
groes) threatened that If they attempted
toProsecute they would be treated SINH
larry. The presence of u small force has
changed all this. Quiet and order lex
ternally) prevail. The court Just closed
Saturday LAST was held without in
reference or disturbance of any kind.
Numerically the support afforded the
Union cause by the company now COM
fortably ;encamped just inside the
town was small, morally it was i'm
measurable. 1t was the knowledge il
afforded that the broad aegis of the
American Eagle extended its protect
ing shadow from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from Maine to Florida;
that whenever and wherever needed,
the arm of the Government would be
extended for the assistance and support
ofits loyal citizens.
During the term just closed, the case
OF Lewis Ballard, Us. William Hinton,
administrator of Joseph Lively, de-
ceased, an action OF trespass on the case
to recover s., 900 damages for properly
of the plaintiff, seized and sold by the
the defendants intestate at n confisca-
ten sale in June, '63, the Court CHon,
plaintiffs counsel Major 1 Newlin),
charged the jury substantially in the
language held by the Court of Appeals
in the case of Hood Us. Maxwell. The
jury, after being out all night, failed to
agree and were drawn.
Before concluding this letter, 1 deem
it an act ofjustice to express the con-
viction as the result of some months of
close observation, that, with n few rare
exceptions, no class of the community
are better disposed at present, or more
likely to make good citizens in the fu-
ture, than the men who saw actual SER
vice i'll the Confederate army. The
politicians who inaugurated the late
struggle, and the towards who skunk
out of the army, have been.most clam
orous in demanding "their rights" with
happy ineomprehension of the fact
that those rights, when awarded them,
will be "A short shrift and a halter.
Yours truly, UNION.