The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-29

voted against the ordinance OF secession.
Mr. Malcom called Us Abolitionlsts, and
said all the Union men were Abolition
lists. When the time rolled around that
General Rosecrans gave j. b. Floyd
blixum, Mr.. Malcem left with Floyd, ana
said he had to push hard to get to him,
and was wagner for Floyd some
months. When he took the fever, and
could do no more for Floyd, his father
went and brought him home. Mr.. NAL
com was the man the radicals sent to the
Parkersburg Convention, together with
lis. j. Grose At the time there was a
company of rebels made up in this coun'
| ty, / saw Colonel S. ]. Grose walk into q
store in the town of Summerwllle, and
bring out bolt of cotton cloth and dl-
vide il amongst the rebel company. D.
j, Crosse and Malcolm, neither OF them
voted Union vote. could name some
more of such radical Union men In this
county, if l had time, but as | am in
hurry, shall be as brief as possible.
There has been man writing in the
Kanawha Journal, and calling himself
Scrap" He dates his letters sometimes
as if he was on Elk river, in Clay county,
and again as if he was at Falling Springs
| in Greenbrier county, but Scrap" lives
in this county and does all his writing
here. He stated in one of his letters that
there was q fine spinning machine In
operation here and there would be an
other in few weeks, but, to our great
misfortune, there has never been spin
ming machine in this county, except
Scrap" himself, and he is spinning lies
as fast as he can. He has told base lies
about some of our best Union men here,
but lie is afraid to let his true name be
known. We all know he is but a scrap
and a scrap that is No account, and
believe he has been rebel. When
write put my name to it, and l can
stand by all say.
The great radical leaders here &C
knowledge that they are not complying
with our laws in all respects, but they
say that they could not have the ascend
ancy even if they did comply with the
law. The radicals have held meeting
here and brought out a man to repre-
sent them in the next Legislature, lie
is good, honest radical, still must
confess that he carried his drum around
and beat for the rebels while they were
making up company in this county.
neglected to say that the way Mr'
MalcSm came to be Sheriff of this county
was by few radicals here recommending
him to Judge Irwin as being true Union
man. The Union men here do not like
to have to pay their taxes to IL man who
helped to take Union men prisoners and
have them sent to prison.
shall close for the present, by saying
that large majority of the Union men OF
this county endorse the Presidents poll.
cy and the proceedings of the Philadel-
phia Convention. / have been Union
man ever since the commencement OF the
rebellion ana am one still and will be
while live, and hope to live to see the
final end of radicalism. / have served
my country nearly four years in State
company, and lay five months in Sails,
bury Prison, North Carolina, and almost
starved to death, and now l wish to see
our government sustained, the constita
ton complied with, and peace and har-
mony restored throughout our land.
ISAAC NICHOLS.