The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-14

printed in golden letters when tne nus US,
tory of tina war was written. In view
of this. he volunteered, and the trst lm-
portant step was to barter or trade on
COMPANY of men. He finally sold them
to the 9th Virginia Regiment, for lGua
dollars a head, being the average pi,oU
of good wethers, for mutton. oeihs
detected in this speculation, 10
hurried his carcass away to some oIn nm
part. Then he finally made up sn ,,na
company of men, trained ana Pa
pared as tardily as possible, consu oIm
nearly a wear in the various eyoiu
tons of military tactics, wltnou'
hs;no nrepared for the regular service.
Ena7lv he was admitted and taken into
tbs army. His health began to decline,
ss bs anproached danger-,and finally he
resioned and came home, carrying a con.
siSerable wound in the forehead, unfor.
tunately, it being hereditary: He ex
pects to live the remainder OF his life at
the mouth of the public crib, as re.
ward for his gallant services.
was only present at two or three
times on that occasion" but / was in.
formed that all the names were marked
off from the list of voters, whether there
WAS evidence or not. One man was &C,
cused by one of the board of speaking
against his horse in disrespectful words
The man denied it, but they considered
that in speaking against a dumb brute
voluntarily, siuce the year 1861, was
direct violation of the Constitution and
! TJnion. and ordered his name to be erased.
7 saw another, small, squint- man
arrigned, charged with the crime OF
speaking against the qualification of the
board, and insinuated that they had not
the sense the law allowed them Inc
board were extremely fiery on this occa,
sion, and ordered his name to De erased
| until the year 1900 and something, for
this palpa6le and fragrant violation ct
decency, order, Union &C. The man
promised to vote for the amendment II
they would he a little more mod
crate. 1t is said they actually re-
stored him On such a promise;
| A third one was arraigned, and accused
of saying that il did not look like ropuo::
lican principle, to deprive man OF
| vote, because he was going To vote
/ against the amendment. This plain
| talk was considered a direct violation.
After seeing What I have described, !
made my exit, having no desire to wit
ness further, these consistent proceed
ipgs. But lust at this moment, thought
of this county being the residence OF the
immortal statesman Mccoy, with whom
l became acq ainted in the city OF
| Wheeling last winter; and being near
about when he proposed committee TO
enquire into thr cause of secession. His
gigantic mind I Iced it back to the foun-
dation. The Fl 3 statesman OF the age
that has ever attempted such thing.
When it first uttered his mind that
father Adam as the cause, he ran
through the hedges, high ways and
streets, and proclaimed it every where,
and proposed that Jim Riddle, Kelly and
Daddy, be, and are hereby appointed q
Special Commit 90 to 60 up and get hold
of the old gen leman and bring him
dow so they could get a fair pull at
him, they would give him secession, and
learn him to ha more respect for Apple
eide Brandy d Co He was informed
a, that would be .ther erpoSt Jfacto in it,
nature, and tina Jim Riddle and Daddy
had no busine: up there these hare
n times, but if they ever got up they
would give thenrprivate instructions tt
take the old ira .sgressor out of the city
and give him general fakeing. Thi
appeared to satisfy the young aspiran
with he promise, that they would dis
franchise the descendants of Adam TO
all time to come, and bestow this privil
ege o. the SOL of Ham. While l wa
musi on this wonderful genius OF tn
age, ] was informed chat he had left thl
= world and gom, TO Ohio But still feel
4 ing dasirous tC see something more Il
. crafty my desire, was informed tina
the father of Ill = genius was passing VI
street and that he too was in high Office
in the State township register) NJ,
curiosity was ,<cited at this moment
: | expo cted to Sc man fextraordlnar.
powers of body and mind-supposin!
talent ran in antilles, But, 10! wha
pitiablc objeor, crippled and mangled
bodily aud men ally, it appeared all hi
intellect had run, down in the heel, which
run back wondei ful. His great sympatb.
for Sarubo, has caused his couuteDanct
} to Change SOD what from the Angle
Saxpr race Tn ~, thought that great
LESS toes not ,lwayS boast of lofty
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