The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-18

inflicted by the lash, and so severe were
,they that her clothing had to be spoDgsd
from her person, and the worns weio
already at work on the negiecteo soies.
These details are revolving, bnt the cause
Of Justice requires them to be stated;
Soon after this Mr.. Burleston (whese
social position is equal to that OF any
aian in sTexas) investigated the state
ments of the negro in regard to her tree
dom, and found they were true. Hanii,
ton, finding that his appropriation OF
this woman, years before, would be ex.
posed, made no effort to obtain posses
sion of her again. Soon afterwards she
ap1,eared in omen court, in Travis coun.
ty, Texas, and selected a master IoI
herself, under the law which requireu
free negroes to select masters, and was
decreed to be his property. Inc record i,i
ia there unto this day. Burleston stili
lives. The Cartwright pamphlet can
still be produced. Judge Hancock, who
has denounced Hamilton as perlqred
scoundrel, is now in Texas, and will be
our next Senator; and we dare a. D.
Hamilton to deny the truth Of the state
ments as above made.
So much for the private character OF
the man who galvanized the sneaklng
Ezekiel and few others Of contemplate
notoriety, and who now STANDS close oy
the bosom of his master Thaddeus, to
spawn his ISLANDERS in the ears OF lanai
ical listeners, and to traduce the true
and loyal men of Texas
The political record of Hamilton is as
little understood by our Northern breth'
rem as his. private character. From a
D. 1853 until 1857 he stood almost SOL
itary and alone the unreasoning cham,
pion for the immediate secession o!
Texas, and so remained until his sudden
and mysterious conversion, under the
manipulation of priests who oticlated ID
the temple of Ham. If any one denies
that Hamilton was for years in favor OF
immediate, and, if necessary, OF bloody
revolution to accomplish secession on
account of the intermeddling OF the
North with slavery, we refer him &c
Governor Lubbock, to Governor hey
nolds, and 70 every prominent gentle
man in Austin from 1858 to 1886.
Such are few of the antecedents o.
the man, who, after preaching secession
for five years in the State of Texas, be
came treacherous to his own convictions
at the moment when they became the
policy of the State-fed from our borders
to fatten on our MISUNDERSTANDING
after our defeat to gloaJ with tiendlsf
exultation over the graves of our kin
dred, and has now returned to the North
the brazen; faced and hired champion o.
SANDER
We have noV discharged public duty
too long delayed. Every statement
here made we stand ready to make gooo
by host Of creditable witnesses, and BY
the public records of the country.
L ia duo TO the Northern people thai
they Should know who this man is, wh(
turns with parricidal hatred against thu
State in which his children were born
and clamors for ruin. 1t is due to thu
Federal officers and soldiers in our mids
that they should know the character o
the official witness against our people
| who has clamored for military commits
sions and more blood, and it is due tt
ourselves that we should expose thu
true character OF this defamer of ou'
people, whose name in Texas is the syn
onym of infamy. A4s -