The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-06

unmixed satisfaction. 1t is true tina
about every "loysl" man in this STATE
who lost ten dollars by the rebellion
has already been UNIDENTIFIED to th'
amount of q hundred, either by down
right theft or by legalized robbery, under
the guise of suits against abseutees, bu,
there are none of them so "disloyal" as
to refuse to repeat the process by which
they have already passed from poverty
to wealth.
Perhaps the choicest idea in THAD't
plan is "to procure small homesteads
for the freedmen, to be furnished by
the rebel masters whom they conquered
at our request" The proposition is ad.
mirable but incomplete. Those home.
steads ought to be improved and worked
at the expense Of "rebel masters" whose
father and sons have been murdered
within the last few months by infuri.
ated negroes at Radical request and
every freedmen's homestead should be
furnished with handsome harem, fill
ed with the mothers, wives and daugh-
ters of these same "rebel masters"-wo-
men who have been outraged by brutal
blacks in obedience to radical example.
BEECHER's idea of "bsiting with
white women to catch the black man,
should by all means be incorporated
into THAD's illustrious scheme. II this
can be done, the devil wilhhave to sus-
pend or move South. His occupation at
homo will be gone. No other hell but
Dixie will be needed, if radicalism can
have its way in the matter of Southern
reconstruction.
The following is the letter in ques-
ton: #r,.
LANCASTER, Thursday, May %, 1868.
To the Chairman of the County Commit
tee and the assessors ofthe Townships Of
the Counties of adams, Franklin, Fal-
ton, Bedford, Somerset, Perry, Cunlber-
land and York: ....
Gentlemen AS am about to prose-
cute the claims for confiscation at the
next session Of Congress, if l should be
permitted to appear there, | desire to
ascertain certain facts. Will you aid
he in procuring them in a small part OF
your Statei Invite returns from all
the people i'll each township of the
amount of property which the Rebel
raiders, or the armies of the sO-called
Confederate States," destroyed or ap-
propriated to their own use dur
| ing their several incursions in
to: Pennsylvania, and hand the same
to che assessors of the different town
ships, who are requested to return the
aggregate for each township to the
chairman of the respective parties of
the different counties. May here ask
that the various newspapers of the
counties above named publish this no.
tice for few weeks in aid of the object
specified, as intend to press the pay
ment of the damages done to loyal men
out of the confisc ated property of the
conquered belligerents; desire each
and every person who resided IN the
above named counties to make out D
| list of the amount of all property of
which he was despoiled by the Rebel
raiders or the Rebel Government, and
return the same to the assessors of his
township, who ! hope will forward
the same to the chairman of the county
committees of each party, who, hope,
will take the trouble to aggregate the
same and return it to me. desire q
fair valuation to be placed on all the
property, whether personal property
distracted, or real property destroyed,
except Caledonia Iron Works III the
county of Franklin, which will not be
appraised, as no remuneration is claimed
for it. This may seem to be asking our
friends to take considerable trouble, but
as q small part of the labor only falls
to each person, it will be found light.
l hope it may finally prove profitable to
the injured people:
Yours, THADDEUs STEVENS.
?. S.-Were 1t not presumption in
me, would invite all the loyal men of
all the States who have been plundered
by rebel raiders, or contiscated by the
Confederate States, or either of them,
to form associations and furnish statls-
tics, such as are above solicited. Claims
so imperatively Just may be finally al
lowed and paid, but the funds to pay
the same will certainly be raised no.
where except out of the fines and con-
fiscation of the richer and more afro
cious malefactors. Feeble rs my pow
ers are, if had five years more added
to MY life | should not doubt but that
this would become an accomplished fact.
Such justice urged by determined will,
though feeble intellect, cannot fail.
If should be denied that extension of
life, Providence will raise up for the work
some younger aud abler man to whom
these facts would be of great assistance.
trust it will not be supposed that l
have abandoned the determination to
procure small homesteads for the freed
men, to be furnished by the rebel mas
ters whom they conquered at our re-
auest-homesteads earned by the late
slaves and annexed to their masters
estates. Let them now be severed by
partition, :,
All the newspapers in the several
counties named are respectfully re-
quested to publish this article.