The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-13
AFrAIRs IN WAYNE COUNTY.

AFFAIRS IN WAYNE COUNTY.
Rebel INSTRUMENTATION civil OF.
Geers Experimentation Taken
From Jail by FOrce--UDion Men
Driven Away.
To Col. j. S. z. Carroll, Senator's WRIGHT.
Stack, HdydT, DIR aud RepresentuLipes
Ferguson, BoIgyeT, CrGcrdIt, Nc WhOT-
tor Workman, Lille, ballard, and
others:
GESTLEHES:-I have very reluctant
ly been compelled to believe that the
law can no longer be administered MT
wayne Court House, except upon a GER
tain class OF the citizens. a Union
man who has violated the laws can he
Kept in prison there with perfect safety
and the sentence of the court can be
executed upon him, and no one will in
teriere TO prevent. But any one who
has been Hctive in the rebellion cannot
be kept there any longer than it suits
the convenience of gang of gurriIIas.
him.
win give you brief statement of
the facts which have led me to this con-
clusion.
Ist. During the late election, a secret
organization sprung up amongst the
late rebels and their sympathisers un-
der the pretext of preparing TO sustnin
the President should Congress attempt
to impeach him. This Organization
seemed 10 embolden them very much,
and they openly threatened that they
would rise on given night and butcher
All the Radicals in power, should his
impeachment be Attempted While
only timtd men We're alarmed Mt these
threats, prudent men foresaw that the
toleration OF the expression of such
rNN.s, nj a =
most Ignorant and depraved among
them TO the most desperate acts OF law
lessness.
Immediately after the election, Union
men We're ominously counseIIed not TO |
would follow.
And afterwards the conservative can
didates Tor Recorder and House of |
delegates, gave out publicly that, al
though the Radicals" had gained the
u .,.i II would DO them no good, as they
would not hold the offices month,
The hrst attack was made on Repre-
sentative Carroll. 1t is supposed by
many good judges, from what has
transplred since, that his horses were
stolen to draw him up after them into
me edge of Logan, and there with a
hose with him.
The whole history OF that transaction
seems to justify such a conclusion.
But one rebel soldier has ever baap
Dut IN the jail of Wayne county-not
because they had committed no viola
ions, IONS OF the law, but because the officers
iiu not serve the process against them
-and that one was captured in Logan.
~ Col: Carroll, and was a poor, despi,
able, frtendless wretch, who had. per-
iaps, as few personal friends as anv
Eho could have been selected from the
nts rebel army; and 1t would seem TO
thinking man that he could be kept ,
hat class could.
but IN less than n month after the
ew oihcers took possession of their
LuceS, gang OF guerrillas, headed by :
Nc notorious bill Smith" dashed up
the tailor, with their reyolyers 7
GInte Gu 70 ms breast, and compelled =
In! I'm 10 turn the prisoner ont, with =
nom they went shouting out OF town. :
wing the only other Dnion man in =
'Wn, besides the jailor, five DAYS to
ave the place or be killed, using such Z
iths as only demons can utter. \
1t was but three days from the re- l
ase of the prisoner until "Bill Smith, =
as ngain secreted in the nefghborhood. =,
ireatening to kill several Union citi 1
,IiSS-Hnd 1t is unknown where he Will y
'rike next. "--A u
Few Union men are afraid OF "Btu
,i,a himself, but he is a cunning 2,
- ASW desperate, brave and
usi men, and he is encouraged nv -
,i' men OF the country to keep the "
luht5S IN an uproar and exciternepf II
iu HSn motive is supposed To he 10 "A
lnmldate Union men who arc tbraat
ing 10 sue for damages for foIsa ~ r
Iisoninsnt during the war os tbay eE
Nc leading rebels) are telling evary IN
le what Will happen to this ana az, de
ie should they bring suit. 40 ~
S SsIn S these suits are brought or not &c
bili Smith" or his gang, or any otSa1
.oeI, cannot be kept in the iaiI os A
ne county to be punished for anr IN
ltne they may choose to commit ~ ca
- standing army is kent tbsra .
elther IS 1t safe for any Union of4ics. DIR
stay there, unless he shonld Ssi-,III an
Mn" to them. eALe hii
w are, therefore, as I verify believe wi
to choose between the sts,
ilnS OF troops there or the remoysI 20
Ine county seat. The stationinr - int
ops would only be temporary snJ Al
ON thelr withdrawal the Union Cit an
Us would be compelled to follow at
= oEead OF being confined in q iaii en-
gre tney could be kept would deter
- oi them from committing crimes M
> %9 NOT now fear to commit. "a
Very Respectfully, gu
Your Obedient Servant Pc
JOSEPH c. WHEEIRR. ap
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