The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-03
cro.. Outrage b, the Governor.

In our telegraphic columns will be
tound dispatch to the effect that
troops have left Washington, for Phil
lipi, Barbour county, West Virginia.
The pretext upon which this invasion
is based, is that "the rebels in that re-
gionIa Iare generally harassiug the Union :
lists" This statement is false in every
particular. as the man who asked for
these troops we'll knows. We charge
that ARTHUR |. FOREMAN gave express
sion 70 al infamous slander on the
people Of Barbour county when
he made that representation. The
facts in the case are these A few days
ago, the Registrars of Barbour county,
under inspiration from the Governor,
their superior in villainy, notified fire
hundred and one Democratic rioters of that
county to produce on certain day the
evidence of their innocence of treason,
on pain of disfranchisement. This num-
Der included almost, if not quite, the
entire Democratic vote of Barbour coun-
". One of these Registrars, o minioD
of FOREMAN, doubtless at the request
of his master, came to this city and rep
resented that the wholesale distran-
chisement Hpon which in advance OF
of trial, and in the absence of evidence,
they had determined, could not be ef-
iected without military aid. He re-
ceiyed from Governor FOREMAN the as
,urance that such aid should be forth
coming, and the telegraph informs us
that the soldiers are already on the
WAY.
The plain purpose Of this military
outrage, as any one can see, is the exc
cutiOn of BOEEMAN's infamous designs
upon the rights and liberties of the
people upon whom he has induced
the Government to quarter these
soldiers. Not single act Of law
lcssness of any kind, save the
general and usual rascality of
BoREMIN's subOrdinates, has occurred
in Barbour county for many days. At
least, no such occurrence has been made
public through either Democratic or
Radical sources, and we know that any
disorder of sufficient moment to justify
military interference would speedily
have been heralded throughout the
State. To speak positively and at the
same time accurately, we affirm that
the public peace has been as we'll
kept in Barbour county as in any
other county of the State, except in
single particular. By the exception,
we refer to company of armed and or
ganized outlaws in the vicinity Of Beai-
ingtOn. They were ostensibly Union
partisans during the war, but actually
marauders and plunderers; since that
time they have been chronic outlaws.
With the exception of the disturbances
which they have caused from time
to time, We know of no better public
order anywhere than has been observed
in Barbour.
Hence we feel justified in carefully
selecting our words to say that BORE
MANS action in procuring troops to be
sent to Phillippi is base and infamous
outrage, which would have been i'm
possible with any ruler of more decency
and honesty than BRowSLow or BORE
MAN, a blackguard or q brute. The
plain object of this infamy is to
Use the bayOnet as an instru-
ment of disfranchisement. Those
fire hundred Democrats in Barbour who
are to be the victims of BOREMAN's ven
geance will perish, not by justice, but
by the sword. They will suffer, as
others have suffered at the hands of o
villsinous despotism, not because
of their deserts, but because he
has the5l power and the Will
TO persecute them. Among their
number, are such men as MoDI-
sETT, WooDFoRD and others, "the best
Union men" of their section. Their only