The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-29
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IIunnicuit.


correspondent of the Petersburg
Inder writes as follows concerning
HUNNIcUTT, the great apostle of Radi'
calism in the South: ....
PETERSBURG, Va, April 10, lS67.
Mir. EDIToR:-Having many years
ago known q man by the name of j. W.
Hunnicutt in Lunenburg county, was
attracted TO Poplar Lawn on Monday
last to determine whether the great
Union shrieker and abolitionist, so car
nest of late in his attempts to gain the
confidence of the colored people, could lie
the same individual with whom had
been acquainted at the time the entire
county in which he lived despised him
for his cruelty to slaves, among other fla
grant crimes. a.-
Arriving ut the gathering, caught
the same shrill tones which many a
time had echoed blasphemy through the
little country church in Lunenburg, and
saw writhing with malice the very same
face W hich had been the signal for NUT
tered curses whenever seen by negro
in former days. - ~. ..s,..,..-r
Just as arrived on the ground the
reverend hypocrite was reciting the rea-
sons for which he loved Virgin;a-one
given being the whining statement that
in her soil lay all that was mortal OF a
darling wife. whose soul had gone before
to heaven-the best woman, &c.
NV mind required to facts which
should cause his hoary head to bow,
and his false tongue to palsy with re-
morse, whenever he remembers the wo-
man who bore his name. Hunnicutt
married Miss -, of Lunenburg Some
thirty years ago, becoming the owner
by his marriage of comfortable farm
and quite large number of negroes.
He was a Methodist preacher at the
time, but was subsequently expelled
from the Conference for doctrinal here
sizes, and became the founder of Il new
sect-a branch unrecogniZed of the Bap'
tist persuasion. He was known fol
miles around as cruel master, was an
doubtedly negro-trader, and for the
slightest offence would buck and gag
his slaves, and lay them ont in the sun
fer hours. Finally, he sold all his ne
groes, and invested the proceeds lii q
stock of groceries, and carried on
small country business (the usual rou,
tine of cheating negroes and encour-
aging theft) until he failed.
But to return to the subject OF his
dear wife in heaven. The closing act
of his residence in Lunenburg, and
your correspondents acquaintance with
| him, was in this wise: He had taken
into his house as servant poor white
girl of the county, whom he seduced'
COncealment becoming impossible, after
awhile his wife made discovery and
complaint; whereupOn this model
Christian and philanthropist horse
whipped the injured woman, and ran
off with the girl he had ruined, leaving
his family perfectly unprovided for and
dependent upon the charities OF the
people he now abuses so roundly.
l heard of him once afterwards at
Fredericksburg, but saw him no more
until his whine about the "dear depart
ed" recalled these facts of his life TO my
mind. :.
They may aid in removing the sleeps
clothing from this wolf who invades
our fold. The truth of this statement
can be attested by numbers of persons
yet living near Lunenburg Courthouse,
and my name is at the disposal "f any
one anxious to sift the matter.