The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-28

| their own ShoWlng,) there were out
seventy seven homicides. The eight
hundred and twenty-five subsequent
homicides have all been perpetrated
under the reconstruction acts OF Con-
gress, with o Radical Governor, II. N.
Pease) whom General w. s. Hancock so
beautifully illuminated in that great
letter of March 9. Not only is Governor
Pease exercising dictatorial powers in
Texas, but he controls every officer in
the civil list of the State under him,
and can remove, and has removed and
appointed ad iJifam. But this is not
all. He has had General J. j. Reynolds,
whe commands the State of Texas, at
his back, and quartered with him In
the Executive Mansion. With all this
array of power, why is it that they do
not put stop to these horrible homi-
eldest Why has his Excellency, Z. NJ.
Pease, offered no rewards for the appre-
hension of murderersi Why has he not
removed his imbecile sheritfs, and mar
shals, and policemen (all his own ap-
pointees) for neglect of duty, and ap-
point more efficient men in their stead 7
The answer is obvious. Because the
Governor desires to magnify and in
crease crime for political purposes.
Does he doubt this statement, let him
turn to the record of the peoples vote
when he was candidate for the posi-
tion which he now fills by appoint
ment, and was defeated by nearly forty
thousand majority, and that, too, before
he became as wicked man as he now is.
But to the homicides again. Does the
self.styled committee on "crime and
lawlessness," with Judge Caldwell at its
head, who mhipped the poor deftnceless ne
gro to death, tell the members of Con-
gress, and the American people through
them, how many of the homicides have
been perpetrated by the Indians on our
unprotected frontiersi In the total
eight hundred and ninety nine, are the
eight women and children who were |
killed, scalped and shockingly mutila-
ted in Llano county on the 5th of Febru-
ary last embraced, besides the hundreds
of others that have suffered similar
fate since the army went to making
Presidents instead of protecting the
frontier' Come, gentlemen, give us
the details.
Is DR.. j. c. Cunningham embraced in
the list; an unoffending citizen, who
was dragged from his peaceful slumbers
at the hour ofmidnight, in the town of
Gonzales, on the 25th of February last,
made to fall upon his Bonded knees, re
peat the Lords prayer, hurrah for the
Union, beg for his life, and then muir
dered in cold blood by drunken and
brutal sergeant named Dwyer, in charge
of squad ofmeu belonging to the 35th
infantryi
Does the list embrace o poor, unfor-
tunate negro lunatic, who, while pin
ioned to tree, with his arms behind
him, Was bayoneted to death, in tho
town of Seguin, Guadalupe county, by
u Federal sOldierf
Does it cover the Messrs. Burns, faith
er and son, who were routed from their
slumbers in their own dwelling, at the
dead hour of night, and ruthlessly
by party of United States
soldiers, who left the house on fire rs
they took their departure for Prairie
Lea
Is the name of DR.. Parker, an educat-
ed and Conservative negro, enrolled
among the dead, who, it is charged, was
murdered by Federal officer of the
army for daring to preach Democracy
to his own color, and warning them
against the incendiarism of the wander
ing carpet-baggersf
Why is it that this long catalogue of
homicides, extending through period
OF over three years. and over an area of
country five times as large rs tho great |
State of Ne@ York, and peopled by |
nearly q million and half Of inhabi-
tants, gives us nothing but pointless
generalities.
Even tho notorious A. j. Hamilton |
(RadicaD boldly charges in the debates
of the Convention, that "the sworn |
statements upon which the report was
based were not signed by the atlantis"
Why is it that when Mr.. Evans,
member from Titus county, demanded
an investigation on the part of the Con-
vention of the facts and statements
upon which the report of the committee
was based, he and his resolution were
Indignantly refused to be heard or con-
sidered? The reason is patent upon
its face. The $50 called" committee on
"Crime and Lawlessness" is engaged in
manufacturing evidence against Gen.
eral Bucnanan, fOr the purpose OF tn-
ducing Congress to place the appoint
ments of the Board of Registrars in the
hands of the so called Convention,
in order that none but tools of the
destructienists may have the right to
say who shall vote, and to
prevent the registration Of any
man who Is not known to be Rad
ical To the core. with the privilege of |
striking from the registers all names of
white persons who do not swear by the
negro; and for the further purpose Of
placing the newly distributed arms all
in the hands of the secret loyal league
negroes, with their carpet-bag leaders.
Here, gentlemen of the South, is the
resolution of the labors of the Texas
Radical Committee on "Crime and Law
lcssncss." Very truly yours,
GEO. II. SWEET.