The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-11
BARBOUR COUNTY.
PHIInIpP1, Jan. I. isss

Editors Inteuiqencer -
DEAR SIRs:-The following 81 list
OF delegates who have gone from here
this morning, to the Conservative Con :,
ventton, to be held at Wheeling tS.nior.
i row, viz: Samuel Woods, Isaac ii.
4 Strickler, James B. Elliott, WiIliSm
McClaskey, William T. Ice, Joieph i, !,
b.. Grim and James Knots.
Apr1et hint, as to the acts and char
acters OF these men, may be useful 10
/ your readers,
Samuel Woods was elected from this
county, as a Union man, to the Rich
i mond Convention (GLiGs "SovSrefen
Convention, ,"l of 1851, by majoiity 81
800 votes; over 7. "A. Bradford, the .se-
cession candidate.
Within the first few days after taking
his seat In that body, under the be.
nlgnant influence of Henry A. Wise,
| ne onered series of resolutions OF the
rankest States rights and secessionary
character. He was Chairman of a COM
mlttee of members, including Mr.. Wise.
who sent by mail over the whole OF
| West Virginia, printed missIves In
viting horde of "true and reliable
men," Il. e., the most violent and
factious secessionists, to. assemble as
Richmond on the 10Th of April,
the day before the ordinance OF RGoeSf
sion was to pass, for the purpose of in.
augurating reign of terror, IL neCes-
sary, to secure the contamination of
that event. He voted for the ordinance
and advocated its passage by the peo-
| pie, In those localities of our county,
wherever he dared to show his tHeach-
erous and sinister countenance: and at
all such times and places proclaimed,
with an tnfuriated zeal, that the ''Yan-
kee soldiers" would raVish and murder
our women and children. Yet on the
I'd OF June, the day before the "battle
of Phillippi,n he vamosed, leaving his
GDtfe and children to the kind care and
protection which the Federal soldiers
subsequently extended to them. He
| connected himself, as is generally un.
derstOod, with the CommiSsary or steal
ing department of the Confederate
armies, and only returned here at such
/ wholesome period after the close of
the war, as that he could be permitted
to live, In community where he is
despised and ,execrated by all good cit
izens, as traitor, whose character is
the counterpart of those OF Judas
IscariOt and Benedict Arnold.
Isaac ID. Strlckler was q Federal
Postmaster in the spring of 1881,
and, OF course, was sworn as the
law In such cases requires
He has been constantly charged
with having about that time, suppress
ed such mail matter, as advocated the
Union cause, accumulated masses of
MHlHui dEe Shlu 10 nave Deen found
slowed away In barrels, in a room IN
the rear of one where the Office was
kept, at the capture of Philippi. He
went within the Confederate lines at
the beginning of the war, and, in like
manner with Woods, remained away
from here, until wholesome time ar
ter the war was over. It Is not known
precisely what part he took in the mill.
tary operations of the ConfederacY. It
is supposed, however, that his career
was brilliant one, and only second TO
that of the illustrlous Wise, since he
handed over to u rebel Justice, a life
OF John Brown, mailed through his of.
flee, by one friend to another, and as.
sisted in the burning OF the same as an
incendiary pu ublicatton, in front thereof,
with much pow-wOw, and with all the
pride, pomp, and circumstance OF glo-
rtOus and triumphant warfare,
James b. Elliott is a thorough rebel
sympathiZer, and was recently depu-
ty sheriff of this county, until remov-
Third Judlclal UlTCUfiT; Upon sasts &C.,. n
ry evidence OF disloyaltY.
William McClaskey was a deputy
Sheriff at the commencement OF the
war, and OF course was under the OBJ
legations OF his oath of office. he Vot.
ed for the ordinance OF secession, and
was several times arrested during the
war upon disloyal charges. He was
Indicted since the war for perjury, in
taking the test oath, and is one OF the
most unblushing rebels, who have been
permitted to survive the war. What
can be the real cause of opposition on
the part of Strickler and McClaskeY to
NEGRO equality" may we'll be matter
for curious inquiry; since, judging
from their compilations and physi0-
than depressed in the scale of society
by the operation OF that principle.
William T. Ice is newly fledged |
lawyer. the protege of the late celebra- |
ted FOntaine Smith, and was by him |
imported here from Marion county,
Qike a premium calf at the Fair
Grounds, led by ring in the nose,) to |
improve the stock of the rebels of this |
county. He was elected by rebel votes |
and influence, the prosecuting attorney |
of this county, over VIM. d. Hof, an |
officer of the Federal army during the
OF Unregistered voters of this county, up
on charges and proof of disloyalty and |
certificates, being removed from his Of
flee, at future term of our circuit /
court, for the same causei yet, in the
genuine gen snsa spirit ,5n Ra.,a Of ohiyalFY, he
tratiou, as 1t is said, for their action In
striking his name of said list; 1t is also
affirmed, that the members of the said
Board are horror-struck with griefand
A9AAOAH az tuG mElkut auu Ud1LDE6
metal, thus turned against them.
Joseph N. B. Grim, was Justice
of the Peace, just before the war, and
OF course, under oath to support the
Constitution OF the United States, as a |
paramount obligation. He, neverthe-
less voted for the Ordinance of SeCss-
sion, and being regarded as promi.
nent rebel, was, during the war, arrest
ed as a hostage for Union men torn
from their homes by rebels, and he
served term in prison, in the city i
now honored by his presence, as a con.
servative delegate.
James Knots may be best represent
ed in description, by the figure o, and
Is unfortunate enough TO be doing a
small business at merchandising, IA a /
community exclusively composed of i
rebel sympathiaers.
None OF these men are. qualified vo-
ters in this county. Some of them have
never bad the impudence tOapply to be
registered, while the others have been
stricken of the list, upon fair hearing
and trial.
tits very apparent, Messrs. Editors,
Notwithstanding the perhaps un.
fortunate action Of a few men
in our country, in endeavortng |
to elevate the negro at Once to
a position in the exercise OF fran.
chIses, for which 1t Will require
education and moral training to fit
him. that neither the people of the Uni-
ted States or Stale of West Virginia,
Will ever submit to commit the reins of
political power into the hands of such /
men, who at best are but as DRIFT
wood, that has been borne onWards I
and now lies lodged, seething and rot
ting, along the banks of the terrible |
and almost restless current OF the late
revolution. COoNosCIus.