The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-13


Hentton OF those who were I1npri,
oned for DIsloyalty During the wa,
Posr oRF1s, CoNRRpR1r x RoAns
I(Wich t9 in the State NV KentnclEv Sl
January 8, 1888.
Notfcin In, the public prints that VA
landygum, and a passed. nv others a
that kidney, had called a ConYenshn
nv those who he'd suffered imprisor
ment for holdin the opinion, doorin ID
!, war, that the South wuZ rite in seceedi
and for doing wat they Good to furthe
the rite, to review their suferins, /, u,
course, expecttd to be inyitid to attend
Ez no invitashun came, resolved /
u spare em the stigma nv hevin gop
back onto n fellow sufferer, and, hence
ly, wrote the followin letter, Wich
shel hey7publisht in all the noospaper,
feel it a duty to call the attenshun u
the party to my sufferius Jest now,
4 beinj jlst atore a new deal takea plact
n TO O. IL. GLEdaIdggarnt, EdSon B. Old,
Henry Clay Dean, and Others, Com
mlttee:
Yoor moyin note nv the 18th inst
1nvtttn me to be present at a meetin u,
those wich he'd suffered for conshenc
sake doorin the late croosade. and {,
mingle my teers with them, is received
Ez receeved yoor note and red it, m,
suherins como back to my mind 81
lH1Vtdly that the fountins nv the graf,
4 deep wuz onseeled, and went scaldii
teers. Iwept ez thot how il suffereti
how i he'd wasted in Basteels the time5
SO much needed in furtherin the grea
coz In Wich we wuz all engaged: WheI
thot how, for three long weeks, j
wasted away ptnin for the tree ali
ontside Nv my prison walls; how, fol
all that time, Iwuz exposed TO the hor.
ror Nv seetn around me feends in hu.
man form, clad in the bloc 1 allus de.
tested howl wuz compelled to listen
perpeto oally, to sich songs ez:
WellIally round the flag, boys,
s, MeL rally Wunst agIn,
Shoutln The battle cry uvffeedomI"
And that other detestable air, wich /
never hear without a thrill nv horror
John Browns body lies molderin In the
But his sole is a marohinou.p
Wieh 1t is. And also how for three long
weeks wuz compelled to live-no, not
live, but eggsist-wlth not drop NV
anything stronger or more reVivifyin
to drink than coffee; endurfn tine name.
lis horrors wich foliers the sudden IA
Ken away uvithat on wich we live, and
Wlch our moral, ez we'll ez physikil,
nachers depend. But out nv fegard to
my teeltns, I close these harroWin re.
hecshens. Shood I dwell onto EN-. /
9h9od be entirely onmanned. When
Whiakey, reason totters onto her
thrones and wonder that I am still
ment. -
It would not be out NV place in this
conneckshun for me to dwell for a mo-
nlene u pom the sacrthcis I hev made and
Lhe torterS to wtch i hev bin subiectid.
hev, may say it humbly, suffered
probably more than any NV the glori.
ous company NV martyrs, for righteous
mis- sake. My first taste nv Federal ty.
ranny wuz in 1852. Well do I remem-
Der the day. a draft wuz impendin.
The tyrannical Linkin, revelin in the
gorgus halls nv despotic power at
Washington, he'd isshood his Oppressive
decree Tor three hundred Thousand.
more" 1went'confidently to the eggs
aminer's offs for my eggsempshen, but
IN Inc lace Nv the most positive Rshoor-
ence on my part that I he'd bronkeetia
ana Iln1 liver complaint at that time, and.
neu ned at different times NV my life
delirium tremens, wuz laft to
skotn, and pronounst ez sound ez a
brick. determined not to Undue NV
hands in the blood NV my brethren nv
the South. shuddered at two iiees.
FIRST, at being punctured ppyseIf, and
secondJ at puncturtn any nv my friends
nv the Confederacy. Therefore. Imade.
my way ez best mite to that refuse
from the persekutor, Canady, / Itlilate
onto the terrors Nv that passaRe2 Need
state how i walked from my then place
Nv residence to Detroit, and how / swan,
Rcros the river at that pint on a loo.
and how, when onistrikin the sacred
soil, struck a Taboo and shook NV
fist at the stars and stripes, which 4
saw wavin at the tother side? No.
For all nv yoo hev done it, eff not in
Canady, somewhere else. The draft
l1ili %nz SIT oyer. and returned, supposin 1t
wnz all rite. Skarcely he'd reached
my humble home, when I wuz ar.
restid, and dragged to military camp.
he'd bin drawu, and wuz taken ez a
deserter. j did not serve tho. Ruther
than to carry a Fedral muskit, I de-
serttd in ernist, and wat military life 1
did see, 1 saw In the Confedrit ranks.
Bpt that Wuz short. The Kurnel NV
my regiment appreciatin my style, Or
dered me to be discharged, on the eskore
that 1 Good do the Confedrisy more
good operatin with the DImocrisy nv
the North than Good carryin muskits
in the ranks nv her brave defenders.
He wnz pleased to say that wuzn't
worth a d-n ez a soljer, anyhowl
My second inkarseraShunS SWuz nv
more tryin nRcher. he'd bin called
to organize and drill county Wich
he'd determined, come veal, come wo,
they never wood, under eDy cirkum-
stances, submit to be dragged to fight
~ q GS2 MASL Iuey U61GeNet In
They he'd resolved in their meetins to
die In thelrown door yards thousand
times each, rather than submit To the
drafts Wich wuz impendin too oEIen,
or TO the onOonstitooshneI taxes
Wtoh the monster at the head
nv the Government wuz a levin.
We wuz in camp; 900 strong, when a
company nv soliers wuz sent agin us.
Wun by wun the defenders nv their
rites bethot themselves nv biznis
wich they had at home. Wun's wife
wuz momentarlly y ex pected to be com
fined, another he'd forgotten-t TO feed his
cattles and a thirds Oldest son, the heir
nv his house, wuz to be married that
mite. Eggsortin nv us to fte braVely
for our rites, and die rite there before
submitten, they left, fnst one at time,
then i've in a squad, then ten, then 4
hundred, onul altwuZ gone butme and |
nlneteen DINERS. Wuz restrained by |
prluei the ntneteen others couldn't |
git away oWtnto bari Nv new whisky |
Wleh he'd bin rolled onto the ground, |
and wich they he'd monopolized 'atWeen
EN- the only tin cup We he'd in the
camp. They were, ez reward for 4
their heroism and the sufferins that |
ensood, all elected to ofas,thht fall:
1wuz treated with frightful severity, |
/ wuH kept on the ordinary rashens NV |
private soljer. Wuz not allowed the |
perooEel nv the Richmond papers, and |
wuz compelled, afore bein released, TO |
take the oath nv allegiance 20 the Fed
erRl Governments. asle
AndWot heY I got for III Coed Lord,
i shudder when think NV the ongrate- /
fulnts Nv mani The party for Wtch i |
suffered ltthiE, never so much ezgaye