The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-17
MASS Meeting In BarboursyIlls--
Speeches by Ir. stevenson
md Gen. HHttcher.
CApELL CouRT HOUSE OCT. 70, ls6s,


CADELL CoURr HOUSE Oct. 10, 1868,
Editors InteEEtgeneer:
We had an enthusiastic rally of til
RepublIcans OF this county to-day al
BarbonrsvIlle. Although 1t is the"busy
season" with our farmers there wal
quite a largo turnout from the country
i districts. Hon. w. E. Stevenson oui
candidate for Governor, and Gen. Johr
g. Witcher Republican candidate fol
Congress, made speeches, which were
received with rounds of applause by
the Republicans gathered from diner
| ent portions of our county.
General Witcher stated that he had
been over the entire Congressional dis
| trict, and was ready to report an over
| whelming Union triumph IN Octopsri
1 IL our friends were true 10 themselves
and did not permit themselves TO be
| Illuminated by rebel threats OF violence
| which were being made with great show
and buster to overawe the fearful and
timid. He advised Union men to be on
the lookout for this trick. 1t was to be
played on an extensive scale. Stories
OF violence and danger will be set at1oat
few days before the election, and to be
carried especially to the ears of dmid
Union men, in the hope of keeping all
such at home.
Mr., Stevenson made similar state
ment in regard to many counties in the
State through which he had passed.
But this violence he said on the part of
rebels was not only threatened but In
many counties really intended, and
had. already prematurely developed 1T
self. The game to be played by the
rebels was TWO fold, first TO insist on
every man whether a rebel or not who
would vote for the Democratic ticket,
TO take the oath and register and thus
by fraud and perjury force illegal votes
81, - no md fhoT1
the Boards of Registration and compel
them to retain the name of these rebels
upon the Registrars books. If they
should be only partially successful in
this they hope to gain something. The
next effort is by Oravado and threats to
badger ana bully tho more peacefully
inclined Republicans, in counties where
the rebel element is strong and thus
prevent them from voting. Both the
speakers advised union men to inter-
Iere in no way with the rights of others,
but TO stand up manfully for their own,
and above all things not to allow
rebels to bully them out of a victory
that was sure and certain if the Repub-
lican vote is polled.
Tho statements of the speakers cor
respond exactly with the situation in
our own county. Never since the day
that jenkins made glad the hearts of
rebels by his raid, and murdered
Union people in their houses in Guy
andotte, has there been such a spirit
OF Iawless violence as at this moment
exhibited by the disloyal amongst us.
Because the Board of Registration, in
accordance with the OathS they had
taken, struck from the register of vo-
tiers the names of two persons noto-
Fiously dlsloyRl, returned rebel SOL
diers and buShwacker5, their lives are
in danger If they leave the houses
after nightfall. Assassination of &C
tive Union men is threatened as freely
as It was when Gen. Loring's maraud-
ers held undisputed sway from Charles
ton to the the banks ofthe Ohio. Even
at this day 1t costs something to be a
Union man in Cabell, Lincoln and
Wayne counties. But of one thing our
Republican friends in other parts of
West Virginia may rest assured, that
Is, that the Union men of these coun-
ties will not be bullied out of their
rights, but will vote, every man of
them, and carry the counties named
for Grant. Colfax and Stevenson by
handsome majorities.
The Democracy" indignant at the
audacity OF the Board of Registration
for "scratchiug" the names of sundry
horse thieves from the lists passed a
resolution at their meeting not to deal
with or patroniZe in the way of bust
ness any Radical" and now have a
petition circulating for signatures to
the same effect. 1t wont all do, gentle
men; Radicals can't be bought of, they
can't be scared of, neither can they be
StGrved off. You are only "heaping up
wrath against the day of wrath" You
couldn't frighten us with Jenkins-you
can't do 1t now. We have resolved to
TO thrash you and we mean to do 1t.