The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-07

The result of the election was we'll
received, and all were pleased, although
they had to concede the defeat OF some
ravorite candidates. Who the individ :
ual votes were cast for do not know.
except my own. It was then moved
that each member should be assessed a
certain amount to defray the incidental
expenses of carrying out the object OF
the committee, and the meeting adj
journed, the members leaving tho hall
in the usual manner, in pairs and at
five minute intervals.
Before adjourning, however, meet
ing of the ASSASSINATION COMMITTEES"
was called for noon the next day, and
they met in building not a thousand
miles from Jefferson street, and pro-
ceeded to discuss how it was best to
manipulate "old Unctuous," as 1 used
to call him in reportorial days. The
committee was divided into sub.com-
mittees, and from 2 O'Clock that after
noon until the next morning Barbour
Lewis was Swallowed but his shadow
had strict instructions from me to COM
NIT no overt act until author
lied. Had It not been for that,
Lewis's hands would now be out of
the County Treasury. Various plans
were suggested and discussed, the rope.
the dagger and the pistol, and one Of
the committees appointed was for the
selection of suitable tree on which to
hang the object of the enmity OF this
"Base Ball or Glee Club" 1t was
selected, and 1 will also tell you,
Messrs. Editors, where 1t is situated.
In the rear of the Catholic grave yard,
and between Dunlap avenue and the
Jewish grave yard, on the left hand
side going ont of town toward the jew
ish Cemetery, is a vacant lot OF large
dimensions, on which Is now growing
three trees, which form an Irregular
triangle, the trees being from twenty to
thirty feet apart. It was the middle
one of this trio, forming. as it were,
the apex of the triangle, which these
treligionsly nurtured" young men
selected for my friend Barbour Lewis
benefit. On this tree, juttinG toward
the street comes out limb. square from
the trunk; over this limb the religious
~ nurtured "sIxteen" intended to have
thrown rope, and most rcllgiously
hung the gentleman. So you see Mr..
Editor, they had selected through a
member OF your committee, the gal
lows tree, between two veritable places
OF sknlls. forgot TO say in the proper
place that The office of Mr.. Lewis, on
Second street, was most critically ok
amfned by different members OF the
committee, and at one time it was
Thought probable that it would be a
good place for littl quiet recreatiVe
strangulatton.
X
giously nurtured" individuals that it
was not safe to do anything of the kind,
because some of the members of the
organization had been ''talking too
much with their mouths, !" and the fact
of the existence of the society was
known, and that L myself had been
followed, as L thought for some time,
by McCune and Hastings, two of Beau.
mont's detectives. and that L was salts
fed that unless the utmost caution was
preserved, we would be arrested, and
some eight or ten of us came to the con-
clusion to withdraw from such indis-
Greet associates. for one wish had
most unpleasant duty to myself to
perform. True to our instincts the
unfortunate event happened, rendered
doubly so by the loolishness of the
"SIxteen" in following foolish conn
sells, in foolishly trying to fasten upon
me the charge of "treason," when the
burden of all my advice to them was
secrecy, caution, and to trust no man in
the organization that each and every
one of us could not give our lives to.
| No man can be more sorry for the
| injury which may result from this com
| munication. 1 am not responsible fol
4 it. On the Memphis Daily Appeal II
should, must and shall rest. Had Il
pursued the sensible course of the
Avalanche, and allowed, what 1 con
slider, the great misfortune of life (my
4 association with such things to remain
in the "tomb of the Capulets," in which
1 had hoped 1t buried, no word would
L Beaumont have heard from me on the
subject. have done. I am response
BILE for my own acts, but acts of boy
/ or sage shall never be saddled upon
my shoulders without an indignant ano
energetic protest. Yours,
Il - ~ E JACK CAMPBELL. 4
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