Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-10-15
5pirit Of gtfftrsoll,
cbarlcstoun. Jefferson County, West Va.
TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER is. 1872.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
Especial Correspondence otthe Spirit of Jefferson
baltimore. Oct. Sth. 1872

baltimore, Oct. 9th, 1872.
Dear Spirit Why did you leave out the
concluding words of sentence in my last
about Harper's Ferry. by which you made me
talk nonsense? IF you don't take more care
/ will go to work and ship a cargo of Degroes
to Jefferson to vote against Mr.. Martin. ]
see you are shipping the same species OF
merchandise to Pennsylvania to help defeat
Mr.. Buckalew,-not you (now don't get mad
at the yom when don't mean you, but the
honest Radicals; hut it win not avail. Un-
less frauds ofsidereal proportions are practised
and it my advces are not tallacious don't
think they will be practised, Buckalew will
be elected Governor of Pennsylvania
Is 1t not strange that the Radical party
, should take up notorious thieves and murder.
ers rs their standard bearers at this day when
the ground swell of Reform is felt over the
Continent? Quem deus cult perdere 5,r,us
demcntaf. That is to say, Heaven has frowned
and made the Radicals insane. Hartranft has
appealed to the Penitentiary to prove his in>
nocence, aud Grants friends in New York
have taken Tweed by the hand or rather o.
Brien his former confederate and present
secret friend. Look at the Radical nominee
III New York for Governor, General Dix
Daniel Webster once said in the Senate to
Daniel 5. Dickinson, on the only occasion he
ever allowed feelings to overcome him. ..it
oil the lies told since the Flood were gathered
together in one huge lie, and its concentrated,
essence conld be lodged in one bosom and
uttered ,A by one man, yonder" pointing to
Dickinson with the fire of Jove- 'syonder is
the nun to utter it! Gen. Dix is a twin,
brother, only worse. Ion remember the fine
speech on which he has lived politically for
the last ten years? 81 any man attempts to
han! down the American flag, shoot him on
the spot" Well now it turns out that Stan>
ton and not Dix was the author of the heroic
speech. 1t has recently been broueh. to light
in New York beyond question that Stanton
told Dix to use this language when the latter
was Secretary of the Treasury. In looking
over the columns of the Chicago Tribune a
week or two SINCE, | read an account of one
OF Dix's fine acts iD which you and your peo,
pie Will no doubt feel much painful interest
refer to 1t with regret, for would DOT touch
lightly on sad subject The article in oucs-
ton WAS ON the murder, by this same Dix, of
one OF your own county people, as gallant i
soldier as ever flashed sword in defense of
hbcrty-.john Yates Heall. The writer. n
responsible man, actually tells us at this late
day that Dix sent for him iu Sos and wanted
hun to hing John Beal, not feeling safe in
dong 1t himself The writer refused to eud
himself 70 such an atrocious cripe, and this
hne Christian gentleman and soldier John A
Dh,-the present Radical nnruiuee for Gov.
ernnr oil New Y ork - finally resolved 10 over
cone his squeaulishneSs and buuc him him>
self. which. nn the 9th of February, 1853
to the lasting dis.race aud in..piv of the
murderer, he did do altar the mapaer of y
Mexican barbarian.
John Yates Beall, as YOU we'll know. was -
regular commissioned officer in the ConfeI ,
crate Navy. Ga the 18th or Sett 1864, in
the manly and legitimate effort to free the
Confederate prisoners to the number of 9 900
on Johnson's Island no captured Federal
Steamer, the Philo Parsons, eff Keilv's Island
on Lake Erie. Through the ,reacherv of
some of his followers the plan of liberation
miscsrried and Bcall had to abandon the pa-
triotic effort. On the 18th of December of
the same year military train of the Federal
Government was conveying large number of
distinguished Confederate prisoners. Generals
and other officers from .Jol,npn's Island to
Fort Warren, among others Generals Cabell
and Msrmsduke. 1t was undertaken by Ger
tain Contederates, then in Canada to intercept
this train if possible and rescue their distin-
gushed fellow patriots FROM the iron clutch
of their enemies Lieutenant-Col. Martin of
the IA Kentucky Cavalry commanded the cx-
pedltion, small one, of which John Beall
WAS member. The enterprise was not suc~
cessful and the impediments which it was in>
tended to put on tho track preliminary
step to that of stopping the train were not
used The train was uninjured and the little
Confederate force. not over five or six in num-
Der, retired. On the American side of the
Suspension Bridge Beall was captured He
was carried to New York and placed under
charge of the renegade Democrat, John A.
Dix, who having conspicuously failed as
commander in the field in Virginia, had been
sent to do police duty of the dirtest kind in
New York.
Mr.. Lincoln and Mr. Seward having no
stomach for fight with England, had once
snubbed the said Dix and rescinded an order
given by him to invade Canada Poor DIX
iretted and tumcd publicly, but digested the
venom of his spleen and eat humble pie for
his masters privately. Presently poor John
Benll was captured and fell into his hands
lie made short work of the gallant Conted>
crate He appointed Military Commission
''organized to convict" and preferred two
charges against Beall: LIST of violating the laws
OF war by carrying on irregular and unlawful
wsrtare as guerilla and I'd of acting as
spy.
When Captain Beall was arraigued, Goth
of January, 1865, he arose and said, 81 am
stranger in a strange land alone and among
my enemies. No counsel has been assigned
to me, nor has any opportunity been given to
me either to obtain counsel or procure evil
dence necessary for my defense. would re-
guest that such counsel as l may select in the
South be assigned to me, and that permission
be granted to him to appear and bring forward
the documentary evidence necessary for my
defense
But Gen. Dix had no intention of even de.
laying the intended stroke long enough for
counsel to come. Daniel B. Lucas, ESQ, at
that time in Toronto. Canada West, read the
report of his friends arraignment and request
to the Military Commission that he be allowed