The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-06
Further Concerning Sam. Woods
Mission TO Charleston.
JANUARY 1sT, A. D. 1873.
M. .L0 pSt,o.. a. .Lo TntaIIIUenceR.

To tho Editors Of the lntellIgencer:
In my last, OF the 2Sd ultimo, l wrote
to the effect that Sam. Woods, ex.mem.
Der Of two abortlYe State Conventions,
had left his home on that morning to
take charge Of the Legislature Of the
State, for the purpose, IN part, OF regu.
latng It's action on the Capital question.
Since then, the members from this section
have reached their homes, TO spend
recess, coming in, as they report, by way
OF Cincinnati, st. Louis, or some other
far western locality which, as being out.
side Of this State and beyond the mental
area Of States Rights Democrat, do
not remember
Ireferred to the names OF G. d. Cam.
den, j. N. Bennett, G. A. Blakemore and
]. L. Hall, as Senators whose political
proCliVities would, as 1t was supposed,
bring them into juxtaposition with, and
possibly subordinate them to, this great
Regulator" and irrepressible ahead cen.
TIRE" Of the "Spottswood Hotel junta" Of
a former decade. Such fate, were II 10
happen, would be held by the many
friends of those gentlemen here, q sad
decadence indeed. Fortunately, as to
three Of them l am able 10 say, that their
views, as expressed since their return,
conform to those Of large majority Of
their constituents, In favor Of removal.
AS to Mr.. BlakAmore, it Is said TO be un.
certain how he will act; but 1t is hoped
he will not surrender the interests Of
his constituency to Sam and the
seductions Of Charleston, as that
chosen representative Of Union men did
on past occasion to H.'A. Wise, and the
feminine destinations Of Richmond. We
think 1t fortunate both TO these Senators
and ourselves, that they are now at home
comforting with their constituents instead
Of spending theholidays, where las much
isolated from outer communication as If
in the bed Of the Yosemite Valley they
are exposed alternately to the blandish'
ments and denunciatlons Of the citizens
Of Charleston. Sam Is, no doubt, how.
ever, having q Congenial time there in
getting things ready for renewal Of the
session. He left his kith and kin here
during this time honored occasion Of
family festivities among us Yankees,)
much US he did on June l, 1861, and hon.
ors Charleston thereby, as he did on the
occasion referred to the Southern Con.
federacy. We predict, however, that
Sam will be found 10 have proflted by
past experience, and that to secure 30 i'm
portant an adjunct as this, tho "ringmas'
ters" OF the Third district will have 10
"comc down heavy" 1t Is understood
here that so far as an alien could barter
away that which he had not, "a birth.
right in this land Of liberty, Sam parted
with his in 1861 to the "SpottswoOd Ho-
tel Junta" aforesaid, for pottage that he
never got; and that that he is not to be
caught that way again. The vendors
lien" which he then retained, he does not
now value o pin; and he will be careful
to remind the emissaries Of the Charles
ton interest that tho late war inaugurated
system Of down payments" for valua-
bic purchases. Let the Third district
therefore look well to this, and "put
money in its purse" II there is a "Trini.
ty oil Kingdom" there, as here, and II
Ben. Smith, Jim Ferguson, and Evermont
Ward comprise that trinity, let them be.
come duly aware that Sam Is even now
looking over the shoulder of the former TO
succeed the Hon. A. l. Foreman in the
U. s. Senate; that he win doubtless apply
to the Legislature, ere he leaves Charles.
ton, to displace Mr.. F. and substitute him.
self as the Code maker general under the
new Constitution, and Judge Ward may
rely upon it, that II Sam takes occasion,
las he will as cure as a duck will swim) to
address the public or private coteries Of
the elite at Charleston, he will persist in
enforcing upon tho taste Of his choice au-
ditory the bullying strut und swagger
with which he Is accustomed to regale
the gentlemen fthe jury" In substitu-
ton Of that lofty idealization by which
the Judge in his public efforts, ever re.
minds one Of Kentucky's proudest ora
tor. More Anon. PHn4o PoPULG.