The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-23

fed with uuexampled fortitude, at the
Marathon Of camp Alleghaney, his I'D.
bercnce TO a ritdl principle, of which, be.
Iore the war he was most ardent ex-
positor, that Of holding "thc last ditch"
whilst his subordinate conlederates were
fighting it out on their own hook, with.
out their gallant leader, US best they
could. Your readers must in time know,
that we have q poet in Barbour county.
one ]. b. Thompson, Of 1.-THE NQuows,"
who during the war was federal soldier
from patriotism, as he is poet from nat
ural genius. He served in the Tenth
West Virginia under General T. n. Har-
ris, and Captain NJ. Coburn, Is black.
smith by trade, and thinks as meanly Of q
rebel as Of copper snake. He ia q great
admircr Of "SpiVins" Of the Register,
especially, since 1t lisa well known fact,
that the latter is the supereminent CO.
adjutor Of the immortal poet BlObbs."
Thompson says that while tho initial
letter Of the compound name OF the val
orous Major referred TO IA. q. r } might,
as he wishes they did, stand for IA good
radical" yet they: really do signify "a
great REBEL, He, like many others Of
our patriot soldiers, likes his dram on fest.
i've occasions, and under It's influence, be.
sides being a little mellow, Is sometimes
slightly iErcverent. Upon such occasion,
he was heard TO say, that when Judge
Melvin who was in the federal service
submitst TO enter in into yoke fellowship,
and co equality with Judge Brannon, who
turned his Senatorial office md service at
the commencement Of the war, over 10
the Southern ConlederRcY, then he will
admit that the millennium Is at hand, and
that the lion and the lamb are to become
playiellows, but protests that he will not
believe In 1t even then. Thompson has q
new poem, or rather IN enlarged and re-
vIsed edition OF former one, in course
OF preparation, and has kindly furnished
me with two vers icles from 1t, upon no
further condition or consideration than
that should respectfully, in this COmmu.
nication, refer them to the confederation
Of Blobbs and Spivins, Of the Register.
The verses which are to follow refer TO
tn e conviction Of Guy Miller, quite re-
Gently In Lewis county Tor murder.
Thompson insists, most pertinaClously,
that il his verses are unfortunately IN
poetic, they at least contain literal truth;
and he hopes that the Register will admit
them as "a legal and sufficient offset to the
sycophantic "Puh" Of Major A. G. r. on
Judge Brannon. With permission here
insert them, regrctting that / am compel.
ed to anticipate SO far, the delight Of the
reader, upon the appearance Of the whole
poem.
"Thu foul Lost Cause deAies our laws.
With lust, rapln0 and riot,
The Judge in crime more stepped than him
Who hangs beneath his nat
"Whcre treason rent the government,
and shook proud Justices pillar,
Foul traitors sit RlOof In It,,s'
To sentence each Guy Miller
Twill in a few weeks send your readers
some account from Our people OF their
views in detail upon the acts OF the Leg
stature, closing for the present; again re.
marking that considering its source, the
Liquor Law is considered on all hands as
the most astounding and inexplicable
anomaly. FELIX PLEDIs.