The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-01-09
Charleston Recelveth a Re-enforce-
ment.
To the Editors Of the Intelllgcncsr.

menLS
To the Editors Of the IntelllgcnceE.
JANUARY 7Lh, 1873.
Since wrote on the 1st ultimo, in view
Of the final fight that in the Legislature
ia soon 10 come of on the capital question,
the Charleston interest in that momentous
conflict Is about to be REINFORCED by tue
portentious presence, and personal super
vision, oil that demoCratic-rebel prodigy,
Major A. G. Roger, Of Barbour County.
II Is said here, that the valorouS Majors
internal promptings thereto originated,
not like st Pauls, in o vision OF the
night but in private missiVe from
Sam Woods, calling upon the Major, as the
Macedonian did on the Apostles come
over into "Charleston" and help Us.
In response TO this piteous appeal, taking
our worthy delegate, Capt. Bradford into
due charge, Major r. started on yester-
day morning for that great field Of honor
and conflict, "the Permanent Seat" The
legislative body converting on the 10th
instant, It Is apparent that Maj. Roger ex'
poets to move on the Capital with all mil
itary celebrity, and upon approaches by
"double quick" by night and day conse-
uuently he only allows himself four d2ys
in starting upon the 9th for this journey.
In this limited time he will be required
to make by steam conveyance On actual
distance from home Of fraction over one
hundred miles, but 10 reach which, about
the same time and distance in travel is
required as in getting to San Francisco.
will not attempt to portray the sad Ger:
emonialS Of leave taking on the part Of
our afflicted citizens with this heroic
chieltaIn, going forth in 1.-THE footsteps OF
his iIlustrious predecessor" SAM and ar
rayed in the brazen plenitude OF his pride
of place." and in the panoply and mAgni.
tude OF self consciousness, to join that
great leader in a Quixotic crusade, to spit
upon the face Of the heavens and kick
against the pricks. -,
On behalf of this parting scene, l will
merely remind your readers, as ! recur to
it, in view Of this temporary loss of the
Mayor from our midst, that feel tho full
force OF the pathetic lines, addressed by
the poet to o Waterloo hero, viz:
There have been tears and breaking of hearts
for thee,
And mine were nothing, had such to give"
or one thing, there is not a doubt Turk
ing in the minds Of any Of US who wit
messed the departure OF this preponderant
presence, and that is, that he had been
duly honored and commissioned for this
doughty undertaking, rs Lieutenant
General, or chief field Marshal Of his
fOreruurer, the N6poleoniC Sam. That
there is a fitness of things, in the Personal
unity OF these champions, approximating
to what some writer terms ian eternal
harmony" there can, moreover, be scarce
doubt. To these manifest condolences
Of fitness, in a few OF their points OF ap.
positeness, we may here briefly Tecur.
And MuSly: both are men Of vast mental
resources, in which the predominant quail.
ty is o gigantic and sublime expansion oil
personal Importance and Of pure and un-
mitigated efffontery. Both arc men Of
un6Eu&hiag integrity; Of which that Of the
one is evidenced in tho mistaken y re-
turps Of the vote Of Barbour county on
tho ordinance Of secession, taken on the
fourth Thursday in May, 1851, as dis
closed in procurable document yet OK.
tsnt, and prepared over the signature Of
tho officer who conducted the so.called
election, in SANS Oton hdRdt0rittHgy' and
that OF the other by the affidavit OF a re.
liable citizen, read by Il. A. Barron and
other citizens at primary election held
at Glady Greek, In said county, during
the latter part of last summer. Both
were alike forward "in conquering and to
conquer" in the sell same department Of
the all. Yanks.devouring Confederate
armies. 1t is true that tho Major,
for short time in 1851, served
in the Stonewall Brigade OF that army,
but rumor with her thousand tongues,
sufficiently saith, how, after Milroy's men
failed to find him in his first and only
fight, in the ditch where he had like the
ostrich ensconced himself, he inconti.
uently left General Johnson's command
on "Camp Allegheny" and marched
bravely into the front rank OF General
Sans knife and fork brigade. Dye err.
ing but gallant spirits in fight, Of the
Third District Shades Of Fitzhugh,
Floyd, McOausland, Early, and Jenkins
Ye Of the living and the dead Are 70 to
"crook the supple hinges Of the knee" to
welcome with the "All hail, Macbeth
thou shalt be king hereafter" Of the
"Wierd Sisters" in their prophetic verify,
this place hunting brace Of partlzan sur.
veyors, who served so superservicably,
the armies of your beloved South, il
those ranks where the hunkey dieth not,
nor his appetite Is ever quenchedG But
anon. PmIo PoPUI1.