The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-11-18

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NEW ORLEANS, November IA, 1874
Editors IntelllGcnecr:
Thinking that a few lines from III
seat OF wa" might possibly interest you
readers, | have concluded 10 write Il
your paper, trusting that your patron
will not too closely criticise the first at
tempt Of an amateur correspondent.
My reasons for not writing prior to thI
late unpleasantness Of the l4th Of Sep,
TENDER was that ] had not time 10 con
tradiCL, and II would have taken consid
cradle time to contradict the "square. toeC
lies" as the boys say here, that were sent
north by the Packard.Kellogg crew OF a
lirst.claSs scoundrels asseVer cursed {
State or people, said prevarications ap
pearing in the telegrapbic columns o.
your semi.weeklY (which paper, by The
way, Is quite treat to Wheeling boy
away of here in Dixie.
| have been Republican since 1901
when the radical rebels undertook the dis
solution Of tho Union, and l am now q
Republican but not radical. My belief
to day is that as the Conservative masses
from 1861 until the close Of the war, and
later, gained victory after victory in the
Union Republican ranks over armed radi.
CalIsm as arrayed against the government
go did the Conservative masses in the late
elections proclaim against the radical pro.
sCription as exercised by Attorney Gen
eral Williams towards this the fairest por.
ton Of our fair land, against Credit Mohi.
lier, back salary grabbing and carpet.bag.
ism, TO say nothing Of the dragooning Of
the Southern States by the United States
army for the purpose of
PREoIpITATING CONFLICTS
between the races, Otherwise peSceably
disposed, whereby sentiment might be
manufactured to retain in power the same
set OF Infamous grand rascsls who have
pillagcd this country, until, In the Ian
gusgc Of the late Ben Butler, or some
other great light, they have made it a
bowling wilderness-a large portion Of 1t
AT least.
This may not be entirely orthodox, but
will probably be excused by some Of your
readers, among whom l might mention
those wagon makers, blacksmiths and
painters who have not had weeks work
At their trades for eighteen months,
owing to the misrule Of the men
in power in these Southern States,
who have their homes North, and
being tho scum OF those States and
not able 10 earn honest livlngs at home
have had until recently a lease Of power
10 make iniquitOuG laws, 10 create high
taxes amounting to Confscstion (the
Sheriff being the largest property holder
in this city, and miles Of better houses
than all on Main street in Wheeling arc
Tor sale and rotting DOWN, to set the
black man in antsgonism with the white
man, 10 demOrAlize labor and make con-
fusion worse COMPOUNDED, whereby the
best market the North and West ever
had for their manufactures and products
has been almost lost, causing ina great
measure the financial panic Of last year
and the suffering that will be this winter,
and until the South has time TO recuper.
ale from her PROSTATE condition.
Before the war and since the war until
c4rpet.bagism had control, there came
annually tens of thousands OF boat loads
Of produce and manufactures TO this State
alone, Now how is ii? l am credibly
informed and know from my own per-
sonal observation that there has not been
twenty broad horns (ilat boats gone into
BoyOu La Fourche and Teche in the last
two years.
1t is IN old saying that you touch q
mans pocket you touch his heart The
South being
CURSED WITH CARPET BADGERS
cannot pay the West for the produce. The
West In turn having lost its market can.
not purchase the glass, iron, nails, wa
CONS, ETC., manufactured by Wheeling and
Pittsburgh, thereby causing suspension
Of those manufactures and consequent
suffering among operatives and their
families. And when man who is able
and willing TO work and cannot obtain
employment goes homo to find his
children crying for food, that man
is made desperate, and that's what is the
matter.
When in Wheeling last summer l saw
numbers Of working men who had walk.
ed from Baltimore TO Philadelphia, Har-
risburg, Johnstown, Pittsburgh and
Wheeling seeking in vain for employ
ment.
That Indiana statesman who disobeyed
the laws of God in his youth Il think his
name toas Logan has said that the car
pet.baggers were the Boys in Blue that
came down hero during the war. The
good Lord save us. That is a libel, q
calumny OF the blacklist description
upon soldiers. There is not one in
twenty Of these fellows who has as much
sand iD his craw as would cause a canary
to wink, and II is more probable If they
came South in the army Of all, thoy
were in the Quartermasters department
where they learned their trade robbing
the boys, Where were they on the 14th
OF September when the outraged people
went for them. Crawling down the
drain pipes of the Custom House. Give
us q little rest Mr.. Logan and do moi
shame the Devil by out Icing him. Louis
lana Is with Florida tho Garden Spot OIL
the United States, the climate is delight
tul both summer and winter. We have
a fine sea breeze during the day and the
atmosphere is cooled by the dampnesE
arising from the ground at night, where
by one can sleep under blankets during
the wsrmest nights in summer, being lal
pleasanter than the hot nights in Wheel
ing in which there is no rest
Vegetables grow all winter and the tree
retain their verdure, in fact everything II
lovely and only Man Is vile, however The
villisnous kind will soon be como If the
Returning board does mot attempt some
more shenanigan similar to that practiced
two years ago when the will O
OF the people was set aside and tn
present UsurpatiOn came into power
1t will not be healthy for any Man o
set Of men who try that experiment
again. ! do no! doubt, from whdt l not
zee, and hear, that if Tho Wiu Of Tho peopI
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