The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-09-07
HOW THEY sQUIRMl
Out of Hayes Own Mouth he Is
Convicted!
This is tie testimony that The Radicals
Rely upon to Sarc Hdyesi
Che Burden of Proof against
Gen. HdNes Z!

The following is from the Column
bus (O.) Dispatch of FridayEycning,
August 25th, 1876 and is. the same
that the Monitor has decided to pub
fish to yindieatc Gov. Hayes. We
are willing to give their own testi,
mony; and if any fair minded and
unprecedented man can read it with,
out concluding that Mr.. Hayes got
the S400, then we are no Judge:
What Mr.. Harper Said.
What want is to set mySclfright
before the people of West Virginia,
some of whom charge me with hay
ing appropriated tony own use about
800 taken from a rebel deserter who
was shot at Monocacy Junction in
1864, To show what became of the
money, and to show that have uni
formly made the same statements
about the transaction, | will say that
on June 2Gth, 1876, | wrote and had
published the following statement in
the Point Pleasant Register, having
been solicited to do so by the editor:
[Lotter heretofore published.-H.]
On the 10th of August, 1864, |
wrote to my wife, from Harper's Fer
ry, the following taken from the
ooiginal letter.
"Thcy shot Il deSertcr at Frederick
City on the 9TH of this month. Be
fore he was executed be sent for me
to come and see him and talk with
him. did 50, and prayed for him
at the place Of execution. Poor fell
low, he felt very bad, but there was
no remedy. He was Il dcsertcr, and
military law says he must die. He
gave me 500 aud two watches to be
sent to his mother, provided | could
find her, which will bevcry doubtful,
The money, however, did not belong
to him, for he had fraudUlcntly got
ten it from the Government, and
Colonel Hayes decided to keep the
money and get another rccuit with
it, The watches | still have. One
ts,a $40 watch. The other is not so
good. If | never hear from her they
will be mine, so Colonel Hayes dccid-
cd"
In the Point Pleasant Register of
August Is, 1864, appears the follow
ing, which ! wrote for publication in
paper, dating communication Mt llar-
pcr's Ferry, August Z:
"The history of this man is this: He
was first rebel soldier and deserted
and joined the Odd Ohio; deserted it
and went back to the enemy, and was
captured at Cloyd Mountain in May
last; made his escape, after which he
hired as n substitute, getting some
sl00 from the man who hired him.
Fortunately for the Government, but
unfortunately for thcman, he in COM
pany with ninety others was assigned
to the very regiment from which he
had deserted"
| don't know who called the court
martial for the trial of the rebel and
dcseytcr who had this money. lie
gave his name 10 me as Isaac Wheel
ton, and his mothers namc'as Nancy
Wholton, I heard him called Whit
low and Hall. In this connection,
in the Weekly Point Pleasant Regis,
ter of August is, 1861, ! published
the following notice:
"N0TICE
isaac Whclton, who was Shot at Fred
ericl, City ON the 9TH OF August, 1861, left
some property in my hands, with instruct
ions fpossible to get tito hiSmothcr, whom
he named us Nancy Wheltm. 1T consists
OF two wNtches.l Ii Mrs, Whelton will
come forward and give satisfactory cyi.
dcncc that she is the mother Of the decea-
sed, she can have the articles specified
Address the subscriber ut Hartford City,
Mason County, West Va.
wv. W. HARPER,
"Chapain 18th West Va nifty"
The man who was executed told me
his father was dead, and supposed his
mother was somewhere in Virginia,
but did not knowwhcrc. Twas sent
for after the trial and condemnation
of the man. The parties who came
after me said man was to be shot
and wanted to see a chaplain. My
impression has been all along that !
was sent for in the forenoon of that
day, The court-martial, according to
my recollection, convencdabout nine
o'clock a. m. | found the man under
guard, Men wcrcaround there thick
as bees, and all was excitement. |
found the man in a very NgitaLed
state of mind. had some convcrsa-
ton with him in relation to the con-
dition of his mind, and tried to rec
oncilo him TO his fate. He told me
he had two watches and some S4OOin
money, which he wanted me to take.
lie said he had no friends that he
knew OF. | asked him where his
parents were. lie said his father
was dead lie had a mother living
somewhere, but didn't know whore,
but supposed she was somewhere in
Virginia. He then gave me the two
watches and the $40, with instruct
ions to send it to his mother, if !