The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-04
A FINE OUTLOOK
roR REPuBLIoAN SUCCESS IN vER.
aoAFAND ELSEWHERE.
PrOphe.ie. That the Green Mountaia
state will Give GaraeId thirty Thou
sand nsIority-A Specimen Of the
Mississippi Pran-A PIueky
Son OF the south.
THE MISSISSIPPI DEnocRATIcPLAS
How Greenbaeker was BuIIdozed-No
Wonder They Do Not Fuse Up In Maine

wonder They DO Not Fuse Up I'm Maine
This Year.
MENPHIs, TRSS., September s.-The fol.
lowing letter Is published in to-day's Mem.
phis Re1Hy Herald, the organ Of the Ma
tional Greenback party for West Tennes-
see. The genuiness of the letter is vouched
for by the editor OF the Herald, and the
facts stated are eoroborated by gentlemen
eognizant Of them direct from Coffeeyille.
The writer, as he signs himself, is chair
man Of the National Greenback Executive
Committee for the State Of Mississippi,
and will be recalled as the Captain VIM
berly who, when elected clerk Of Yalla-
busha county, and on being counted out,
barrieaded the court house, defsd the
bulldozets, and held the fort against all
eomen until the contest was decided in
his favor:
CoEFFEvnLR, MISS, August %, 1880.
Memphi, Hzald, r. v Paarsou, ESq.:
The candidate on the National Green
back ticket Is elected. On Monday, Au-
gust q, the so.eAlled Democrats Of this
county and adjoining counties assembled
at this place in mobs, with their shotguns,
bowie knives and pistols, they said TO
keep the peace, but later in the day they
changed their programme, appointed q
committee consisting Of two, J. L. Esk-
ridge and W. P. Hyde, to call on me and
demanding that cease advocating the
National Greepback cause or / would be
dead man before midnight. Ny reply
was that would when God called me
away and not until then. About an hour
later / was waited on BY another
committee, consisting Of L. W. Jones,
W. P. Hyde and W. I. Wynn,
saying the people demanded an un-
conditional surrender OF my political
principles. My reply was / hoped when
/ did God might wither my right arm or
that death might come instantly, and If
they intended carrying out their threats, l
would ask them. for decency' 8 sake, not 10
mob me, but appoint committee oil five,
give me three hours TO wind up my mat
ters, then they could take me, tie my
hands behind me, tie me 70 stake, blind
fold me and shoot me. In other words,
take any style, bnt for Gods sake not TO
have me assassinated at night, as that
would look ugly, but do 1t in open day
light. They said they had nothing further
TO do with It; that would be left with the
parties who gave them instructions.
Ny friend, Mr.. J. O. Steele, who was
with me, asked them II nothing else but
an unconditional surrender of politics
would satisfy them.
Mr.. s. W. Jones, one OF the committee,
replied that he thought not, and remarked
10 W. I. Wynn that he was the Secretary
of ouf, Lodge to-wit; TIE Soresters,n .
that he thought owed some dues, and TO
please call and get the money, that
might get a receipt In full, so that when j
was murdered my family would get the
benefit Of the policy. He did so.
then vent arpund 70 my store, there TO
await the result OF their hellish schemes,
but God in His goodness saw ht 70 prevent
them, and has continued to dos up TO this
good hour, and have faith TO believe that
He will continue 70 do so.
Now, Mr.. Editor, these are ali is1tts, and
stlll not half told, but / will in q few days
have ont my communication in full. As
above stated, these are fsets, and he who
denies It lies. was born in Marshall
county, Mississippi, and when q boy my
father moved TO Memphis, Tenn. When the
first cannon fred at Fort Sumter yolun-
teered nv services, Joined the Harris Zou-
ave Cadets OF the old One Hundred and
FiIty-fourth Senior Tennessee Regiment,
| left nv home 10 fight for what believed
my rights and the liberties ot our south;
eFn people. ! never returned home but
once during the gsr, and that was caused
from sickness, and of such nature that
vas discharged from the infantry, but
soon connected myself with Forests Cay
airy, and there remained until We sHfren.
dsred at Grenada, Miss ! have heard and
read Of these things said 70 have been COM
mitted in the south, and must confess that
/ did not believe halt OF what ! heard,
and the only reason | can assign Is that
was a member Of the Democratic party,
and ike hundreds and thousanas @t ct atn- !
ers that arc nov members Of the same
party, blinded TO its corruptions and in.
capability Of controlling any thing but
mob. In 1881, when W. L. Yancey, in !
Memphis, made his noted secession speech,
was standing near my father. He looked
at me and said; "My son, II that policy
il carried out, and the Democracy upheld,
It will be the damnstion Of the South |,
in the language OF my fSther, say that II
the Democracy gets control Of this govern
ment It will be the distraction OF the lib.
critics OF It's people. God, let the heavens
fall, let the earth sink, let the sun cease TO
shine, Tut for mercy's sake, and for the
sake Of the rising generation, crush the
so-called Democracy, Il my earnest prayer.
will give il TO you In full next week,
Respectfully, AT. WnfBERLE.
Chairman Of the National State Rxecu-
tive Committee.