The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-19
POLITICAL NEWS.
A BATCH OF MIGHTY INTEREsrIa'
Nithi READIN'
Concerning Alabama Affairr, and wad
Hamptop's stanton speech -conyen!
tions Yesterday of the New Sersey
Republicans, Vermont Democrats
and New York Greenbackers., i.
ALABAMA.


Counting ON the sweet By.and.By.'
NEw YoRx, August 1G.-Mr. NJ. @. o.
born, United States Marshal for the South.
ern and Middle District Of Alabama, writes
to Marshall Jewell, Chairman OF the Na.
tional Republican Central Committee, in.
closing the following report: \
Sir: In accordance with 'your instruc.
tions, took the warrants for Penton and
others, of Andalusia, in Covington coun.
ty, charged with beating and iutimidatiLg
United States witnesses and destroying
processes from the United States Court. ]
proceeded with three deputies on the 9TH
inst. to Andalusia, In Covington county,
arriving there on Monday morning at
daylight. / found that they had been no.
titled OF our approach, and had collected q
force OF from twenty-five to fifty men,
armed with double. barreled shot.guns
and pistols, and had gathered in bar
room belonging to and kept by Penton. /
went into the room, and notified Penton
that l had a warrant for his arrest,
and that he would have to GO to Mont.
gomery with me. The crowd in the
room Immediately collected around
me, and Penton declared that he would
not submit TO an arrest, norRo 10 Mont
gomery until he was carried by force. !
told him that he would be compelled to
go quietly and obey the law. His reply
was: "Did you come here expecting TO
take anybody with you that justified the
force you have got?' alludingto the depu.
ties had with me. Ianaw cred that where
law aud order prevailed 1t was unnecessar
TO have any force at all, and that the ffe.
quent declaration that the country was
peaceable and inclined TO obey the law,
had led me, 10 believe that they would
submit without resistance. He replied:
~ will fight you to the last extremity be-
fore you shall take off any one from here
to-day. When we elect our President,
Hancock, this DID foolishness will stop.
The United States has no Fight.to' interfere
with this country and It's matters" I
then said to him: "If you contemplate
resistance to the death, ! am not prepared
to fight such force as you have collected
here, and j will mott return until better
prepared TO secure obedience to the law"
/ then returned and submit my report for
your consideration. Very respectfully.
SAN D. OLIVER.
Deputy United States Marshal in charge.
The letter containing this report to
Chairman Jewell inclosed also slip from
the Montgommery Advertiser and Mail OF
August l2. The writer says Deputy. Mar.
shal Oliver was Colonel in the Rebel
army, and is brave and true man. The
clipping is an editorial articlein which the
editor takes the ground that there were no
traitors during the War-the word traitor
appears In the terrns Of the sur
render at Appomattox, ,-and that the
Southern States seeded for Just and
ample canse, and under right to them,
at least, clear and undeniable as the exis.
fence Of the Constitution itself. The argu-
ment, therefore, has never been answered
and never will be.