West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-10-02
WORTH READING.
From "a Preston hoy now In wash.
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WasHiHeroS Sept. 10, 1880
EDITOR ASeh ;-Iu.the ,Prestop County
Journal Of Sept 8, tue Editor In an article
gives list of items, 10 which be tells his
readers what the Republican party has
not done. By your permission propose
T. lay before your readers from official
sources, few items by which il may be
known what the Republican party has
done aud Is now doing:
They have ,L0ngstreet, who fought us
harder and stronger than any other Gen
eral but Lee, Ia u lucrative office.
Ackerman was made Attorney General.
He was n notorious rebel duriUg the war.
John Sherman has few on his roster, ~
stated by the Enquirer
Gen. Withers was a Confed, rate soldier.
He served through the war. He IS E.v-
ther of Senator Withers, OF Virgin:o. q
WAS appointed 6rst-class clerk la tAs
Registers office OF the Treasury by John
Sherman, on the recommendation o. Gen.
Sherman, whose classmate he wap - West
Point.
Col. Hathaway, editor of the NDrfoik
Day Book, was appointed in July by Sec
rotary Sherman Inspector OF Customs at
Norfolk. vice Inspector Phelps. Haths-
way advocated making bridges of the
bodies of Union men in 1891 in his paper.
and was rampant seccssiOnist until he
recently beg4n the advocacy Of Sherman
for the Presidency in his paper. Ph.lps
is an original Union man, a presiding elder
of the Methodist Church, and being too
old for the army, cared for the families OF
Union refugees.
John 5. Mosby, the notorious guerrilla,
is Consul General to China. on Tecem-
mendation of John Sherman aud James
A. Garfield, vice Wells, All ex-unlon SOL
diGr
Stephen y. B4i!ey was major of guer-
rillas under Mosby. The Washington Re-
puOlican, in the war chronicles OF July "a,
says; July p. 1862. Eighty men OF the
Ninth Virginia infantry were surprised
and captured at Summeiyllle, va, by n
superior force of rebel calvary, under
Mai. Bailey" Maj. Bailey is an Inspector
of tobacco ut PlIls0urg, Va, IA u salary
of "a, 500, under Secretary Suerman.
Robert T. Bailey, SON Of the Maj"r, also
u Musby guerrilla, 10 assistant inspector Of
looacco III the Second Virginia District, AT
a salary of about $1,000.
Ii. Clay Bailey, also son OF the Major
and Mosby guerrilla, Is deputy collector
ct internal revenue tor the SIKH Virginia
District, under Secretary sherman.
Simpson r. Bailey, also n son Ut the
Major ami Mu-6y gueTrIIh-, il sui
Consul at Palermo, Sicily, AT a handsome
salary, including fees.
j. w. Champman, also Mostly grer
rill4, was mail agent, tut Is now special
agent of the Treasury under Secretary
SHERMAN.
J. Ii. Rivcs, Captain of Artillery in the
rebel army ID Collector of Internal R,v'-
nue. of the FTL Virginia District. and
has thirty pubordiHatts. Excepting three
" these, HVes aud his whole ioice are
Southern Democrats.
Edward W. Massey, an cx-Mnshy que 60
rilla, is Inspector OF Customs at Fortress
Monroe, Va. Theodore Nclligar, who
served through the wy in the New YoIk
Burgess X de Corps, Was discharged to
make room for him.
In July widow lady named Barnes,
the daughter of staunch Union ma Il
named Pollard, in Virginia, who wac shot