The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-09-15
- GEN ERAL WEAVER,
his WAR RECORD---A HArER OF THE
:; SOUTH AND HER PEOPLE.

| : SOUTH AND HER PEOPLE.
he Giles e., ,unt, T-nuespe.. Dom,or.c,
Pays its Respects To tho P"opIs,s Party
| Candidate-Could Southern Mon yo,,
| for suoh a CHARACTER.
| kEoKUK, IOWA, Sept. 5.--A very in.
! tereSting and significant letter has been
! received by q citizen OF Keokuk from
an Old gentleman living in Pulaski.
| Tenn, where General Weaver, the peo,
Pies party candidate for president, had
commanded In the latter part of the
war.
The sentiments contained in the
letter will doubtless be spread abroad
| throughout the South and put the peo-
El"'s party candidate on the defensive
| when he enters npon the canvass III
that section where his friends claim he
Is so strong. a portion of the letter
reads as follows. He (Weaver) will
eclipse Bull Nelson or Ben Butler so,
far as the doablde-yed william reaches.
sene you piece cut from the Giles
county Democrat Of the goth, and |
vouch for the truth of every word.
All three OF the men were old friends
or mine. lie (Weaver) had Baker
Snepard, George Petway and 5. W.
! MCGreW arrested, and would have had
mo arrested if it had not been for
| McGrew. When they passed my house
McGtew told him l was deaf. Weaver
| sent Shepard and Ietway out of the
| nDe5. Messrs. Newbill, Rhodes and
ADeraathy paid the money. These are
| the facts and can he proved. lie was
per- act terror TO bo:h men and women
| Inc refugees never received one cent
of the money.
All of the old citizens are dead now.
Most OF them were very old at the time.
| Weaver will get very few voters south
or the Mason and Dixon line" The
! following Is the clipping referred to
Weaver"
| General Weaver, while in command
at l'u askl in January in 1864, issued
an order to Charles 9. Abernathy, John
! IL. NeWbill, Robert Rhodes and others
that they pay into his hands 81 600 for
the maintenance of refugees (meaning
negroes and renegadeS from Alabama
This order was accompanied by a
threat that If the money was not paid,
| they and their families would be sent
south and their property given to said
refugees. All of these partie5sare dead
| now. and were over SIXTY years old
NIdI
Southern man vote for such heartless
wretch?
a man by the name of &. w. Witt
sold MIR. Jasper Cox-a very poor man
two thousand pounds of bacon, for
which he received the cash. Mr.. Cox
TOOK lhe bacon to the cotton mills in
| La" renee cOuIty and traded it for cot
ton twist This he carefully slowed
away in the loft of his little cabin,
thinking that it would assist him in
puichasing little home after the war
as he was Very poor with Il large family
and had no home.
Weaver learned through some source
that this gentleman hal the cotton
twist and sent detachment of soldiers
To his house ami took poe session of it,
and shipped it 10 Iowa for his own Use.
ihls cottan twist was worth ut the
time 1t was stolen $1,000. Jasper Cox
Is living in Giles county:
John L. Williams, poor but highly
esteemed farmer in Giles county, had
TWENTY-FIVE tat hogs, which at that
tint were worth ten dollars per hun
drru, gross, ana lot OF turkeys.
Weaver, in person, took u file ul
soldiers out TO Williams place and
mado the soldiers shoot every hog Oh
the place, and had theui brought 10
camp. When Williams asked for a
Voucher Weaver said: IL don'5 give
rehe j 10 the SouLh vouchers. | would |
rather furnish rope to hang every d--n |
oIc If them Mr.. Williams is still Iiy-
in&, and will swear TO the above if |
necessary.
The hogs were valued ut s $50.
IN" turkeys belonged to AIRS. Viii. |
lianlS, aud she begged to have them |!
5EtT'd. but the leartless wretch had |
'h''" al! Killed an,l taken to headauar.
ttra lor t'ls own Use, reluarkiug TO Mrs. !
Wil.tdms that sAe had no buslnts IS De-
ing he wife of Il rebel.
Weaver made it Il practice To charge
onr citizens ten cents each for passes
to come into and out ut the Feueral
lines. Fhis money he put into his own |
POCKET. This pass read as follows:
:. lass the bearer through the Federal |
lines. ). B. WEAVER.
Commander
Weaver had a number of law abid |
ing citizens arrested and put III jal |
ana then charged them from one hun |
dTrd to five hundred dollars Cor releHs-
ing them. There were no charges
agalQah them. Several of the gentle
men ""H were PM in jill and paid the
money are Sill living Among them ls
Dr. D.. y. lserts one Of the most high
y ,toPVClcu ClJllcliS OF IultSkl. |
weaver had a foudntss for horse
iesh, and whenever he found horse
belonging, as he called it, to a rebel
sI sImpathizer," he took possession of it
without giving Il voucher for it, and
II the owner valued it very highly and
did not wish TO part with it, he charged
MIN from one and'to live hundred dol.
l3p3, according to the value of the horse,
for returning 1t to its owner. This
money he put into his own pocket.
Weaver was tearOr not only to the
male portion of our people, but was
l2athed and despised by the women and
chlldreL for his brutal conduct. He
was regarded by all respe ctable citizens
AS an outlaw and INSCRIPTIONS scoun
drel, perfectly destitute of every
ingredient that IL takes to- constitute a
gentleman.
ANY Southern man who would vote
Tor Joe Weaver, the peoples party can
dldate for the presidency. after reading
ms record. ought to be Imprisoned tor
|lfe and led on vinegar and pumpkin
seed the remainder of his days.
Rstributivs Justice.