The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-10-13
gANDlDAT tie WEAVER
HIS TYRANNICAI MILITARY
RECORD IN THE SOUTH.
An Unbroken Career of Oppression
and SpOilation-Old Men and =.
Woman were His Victims.
From the Chicago Herald ]


letter has been received by citizen o
Keokuk, Iowa, from an old gentleman
living in Pulaski, Tenn, where Gen
Weaver, the Peoples party candidate
| for President, had command in th'
latter part of the war The sentiment
contained in the letter will doubles
be spread abroad throughout the Soutl
and put the Peoples party candidate
on the defensive when he enters upor
the canvass in that section, where hi
friends claim he is SO strong. A por
ton of the letter reads as follows: 'sHt
| (Weaver) will eclipse Bull Nelson O
Ben Butler SO far as the double -dyel
villain reaches. l send you a piece
cut from the GILES County Dem0era
of the Goth, and | vouch for the trutt
Of every word. All three of the mer
were old friends ofmine. He (Weaver>
had Baker Sheperd, George Petway
and G. W. McGrew arrested, anC
would have arrested me if it had no
been for McGrew. When they passeo
my house McGrew told him was deaf
Weaver sent Shepard and Petway oul
of the lines. Messrs. Newbill, Rhode:
and Abernathy paid him the money
These are the facts and can be proved
He was perfect terror to 10th mer
and women. The refugees rever re-
ceived one cent of the money. Al
the old citizens are dead now. Most
of them were very old at the time
Weaver will get very few votes south
of Mason and Dixon's line" The fol
lowing is the clipping referred to above,
headed 'Something about Weaver -
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
General Weaver, while in command
at Pulaski, in January in 1864, issued
an order to Charles c. Alternately,
John H. Newbill, Robert Rhodes and
others that they pay into his hands
| $1,000 for the maintenance of refugees
| (meaning negroes and renegades from
Alabama). This order was accom-
panied by 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
parties are dead now and we're over sixty
years old when that order was issued.
Can any Southern man vote for such
| heartless wretch ?
THE COTTON TWIST ROBBERY.
A man by the name Of G. w. Witt
sold Mr.. Jasper Cox-a very poor man
two thousand pounds of bacon. for
which he received the cash. Mr.. Cox
took the bacon to the cotton mills in
Lawrence county and traded it for
cotton twist. This he carefully slowed
away in the loft of his little cabin,
thinking that it would assist him in
purchasing little home after the war,
as he was very poor, with large family
and had no home. Weaver learned
through some source that this gentle
man had the cotton twist and sent a
detachment of soldiers to his house
and took possession Of it, and shipped
it to Iowa for his own use.
This cotton twist was worth at the
time it was stolen, s., 900.
Jasper Cox is living in Giles county
to-day.
ROBBERY OF HOGS AND TURKEYS.
John P. Williams, poor but highly
esteemed farmer in Giles county, had
twenty-five fat hogs, which at that
time were worth ten dollars per hun
dred, gross, and a lot Of turkeys.
Weaver, in person, took file of sold
iers out to Williams place and made
the soldiers shoot every hog on the
place, and had them brought to camp.
When Williams asked for voucher
Weaver said, 81 don't give rebels in
the South vouchers. l would rather
furnish rope to hang every d-n one
Of them" Mr.. Williams is still living,
and will swear to the above if neces
sary.
FONDNESS FOR HORSE FLESH.
Weaver had a great fondness for
horse flesh, and whenever he found a
horse belonging, as ne called it, to
"rebel sympathizer, he took possess
sion of it without giving any voucher
for it, and if the owner valued it very
highly and did not wish to part with
it, he charged him from one to five
hundred dollars, according to the
value of the horse, for returning it to its
owner. This money he put into his
own pocket.
BAn~ERING IN PASSES.
Weaver iu4ue it practice to charge
our citizens ten cents each for passes
to come into and go out of the Federal
lines. This money he put into his
own pocket. This pass read as fol-
lows:
Pass the bearer through the federal
lines.
]. B. Weaver, Commander.
RoBBING AND IMPRISONING PROMINENT
CITIZENS.
Weaver had number of law-abid
ing citizens arrested and put in Jail and
then charged them from one hundred
to FIVE hundred dollars for releasing
them. There were no charges against
them. Several Of the gentlemen who
were put in Jail and paid the money
are still living, among them, Mr.. J. C..
Roberts, one of the most highly re-
spected citizens in Pulaski.
The folio wing are few of the gen
tlemen in Giles county, from whom