Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-03-23
RenrOck

Our friend "Vic" over at Reiners-
vile, in recent write-up, is selling
us for more than we are worth
He'd have to take us down among
the poems of Mexico to get his price.
When we were at his home a few
weeks ago our attention was drawn
to a work Of art which Mr.. Walters
ma nad evidently given much time and
study, 1t couldn't be otherwise. 1t
was drawing picture of a fam
lily tree. We have seen similar
trees" but nothing in comparison
to this one. 1t clearly shows that
he is real artist But the thing
uppermost in our mind Is that the
Walters family,-and they are le-
gion, ought to, through some of the
wellto-do representatives, take steps
to have this exquisite drawing re-
produced by photogravure, or some
such process, SO that any, or all. who
are included in the 'stree," could
have copy to adorn their home, at
a price that would be reasonable. 1t
could easily be possible that many
Of the family Connections do not know
that "Vic'' has such valuable piece
OF art in his possession.
The HOskinsville Rebellion
Mr.. Walters touched us on the
'.Hoskinsville Rebellion" He won
dered why we had not written it up.
He, like others, did not understand
our position. Perhaps few localities
outside of where battle was
fought, gained greater publicity at
the time of the Civil war. than the
little insignificant village of Hos
kinsville. The stand that some of
the citizens of the village, and com
munity took put it in the lime-light
which, ever since has been known
as the "HOskinsville Rebellion" Mr..
Walters, and others perhaps, did not
think or realize how close we are
living to the descendants of one Of
the deserters. We were personally
acquainted with him. His children
and grandchildren are among our
best friends. OF course they are in
no way responsible for the stigma
that was brought upon the family by
what we think was sheer folly in
two young men, and the gross ig-
norance and indiscretion of many
older heads. Why a small rural
against the United States is beyond
our power of comprehension. The
notoriety that attended this unfor-
tunate affair spread like wild-fire,
and gave rise to some very erroneous
ideas in regard to the little village
of scarcely dozen houses. Many
people in distant parts of the country
0dSlly SOL the impression tlat Hos
kinsville was quite large place, as
the following will show. 1t was
about / 5 years after the close Of the
war and just previous to a presiden-
tial election The writer. in COM
pany with another young man, was
at Cincinnati and we were sitting on
one of tie seats on the esplanade
near that famous fountain, when an
old man came along and got to talk
Ing with my companion, and among
other questions, asked him where
he was from, and being told that he
was from Hoskinsville. asked, Chow
he thought the election would go in /;
that city," Buddy replied, about
10000 Democratic This seemed
to satisfy the kindly disposed in
truder, and he hobbled on. The ac-
count that appeared in some of the |
papers recently including the Cald-
well Journal, which Mr.. Walters al
!uded, to, was, we believe, taken |
from an account which appeared in |
a Columbus paper at the time of the
occurrence, thus relieving any local