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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Traitor Betrayed. (search)
A Traitor Betrayed.
Sherrard Clemens, of Wheeling, who ones represented his district in Congress, and who was a member of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, has published an address to the people of Northwestern Virginia, in which he bitterly complains of the treatment he is receiving at the hands of his Abolition friends.
Clemens was opposed to the new State movement, and received numerous invitations to address the people upon that subject pending the recent election.
The friends of the movement and the military, however, determined that he should not be heard, and wherever his appointments were made he met the military or unruly New State men to silence him. At Parkersburg he was waited upon by the Mayor of the town, who informed him that the whole matter had been placed in the hands of the military authorities, and that he would not be permitted to speak at all.--He says it was not the intention of the authorities to permit the Congressional amendments to the New State