Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-10-19


! not commence, what considered, the dis.
reputable business of ofiee-seeking undel
the Federal Government by applying to AT
administration of different politics for ar
Office.H l believed that Mr.. Lincoln's par
ty friends were entitled to the offices undsl
him-and was willing for his admins
ttration to follow ia the footsteps of it:
predecessors and work out its own destiny
by the appointment Of its friends TO office
Then, when at Wheeling, many persons
thinking themselves about some office OF
other, aud making that the basis of theil
patriotism, it was suggested TO me that
was dissatisfied with the action taken there
because had not been been elected to on
office by the Convention; and when
replied athat | would accept of no Of
fice under the Wheeling Government
however profitable; lbecsuseI did not ap-
provo of the plan adopted" this was con-
sidered only another link in the chain
to prove my disloyalty to the Union
cause. Office lS Office u The desire for
office is one of the leading causes of the
attempted destruction of our once glorious
Union, and is still its hane, and has been
one of the great causes of the iuefficincy
! of the Union Army thus far. A man be-
comes very patriotic, makes n few Union
speeches, gets q fat Office and then comes
to the conclusion that the Union is saved.
His idea of the Union extends thus far and
no farther. There are class of patriots
who consider the war all right and the
Union Army successful as long as it is FILL
ing their pockets. But change the thing,
Let it,pull out OF their pockets awhile, and
they begin to conclude that war is seri-
GUS business and finally that the progress
is to slow, and there is too much stealing
on. And so it goes. Pelf rules the age
and the people, and is now eating out the
very yitals OF the Nation. It used to be q
mark of suspicion against n man for him
to be an office seeker but such is the de-
.praYity of the times, am considered dis
loyal because refuse to join in the wild
hunt after Office. aas5a4g sfr-tau11os s..i .
But late developments have forced me
to tue conclusion that ! have in the COM
munity secret enemies, who are trying to
do me injury If such is not the case, why
is it reported and believed by some igno-
rant people that t0Gs not at the city Of
into my teeth by one of my neighbors, who
asserted that he believed it, when the truth
is, that was always at my post Mt Rich
mond with three exceptions, and then
was paired off with a secessionist whom
considered of at least double my mental
calibre. When the Committee on Federal
Relations was in session without any pros
pect of reaching a conclusion, l fouud O
red-hot, red-whiskered secession lawyer
(W. P. Cecil, Esq.,) from the Southwest
who desired to go home, and paired OF
with him and came home. returned tc
Richmond after an absence of about two
weeks, and subsequently went twice L
Washington City on Committees appoint.
ed by caucuses of Union members of thu
Convention, to consult with the "poweri
that be" at Washington relating to thei
policy about the national difficulties, and
particularly, in relation to the evacuation
of the forts in the seeded States. Thi
certainly gives the lie to that charge.
And, ! would ask also, what means nj
these reports during my late absence from
home-that no one knew of my wherea
bouts-thatI was off in the Southern Con
federacy. &C., &C., when NIL of my friend
knew ofmy whereabouts, and my family re
| ceived letters from me, or when i seut let
ters to them almost daily2 What mean
those false, groundless and malicious re
ports, that my house and Office have beeI
\ searched, and great many Southern pa
pers, and army maps of this county founC
there, giving the creeks and passes by
which Southern Army could be marched
in to subdue our peoPlc2 when the trutl
is, that have received but one letter from
any man connected with the Rebellion, o.
any man in any portion of the countr,
held by the Confederate nrmy-that from
my personal and intimate friend, Alfret
Barbour, dated at Winchester on the lStl
of May-if there is not some maliclou
spirit, false MS hell itself, Mt work agains
me in this community What means tn
guarding of my house one whole nigh
during my absence, when there was nj
man about it-no person there but my wifi
and children-in order to arrest Col. AL
fred NJ. Barbour, of the Secession Army
(wbo it was suggested was being hnrboret
there as spy, when that Alfred Bar
bour turned out TO be my baby dbou
fire months old2 Many men, who neve
rlsked a dollar nor n word to preven
this contest coming on-many eteVeIt
hour Union men, who waited to Sc
which way the tide was going to turn
but after they had come to the conclu
sion that the South was goiug to b
wiped out, and seeing good prospect Q
| getting some Office or making some none,
out Ol tue WAR nave now DeCOHe tue mos
rampant of all patriots. Like all men VIII
change their views or their politics, the.
halloo the loudest in order to convine
people of their sincerity, and, judging 9th
ers by their own corrupt hearts, they ar
the first to cast aspersions or r1whisper sus
picions against them. Such patriotism
at discount with me. If, asI apprehend
I have enemies, T7cauuot account for thei
alevolence-perhaps it is some new po
litical move on the chess board, which
do not comprehend-but if it is such,
liope the people may be able to check
mate'it. ilri,. fal .'f-3af ii7h7q
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VIM. SHAFFE r, II,
IpRArTIeAI WATCH MhKER