Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-13

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a Card from the Auditor of state Com
cerning the Editor OF the wheeling
AuDrroR's OFFICE,
WHEELISs. Va, Oct. 18th, 1852. 4
Editors IntsItigenesr:
The editor of the Wheeling Press for
months, weeks and days past, has persist
emily and willfully uttered and published
lie after lie, about my private aud public
character. did not intend to notice the
blatings of the dying calf, but / have borne
it as long as my own sense of duty to my
self aud public would allow. The uisera-
BILE deserter from the Union cause and the
toady to John S. Carlile, Vallandig-
ham and other like traitors, to screen him
self from the odium of having published a
wilful and deliberate lie about the st Clairs-
vile meeting, (you will recolIect in his
issue of the ninth he stated he bad seen an
abolition meeting advertised at st. Clairs-
Vile on Wednesday, now eudeayors TO save
his character from odinm by replying
in the Press of the llth inst, that if
meeting was advertised for Lovejoy to
speak, it would be an abolition meeting,
and as | was to speak and did speak at st
Clairsville, therefore the st. ClairsVille
called an abolitionist by the Southern so
called chivalry, because | would not, and
did not engage in the rebellion, was COM
mon, aud did not care about it, having
cast my lot with the Union men of my
country. 1t had no odium for me bat to
allow lying, thim6Le headed Yankee, from
motives of personal revenge, to use the
term and apply it to me, is a little
more than l can allow without con-
tradicting it. Let me state to the public
how the anger of the little man became
aroused against me, aud for what. When
he came to Wheeling about the first of
June, 1861, he represented to the commu-
nifty that he for his Union sentiments had
been driven out of Hampshire county, and
that he dare not go back. He then asked
the Legislature to elect him Public Printer
OF the State. From sympathy, aud sympa-
thy alone, he was ected to that Office.
His false preteuce of being Union mau
soon began to show him to be wolf in
sleeps clothing, by taking ground against
our new State; defending John S. OArlile's
course in the Senate of the United States
upon our New State Bill; carping about
the violated Constitution and Abolition
war; in word opposing the war, the
new State, aud everything that was dear
10 the loyal men of West Virginia. For
this and other reasons 1 withheld my sup
port from the detesta6te renegade. The
public printing was his support, It fed
him and clothed MIN while he was writing
his treason against the State and the
Union, and l determined, so far as this
Office was concerned, he should not have
its patronage. And now the public have
II full statement of all the reasons this
euLPrt has for his constant attacks upon
me. In answer to his statement that am
an Abolitionist, no man knows better than
the lying editor of the PSeS1 that it is not
so He very well knows that am slave
holder. and have ever been, and that so far
AS the right of property in slaves is con
cerned, | have never uttered or published
one word against it. have said both in
private and in public that 1 was and am in
favor of the Union and putting down the
rebellion it every negro on earth should be
made free by it; that | would confiscate
every negro belonging to rebels or rebel
sympathizers Now if this be A6okitiOnism
let some one who has brain determine,
but do not let the acorn headed Yankee,
such as the editor of the Press, do it for
me. InGsmuch Us this pimp of perfection
can see thus clearly into the hearts of
every man and determine at glance the
true character, let lin tell the world which
is the worst, a liar aud filcher or an
abolitionist. For the benefit of this puro
man, a. s. Trowbridge, and that the pub
lie may have some personal knowledge of
him, Che who enlightens the people about
how other men are getting along have
here appended bill made out by the pub
lie printer and certified to by the clerk of
the House of Delegates as work supposed
to be done at the time ofits being certified.
WHEELING, Va, June Sd, 1862.
Commonwealth of Virginia
To A. 8 TRowpHIDGE DR..
To binding 5000 Copies OF Acts q IS CO. Is
/, Gibson L. onnmer. Clerk Of the House Of DeiO,
gates, do certify that the above bill Is correct.
g. L. CR.NNER,
Received Payment
A. s. TRowBRIpGE
per MTTIsoER
The law requires that within forty days
after the close of the session OF the Gener.
raj Assembly (see code of Virginia 1860,
page 100, section 4th) the public printer
shall print and bind four thousand copies
Of the acts and resolutions of that body and
deliver them to the Secretary of the Com
mouwealth. The legislature adjourned the
18th day of February, 1869. According
to the law he ought to have delivered the
four thousand copies of the acts and reso
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