Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-26

through to the bitter end, let the eonSe-
huences be what they may to the South.
Judge Thompson's Return.
Tho notorious Judge ThompsonI after
several weeks eSdfhsmehtih Camp Chase,
has returned 70 once more plague this con-
mlnity. BE has returned, too, in his own
estimation, and that Of his friends, not as a
conquered man but as ccnqueror He
has not been Hcoerced,s as was, boosted
yesterday upon the street. II there has
been any Hcoercionp he has been the CO.
greer. fat1ol-sg@1ql
We need not say that We in the last de.
gree condemn the false continuance by
which this bad mau has been sent back
among. Us dnhumbleds We feel as If the
cause had been humiHated by him. We
feel SO, aud his friends boast So.
And We feel 1t our duty now
70 loudly protest to the Govern.
meut egainst'the pernicious act by which
DO was let loose without. compliance with
the most stringentIetter Of Ihe.laW. ofall
men Judge Thompson ought to have re-
eeiyed the least mitigation at the hands of
the government He played the part of an
intriguer in the Union cause here when ey-
cry thing was in jeopardy. He did not hes
itnte, after loud professions of loyalty and
after he had won macy to his side by those
professions, to throw himself as frebrand
into our divided public sentiment, and for
q moment pu. tue highest interests of this
community in the EXTREMIST peril. g
Weak as Judge Thompson is in mental
and moral intellect, he has hold ppon
very many by virtue of his long official
prestige. There are many who do not
realize that he. is as bad man as he is.
They cannot some how believe it, because
they de not know bin. Such people Judge
Thompsoniean still furtherimpress. The
capacity to intrigue is just the capacity that
the Judge possesses. And be will quietly
use 1t, If. he finds he can do so with impu-
nifty. ~ Or 'a.sa ~ o.. '-si.
! We write these words with reluctance
with all our realization of Judge Thomp-
spn's bad faith at the. critical moment, We
would much rather see him in the enjoy
Beut of all his liberties than deprived of any
ofthem. providedIhe would enjoy them as a
good citizen. But that he will never do
he has openly declared that he will never
support or respect the Governments which
this community recognize.
| On the slst of May last, previous to his
departure for Camp Chase, he wrote the
following card to the Wheeling Pre.,.
To NE Editor of tts Hheeling Press:
| SIR-With your usual regard for the ac-
enracy Of your facts. and your "loye for
| the Union, the Constitution and the en-
l.forcemeutof the laws" you have said that
1 was arrested and took the oath. was
arrested Ihave not taken the oath, and
never will submit my conscience to such
unhallowed impurity as to take an oath to
apower, and from men whs, in endeayor-
| ing to coerce me, Violate the very oath they
wish to compel me to take. have no
sympathy with Despotisln and Abolition
ism. 4..r 81
Do at least the justice to publish this.
May 3lst, 1852.
This was the public declaration of the
Judge previous to his departure for Camp
Chase. he has not retracted it. He comes
fhome under an exchange as he claims. In
no sense is Judge Thompson prisoner of
war. Neither was he taken as hostage.
Neither as an exchanged man does he pro-
lipose to go South, as exchanged people do.
To exchangeEhim, required,ve fancy, a new
and most dexterous enlargement of the
term. How could he be exehanged? The
truth is he has simply been released. He
has come homo as We said, just "a he went
away, stubborn rebel.
i There is but one view to take fthis
case, whatever morbid sympathy may sug-
gest. Judge Thompson should be made to
comply with the order of the War Depart
ment, just in like manner aud form as
other persons similarly arrested were made
to comply. We apprehend nothing but
the worst consequences If such man is
exempted. Better thousand Tires ex-
empt some of those poor ignorant crea-
lures who are hardly responsible for what
they think or say. 1t is of the first impor-
lance to the peace and dignity of the Union
cause in this community that Judge
Thompson should be reduced TO the COM
mon level of submission 10 the State and
national authority. = .@t'f- 'fFA'@
LETTERS from ladies at the South, dated
month or two back, speak of the priya-
tons of even the more wealthy classes of
that region. as of the most distressing char