Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-29
a Card from DIR. Watson COncernIn,
the Editor OF the Press,

A Gard from DR.. Watson Concerning
the Editor OF the Press.
Editors IntelIigsncer
The Wheeling Press of yesterday with
its characteristic disregArd,of truth and its
increasing hatred of the Union cause at
tacks resolution Which.G offered in the
Senate on Monday "a copy of which now
enclose You tor publicatiou) for the pro.
lection of such of our unfortunate fellow
citizens as had fallen into the hands of the
rebels, and were by them confined in mi.
sons nil through the South, and subjected
to all the indignities and hardshi2s of con-
Victed felons, their only crime being their
love otihS Union. ask from your read
ers n careful reading of my resolution
and then to judge it in the light
OF the malignant comments of the
editor of the Press. Ny object was. and it
is the object OF all patriotic Yirginians. to
protect helpless meo, women and children
from seizure and captivity and degradation
and untold suffering. Perhaps the editor
OF the Press, enVeloped as he has been all
this War in cautious security, has never
known of the practices of the rebels towards
innocent Union people of every part of the
State. Perhaps he has never heard of the
case of Mrs. Piggott, sister of our newly
elected United States Senator. Judge Bow.
den, and her four children, who are now
imprisoned in dungeon in Richmond fo-
no crime in the world save their uncououer-
able attachment 10 the Union, He has
doubtless never heard of the case of Mr..
Mannocks, of Williamsburg, who Was
dragged from his home-his family left to
want-and sent to Salisbury, N. c., and is
now there in a filthy cell This man. to
my personal knowledge, was Que of the
most inofelsiEe citizens in ouz State.
aud never harmed or Wrouged auy one,
loyal or disloyal. The case of Mr.. Man
nocks is the case OF Mr. Morrison. an
old man, seventy years of age, taken from
near Elizabeth City, more than year ago.
and ever since confined in prison. And
All these cases are simply the experiences
TOR their relief, and for the prevention of
such barbarous outrages in the future. that
offered my resolution.
Aud now, sirs, having stated nv case.
desire to know from the Editor of the Pres,
what right and authority he presumes tn
maliclously assail by motives, aud to put
upon me the brand of Abolitionism syste.
matically applied by him to all Union men.
Ny birth, habits Of life, education, associs.
ton, property, everything surrounding me.
give the emphatic lie TO his ISLANDERS. I
have been all my life Stakeholder, How
can he, hailing from under the drippings Of
Exeter Hall, in England. not even a
citizen of this State, and lately a confess
ed Black Republican" aud now disgrace
ed renegade from that party, presume with
any justice or reason to impute to me abol.
ition. he shall not do so with impunity.
and call upon the public to beware Of
such attacks as he is in the habit of max
lug upon loyal men. His design seems to
be to break down all protection to loyalty
aud to surrender US completely 10 the
tender mercies ofrebeldou.
10 conclude, let me express my earnest hope
pass the resolution which offered in The
Senate on Monday, and which passed that
body so promptly aud unanimously, Ger
tsinly it is the imperative duty of the
Government to extend protection of the
character asked, over every loyal man. II