The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-05

MONDAY. OCTOBER s, 1863
4 From the Morgantown Monitor
The Campbell and Kramer
VS. ' PrestigatiOn.
/ La our last number we took occasion te
notice coarse and venomous attack las the
Wheeling Register very properly termed it,
made on US by the editor of the Intelligencer
supported by Mr.. Lee Roy Kramer In
the attack they asserted, to use their Ian
guage, that 81 - f -s%
"Just before the election of U. s.. Sena
tors he wrote letter to Gen. Kramer,
bessechiag hinnot to let his father be beaten. y
This assertion we denounced as malici.
ops falsehood, and that it might SO appear
before the public, we called upon Mr..
Kramer to produce any portion of the let
ter that would sustain such an assertion
In a subsequent article in the h,te2ligencer,
he produces a paragraph from our letter
which he essays to prove fully sustains the
assertion of the former article. We will
give this paragraph presently.
We first wish to ask those who read the
article Of the IateUigencer what they con-
slider to be the true intent of that article
What impression was it designed to convey,
and what impression did it naturally con
vey? Did not every one who read that ar
ticle naturally picture us in his mind as
down on our knees before his Excellency,
Lee Roy Kramer, with our mouths in the
dust, s.spaniel like" "beseeching him" out
of pity for our humiliation, for heavens
sake, "not to allow his father to be beaten
This, no one will dispute, is the only
true and Just rendering of this article.
Now here is the paragraph produced by
Mr.. Kramer to sustain this impression
Of course it is the most favorable selection
he could CLEAN from tue letter.
"It is perhaps presumptuous in me to ask
of you favor; yet, iu consideration OF
your position affording you an opportunity
of correcting this matter, and convinced,
as you must be from your own knowledge.
that father is entirely irresponsible in the
case, trust that you will not allow it to
affect his interests, and thus make me in
strumental in any injury that it may do
him."
Is there any ''spaniep' in that paragraph
Anything unmanly2 Anything undigni-
fed? Any ''cringing 2" Any ''6eseeching
him not to let his father be beaten - In fact,
is there anything but what any one could
with proper self respect address to his own
representative? And yet, this is the only
paragraph they can produce to sustain their
assertion; this is the only paragraph from
which they draw their picture of our hu-
mility. 1t was the last resort of men driven
to the wall, and made to eat their own
words. No alternative remained for them
but to produce something as near their as.
sertion as could be found in the letter, aud
then depend upon an extra attempt to dupe
the judgment of an intelligent public to
believe the letter said what it did not say.
1t is the act of "drowning men clinglng to
straw" and tighter clinging we never
saw. 1t is the same old practice of every
demagogue to take false premises and draw
whatever conclusions he desires. They
have signally failed in this case, as usual
We fear not the result They have failed
to sustain themselves; and we have only to
reiterate our former article, and We say
with additional assurances that 1T is mali
cious falsehood; the disgorging of long
pent-up malice against us for dissenting with
their political opinions. This is the whole
gist of the matter; and whether Gen.
Kramer or Mr.. Campbell is responsible for
the matter, we do not know. If Mr.. kra'
mer is not, and we presume as much, be Will
only have to make it known, and our cor
rections will be made accordingly unIl
this is done, we have none to make.
We are not through yet, however. We
have compared the assertion of Messrs.
Campbell and Kramer with the paragraph
upon which their assertion is founded, (the
oply proper method of determining the
question: aud we have found that there is
no such assertion contained in it; nor will
any construction of the paragraph sustain
their assertion in the least degree.
We will now show the absurdities and II
diculous method in which MIR. Campbell
essays to prove his assertion from the quo
ted paragraph Of our letter. The writing
of the letter itself was occasioned by the
fact that Mr.. Campbell, as a candidate for
the Senate, was trying to use us as tool to
advance his own interest, by striking at
Senator Wiley over our shoulders. This
fact was communicated to us by persons dl-
rect from Wheeling; and it was not in US
to remain indifferent in such position
We could not repose IN easy lndlHerehce
while an INSCRIPTIONS demagogue was ma
king us instrumental in marring the repu-
tation of a man to whom we owe and fee ia
flial loyalty that all the gems of Golcondo
nor the gold of California could neither
bribe nor tempt. What was our duty un-
der such circumstances? We, therefore,
concluded it to be our duty to acquaint our
representatives with the fact, that they
might not allow one of their constituents to
be misrepresented. We wrote to Mr.. Kra
mer, not as Mr.. Campbell would have be-
lieved, in the spirit OF an humble supplant
"hsttering" and "cringing" to gain favor
but we wrote to him as our representative
reminding him of bis duty as representa-
tire, which placed us under no special obi
cation to him, even though he did his whole
duty in the matter. Nor did we write t.
Mr.. X. alone as Mr.. Campbell asserts, as al