Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-05-31
communicntIon,

WHEEL1Ns, May 3oLhl '64.
A. w. CAMPBELL, STA: l understand
that an individual of some influence among
our German citizens and who is known
to occupy q very. hYpocTitical ,posision
tOWardsJ you, has been ehdsAvoting by b
Systematic perversion OF facts TO impress
upon their minds the ideG that you cor
daily deSpise the foreign element in our
population, aud thSt your remarks upon
the late oGmpaiEn Of General Sigel, We're
dictated by, . spirit Of retaliation, on
account of your late arrest under his order.
have thought proper TO call your stten-
tion to the fact that such an attempt is be.
ing made, with view of breaking down
the influence Of your paper amoug that
class of our citi1eoa By attrtbutinR to you
bitter national 0ntipathies. and thus de-
Btroyiug your reputation IS . candid pub
lie jourualiSt. lrr -. r. ~ 4.
Ny Acquaintance With you is of Sufficient
date 70 know that you have ever been =
consistent and earnest opponent OF Know
nottingham, and every OIher ism. calcula-
ted TO create an odious distinction between
our fellow citizens of native and foreign
birth. l veil remembery mG6yi remarks
made BY you both private aud public,
highly complimentary to our adopted cit
iEenS upon their attitude e. the consIitu-
tionsl government, especially an editorial
during the second year OF the war noting
the very Significant fact that the feWOSt
number of oar foreign population Of any
nationality, bit particularly of the Ger
man. were to be found 10 the ranks of the
rebel army. am convinced that the Ger.
man population of our city, either from
the traditions Of their torefaIherS or from
their oEu experience, know too we'll tho
crushing power Of . tyrAnt's heel, aud
are far too wise TO .forsake' the cause o.
Republican liberty from feeling Of
wounded nationality, caused by the re-
movAl Of fellow conntFyman, even though
such removal shoqld Appear TO be IesO
jusIihable THAI Iho,aGupeTcsauFo' Of Gen.
SigeI. ,AsaTt-A 10 5flns fs5ase o!
4 CHurHoI1E ON RElipyHa 1asHA ESEuaEsa.
WSt&ks ysryy litils 'aSsOaut of the cir
ounOtqRes ioNhieb oar friend Sll6dsS 10
the above. If the Lateihtgsaesr has not ste.
ceeded in establishing position far above
and beyond the ability Of any man to COZ,
meet it at this late day With anything akin
to Know nottingham then most assursdly
its lAbors have been quite in Vaiu.a The
effort alluded to Is simply mean speci.
men Of Know Eothingism of 81 different
phase from the old sort. The same spirit
of classiSm-clanism-aud cliguelsm, per.
VAdes and actGatss it. Totry 70 prescribe
a journal beeauss OF fts criticism of some
public character of German, French OF
Irish nationality, Is exactly on par with
the bigotry that would prescribe all men
who do not.hsppen 70 % s6orrd IN Amstiea
Vino or what's Gen sigelthRt be- shotIS
not be criticised or dealt with as othel
Generals He is simply ., prominen
American citizen in Abe. military service o
his adopted county, Heis not befoEs thu
nation as German, but a. q general. He
stands or falls before the public judgment
just as Mcclellan, Fremont and Others
stand or fall. The effort to prop him up b
virtue of his nationality will prove dead
failure. Such Know Nothingism can mol
Aourish-aDy more than the old aud native
article. .a i.,s
As to our criticism having been prompted
by feeling Of rebentment for orr arrest We
have just this to say Weeks before that
arrest-on our return from Washington in
March last-we expressed precisely the
same opinions, as several gentlemen of our
acquaintance can attest. Al Washington
we readily discerned what Was the nature
of Gen. SiGel's appointment-What influ.
euceS had procured it, and what estimate
was set upon it in military quarters. The
impression gained then and there was pre-
cisely that expressed in our paper last
week. a --..,r7 ~ -7ls gt I
This statement iBi corroborated by the
testimony of other journals. =" Nearly all
our exchanges have had something to SAY
about Gen. Sigel lately. aud nine. teuths of
them e1Pre6s just the same opinions that
We have expressed. No argument a. 10
personal feeling applies to the editors Of
such papers. II We were clone In our
opiniOns'is might apply. to Us, but as the
case stands it does DOT. ..4.s gii ls.i ,5z5l,
The authorities at WasbIugton have Civ.
co pretty decided evidence that they also
concur in the general opinions expressed.
AZ to the eGOrta Of the Porson alluded
to, or any other like person, against this
journal " b hAy q no fsaf Of them! II the
time has.rq4g Nhgl the 1sislgeaeen can,
not successfully resist any iatoltrapt Spirit
of class or clique or. .1atiopality ID oor
midst, then Il ShSiIa die h our hauds.-t