The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-04-06
The Pittsburg Nj. e. Confer
ence and its Organ.

Our readers are aware of the action ia.
ken by the Pittsburg NJ. E Conference at
its late session in GAINESVILLE, concerning
the REGISTER, and some oftbem have doubt
less seen the abusive attack contained in
the Pittsburg Christian Adrocate in its issue
Of. March Goth, upon this paper aid its edi
tors. We regret exceedingly that absence
from the city and other unavoidable circum-
stances have prevented our reply to that
attack at an earlier date than the present,
but even at this late day, we deem that
iastice to ourselves demands that the con.
duct Of the Adrocate be not suffered to pass
by unrebuked.
The article in the Ad0ocate was published
edtorially and was expressed as follows:
HOW Low SOME THINGS DESCEND.
.sThe Pittsburg Conference in session at Barnes
Vile. excluded from sale in the Conference cham
Der the Daily Register of Wheeling, on the ground
that it was opposed in sentiment and expression
to the interests of the Government and the country
We inclined at first to the belief that the action
Developments showed its wisdom and fitness. What
ever be the status Of the Daily Register as TO its
LOYALTY or disoyalty, it is certainly foul-mouthed
and deg add The issue of Tuesday contains
leader on the Conference; and if this is sample
of its general lfe it is disgrace to the age and
the nation. It is one of the baleful things whose
death will do more good than its life. Its staple
commodi is falsehood 1t says that the report
of the committee on the State of the Country, and
which was adopted by the Conference recon-
mended 'the reelection of Lincoln" How ut
terly false this IL may be seen by examining t he
resolutions of the report found in another column
1t says 1.-THE town being small and the Conference
large the preachers were sent to the houses OF
Ca, pbellitcs and others The preachers were Sc
we're in their remarks upon the Campbelte Church
and ,cere therefore ejected from comfortable guar
teys." A falsehood warp and wool. The editor
again says, "Never was Cots holy day so desecra-
ded by discussing the merits of pperheadS, the
bigger and Lincoln, than was last Sunday 10
GAINESVILLE" glazing falsehoood. The whole
article is a tissue of falsehoods 1t coh.AtDs too
many weak attempts at scurrility. We are sur
prised that such thing as the Wheeling Daily
Register can live at this age of the world 1t seems
to have neither brains nor veracity, nor any COM
mendable virtue, even the least We can assure
our readers into whose hands the Tuesday sue
may have fallen, that its whole account of the
Conference is libeeus and false
When the REGISTER for Tuesday, March
%, to which the AdUocate refers, was issued,
both of the editors We're absent from
Wheeling, one in Columbus and the other
in Phi .adelphla, and not single line Of edi
torial was contained in that issue. The
account Of tho doipgs of the Conference
was published in the local department Of
the paper, really and professedly as mat
Ter Of local news, and yet the malice Of the
Advocate made it blind to this fact, and it
STYLES the items which our reporter had
collected concerning the Conference, "a
leader" and makes it q pretext for pouring
out the vials Of his wrath agant the editors
of the REGISTER 1t would be charitable
to suppose that the Adooeate was ignorant
Of the fac. that the "local department" of a
daily is not usually conducted by the same
person whose name is published as the
editor; but the evident malice of the Adco'
cafes attack authorizes the presumption that
its editor kae,o his assault upon the editors
of the REGISTER was utterly unjust. But
laying this matter entirely lie, we are
prepared to prove that the advocates denial
IF the statements made by our reporter Is
totally Unsupported by the facts In the
first place it denies that the report of the
committee on the state of the country "re-
commended the reelection of Lincoln"
aud refers to that report itself. The editor
must have had very mean opinion of the
Intelligence of bis readers II he expected
them to fail to discover in the report on tue
state of the country anendorse,nent Of Lin
coin and desire for his reelection. One
Of the resolutions in that report was as
follows: "That we have undiminished con-