The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-13
More Republican Testimony
What the IntelIigencer Said
CONGRESS AND SLAVERY.

tEDlTORIAL.J
I From the Wheeling Intelligencsr, Feb l, iSoz.1
t''WE are induced to think there will be
no loss by delay. If the slavery matter is
likely to be determined by Congrt IS with
as little discretion as has been manifested
in the preliminary discussion of it, it may
we'll be doubted whether Congress had not
best drop it altogether, and leave it to take,
as General Rosecrans WELL SAID IN ms
MLue House Speech the other evening,
"rHE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF STATE OF
WAR" IL seems to be forgotten By some OF the
members that 1T is only as a aoar measure that
they can touchd at aH. .
The talk about legislating for the de-
struction of Slavery as If that aoere an oc1ect
in itself coming within the legitimate scope
of congressional action, grows out OF a
vicious confusion of ideas, and the vehement
appeals made for such action, on the plea
that since slavery is The cause of rebellion
there can be no permanent peace until 1t IS
destroyed are really APPEALS FOR THE REV.
DICTIONARY OVERTHROW OF THE CoNsTI-
TUITION BY ITS DEFENDERS.
ANY SUCH COMPREHENSIVE ACTION OF
CONGRESS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESTROYING
SLAVERY WOULD INVOLVE THE COUNTRY IN
HOPELESS ANARCHY AND CONFUSION, SINCE
1T WOULD MAKE THE SOUTH UNANIMOUS FOR
REBELLION AND DIVIDE AND DISTRACT THE
NORTH"
GEN. RosECRANs' OPINION OF MCCLELLAN.
From the Wheeling Intelligencer, Feb. Z, 1867
(EDIToRIAL)
Gen. Rosecrans in his speech at the Wash
ington Hall supper, Wednesday night, gave
many reasons WHY he had faith, great faith,
in General Mcclellan. He had known him
as student and he had known him as
practical military man, and in both rela'
tons he excelled. He had atoays eecelled
whersver and at phateuer he had taken hold.
His capacity was undoubted. If any man
among our public men was capacitated to
WELD our large army, unprecedented as 1t
is in history, it was, in his opinion, Nc
Clellan. s"E
THE PENINsULAR CAMPAIGN.
From the Wheeling Iutelligencer Of July 1862
AZ" (EpIToRIAL,)
1t is useless now to ask why the rebels
have been allowed to mass their troops at
Richmond, while ours remain scattered
along the vast lines from the Potomac to
the lower Mississippi, or how it happens
that the Southern rebel army was not fol
lowed up and watched, 80 that such trans
fer of force might not have been made
without our knowledge.
The stubborn fact is that the thing has
been done, and General Mcclellan has be-
fore him the consolidated armies of rebel>
dom, under their most experienced leaders,
and determined upon most desperate at
tempt to overpower and destroy our gal
liant army, aohIe small reintorcements haze
been SLOWLY AND GRUDGINGLY doled out 10
General Nc Cteltan, and HE ALONE seems
to haze comprehsnded the tremendous difficult
ties and responsibilities Of the a0ork assigne d
him, There has been strange faulty and
mismanagement from the first at the War
Department,
M'CLELLAN's sTATEsMANsHIP.
From the Wheeling Intellingenoer of Oct TO- 1862
Speaking of the order issued to the Army
of the Potomac by General MCCLELLAN
after the Presidents proclamation of eman
cipation, the Editor of the Mtetligencer said:
General McClellan's order. published
yesterday morning is document of the
highest excellence in every sense of the
word. 1t is creditable to his head and his
heart. 1t will rank in the history of the
war with the best State papers,