Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-20
Hvuter,s Outrnges I'm wheeling.

A gentleman from Wheeling informs us
that Mr.. LEWIS BAKER, Proprietor of The
Wheeling Register and one Of the Editors of
this paper, is still confined in the military
dungeon called the Atheneum, and is for
hidden all intercourse with the outer
world, the authorities having instructions
from HuSTER TO even refuse admission to
the prisoners wife. The office of The Reg
lister is in possession of the soldiery, who
exclude all the friends of the publisher
from the premises, which are quite likely
to be worthless If ever restored to their
rightful owner. HUNTER is busy with his
negroes somewherein in Virginia, and has not
even condeseended to inform the public or
his victims of the nature OF their offense.-
But everybody in Wheeling, and every
reader of The Register knows perfectly well.
that there was no real offense committed by
Mr.tBAkER, and that his arrest and incar-
ceration is wanton, wicked and disgrace
full outrage, totally unjustifable by any
pretense of justice or reason. The publi-
cation of q news item in reference to the
larceny of the statue of WASHINGTON by
GEN. HUNTER is the pretext upon which
these arbitrary and disgraceful proceedings
are founded. Mr.. BAKER is, in the best
sense Of the misused term, true and
loyal patriot; devotedly attached to the
Government and the Union. He never ut
teredsan expression nor entertained sem
timent to which any reasonable man could
object on the score of ''disloyalty." But
the fact that an Administration editor at
Parkersburg was arrested by HUNTER sim
ultaneously with Mr.. BAKER, and for the
simple reason that he could not endorse
HUSrER's vandalism and stupidity, is suffi-
cient evidence that Mr.. BAKERS arrest was
prompted by purely personal motives Of
the meanest and most despicable character.
Under the present unhappy administra-
tion. of the governments Gen. HUNTER has
the power to be a tyrant, and nature has
qualified him for the part. He is clear
clse of the petty despot, as mean, as auda-
cious, as cowardly, as tyrannical, as unjust,
as bigoted, as ignoble, as rapacious, as cruel,
as fapatical, and, as ignorant, as any that
ever concentrated upon himself the just
hatred ,of mankind, and passed into history
mark for the opprobrium and execration
Of humanity. s1s11u eaj = ssq tgs n eT
Ifthe President ofthe United States were
a Just or a magnanimous ruler, we would
appeal to him to remove this tyrant from
among the unhappy people subject to his
brutality /; but absorbed as he is in his Pres
idential schemes. such an appeal would avail
nothing even if LINCOLN had the disposition
to be magnanimous or Just. II the press OF
the Republican party were not lost toa de-
cent sense sf sits own dignityTif il were
not enfeebled by corruption or intimidated
by the lowest e9wafdice, we woulds.appsal
to the press-a that last bulwark of Free
dom"--to demand that tiiisogreat outrage
uponits sownErghts be corrected and its
author punished. AS it Is, this, too, would
be fatile. But there is just God, who can
neither be bribed by greenbacks, intimida-
ted by power, nor blinded by, fanaticismH ism
andswho, In the exercise ofthat infinite wis
doniwhich in time makes all things even
will adjust. the punishment for namelesi
crimes and administer the true measure O
retributiye justice. -------