Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-14
Ex-senator FoOto ON the situation.
To the Editor cfthe Herald:

To the Editor cfthe Herald:
You have placed me under obligations
by the insertion of my vindIcatory letter
in your paper Of this morning, of which 1
assure you am duly sensible. regret to
state that there are several eyTatG in it,
though, that, unless corrected, must place
me in position to be most seriously mis-.
construed by your readers. Not doubling
your witness TO make proper corrections
10 your paper of tomorrow, will specify
the errors committed.
/. In the frst paragraph am represent
ed as stating when 1 landed 10 New York
reluctantly reported myself at General
Dix headquarters" when said that ''im-
mediately reported myself" go.
2. In the last paragraph you make me
say, mot doubling your willingness to do
justice TO me individually, and to place the
Government also in position calculated
TO encourage q prompt and cordial submis.
sion TO its authority on the part ofall those
not in arms" &c, when said, tall those
now in arms" &c. This, you will per-
oeive, is a most vital error, as it would set
me forth as encouraging those in arms 70
continue the war, when think and have
tried to have myself understood as incul-
eating the gross improperly and impoliCy
of further prosecuting hostilities. have
been hoping in fact, for several days psst
that that pure.minded and wise command
or, General Lee, who, lam sure, came re-
Iuctsntly into the contest, would seize the
opportunity row so happily presented tc
him, Of abandoning q struggle which b:
can not but think hopeless, and become
thus prominently effective in restoring
Federal authority throughout the South
and thus saving his native land from Ger.
tain Pnfn galg .s--.
As to the oath of submiseslon to the
Government, which you kindly advise me
TO take, Rssure you that have been ready
to do go ever since / reached the city. In
fact, l offered to do 80 Immediately on pre-.
senting myself at Gen. Peck's, .headquar-
ters, but ,the officer whom found in charge
of the book registration deemipg it unnec.
esssTy to exact it. l have not yet done So
II would be unreasonable in me to expect
to be allowed to go into the bosom of the
South without previously giving this as
surance of fidelity Three days ego dis.
patched anelaborate memorial of my case
to President lincoln, upon which l feel
confident he will act favorably when he
shall have read it, in which, among other
things, / ask to be "allowed to return qui.
city to my own home, under such assur-
ances as to future good conduct as you
may think it prudent to demand. !" &c.
AS to what ypu say about my having
been heretofore a ''subject of JEFF Davis" l
beg you and the world to understand that
1 have never been his subject for mo.
ment. have been an independent oppo-
nent of bis Administration for three years,
and have, during almost every day of that
period, openly denouut q its hideous usur-
pations, its rank corruptions, and its stu
pendous blunders.
Though in prison at present my soul is
still erect, and shall live and die the
slave of no man or set of men on earth, my
maxim through life having been nulIius
addtetus jHdre in Vtr6a mGgistrr Your obe-
dent servant, h. 8. FoorR.