The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-15

fair in the stalls.
"Tell me where is fancy bred?" Fancy
not all gone. = = .
1. fIasked you for one thousand pounds
what would you wishP Wish 1 might
What conundrums are always nj
homer Those that are never found out.
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The Wheeling ResIster.--Capt, Wirtz
and the AndersOnVlIIe Prisoners.
Editors nueuigencer:
well know that it has been your
constant hablt to maintaina persistent
silence upon all things said by or pub
ished in the Register, yet I confess to
some surprise that its article of Friday
Last, Ginning in with the New York
NetcS, in asking, n suspension of public
\ opinion on the notorious Capt. Writ,
should have failed to elicit some COM
ment. That article was nothing more
or less than an attempt to stay the cur
rent of public opinion setting so strong
| ly against the crimes of the man rather
than the man himself. 1t is another of
many instances of the readiness with
which the Register takes its cue from
such Infamous sheets as tho New York
NeLrS, paper which, if the Government
had been just to itSelf, f,wOuld have been
suppressed before the war was half
over. With hypOcritic,ll cant the Req
fStcT attempts to palliate the crimes of
the hell, byalleging that
there were instances of cruelty to prison.
ers on both sides, thereby insinuating
that there WAS probably no more OF it on
one side than the other. Isn't it pass
ing strange that the Register should be
so chnrry Ofthe reputation of our Anne
ricHn blood whenever the crimes of the
rebellion are touched upon, while it
to ItG- sNcy -,
with indignation at the least variation
from the mildest forms of law suited to
the most peaceful period of the Repub-
lie on the part of the Government
to preserve its existence. "NNar is
cruelty" said Sherman, and its cruelty
must fall more or less upon all, prison.
crS as well MS soldiers, but war is not
systematizcd cruelty; it is not cruelty
refined with more ffcndish bnrbarity.
moro uneXampled ingenuity than The
horrors of the Inquisition. The Regis
Ten, from the first day of its existence
70 the present, has never said II word in |
favor of the Government. All through
the rebellion il was cheek by jOwl with !
the enemies, not of the administration !
only, but ofthe existence of the Republic
itself. 1t is not surprising, therefore, that
It should continue to take up the cry of
those who gave all the aid they dare dur |
ing the life of the rebellion, to snare the !
people to refuse to believe that such |
mOnstrous crimes were perpetrated, to |
dlScredit their own eyes that have look !
cd upon the haggnrd wrecks of Ander-
SOnVllle brutOlitieS. 1t rolls under its |
tongue ns n sweet morsel of consolation |
that it was the kind, not the quantity of |
food to which the suffering of the priS-
oners was to be attributed, who yet
claims that the rebel soldiers lived upon
the same. / would ask the Register i'll
the food was the same nS that furnished
the soldiers of the rebel army, how was
it that they tllrived upon it and We're
able for aruuOuS campaigns; While the
prisoners died by thousands, slowly
but surely. How was it that the camps
of the soldiers did not become GOlgo-
thas or the nbodes of n living wrctched-
ness, the bare contemplation of which
makes the soul sick with horror?
Why is it that no such suffering
ever occurred III prisons in the North,
where rebel soldiers were confined? ?
How was it that we never saw any Spe=
cimens of rebels exchanged or parOled,
returning from Columbus, Ohio, such as
were presented to our view by the mem
bers of Holiness Battery after II few
their was avery pattern
of clemency compared with that of the
prisoners ut AndersOnville The Regis
ter, as far as its meager ability allowed,
has thrown its influence in favor of the
rebellion, and is yet losing no opportu-
nifty to impede the progress of restora-
ton. 1t goes off in rapturouS eulogy
over returned rebel, who happens to
die, but is much exercised that u FEEDER
nj regiment should occupy n portion of
street for dress parade n little while
in the evening. 1t hopes that Captain
Wlrtz was a man ofeXcellentintention
even in systematically numbering his
prisoners, while it goes off in a fine
phrenZy of wrath over the fHintest ru-
NOR ofNn outrage having been commit
ted by Union soldier. BY the way,
we would like to ask from the Register.
outrage up on Short Creek.
Tell us who told you about
| it, whnt day it happened, what the la
dy's name was, what regiment the sol
Idiers belonged to, and finally, own up
and tell us yOu manufactured the story
out of whole cloth. will not encrOach
| upon your space or weary your pa
4 tiencc by attempting to make II review
ofthe course of the Register towards the
| government, for 1t has been only evil
and that continually. A well-sustAined
and dignilied silence is no doubt, as a
| general rule, the best course to pursue
towards those who have neither princi-
pie nor honor i'll their method of treat
ing the great issues of the day. Truth,
l however we'll directed the shaft, falls
upon heart scared with treason, pow
erless as an arrow sped from an infant
hand against the shield of Achilles.
While 1 admire the inlperturbility of
temper, tile equanimity of disposition
4 which can treat with silent contempt
low personalities, it seems to me that
it is not entirely up to the demand OF
duty that n journal that assumes to
4 be the exponent of an eXten-
sive public sentiment, and would
no doubt claims the largest circulation
.tof any paper i'll the State, did not it
J have II wholesome fear of the Internal
Revenue Assessor, should not always
) go unnoticed,-shouId not always be
. allowed to vitiatc public sentiment, so
. far as it has any influence, by publish
ing falsehood unrebuked, or by the
} pnlliatiOn of crimes against humanity,
the middle of this most enlightened
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