The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-13
For the Register.l -iI1
Mistress Betty selden and MIR. Camp
hell ...

Mistress Retty Selden and Mr. camp
bell. .....
have for sometime intended to say
few words in your sheet in defense OF my
friend, A. w. Campbell. He has been as
sailed so much of late, that think 1t but
dine 70 common justice and humanity,
that some one should rise for that pur-
pose. But when l see even the ladies
come ont against an innocent man.
think IL high time to take my pen Ill
his Nindication. Betty Selden," IN her
binrraphical sketch of my friend, which
arn,aced in your issue of Saturday last,
j. very plain and out-spoken, and L Will
,,,. md meet her charges with like can
dor deny that Nh Campbell is per-
s,r.,I,y little known outside of Bethany
aud Wheeling. Why, sir, touch the great
seward touch honest Old Abe, touch eX-
POSTMASTER Blair on 4. w. Campbell,
and Won will find that he is known the
worid over. Ladeed in my last CONVEX
s.tion with BflfScward, was assured
rb1r nv friend was the very prep of the
administration i'll these parts, that if it
hadn't been for his eminent wisdom, Dig
noraut people call it cunnlng), the pres
arr Cainalilla at Washington would not
have a spot in Western Virginia to lay
tbrir Httic iinger on. Again, we deny
that Mr. Campbell known at all, either
in Bethany or Wheeling. Why, sir, If he
wa known, If that noble, selt-sac-
rifcing soul, enshrined in that I'M
ostcntatious, unassumipg garb OF
small stature were actually
known 10 the people of said places, his
career would soon be over, this very
friend would turn around on him. This
we say. because we know that the peo-
nj. are but fckh mob, and those who
now admire him, if his true qualities
were known, would actually be mean
enough. to reat him as they wonld some
irnoblc dog who is not worth kick
Farther wsdeAyl that A. w. Campbell,
our sweet little friend, does not seek his
county's good We Indignantly deny it,
What is our country's good, my dear
Mistress Betty! isn't it greenbacks?
and hasn't my friend sought them ever
since he opened his eyes to realityi This
change then is triumphantly refuted.--
AGAIN we deny shat Campbell does not
know what il is to be last and that heis
indebted solely to himself, as she has it.
Let us 90 back TO frail principle. Who is
inst hc who first lives himself, secondly
himself once more, and thirdly, himself
AGAIN This definition has long been
aiopted hy The men Of the world and
INV friend Campbell has learned it as his
frst lesson til. sure, that there used
TO be another definition of business, de-
rivinr its aeme from the founder of some
kind of 4 religion, called the Christian,
who. they say, was so Just, that he even
sacrificed his life for his fellow men,
But. my dear madam, you don't want
NV friend Campbell to stoop to
such ridiculous nonsense. Not he,
oh. nv doar Miss Betty, christianity
and the natorship for the State of w.
Va. are two different things. The for
mer is an old fashioned, silly kind of an
invention, not made for the bride of poll
ticians now shooting up into noteriety-.
the latter the1atteris the thing for my
friend. and, let me assure you, in spite
of your spite aud SANDER, in spite of all
the calumhics heaped upon my friend by
that vile Sheet, the Register, he will be
a Senator vet, by the eternal, he will,
and if it he Senator down there in-in
in, what YOU call It'll
Again, We cniphatically deny that he
has no public spirit, as Betty says. No
public spiritl why, it is evident, dear
Betty, that YOU don't read the Intelligen-
Ger as do If you would. you would see
that there his spirit stalks publicly be-
fore an admiring crowd day after day, if
not in gigantic proportions, at least in
gigantic hatness and righteousness
Who can do more than that2 Of course
If Won mean that he has no desire for the
public good except when it can be made
subservient 10 his own profit that is
different thing. But then, l have to say
again. that the great men of the new
regime the Snagues, the Summers, the
Stewards, &c, in short, the idols which
my friend a.W@fs Keeps in view-do not
give idltl.iAg IoT your sons OF public
spirit 'llav with black slavery" they
say. prov .ded the Kicking it down pa
o@thoreisa prospect now. Up witt ,,.cI
slavery they would say just n, piaHh
if they could make money as rTaus
where NIX mend Camr' ~ IT, That's
Further, We as4e .'oell is.
roant 10 home. . that he hasno attach
N .Hem' ~ Ra l1 i,Seet home as Betty says
No"' 80 SsssSs,,sthsLss&onst do.-True, he
W Mas ~ born on Virginia soil only on
Y" ,ern Reserve, tefiving his origin from
good ScotebfN aIlsee stock y nevert heless,
he has neutrality-suspicious. spot with a
tenacity, (eE ;js some ignorant people
have il, cursed Ms With his low, cunning,
plodding dead weight. J which refutes the
above sland2I4 its sii9ctiippr5aA rqn in
VirginiaAhS Altis mStle it, as the Psalm
ist Saws, "anntd we are his people," he has
lain on opr1hespm and sucked us dry
He has Worked the pump of a fanatieal
Marty hereIat home and it has yielded an
abundant supply of greenbackish ftuid.
He has quietly sEood and listened which
way he-popnlAr breeze was likely to
blow sonietl ie + She has seen sligntly