The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-01
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THE New York Tribune says that /
ehas. James Faulkner of AIartinsburg
West Va, is not hung for his agency ii
the rebellion, all hanging Is nonsense
And for the following crimes:
i. He is not dupe Of the Southern
estate Sovereignty" deluslon.. III
knows "the resolutions Of '9Sn to be bo
gus. Educated in the nurture ant
faith of John Marshall, John Quincy
Adams, Henry Clay and Daniel Web
ster, he remained an ardent Wing unit
THE Wing party irrevocably broke
down, when he rated to the plump an6
holly Democracy, iholdlngup his porrin
ger al once for u ladle-full of "tht
Spoils.n SO he is without the excuse o.
believing In the right Of a State to dis
solve the Union.
| III. Nor Is he u pfo-S Slavery thnatic.r
4 On tho contrary, wllen u Young NYtio
tI1enibeF.d is u ltel 4 Icg 5lhttfe, whilt
Madison stiff lived to inspire the move
iment, n last vigorous effort was made
to rid Virginia of Slavery, and he gave
that movement his best efforts. His
speech showing the rtlinous influences
Of slaveholding on the State, through
its excitement to contempt for labor
with general Incidence and thrittless'
ness, has rarely been surpassed. Gar
irison or Wendell Phillips have scarce
| ly eaualled it. And it is barely ter
years since he gave that speech to q
Republican member of Congress to read
as an exposition Of his views on the
great question.
III. Having become Democrat by
trade and pro-Slavery agitator, Faulk.
ner got into Congress, where he voted
for the. worst. schemes of pro-slavery
aggression, whereby the North and the
South were brought into determined
antagonism, and ut last into bloody col.
lision. Meantime, he had persuaded
mfr. Buchanan to send him as Plenipo-
tentiary to France; and to his influence
at that Court, most treacherously exer-
cised, we attribute its indecently early
recognition of the Confederates rs en-
titled to belligerent rights, and the obsti-
nate belief Of Napoleon that the Rebels
must win. We believe he did he.coun-
try more harm during the last four
years of his stay at Paris than he.could
atone for If he were to live n thousand
years.
~. Returning when superseded by
Mr.. Lincoln, he plunged over eyes and
ears into the rebellion. Yet he was no
disunionist-for living just over the
Potomac, he could not be. He evident
| ly regarded the rebellion as'but Il new
Garb for power by that pro-slavery
| Democracy to which he had sold him
self, which, like the Dutchman with his
horse, had "got of to get on better."
| II was not half the country, but ttb
whole, reconstructed on the Montgom-
cry platform, with slavery for its avow-
ed corner stone, that Faulkner andsuch
us he struck for. He had seen the
Southern Democratic managers make
so many bold throws and win, thnt he
Judged them invincible and resolved to
share theirtriumph. He sought neither
safety nor ease, for his home was where
1t must, Nt least as eften be within the
| Union lines as the rebels. He simply
went in to win.
V. Having bet his pile on the horse
! he deemed matchless, and lost the race,
he now concludes to draw his stakes.
All right. Let him have It. But II
would be most unjust to hang any
/ traitor and aOt bang Charles james
Faulkner.
There is great deal of force in what
the Tribune says above, as any one
acquainted with the personal and politi-
cal record of Faulkner can easily per.
ceivc. Faulkner is well known as a
most unprincipled man. His notions
of honor are well illustrNtedina scheme
of his procuring few months prior tc
the collapse of the rebellion. He had
lit arranged with one Of our Generals
that he, Faulkner, was TO be taken
prisoner and brought into our lines, his
only object being TO get home TO Mar
tinsburg and secure his property. Fol
some reason the scheme fell through
but it was on the eve ut one time o
being carried out. Part of the pro
gramme was that Mr.. Liuc0ln was tt
pardon him. President Johnson has
now pardoned him in compliance will
his predecessor promise to Faulkner''
wife.