The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-07-29
TkS -Hsn4 CharlesJ. Faulkner, Late
Minister Of the United States 70
IFrom ths national Intelligenoer.I

from tho National Intelligencer.I
We notice that some careless journals
of the North, in abiding to this gentle
man, have charged him with lending his
influence and efforts to the interest of the
rebels during the last few months of his
service as Minister of the United States
to France. Weare satisfied by recorded
evidence in our own columns that there
is no foundation for this imputation No
such charge, so for as we are informeds
has ever been made against him by the
State Department, or any person profess
ing to act in the name and under the au-
thority of the United States. The fact
of his infexiblle fidelity to his trust
seems to have been conceded by all who
are familiar with his movements in Paris,
Our own intelligent correspondent in
that city. as we'll as the correspondents
of some of the leading Republican jour-
nails of New York, bore at the same time
unequivocal testimony to his fidelity to
the Union, both in his official and unoffi-
cial conduct, up to the close of his mis-
sion. It is true Mr.. Faulkner was arrest
ed in this city, EN- route from Paris to his
home, and the public, in the absence OF
better information, might have natural,
ly concluded that the arrest was founded
on some objection to his conduct as Min
lister. But this was soon ascertained not
to be the case; and in announcing the
real ground of his arrest, which we did
in the. Intelligencer in August, 1861, (to-
wit: his detention as q hostage for the
safe return of Harris and Magraw), we
took occasion to remark that 1--WE were
sure our readers will be glad to learn that
the arrest of this distinguished gentle
man has not been prompted by any con-
,siderations relating to his personal de
meanor as citizen, or as foreign rep
resentative of the United States" We
feel perfectly satisfied that every inquiry
into the conduct of Mr.. Faulkner while
Minister from the United States to France
will strengthen hisclaims to the charac-
ter of a faithful representative of the in
terests and honor of the country while
abroad. -, &c. 81 ... !aeu.,
There is another error in regard to this
gentleman which justice requires us TO
notice. He is represented in one of the
Northern papers as having been "a spe-
ropes" by another as a high civil func-
tiOnary of the Confederate Government"
These statements are all erroneous. We
have the best authority for saying that
Mr.. Faulkner was never offered, andnev-
er filled any civil, political, or diplomat
ic position of any kind under the Con-
federate Government, and none under
the rebel State Government of Virginia
He accepted for Il few months, in the
winter of 1868, a position OH General
Stonewall Jackson's staff, to perform an
act of private friendship to that remar-
kable man, and left Us soon as that was
performed. With this exception, he had
no connection with the affairs of the
Confederacy but lived as private citi
zen in perfect retirement. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Faulkner looked at no
time with favor upon the secession move
ment of the South, and invariably spoke
of it as pregnant with calamity to that
section of the country. &.sGS ,s