The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-08

Long as we have been in the newspa-
per world we have never been called on
to narrate more heartless outrage than,
it is alleged, has been perpetrated by
the Managers of the Soldiers Home, at
Sixteenth and Filbert Streets, this morn
ing, A fine home it is, as our readers
know The Home" is intended for the
benefit of men who have fought in the
service of their country, and have been
so badly injured in the storm of battle,
as to be totally untitled for the pursuits
of peaceful life.
Tney are men who have sho,cn their
loyalty, aud when cannons thundered'
stood up for the Union of thirty'six
States. They have come to this city
HELPLESS and philanthropists $50 called)
have offered them the security and sup
port of q home.
The Radicals have all along been
blatant about their love for the soldier,
They have given out that they intend
to give office only to the soldiers; they
have, they say, nominated soldiers
But the occurrence this morning shows
how they treat the soldier who differs
from them in epinion-who is not q Cen
eral or Colonel who loves the negro
The occurrence this morning shows
that the Conservative white man ard
white soldier is nobody, an outcast, a
miserable nothing, when he chooses to
exercise the highest and best right of an
American freeman-a freeman by his
own good right arm in the midst Of the
battle-the right to think as he pleaSes.
This morning, just after roll call, the
following soldiers were called up, they
knew not why:
L. NJ. Holcomb, James Brown, First
Lieutenant llthP. v, j. G. Cassidy, VIM
Chambers, Jas. Kean, Jacob Buckhelt,
Michael Horan, NJ. Gallagher, Henry
James, Michael Dillon, jeremiah Ganey,
Patrick Tierney, Thos. Green, Peter
Heelan, u. McMathew, VIM. KOllahan,
Cornelius Carey, Samuel Bactell
They stood there, all gallant men-
men who had faced death, and never
feared it, for a cause they loved-a cause
in which they had no more interest than
the men who stayed behind, twaddled
about loyalty, and made money out OF
their and their comrades blood, Some
were without arms-poor, though noble
fellows. All had wounds which had
sapped their strength and made them
all neutrality-suspicious. on Others
bounty.
Before the war they had been sturdy,
able men, asking none for charity-hght:
ing as well the battles of life as they had
the battles on the blood. stained soil OF
the rebellious South. Now they were
helpless helpless because they had
braved death to defend the men and de-
fend the property Of those who now were
bringing home to them the fact that the
poor soldiers were beggars, depending
| for their daily bread on those who hao
never dared to breathe the odor of thu
carnage. One man, WiIlidm Chambers, ha
foar tc0unds in his right arm, all Of 'rhicl
are still running His right is useless, ano
he is unable to gain his livelihood,
ssThey we're asked what their politica
opinions were, and with the same courag,
they had displayed on the field, the!
answered that they were Democrats
Disabled as they were, they lrere tTRe,
ont into the street-rithOW friends, trifh0u
home to 40 to. Tonight they will b
shelterless, if friends do not step torwar'
to assist.
They are now in Penn Squa = at Broa'
and Market streets, forlora, h 'PicsS, hoHt
less, and all for manly e. 'resslou @
opinion.
rhis is the way the Radicals treat th
soldisrs-helpless, armless, disabled 50
diers,