The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-03

rebel editor and his friends dare not
meet their issue, and that they fear to
go before our foreign born citizens upon
the antecedents of their leaders.
Fictitious Literature.
In the Wheeling Register of last Tues
day, appears the following editorial
statement:
1t seems that the next Congress will
pursue the course adopted by the West
Virginia Legislature, and elect its own
mem bers. Not quite a year ago the as
sembled wisdom of this State convened
in this city for legislative purposes.
The Radicals had Il small majority 0Jthe
lChOte number Of chosen LdiO-makerS, and
by The SkiLLitLL use Of that majority IN con-
tested election cases, cOntriUed before the
close Of q Sic tCeckS session to OILSt HedTIy
eUery elected Democrat and to mn his
place ruth ian unconditional Union man
i1h0 ma been ttltqucStiOndbiy LoydL from
Tie OegiRRiStg." AS the authors of this
Ingenious mode of settling disputed
elections failed to patent their plan, it
was appropriated last summer by the
present Congress, and will be used by
the next. So effective an arrangement
for determining between rival claim
ants for Legislative honors, reflects
great credit upon our Legislators who
invented it, and we presume it is out of
compliment to their genius, not less
than their honesty, that it has been
adopted as part and parcel of the Radi-
cal tactics in Congress.
Let US examine this:
Ofthe 30 members of the last House
of Delegates, certified to the clerk as
elected, IS were conservatives, taking
the vote on the constitutional amend
ment as the test in doubtful cases.
From Roane county alone no certificate
was returned, but Capt. Mccoy CUnion)
appeared with his credentials and was
awarded his seat. Thus of the whole
House, comprising Sc members there
were IS Conservatives-leav the
Union majority 30.
OF the 20 members of the Senate,
there were four Conservatives. Two of
these holding over were elected the
year before from districts giving 1000
and 1000 Union majorities. This gave
a Union majority in the Senate of 10.
The Union majority in the two
Houses, when they assembled was,
therefore 32-Or 81 Union to % Conser-
vative. This is the "small majority"
referred to in the foregoing extract.
Now let US see how "nearly every
Democrat was "ousted."
OF the Is Conservatives, when the
House organized, declined to take the
oath of of1ice-palpably because they
had given assistance to the rebellion
and could not. They were Withrow of
Greenbrier, Vawter of Monroe, Beard
of PocahOntas, and Thompson of Put
nam. One-BrUmfield of Wayne-had
his seat contested and lost it.
In the Senate two Conservatives, as
We have said, already held seats;
another took his seat without question,
and the fourth, Mr.. Mathews, of Green
brier, declined to take the oath of
office.
So that in both Houses five Conser-
vatives lost their seats, not by "the
skillrul use" of the "smnll majority"
but four of them by their own volun-
tary abandonment of seats which they
couldn't take except through perjury,
and the other one because it was shown
upon fair trial that his opponent, and
not he, was elected, and his certificate
had been obtained by fraud. In the
eases of the four who declined to quail
fly, vacancies were declared and new
elections ordered but not held in time
for others TO take their seats during the
session.
We expose this gross falsehood
simply rs exhibiting sample of the
tactics employed by the rebel sheet in
this city. Day by day, from week to
week, it roEnles its readers with column
upon column of stuff based on
just such fnlsehoods as this.
The object is simply by the very
grossness of its assertions to lead
strangers to suppose there must be
some foundation for them, when in
truth there is none ataIl With all this
living, the editor thinks some of it surely
will stick. And so the Register, with the
groundwork thus laid, launches out
in mnlediction ofthe "Rump Congress"
and coniectures it will follow an exam
pie set by the West Virginia Legisla-
tuie, when in fact the example never
existed save in the mendacious brain
of the editor.
One of the difficulties most editors
experience is, that facts sometimes run
counter to their theories; but here is
an editor who has none of this trouble.
He gets up his own facts to suit him
self, and of course, then, has no trouble
with his deductions. Possessing II fer
tile invention, fanciful rhetoric, and
not being hamPered by n conscience,
he entertains the public in a way at
once marvellous and refreshing. He
draws the loug-bow with a skill and
grace scarcely excelled by Bennett in
his Palmiest days.
THE IMMORTAL ~. N.''-We received