The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-11
From the Nesss,nal Telegraph
The IDjussice Of Tie wheeling Inielli.
sencer % the seldiers-Its Treatment
Of Generals Harris and Norshcott.

The Wheeling IRRtttgeHcU has ito Po'''
and these pets are among the civilians.
Strange that this should be so with a
paper that claims to be loyal above lts
| fellows, and is a kind of self-assumed
censor to consign all who DO not sub
scribe to it's peculiar doctrines to the
shades of copperheadism. 1t acted as
chief engineer to direct the machinery OF
civil government in West Virginia
iuring the war. 1t looked considerably
into f9turity, and arranged programme
for the benefit of its pets. During the
whole war that paper never suggesteo
any officer or soldier for a civil position.
If il has advanced the claims OF the SOL
diers since the war, am not aware OF 1T,
but it has uniformly neglected them and
endeavored to keep them IN the back
ground.
The conduct of the Intelligencer in re-
gard 10 Gems Harris and NorthcOtt has
been. to say the least, illiberal General
Harris served his country five years faltn'
fully on the field and was conspicuous
for gallantry, and received special COM
mendations from Gen. Grant. Last win.
ter the papers IN the State, OUTSIDE OF
Wheeling, commenced pressing the claims
| OF Gen. Harris for Governor, In numerous
| editorial articles, none OF which, howev-
er, were responded to by the Intetttgencer,
out on the contrary it studiously avoided
abiding to Gen. Harris, but If country
cross roads meeting away out in the back
counties adopted batch of aphereases and
resolyes, in favor of Gov. Foreman, they
were carefully reproduced by the Intelli-
qeRcer, for the benefit of its Numerous
readers" A soldiers League might
adopt resolutions commendatory of Gen.
Harris, and if the people of the State saw
them, it was through the columns of the
country papers; they were considered too
insignificant for the metropolitan organ Of
tie Union party in Vest Vrginia.
A few weeks ago General Northcott, in
response to the call of numerous soldiers
and citizens, had the audacity to an
nouuce himself as candidate for Con-
gress without consulting certain parties
in Wheeling. The first act of the Intel
liqencer was to convey the idea that Gen
eral Northcott was an independent can
didate and disorganizer, and 1T has never
| corrected this impre ssion, although sew
eral articles have appeared IN the Ma
tiOnal Telegraph which could not fail to
lead the editors to different conclusion.
1t has avoided bringing General North
colts name before the public in any
favorable light. But Mr.. Hubbard, like
Governor Foreman, has received a full
benefit. In it's issue of the 9th inst. it
parades Mr. Hubbard's letter to General
Spinner, declining to accept the amount
of extra pay accruing to him on account
of Congress vetipg it's members $4,000
per annum additional pay. Tho fHt0"t
dencer publishes this letter and a com
mandatory editorial, but does rot say a
word about the real state of the case.
NJ. Hubbard simply returns the draft
for S2,69166 sent him by N, g. Ordway,
sergeant. alarms, as the net amount of
his increased salary from March the 4th,
1865. TO August 4th, 1866 He does not
give General Spinner any directions in
what manner it should be used He
does not tell him that he makes dona-
ton of it to the Government. He sim
ply returns the draft, which of course
will be placed to Mr.. Hubbard's credit
and can be very conveniently drawn
after the election, for the United States
Government certainly stands indebted to
Mr.. Hubbard in the sum of tCO thousand
sir hundred ard nMety.one dollars and SIXTY
sir cents. If Mr.. Hubbard wished to do
good with this money, he could have
brought it home with him and found
plenty Of destitute soldiers widows and
orphans, among whom he could have
divided 1t, and it would have afforded
several OF them timely relief. But The
money is now in a position IL which it
Can be drawn by Mr.. Hubbard Mt his
| pleasure.
But l am not done with the Intelligent
Ger yet. Its last browning act OF iiliber-
ality took place only last week. There
is a number of Soldiers Leagues in this
State, and these united Leagues c0usti
tute the State League, of which Col. j.
| II. Lockwood is President. \ large
number of the soldiers of West Virginia,
thinking that they had as good Il right
to be heard in the selection of Candidates
fol- the October election as others petit
tioued Individually. aud through their
county Leagues to Colonel Lockwood,
| Prtsldeut OF the State League, 20 call a
meeting of the State League at ParkerS-
| burg, on the Goth inst. Colohe Lock
wood wrote u call and took 1t to he In,
teligtRCr office for publication The
proplieIors agreed to publish il thirty
ia, . lOI ,jDty uOtt"oi NACu lACs "Oulu
not have charged merchant more than
| tpsRty dollars for an advertisement Of the
same length and for the same time. But
| to Crown their acts of illiberality to sol
| diers they placed the call in advertising
\ type and form and then hid it in an OBJ
| scure portion of the paper where it
would not be read by one man in dozen
who should have access to the paper.
| This continued until Colonel Lockwood
demonstrated with them concerniug the
injustice of it. They then placed il for
| u day under the head of New Adver.
tisements," after which they returned it
TO its former obsCurity. This call should
have been placed in editorial type, and
| kept Ia CONSPICUOUS posi- ton until the
meeting OF the League, and not a cent
| should have been charged for it
There are few naked facts to which
l wish to call the attention of the Union
people in West Virginia. The hrst is,
| al the Union Executive committee be-
long TO Wheeling Fact No. = is, they
are all civilians, with one OF two excep-
tions, and the third fact is, the Wheeling
InteIHgeRcer, its Editor-in-Chief mean,
control this committee, and fact No 4 is,
the whole constitute kind of regency
that desires TO direct and control the
Union party of West Virginia, and in Oh
der to keep their own favorites in Office
they ignore the claims Of soldiers entire