The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-08

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OoUr.ty PRIVATE JAS 4. MAXWELL,
Governor Foreman aud Hts Tradu-
Gers.
The ParkerSburg GGcette, edited by
the imported hirelinG of disloyal
clique in that place, who is soon to be
made Postmaster there in order that
that rebel sheet may be- kept up at the
expense Of the United States Govern
ment, has much to say in deroCatiOn of
Governor Foreman. 1t is particularly
troubled on behalf of the soldiers that
the Governor did not visit them in the
hospitals during the progress OF the re-
t.elliOu. We have never heard COM
plant on this score from any loyal
source. 1t ought to be sufficient re-
ply 10 such stuff FROM such sources, for
loyal men to remember where the pres
ent editor, and supporters of the Ga
-stte. and their allies were during the
rebellion. What were the men then
doing, for whom the Gu:ettc now
speaks? Some of them were shooting
down West Virginia soldiers in battle,
butchering them without mercy as pris-
oners in their hands, and starving and
freezing them TO death as caPtives in the
horrid prison pens in the South. 9th
ers OF them were operating here at
home in the rear of our army, Civ
ing all possible aid and support to
the enemy in the field-discouraging
the payment of bounties by which
the ranks OF the Union army might be
hlled and the families of Union SOL
diers maintained and made comfort
able: and endeavoring to elect rebels
to control the Government and undo
all that our soldiers, by their sacrifices
in the field, had done to disarm treason
and preserve the authority of law.
Pretty gentlemen these to talk about
anybody having neglected the soldiers
OF the Union! Had there been fewer
such traitors as they to be watched and
thwarted here at home, our civil au-
thorities would have had much more
time to look after matters abroad. But
duty, like charity, begins at home. 1t
was Governor Boreman's duty to look
after traitors in the rear while the BOYS
in blue looked after them in front. He
did look after them; and that is just
why he is so distasteful to these gentle
men now.
But the insiuuation of neglect is I'M
founded, come from what source it
may. No man with any respect for
truth can OF will say that Gov. Bore
man did not from first to last labor
increasingly and Gevotedly to promote
by every means in his power the COM
fort and welfare of West Virginia
troops in the field and of their families
at home, while those whose mouth
piece the Gazette now is were consort-
ing and cooperating with traitors, to
aid the armed rebellion which was de-
stroying our soldiers in the field and
making widows and orphans of their
families. Nothing but the treachery of
the President of the United States could
ever have inspired these defeated rebels
with impudence to utter these ISLANDERS
now.
1t is true that the Governors of few
Northern States once or twice visited
the troops from their States in the
army. But they were very differently
circumstanced from Gov. Foreman who
was the Executive of new State cary
ed out here on the border in the midst
of war. The State had to be organized
and set going in all its departments.
Our affairs were in "A chaotic and
anomalous condition and required
the most constant and vigilant at
tentiUn from the Executive. From
the time Governor Foreman was in
stalled until the rebellion was crushed,
there was not a Governor in the United
States who labOred more hours in a
day, or more days in week or more
weeks in a year, or one who did so
much Of the downright drudgery of the
Executive office. Perhaps he is the on
Iy Executive in the Union who has
never kept "ofTice hours" His Office
hours have been all hours from morn
ing To night, and into the night. Gov.
Foreman absolutely had not time, with
ont neglecting imperative duties, for
neglectinG which he would have been
blameable, to visit the West Virginia
troops in the field. We know that to be
the fact, and everybody who knows
anything about it, knows 1t to be a fact.
He has done harder work for less pay, we
venture, within the past three years than
any executive in the United States.
Through his untiring and efficient aids,
every personal attention possible was
rendered to our troops in field and hos
pital; and they we believe are well sat
iAfied that the very hest that 1t was in
the Governors power to do for them
was always done. And they have sense
enough 10 know too, that the troops
from every State were subject TO tho
military authority of the nation as ex-
ercised through the War Office, and that
there were many things wanted by the
soldiers, and asked for by tho Gov
ernors, that were refused by the secre-
tary ofWar.
The loyal people Of this State, citi-
zens and soldiers alike, appreciate Gov
ernor BOremnn's services, and are not
ungrateful for them. What better evil
dence of this is wanted than their
unanimous preference that he should
remain in the same place, expressed