The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-20
The military Heroes or the Copper.
head Party in West virginia

head Party In West Virginia
Gen. Harris in his speech at Parkers-
burg last Saturday said.
There Is Just one little personal mat
ter must say something about before
quit. see an editorial here in the
Parkersburg Gazette, that demands
little atlention-the more so as il Is on
ly the beginning of game going TO be
played pretty extensively. One Of the
speakers up here at Clarksburg launch
/ ed out in personal abuse about myself;
and here find that Col. johnson read
from paper which he said was a let
| ter from some reliable citizen of Marion
county charging that in speech there
/ I had denounced the President as reb-
Ell and traitor, and denounced the chief
officers of the Government, and he calls
out, very indignantly, where are the
articles of war;" never did any such
thing. Have denounced the President
here to-day? III have then denounc-
ed him there. can prove by every
/ man that viii tell the truth in all those
/ vast audiences have been addressing,
that never did denounce but have eu-
/ logized him. 1t IS utterly false. IneT-
| er did any such thing. II Is out of the
whole cloth; and II they can get any ten
men base enough TO swear that 1t Is
1 true, will bring i've hundred 10 swear
i that Is not
But the great offence was this in Mar
| ion county. When 1 spoke there they
had a meeting advertised They had
/ Col. johnson advertised as one of their
/ speakers, and they make great capital
| of their military heroes. Well, his
/ military reputation, then Is fair sub
/ Iect of criticism. merely said that
4 when he was mustered out of the SER
vice, there were charges pending against
him, preferred :. for disloyalty;;" that
4 they went mp to to the Secretary OF War
and were referred back to his Com
/ mandinR General. And when they
came back there they talked the matter
over at the headquarters, and came to
the conclusion that as his term of SER
vice was so near out they would not
press the matter, and the General IDu'
vail put Just as favorable an endorse
ment on Il as possible, and in two weeks
| they were mustered out. / say that is
fact; and if he can get Gen. Duval TO
state over his signature that II IS not
the fact, then Will make the dDlende
honorable.
me ISLANDERS uttered up here at
Clarksburg were so little thai will not
| notice them. They were iterated by a
4 man calling himself "Col." Lane. ]
/ was told by the Adjutant General of
1 the State that this Lane was dismissed
the service of the United States '.for
disloyalty;;" he was arrested by Cap
tain Over, of Wheeling, for travelling
on forged pass, WAS confined there in
the AihenRum, and was afterwards
sent TO the Old Capitol Prison at Wash
Il iuSton.
Such are the military heroes these
copperheads are clarifying
This Editor here at Parkersburg, Ia
voice "Butternut''1 foreigner, comes
4 in 10 teach you ignoramuses. He says
I,Gen. Harris, with an officer by the
name Of Duval," has been at this work.
Does any body know who this Mr..
DuYal is /? Perhaps this gentleman
| from Richmond don't know him, but
| these boys here in blue know him; and
every loyal man in West Virginia
knows Gen. Dnyal. [Applause.l That
is the way with these butternuts and
copperheads They never have good
word for an honorable officer who got
out of the service right.
And there Is another gentleman who
i helped blow the bellows at Clarksburg
i@sMajor'' Andrews. don't know
when they promoted him; but was
/ told by Mr.. II. II. Blackburn, of Mar
tinsburg, gentleman and a lawyer of
excellent standing and attachments,
that Andrews was dismissed the United
States service from the rank of Captain
/ 't for disloyalty.n They have promo
ted him now, so that he will not be the
same man, IL the papers ever come up.
These are the "heroes going about
over this State changing the people to
Butternuts.