The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-09

Hrom that oblivion to which his follies
and his corruptions have consigned him,
he will scarcely return, unless, as the
subject of some grim caricature, he may
be held up to the ridicule and contempt
of common sense and public decency
but should the ferocity of fend ana
the impotence Of idiocy ever unite 70
form a character 80 base, so weak 30
brutal. so inbecile, that man doubts the
existence of parallel, the Valley cam
naiun of,64 will suggest this grand MILL
tarv monstrosity as perfect equal and
w;l, farnish for the prodigious produc-
lion of natures caprice, the name OF the
.,ricinal model, the warlike chimpanzee'
Gem. DAVID HUNTER. But to no purpose
do we remember the wrongs OF the past,
if they dc not warn us TO provide
AGAINST their future occurrence. Every
violation of right, perpetrated during
the war, under military authority, pros
tituted to partizan uses and personal re-
vence. is an evidence of the perils that
encompass law, liberty and life when
the civil power is subordinated to courts
martial and the will of commanding
Generals. Every newspaper unJustly
suppressed by bayonets, every farm aes-
olated by a reckless soldiery, melted by
private malice, every innocent sufferer
by the hardships of military prison.
every grave of the countless victims OF
individual hate acting through military
agencies, is a protest against the policy
which makes the courts silent when war
RACES, exempts from the penalties OF his
wrong doing every villain who may
strut in straps or shine in buttons, and
provides no redress for grievances and
no security from outrage save the arbl-
trary caprice of some ombpreof hero
who is as incompetent to administer
government in the rear, as he is lncapa
BILE of commanding at the front
The personal liberty and the freedom
of speech and of the press which mill
tary authority so frequently and so
grossly outrages are among the dearest
rights of the American rpeople--while
they preserve them, they preserve their
own States as freemen-when they aban,
don them, they abandon the best privil-
eyes Of their citizenship and suggest a
doubt of their owl capacity for self
government Let us then see to it, that
in the future, whether there be war, or
whether there bepeace, these great rights
which make US what we are, shall under
no circumstances be ieoparded or destroy
ell by the rule of sword and bayonet.
To this end, the civil rulers who have
connived at past wrongs and without
whose consent they never could have
been effected, should be held to a strict
accountability, and however exalted the
position of him who has abetted out.
RACES Of this kind, let his derelictions b,
visited with the retribution they 81
richly deserve. Let the dignitaries
who, either during, or since the wal
have permitted and aided the suppress
sion of free discussion, or in any othe
way hazarded the liberties it was thei
duty to defend, be made to feel tina
popular justice, long deferred, will come
1t last. and in their censure and disgrace
let their successors read the fate which
awaits themselves if@ey be not true
to the solemn duties OF public position
than 10 the allegiance they owe to a col
rapt aud despotic party organization,