The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-25


its present leader, is a negro suffrage
measure, and was got up to compel
the States to grant to the negroes the
right of suffrage" Why then did Mr..
Raymond vote for it3
We have in vain asked this question
before of the editor of the rebel sheet.
Will he tell US now2~s
9Th. The editor of the rebel sheet prints
the following editorial paragraph in his
paper:
'tLet it not be forgotten. Horace
Maynard, who was. imported here by
Boreman, Campbell, Il Co., to advocate
the adoption of the Constitutional
Amendment last spring, said recently
in a speech in Tennessee, Yes, gentle
men, in short time he (the negro) SpiIL
marry and i''teT-'DG'Ty i. your 1dDliticS.
II is a little objectionable to-day, but
you will soon get over this, and the per-
secuted negro 1oilL be tUeIcoMe IN yoit5 par
Tors. This will be the result of the
political changes of the next few
mOnthS.'"
We are not betting characters in the
INTELLIaENCER Office, butwe have this
proposition to make to the editor of the
rebel sheet: We will wager him fifty
dollars that Hon. Horace Maynard
never made any such remark, nor any
remark that by any fair Interpretation
could be made to bear such meaning.
The money, whoever wins, to be paid
over to some charitable association in
the city. Does the editor of the
rebel sheet acceptH Dare he make good
now his own published declaration?
He is endeavoring to make a prominent
Union man, and through him the
Union party, odious before the people.
We have caught him in the ;trick and
we now call upon him to make good
his SANDER or retract it in his paper.
9th. The editor of the rebel sheet
prints the following editorial paragraph
in his paper:
"a man named Norton, of Texas,
was appointed by the milk and moIas-
ses convention, upon the same commit
tee with Mr.. A. w. Campbell, of West
Virginia, to make an electioneerinp
tour through the Northern States, and
weep coptous tears at the grave of Mr..
Lincoln. Norton started with the
squad, but has got disguised, and calls
the whole system of Northern radical
ism "the grosSest humbug and most
outrageous impOsture ever attempted,
under secret oaths, upon an Intelligent
people," May be this is the reason
why so distinguished .Southern
lOyaliSt" as our neighbOr is not eXh ibit-
ing himself in the caravan"
Our comment on the above editorial
from the rebel sheet is simply this
There is not line-not word-not IA
letter oftruth in it. 1t is miserable
falsehood from end to end. Mr.. Nor
ton the gentleman alluded to, has so
pronounced it in Il card to the public,
dated at Cleveland, Sept. 18th. In that
card, after pronouncing the statement
false he says: "I have newer deserted
the loyal Southerners, and God forbid
that Lever should"
18th. The rebel organ harps a great
deal on the Congressional extra pay
question, and calls public attention to
it. We desire also to call public atten-
ton to it. The facts in the case are
these: \ Democrat proposed the extra
pay bill in the Senate, viz: Riddle from
Delaware, and Democrat (Niblack)
from Indiana, proposed it in the House.
In the Senate seven Democrats voted for
the increase pay-and not one against
it-while thirteen Union Senators voted
against the bill. In the House of Rep
resentatives sixteen Democrats voted fol
the bill and only seven against it, Will,
J0rty-threc Union members recorded
their votes against the increase'of Con
gressional salaries.
The only member of Congress whC
refused to accept the increase of pay
and returned the same to the United
States Treasury, be it understood, wa.
a Union member from West Virginia
No Democratic member of Congress.
expressed his disapproval of the bill
by refusing to pocket the pey,-no, not
one!
The motions in both Houses of Con.
gress to pass the bill-to stack " it or
to the Soldiers Bounty Bill-were made
by the self-sacrificing, retrenching
people. loving Democrats! Yet the Cop
perhead press have the hardihood t,
denounce Union members of Congress
for passing the bill, when the bill wa.
passed by the votes of Democrats anC
would not have become law without
the votes of Democratic members O.
Congress. Is not such etfrontery, t.
deceive the people, without parallel
Sth. The last question or suggestion
which we shall present to-day, in con-
nection with the rebel sheet, is this
Do not these gross Misrepresentation
and outrageous statements which WI
have quoted, come very appropriately
from writer, who, year and hal
ago, said that Andy Johnson was
'LoV bred, time-SerUing Graggurt; q bra
tai, tyrGnmicGI pintp OF pOa0er," and we
to-day is not above asking an Office un
der that same slow bred, time-servin,
braggart ;" under that very identical
"brutal, tyranniCal pimp of power ?",
THE English journals advise thei
countrymen to take warning from tn
! unexpected fate of Austria, and not b.
: found defenseless, because of their to,
/ great confidence in their own valor an,
invincibility. The case of Austria ha
shown that in war, as in other matters
it behooves nation to be up to tn
times and fashions. 1t is folly for an,
, people, however brave, TO risk its fat
, upon modern battlefield, unless i
I goes into the fight with all the "moderl
= improvements On this subject tn
London Times says:
! That the navy is relatively to the ma
: vleS OF other nations weaker than eve
II has been before cannot, we fear, b.
counted, and the condition of our army
IS moi such as To justify that over conf
g uence winch our insular position, a
once an advantage and AN evil, is ap