The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-30

Official and Post -OiIict"l."
Under this head we notice III" follow
ing announcement in yesterdays Reg
iS;sy:
The President has appointed Mr.. q.
=. Long, nr the Register. Postmaster at
Wheeling, in place Of Mi y. w. Camp
bell, OF the INrEIiI"ENCEW.
The above announcement will not,
we presume. take the public wholly by
surprise. as ii has been a matter of
street rumor FOR week or more.
some parties have been curious to
know why the President appointed Mr..
Long Postmaster mt Wheeling. 1t is
easy enough to understand why he re-
moved the retiring Incumbent, for he
has declared that the offices should only
be given 10 those who supported his
policy. But some time ago he made
an order that wherever practicable, va
ctucieS i'll office should be filled from
those who had served in the army
This order Was deemed so important
that it WIS published 10y telegraph all
over the country. knowing Washing
ton correspondents affirmed at the time
that 1t was all a mere ruse and sham.
intended tor popular effect for the
moment, and especially for Roadway
against Congress in the estimation OF
the soldiers.
II any soldier hcreahoutS had been
led 10 indulge expectations i'll conse-
queuce of that tclcSraPhic order which
was hlazoned in all the newspapers
wepresume his eyes are now opened.
and he secs il in a light somewhat diff
ferent from his first reading. Mr.. o. $.
Long has not been soldier that any
body knows OF. But that would be a
small matter in the way of incousist-
ency on the part OF the President. if MIR.
Long had been even 80 much as Union
man during the war. and the commu-
nifty would not recognize in it, not only
a departure from the mere text OF the
order, but a wholesale and most fragrant
contradiction and condemnation of its
entire spirit.
As showing more plainly the full
meaning that attaches to such an ap-
pointment, we may here mention what
j. we'll known TO our people, that no
man during the war attacked either
the principles or the personal character
of President johnson more viru-
IentIy than the editor of the Register.
We may venture in this connection To
refer the reader TO the files of that
paper while Mr.. Johnson was Military
for the brief period during which he
was Vice President Of the United States.
We quote as follows from the Register
of the 18th of March. 1860. where the
editor, and now Postmaster, in referring
To- Mr.. Johnson's Fourth of March
speech, said:
1T said that Mr.. Thad. Stevens. the
Republican leader in the House of
Representatives, declared that if the
House had been in session, he would
have moved for the impeachment of
Johnson. But Johnson is compare
lively guiltless. The party leaders who
nominated him, and who advocated his
election, knowing his habits and his
character. are the parties who ought to
be impeached before the august tribu-
nal OF the American people. \ gentle
man when sober never becomes a
thorough rufHan when in his cups.
johnson drunk Is 6lp johnson s0bsJ. ruth
bred, tame serriJlg JruGgGrt: n brutal,
tyEdnnicGI pump gf pOr"r. Those who
brought disgrace upon the nation by
placing him in the posiii0n-not John
son-must be held responsible before
the world"
Again: on the lith of March, the cd
itnr ana present Postmaster, speaking
of Mr.. Johnson. SAYS:
Andy illustrates in the quality of
his brain and its brilliancy as lit up by
the alcoholic contents of his stomach,
what an T,trDUN and luHdduUsruie,i
statesman he Is, n5id hOac s'rdngeIy the
machinery Cf pDPUiTF government ladv
be iCorked ,riteH n drunken man IS chosen
second engineer"
And again: On the 18th OF March,
the same editor, and present Postrnas-
ter, says of Mr.. Johnson:
"The Republicans told us that in
electing the Military Governor of Ten
Tessee to the second office in the gift OF
the people, we would have such an Of
hcer as never presided over the Senate
before, and we have. How gratifying
1t must have been to hear him on the
loyalty of Tennessee, Just two minutes
and half on that point"
"Chief Justice Chase (hicy Chase. is a
pie Lhic) bian." Just hear 1.-TWO min
utes and halt on that point" and then
fancy the noble plebian dropping his
voice into a tone OF inquiry as he tried
through his obfusticatcd faculties to re-
member who was the Secretary of the
Navy, and then beginning again. 'sYou.
Mr.. Welles, are Secretary Of the Navy,
fhic.J"
Then, too, the glorious, gratifying
spectacle OF hearing him blundcr and
stammer through the solemn ceremony
Of taking the oath to preside over what
ought 10 he the most grave and digni-
fed body in che world. HIS Jreuth
his eyes tecT-ing an II drunken and con-
Jilsed 'EGy, as his thick tOHgue G-ied 10
c1tch the solemn iCOris, and hare wc not
spectacle Ia thank the RcDmJiicun
partyJO LOoE at Il! Funcy IL
"a stumbling, stGmmcTiny, drunken
Dtd man, With the JrOh NJ dTuHEcnHCss on
has Ups; drunk an his legs; drunk an his
peeeh; trunk IN his eyes; drunk II, ms
hnn; drunk an DUcT, MrOuDh and
"""'tgh, in the place dignified by such
names as John Adams, IhOs. Jefferson,
ana JDhn e. tnLDUU. Iihnt II DitV such
d c"H'"eier sho"td he oniy II pIcJiun.
we have not space to multiply quota
tions today. We may entertain our
readers on ii future occasion, we hnvo
given enough today, however, to show
why, in all probability, the President
appointed the editor Of tho Rcgistc,. os
his Postmaster at Wheeling.
WHEN the Postmaster at OskaIooso
Iowa, received Randan's circular To-
the Philadelphia Convention, instead
Of approving of the call, as requested
he returned it endorsed: "I'm not for
sale"