The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-14
The Clarksburg Telegraph and the
soldiers Convention at PRrkcrS-

The Cl"rksburg Telegraph and the
soldiers Convention at PRrkcrS-
burg.
The Clarksburgh Telegraph is well
come to rail at this paper through the
convenient medium of correspondence
until it has fully gratified all its enmity,
ancient and modern. Only we do not
intend that the editor of that paper
shall publish, uncOntradiGted, such
gross talsehoods as the following items
from his last paper:
1.-The Wheeling INTELLIGENCER has
its pets, and these pets are among the
civilians"
Not a word, syllable or letter of this
assertion is true. The INTELL1GENCER
has no pets, military or civil. We are
always willing to support the best in
terests of the Union cause in the person
of any one, for any Office, who has the
best qualifications.
Again:
1.-The conduct of the INTELLIGENCER
in regard to Generals Harris and
NOrthcott has been, to say the least,
nliberal."
This assertion is just as reckless and
as groundless as the other. Why is Gem
eral Northcott rung in with General
Harris, as though they were Siamese
twins, and must stand or fall to-
gether? Are the two inseparable?
What is the motive in connecting them?
Cannot the writer of the article in the
Telegraph easily tell us? We profess
to have high personal and political
regard for General Harris. And as for
General Northcott, we have ever endea-
vored to treat him and his paper in
these columns with all due courtesy
and consideration. If it is " illiberal F"
in us MOTTO second or favor his aspira-
tions for Congress from this district,
then we are illiberal," not otherwise.
Again: the assertion that we have
been careful to exclude all favorable
mention or notice of General Harris in
connection with the Governorship of
the State, and just as careful to put
forward everything available for Gov
ernor Boreman's denomination, is
likewise equally untrue. And again
we may inquire here why the name of
General Harris is made the cover of at
tack? He has paper of his own, and
he has not intimated anywhere in his
columns at any time an unfriendly feel
ing or suspicion. He treats us like the
gentleman we esteem and recognize
him to be. We, on our part, have no
feeling toward the General that is not OF
the friendliest character. And while
mo do mot 1,rofov him oboIya 4, -,
Boreman, yet we are DESTROYS, so far
as belongs to us, to do him honor at the
proper time to any reasonable extent.
1t is not necessary for US in order to
show our appreciation of a good man
to lard him incessently with fulsome
praise, and nominate him for office, the
highest or lowest, without regard to the
surroundings of the place or the neces-
stiles of the hour. We never have
chosen to disgust our readers by such
practices for the sake of attempting to
make petty personal capital for our
selves. Our notions of good taste and
dignitied journalism are all opposed to
such transparent tricks.
But again: the writer in the Telegraph
charges that we demanded more than
our usual rates for publishing the call
for soldiers convention at Parkers-
burg on the Both instant. Nothing
could be further from the truth than
this assertion. On the contrary we did
not charge our usual rates. AS for his
complaint that we did not put the call
in editorial type at the head of our
columns, he is welcome to make all
that he can out of that fact. We do not
put anything in editorial type at the
head ofour columns thatwe are not will
ling to be held editorially responsible
for. Col. Lockwood was made well aware
of our views in regard to the location of
his call before inserting it, and certain
ly did not expect to see it in editorial
type. We think we now understand
the source, end and aim of that call,
and if others are willing to lend
themselves to any movement that
may by any possibility prove to be
fire-brand in the Union party we are
not. That is all.
Now one word, in conclusion, about
the Parkersburg Convention on the
Both. Our idea is that in times of peace
we have no soldiers separate and apart
from citizens. We therefore need no
politico-military Conventions. We pre-
sumo that all soldiers of the State will
feelthemselves represented in one or tho
other of two the Parkersburg Conven-
tions. Certainly in the Union convention
they ought to feel at home for there thew
will be cordially welcomed. Their in
terest in the politics of the State is the
interest of all classes of citizens, Meth
er more nor less. Why then a separate
political convention, as if either there
was separate interest between soldiers
and other Union citizens, or. as II
soldiers were afraid that their Union
brethren throughout the State did NOT
appreciate them, and would not honor
them as they deserved? The call looks
like a movement either to keep watch
upon the regular Union Convention O,
to forestall its action. Therefore it die
not appear in editorial type in thesr
columns. Such calls under such cir
cumstances never will. We study thu
unity of the great Union party in al
we print, and not those things which
might factionize it. In this judgmen
of ours we are glad to know that we
have the hearty concurrence of some O
the best soldiers of tt g State, as, for in
stance, such men as General Duval
Colonel Curtis, and the soldiers gene
rally of this vicinity, SO far as w,
understand their views.
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