The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-09
DEMOCRATIC BITTERNESS.

in good many battles.n What patriots
they were, doing 30 much for "the Con-
stitution OF our common countryp
DEMOCRATIC BITTERNESS.
One thing / have now come 70 which
Is painful to speak about, as ii Is largely
private matter. So far from being a.
lowed 10 leave the Democracy in peace
as l had hoped and expected, with nc
noise about il, You have seen, many o.
YOU here, what has been said and charged
against me by the Democratic press. But
what you have seen ia nothing. In the
last ten days ] have received scores oil
letters, the most OF them anonymous
abusing me without stint, and charging
me. with all sorts Of crimes. These
things, which would annoy any man who
had feeling, have simply confirmed me
In nv estimate OF many members OF the
party / have left, and have, intensified
my conviction that my course was and ii
right. I can see by these an explanation
OF one thing that puzzled me in the ca
reer Of my old comrade in arms, Gen
John A. Logan. Logan and were to,
gether a great deal in the fore part oil
the war, and we talked things over a
fellow Democrats, and in nearly every
respect we agreed. After the close Of the
war we met again. When ! had parted
from him he was a Democrat, then hi
was Republican and bitterly anti
Democratic. said to him, u can I'M
derstand your course in changing parties
and can not blame you much, but what
| I can not understand Is what makes you
80 terribly bitter against the Democrats"
He replied, GYou will never fully under
stand il until yourself leave the Demo-
cratic party, which day will surely come
but then you will see II plainly enough.
You will get all sorts Of anonymous, VII
lainous, cowardly letters, charging You
with all sorts Of crimes, and heaping
upon you all sorts OF vile abuse"
THE REBEL ABUSE OF THE GENERAL.
know the public charges made against
Logan, and know personally what afro.
cious lies many Of them were, and I could
not conceive that partisan malignity
could 70 any further than il went In the
coinage Of them. But now ! do see,
These letters have received charge me
with being robber, an incendiary and 4
murderer! These charges they make 70
describe my career and record as sol.
der. Can | be blamed, then, in view Of
such abuse as this, for departing from my
resolved purpose Of privacy, and public,
" hurting back upon their authors al
such accusations? Whenever you find
one Of these men charging me with these
things, scratch his skin and you will find
rebel. Tremendous applause. Let
me refer 70 some OF these charges briefly,
| will not be long, although / find my
time Is far too short for telling 1t all, and
| do not want 70 weary you. They say !
stole cotton and made money by It. 1ts
4 lie. [Applause. l say il with that
word because that is the word. [Great
applause.l l captnred but Two lots Of
Confederate cottop, as II was called-cot.
ton belonging to the Rebel Government,
| | turned i over and got duplicate re.
ceipts for it-one Of which sent TO the
Secretary OF the Treasury, where 1t Il
now, and the other l kept, and now have
| Il. Inever made \ cent in cotton, and
never tried to do il. lmake short work
Of these charges, because that Is all there
j. Of it - GF5 77 T,
THE vICKsBuRG SOLDIERS GOLD sPEcuLA.
TIoN. ~
They say / speculated In gold while at
the head Of my command. II il fact.
Laughter The Wall street brokers
were running up the price Of gold, spec.
ulating on the fast Increasing perits oil
the Republic, saying that Vfeksburg
could mot be taken, and that therefore the
rebellion would be victorious. They did
not scruple thus to speculate even II Il
was destroying the credit Of the govern
ment and helping the Confederates. Wall
street aud tho rebels were together then,