The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-09
WHRELER'S WOES.
THE DEFAMER OF STANTON
Hauled Over tbs Goals BY the "FAthsr OF the
HOuSO"-ThS AlAbAmIAn's Attack on the
War aFSsorStaFy-air. Kelley ValOrouIly
Defends the Memory Of the Dead,


WASHINGTON, D, O., June SIN th'
House to-day Mr., Kelley, Of Pennsylvania
called up as a privileged question, tht
motion submitted by him yesterday t.
sxpunge from the Record the speech o
Mr., Wheeler, OF Alabama, upon Edwin NJ
Stanton. He based his question of privil
ege on conscious, deliberate, persistent
abuse OF an order Of the House by the
Representative from the Eighth District
Of Alabama, In lieu Of the motion made
yesterday, he submitted q resolution re-
citing that Mr., Wheeler had been guilty
OF an abuse Of the order OF the House, in.
asmuCh as his speech had not been made
upon any pension bill, and declaring that
as the delivery OF the speech was without
the sanction Of the House, and in contra
vention Of the speech order, said speech
be expunged from the Record, and prohib.
iting the public printer from publishing
1t In phRmphlet or other form.
Mr., Reagan, OF Texas, raised point Of
order against the resolution, The speech
had been made by unanimous consent ol
the House, and therefore could not be an
odense against the House.
The Speaker replied that 1t was not in
the province Of the Chair to decide wheth
Or it was an abuse or not. II was alleged
70 be an abuse by the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, and the question was to be
decided by the House.
A sLANDRR ON THE PARTY,
Mr.. Kelley then took the floor, aud his
remarks were closely listened to. He
said he was unwilling that future reader
Of the Record should, by any possibility,
suspect him Of having sat by, through
Ehat must have involved three hours,
listening to the ISLANDERS, which have beep
reflted for twenty-five years, and many OF
which were punescent on one OF the mos,
unselash patriots the country ever pro.
duCed, and one OF tho most beloved
friends he had ever known In his long lilel
He was unwilling that he should BIZ sus-
peCted OF listening 10 q paper which
teebly regretted that In q mo.
ment OF heat, its author had denounced
Abraham Lincoln and Edwin NJ, Stanton
as conspirators, and Santon as an arch.
conspirator against the character Of Ger.
tain American citizens, and as combiniup
to thwaFt the success oil our army. H.
vas unwilling that posterity should be-
Lold through the Congressional Record tina,
the Republican party had sat quietly In
the House at midnight to hear these Sian.
ders on Lincoln and Stanton poured out
hour by hour, and that no man, either
Republican or Democrat, who had periled
his life under the administration OF the
war power by Lincoln and Stanton for
the support Of the Union, should have
failed 10 say: "These ISLANDERS are now
offensive To the olfaCtories OF all honest,
loyal Union men, having festeyed In heaps,
breathing noxlous odOr, or been consigned
scores Of years ago to the cess.pool oil gos.
SIP"
The country owed something to the
illustrious dead and he did not believe
that such sCandalous matter as was em-
bodied in twenty-five columns OF this
paper would be sent to pOsterity with the
sanction Of the American Congress, which
Il 1t vlndiCates its own order must declare
that there was no warrant for uttering the
speech and none for declaring through
the Congressional Record that II had been
made with the unanimous consent oil the
House.
sTANToN's LETTER.
Mr.. Kelly then read slowly and with
emphasis letter written by Edmund NJ.
Stanton to Rev. Hammond Dyer. 1t isin
part as follows:
WASHINGTON, May 2S, 1862.
My DEAR FREND:-I have been very
we'll aware oil the Calumnies busily cir.
Culated against me in New York and else-
where respecting my relations TO General
Mcclellan, hut am compelled from pub
lie considerations to withhold the proof
that would stamp the falsehood Of the aC-
Cusations and the base motives OF the
acCusers who belong to two classes.
First--Plunderer who have been driven
from the department when they were
gorging millions.
Notwithstanding politicians whose de.
signs are endangered by an earnest, reso.
lnte and Incorporating prosecution OF
this war as a war sgainst rebels and trait
org.
A brief statement OF the facts on official
record, which l can make to you con.
fdentAlly, will be sufficient to satisfy
yourself that your confidence In me has
not been misplaced.
When entered the Cabinet l was and
had been for months the sincere and de.
veted friend OF General Mcclellan, and to
support him and 80 far as might aid and
assist him In bringing the war TO close,
was chief induCement to sacrifice my
personal happiness TO q sense of public
duty. had studied him earnestly with
an anxious desire 10 discover the military
aud patriotic virtue that might save the
country, and II In any degree disappoint.
ed, | had hoped on and waited for time 10
develop.
LiNcoLN's ORDER TO MOVE.
went into the cabinet on the goth OF
January. On the 9th the President made
his order No. requiring the Army OF the
Potomac to move. 1t Ia not necessary or
perhaps proper to state all tho causes
which led to that order, but II 10 enough
to know that the Government was on the
verge Of bankruptcy, and at the rate OF
expenditures the army must II nove or the
Government perish. Tho 22l OF Feb.
ruary was the day fixed by the Govern.
ment, and when II arrived there was no
more sign Of movement on the Potomac
than there had been for three months be.
fore. Many, very many earnest converse.
tons l had held with q neral Mcclellan
10 impress HIM with the absolute necessity
oil &C I've. operations, or tha tue Govern.
ment would fall because OF foreign inter.
yention and enormous debt.
Between the 23td OF February and the
9Th Of March the President had again in.
tefeiered and movement on WinChss.
tor and to clear the blockade Of the Poto.
mac was promised, commenced and
abandoned. The circumstances cannot yet
be revealed. On the Sth Of March the
President again lnter6isftd and ordered
the Army Of the Potomac 10 be organized
in army corps and that operations should