Year: 1868

| ZINE farty from fkfiente." .


Under the above caption, the InteIli
geacer replies to the structures upon iti
course toward General HARRIS, copied
by us from the Ritchie Press. We are
sorry to have provoked our neighbor by
the publication of matter SO interest
ing, but as he failed to lay before hi
readers the card Of. the Richie county
Republican Executive Committee, We
couldnot find it In our hearts to repres!
q production so plucky and SO enter
tanning. And now, having given on
readers the Ritchie county side of the
case, We presume it is but fair to allow
the Inteligencer to be heard in its OWL
defence. Without attempting a lengthy
criticism, we may say it displays rather
more bad temper than belongs to the
strong side of such a discussion. Speak,
ing of General HARRIS, the Intelligence,
says:


Y We shall not now 60 into the merits
of controversy with this person. We
have no taste for it, and fear our read
ers weuld have no patience under such
an infliction. 1t would require an
amount of detail and style Of Ian
guage to do justice to the subject which
they would not thank US for indulgiDg,
We might have to call in the assistance
of Mr.. Congressman Donnelly--and
would rather not.


For the present, suffice it to say that
the accusations which "this party
brings against the Intellgencer, boiled
down to a perceptible consistency, are
simply these:


1st That we are opposed to the nom
ination by the Republican Convention
at Clarksburg, of Gen. L. NJ. harris, OF
Harrisville, as candidate for Congress
in this District, and


necessity, the bitter and impiacable
enemy and assailant of Union soldiers
in general and particular.


Sd. That we favor the nomination of
Hon. G. ID. Hubbard.


As to these accusations we have to
say: The first is not supported by any
facts, but if it will afford the REGISTER
any qualification, we will assume it to
be true. But so assuming, the I'd ac.
cusation is non seqaitur so gross as to
be ridiculous. Nothing but inordinate
vanity or pitiful demagoguery, or both,
could have led this man to assume that
he is the personificatiou and embodi-
ment of all the valor and virtue and
,,f II th.. hnnnroh hl~ die
charged Union soldiers in the District,
and that as his private and personal
ends are promoted or thwarted the great
mass of the soldiers are honOred or ne
elected. We beg this PERSONS pardon:
but he is laboring. under hallucination.
There are numbers of soldiers in the
State who have an existence wholly
separate from and independent of his.
General Duval, whose friends have
made him a candidate for Congress in
this District, was thought to be some
thing Of soldier during the rebellion
aud isresteemed as very much of man
now. The ancient female at Harris
willie WIN probably recover from her
hallucination about the 2Sth of May,
and discover that General Duval, in
preference to herself, is the candidate
of the soldiers. Besides, the accusation
that we are unfriendly to soldiers is
simply untrue; and on that issue we are
willing to be judged by our readers.


The truth is, this man Harris himself
has received more courtesies and favors
in our columns than, probably, any
other person ia the State, in private
station. While he was in the army,
the Intelligencer printed, as or files
will show, more long letters from him
than from almost any other correspon-
dent in or out of the army; aud those
who knew the man will understand
that his reputation as a military CON-
mander did not suffer any in those let
ters. When he came to Wheeling in
the Spring of 1866, an ayowed candidate
for office, and invited himself to make
q speech before the Legislature Gas
every one understood, to air his views
and get prominence before the public
with a, view to the approaching cam
paign, We voluntarily, and without the
solicitation of himself or any enc else,
took a full report of his speech, pre-
pared it for publication after working
hours, while he was asleep, aud filled
an entire page of the next issue of our
paper with it. Wedid not expect either
thanks or pay, and in neither were we
disappointed. What we did was done
simply because We felt friendly towards
the man, and had been led to suppose
he deserved the prominence we sought
20 give him. Whatever any one else
may have to complain of, he, at least,
has nothing; and in his assaults upon
US he adds ingratitude to calumny.


The other accusation that the IntelH.
geRcer favors the denomination of Mr..
Hubbard, is entirely unsupported by
evidence. The Intelligencer has ex-
pressed no preference for any candidate
for Congress in this district or in any
other. What the private preferment of
its editors may be, We presume General
Harris does not know, though he evil
IDENTIFY suspects that they do not faver
himself. The effort of that party to
lash Mr.. Hubbard over our shoulders is
no excuse; and we must say Of it that 1t
is the meanest and most malicious piece
of spite we have any recollection of.


The party in Richie ought to be, and
doubtless is, much gratified that in the
commendable work Of trying to ride in
to nomination on the strength of the
supposed admiration fer him enter
tanned by the soldiers of the District, he
has the aid of the Wheeling REGISTER,
which was so peculiarly the champion
of the soldiers during the rebellion that
its editors had to be locked up in the
Atheneum to protect the community
from the strength of their patriotic af-
fection.


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