The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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The 7th Congressional District.

--The Federalists are endeavoring to set up a man of straw for this district in the Federal House of Representatives. Mr. John S. Gallaher, once well known in this city, was nominated by a number of persons in and around Harper's Ferry, most of them late operatives in the Armory there, and others employed on the B. & O. railroad. He very promptly accepted the nomination, and we have before us a handbill in which he indignantly denies an imputation upon his loyalty to the Lincoln Government, made in the Baltimore American, and which he attributes to some aspirant to the place. He makes out a clear case of loyalty on his part to Lincoln, and declares that he considers the "Union as paramount to everything else." It is needless to refer to his career in this city. His present position disappoints many who thought better of him. He was during the Van Buren Administration a States-Rights Whig, and for several years represented Jefferson county in the Legislature. He took office at Washington under General Taylor, and since then the "Union" is with him "paramount to everything else!" He will give a striking proof of his devotion to Lincoln by drawing $3,000 per annum out of his treasury. The evidence of loyalty in this case will not, like the quality of mercy, bless both him that gives and him that receives. We wish there were Segare and Fosters and Gallahers for every Congressional district in the South, drawing $3,000 each out of Lincoln's treasury, and thus proving their devotion to the Union!