Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1840-09-22
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The trio, S,eebrod. g~on. aud New san. are a.
beautiful set OF youths. They ought 10 have leather
medals Tor Iheir truth ard honesty. Sieenrcd at Grave
Creek on Saturday endeavored 10 make the people be-
lieNe that the Wings were determined on appealing Ia
arms IT they did not succeed at the ballot boxes this
time. Perhaps there mas be -nne foolish to give cred
4 To hs harrangucs. but We doubt whether there are
many such. Sieonrod's cue Is takea from the Globe
which eadesvors to make its readers bcll"vo that the
Declaration OF lndepcndence read by psui,! wcbslcS
at Bunker liil - a declaration ct war
Mr.. Newman tried the people on another tack.-
lie todd the people of Marshal assembled at the meet
tug, how much he wa. abused by the bnnki,cso fwhec-
ling. IA proof of which Col. Thompson read a letter
which some insignifcau, scamp is slld to have dropp-
sd AT Newmani- door, which letter said that 1T A
Newman dad no; leave Wheeling for,hwirh he would
be ridden ON n rorl TINS brlled and cooed over as
though It was a newly found mares nest. 1t was made
a mighty engine of persecution. and psor Newman
was proved to DO from that important circumstance. a
greater martyr TO the oause Of democracy than John
Rogers was TO religion or Gallileo TO science. Col
rhompeos read that letter rs proof that the Laakite'
OF Wheeling prosecuted poor Newman Col. rhomT'
son II post master here. aud Il HE memory r. not-n
very bad one, he remembers that about two months
ago our humble self went To the Poet Office ono morn.
ING where we received among other letters one posi-
marked Illinois % cents postage. We opened II and
found II read
) 3. Wharton Es4
Damn your fool soul what de- you moan by black,
guarding this administration as you do &C." and
wound up 10y saying that tho writer woutd be IN
w heelIng in about three weeks and # he did n"'
make daylight shine through W. he would be damned. '
THIS Vas signed D. some one, We de- uoi rcnsmher
Who. now. but in tho body of il. was snne evidence
dIat the writer of It wn- a past master. We thought
no more OF 1t Than that the writer was un impudcnr
scamp to ias Us with postage on his balderlosh. We
handed the letter to tho clerk and hc carried II To Col
Thompson who, after examining it plJ the clerk moi
n receive postage for Il With This fiat before his
Dyes. and knowing, TOO. that we said nothing about 1t
not even publishing il. Yet he would, to make 10
liIicnl capital. take a letter written by some fool, the
same as ours was, go to Grave Creek with It, and
blame the Wings. This is Newmnn's persecullon-
Three DAYS ago we were cnmIellcd TO pay I~hrec-fp-
postage on n letter from Buffalo signed 10y one Of th,
numerous family of Smith who gioricd in the cupho
NOUS cognomen Of George. who located himself IT II
Broadway. New York. lie had taken exceptions t
something we had said, and he sSore he Nould come
here in u few days and carry US to Yew York and
cut US up for Shark bait. We cared nothing for ia,
Shark-baii. but we die regret the threc-Gp-. Now
why did not we cry out persecution. Furthermore
we have had, within The last four months not less
than fifteen letters threatening our life. most, of wlIcl
were wriren in this city. and We ncvec thought o
making any allusion Ia them IN our paper. much les
OF making political capital out Of them; yet this New
man must he held uPaS a martyr because some brain
less nincompoop threatened To ride him on a rail
The people must be, by this time heartily sick oGsucl
contemplate demggoguCs.
Trse Wig Th,adcr-Thc Hon. Phillip Hone du'
ring a speech n, the great CONVENTION ON Bunker Hill
called on oil those in favor OF Gen IIarrr-on 10 say
aye. There was such shout went up ,hattlic clouds
~istaking it for thunder, at once dissolved INTO their
original element and fell, IN drops upop The multi
iude.