Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-23
A STRING OLE PEARLS


parently, toprovc that Wheaton ought to hav,
recognized, in that work, the right to searcl
the Argus Tor something good he quotes tn,
following from the Enquirer He SAYS he has
found it (whether by the mode of search that
is outlawed by Wheaton he does not say. y "in
the Richmond Enquirer Introductory to an ed
itorial article of the 9th last, under the cap
ton OF tlc Union" We omit some further
praise of himself and some Liberal concessions
towards us, and come To tife extract.
'.ELEGEANr EXTRACTS. The follow.
ing article from the Wheeling Argus is so full
oil beauty. 50 iraught with truth and patriotic
feeling. that twill reach the hearts OF all who
peruse If. There is here no attempt to arouse.
the bitterness. ot party excitement. for party
elects; 1t l. calm, sensible appeal TO the
Judgment and To the highest moral feelings
III sounds like one speaking with authority
To his fellow citizens of all parties-,ike a
Mentor unfolding the. book Of wisdom and
truth, and pointing out the solid foundation
ON which alone our liberties can be preserved.
our high national destiny be realized. The
calm winch has now settled on the angry po-
lltical waters in Virginia, is the proper season
Tor such an appeal. We trus, that it may sink
deep into the hearts of all who read it, and
brighten the dear associations which bind us
and Virginia TO the Union.-Richmond En-
quirer.
Ihls itself is very pretty specimen of swell
ling out, by the 'boys" of the Enquirer, who
seem to write big bombast. to prove that
they are as fine writers as their father. But
the Union about which our elegant neigh
Dor writes an article $50 full of beauty. so
traught with truth" &c.-ths Union, gentle
reader, is not the Union which we all cherish
with so much patriotic feeling" ''The book
OF wisdom" which the Mentor of the Arqus
uniolds TO point out "the solid foundation on
which alone our liberties can be preserved" is
ihomas Kitchie new government paper, now
entitled the Union. Hear the first senten-
ce of the ''full of beauty" article of the Argus:
''THE 'UNION.'-This significant title is
the name ot the organ of the Administration.
| There Is felicity in the adoption of this name
which will tell with magic power upon the
minds OF the mighty multitude, who are for
all future time To be swayed by the instincts
of genius and the force of judgment"
If am article written to puff the Daddy of all
the Ritches had not been pulled in turn by
the young Ritchies, these younglings must
) have forgotten the saying on which the father
has often acted-tickle me, III tickle you.-
The appeal which our neighbor made to "thc
highest moral feelings is probably contained
in the following humble confession of It's ed
itor's backsliding:
"Ihc republican family hac had its Jars :;
some nave wandered far away; some have
been shipwrecked, but naked and wounded
have found their way back to the old family
altar, and devoutly admitted as they came, the
solemn sanctity of the republican creed 9TH
ers have sunk into neglected and disgraceful
obscurity, in unnatural hostility TO the house
| hold oil our iaith; but many, how many at the
present time, have returned home to the sol
emn Union of the political freside."
That part of the elegant extract wherein
the Argus sounds with authority" is perhaps
| this:
"Mr. Polk is the representative of union.
His administration is the organ of the great
party which elected him, and treachery to its
acts Is treason to the republican faith"
- But lest an article $50 full of beauty, so
iraught with truth and patriotic feeling should
tempt the administration TO dismiss its ,,-e-
ent organ ana tuno $500 IN its place, the
editor proceeds to relieve the Ritchies of all
""o"'7i'1ee' tiris mead, by adding, ''although
we Will never aspire TO be the organ ofthe Id
ADMINISTRATION" &c. This last touch of gcner-
oslty set the Enquirer in blaze of gratitude,
and hence these pufis. We have quoted about
hall OF the elegant article on the Union, the
rest OF which is chiefly taken up with proving
that the Baltimore Convention that nominated
Polk was a Temple of Concord! and with
crooking the hinges of the knee 10 Polk him
self, possibly, that thrift may follow fawning.
i While we have our hand in, Git does us good
to string together the elegant efIusions of our
home democracy we must add pearl or two
from the very Lords of the Argus. First we
shall treat ourselves to taste of the profound
obscure. This mOrceau is q note appended
TO poem called The soul that graspS and
gains" Ia significant title) which appeared in
Brownson's Review and was thence copied
as in duty bound, by the Argus. As writer
who tags his lines with rhymes has right to
be either above or beneath common sense. VIC
shall not inflict upon our readers the task of
deciding on which side of that line the poem
is, by rc-printing it. But here is the note;
",NOTE.-The idea of Trinity is complex,
and its philosophical ANALYSIS gives win,
Reason, Love. Will is manifested by DOW
er. Power Is the result of volition, an effect
oil the Will No power can be philosophically
conceived which is not the result of volition
from the motion of human limb TO the action
OF steam engine, that powerful instrument
OF the human brain. And if il requires Will
/, to construct the engine, whence the force of
power that rolls world or balances system?
, The Trinity in one of its hypostascs is Will.
the manifestation of which is Powcr.-In the
next, At must be Intellect, Intelligence. Rea-
son, wisdom lit will require a rigid and
long contemplation of all these 10 get Inc true
idea OF the second, which planned the worlds
and comprehends i'll itself all history and sci.
ence-the central conception from which all
sprang, and the infinite complexities which
bind all togethcr.--Will is mere power.-of
itself blind energy: Reason is The direciirr