Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-30

-,.--.-.,,rg DerRAvIrY.-The Rev. G. W. Web
his discourse on the life and character of
s'.' webster, on Sunday nisht, among many
,n,;,ts eulogistic remarks well melit=d y the
Et't.;o,,s dead, said, adverting tothe low inyec
~ braped by the American newspapers on almost
~, man who becomes candidate for popular
s,Gr,,e and public office, that he often wished
a., syery Newspaper were burnt fer one month,
~, more manly and elevated standard might be
..5,,,e5 BY editors. We have often wished so our
III s we think by that time people would begin
:, learn the value Of them We do not, howeY-
:, wish 10 e1tenuate in the remotest degree this
f.,,pre in the American Press, which we regard as
., ,restes disgrace. But while We know some
litors to be by nature and habit prone to this Wis
c;ous Indulgence. we believe, taking the great body
If American Newspapers, that the abuse lies more
with deprared popular taste, than with editors,
n,py Of whom from motives OF ayarice and Gu
nudity, or from mistaken views of policy, minister
!, what they think to be the predominant public
appetite. That they are OfteR mistaken in their
.,timstes Of public intelligence. and virtue, and
tb,tthey are aloays wrong in doing so, there is no
sgpb,. But let the readers Of newspapers give
,,eir publishers to understand that they despise
and abhor every low, abusive epithet, and every
,Decies of malicious SANDER, instead of continu-
slly asking why he does not give this man gas
and that man dts" and urging him by every act
,ud eIpreSioa to committee most fragrant outrages
against the good Taste, to say nothing of the morals
Of the COMMUNICATE them do this, we say, and
we warrant that they will have a Newspaper re-
f.
cr,vity to be reformed, will soon be killed off, We
sincerely believe thatthe greatest temptation all
editor who desires to maintain an upright and hon
Orable character, has 10 Withstand, is the persuas
ions of his so called friends to depart rOm his
chosen path, and to ptrpetrate, ay, and father too
that from which his tEfiends," had they TO incur
The responsibility, would shrink, either from cow
ardiee OF sclf-assumed dignity. Thank Heaven,
We have generally managed to dispense with the
idriee Of such friends, and we intend 10 continue
10 do so.
That Daniel Webster incurred great personal
,buse, is well known-what great man has not
II is the result Of human depravity from an ana
yss of which the greatest intellects have shrank
but there it is, staring boldly i'll the face 1t
existed before Newspapers. Here we gel beck 10
M main point-the abuse complained of is in the
reat mass of the people. We don't believe that
Newspapers make public sentiment half 50 much
S morallsts would have US believe: they only re-
tet and, in some degree, perpetuate it
Byron has told US the human rewards OF great
es in these sublime lines:
He W no ascends the mountains top shall find
The loftiest peaks most wrapp'd in clouds and
81 snow;
lie who suTpaSses or EubdueS mankind,
Must LOOK down on the hlfe of those below,
hough high above the sun of glory glow,
Aud far beneath the earth and ocean spread,
ould Ii m are icy rocks, and loudly blow
CORtending tempests on his naked head,
nd thus reward the toll to which to those SUM-
nits lead.''
wemny, however, from using detached remark |
the Rev. Mr.. Webster's discourse, do il inius- |