Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-10
lyon THE 1xrrLLIaEscER.l

There is an article in the Times, of Monday,
which deserves more than q pessing notice. al
lude TO the one on the Fugitive Slave law. 1t is
unpleasant a, alrtifnes to differ with Others. but it
is especially SO, in regard to men with whom we
have been accustomed to act. The articleinques-
ton deserves The reproof and indignant rebuke of
every wing in Wheeling. An Editors thoughts, 7
admit, are his own, and would not deprive him
of them, but he should remember that whole COM
munities and classes may be wron. ed by what Is
the meie premature effusion of disappointed
imagination. - - - : -
know the Wings of Wheeling and know the
Wings Of Ohio county, and do not believe there
are ten men among them, exclusive of free-soil
votes, cast for Van Buren, in 1913, who entertain
such opinions or any akin to them. The Wings OF
Ohio county are attached to the Union and to the
South, and devoted tie the great and leading inter-
ests of Virginia, and ready to support and defend
them, and believe, therefore, that the Fugitive
lave Law, like the rest of that important seresof
patriotic measures called the Compromise, were
eminently wise, and nothing more than Just to-
wards the constitutional rights of the people OF
Virginia and of the South. l am sure that the
people of Wheeling, of all parties, Wing and
Democratic, foreign and native, heartily approve
and sanction the Compromise. and that the Wings
of Wheeling, with unanimity not surpassed by
any, approve and adopt the platform published by
the Wing Convention which assembled in Balti-
more last summer to nominate Wing candidate
| for thu Presidency. This. platform had and has
the unanimous approval of the Wings of Wheel
ing and in none of its parts, with more right good
will and sincerity, than in those which relate to the
Compromise and the Slave property of the South.
BY it, believe, they willing, to stand fall,
and by it, believe, the Wings Of Wheeling are
willing to stand or fall-sure am the writer is
and he is one who is not disposed to quail or WAIVER.
even before the mighty storm of locofocosm, which
has just passed over the country, from Maine to
Texas. ~
lf-the Times express what the Wing party is to
be, predict that the Wings of Wheeling "tpil
none of it," l am Wing, because lIbelieve that
Wing principles best foster and cherish the spirit
of freedom and enlightened progress, while they,
at the same time, best sustain andprotect propert,
and the wages of labor. Between the extremes o.
flibustering democracy and the excess of slave
stealing free-soil:sn, but little difference
abhor both-one is stealing from our neighbors ant
the other is robbing strangers. When it is neces
sary to choose between the two. honest men viii
retire and leave the controversy and the contest tt
them ,oho lore and ,vouH take that which does no
| belong to them. -sf-. .s.ff
The notice the Argus took of this error of tn;
Times and Gazette, was narrow and illiberal and
unjust to the Wings of Wheeling. The Argus wei
knows that the heeing wings are not tainted witt
Freesoism. Why.did he not take the opportunit,
then to do justice to the people of Wheeling. On
would have thought he could just now afford to b
fair-nay, even liberal. When we are overwhelm
ed with the laurels of victory, if there is any mag
nanimlty in us, it will out. But do the Docto
of the Argus injustice. His mind is SO engrosset
with weight of the spoils of victory and the care
the loaves and fishes, that it is not possible it coult
find place for such trifes as magnanimity to al
enemy or justice to aneighbor.
| Who FROM THE BEGINNING.