Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-12-28

| land MIGHT hay. advocated What men have we
advocated other than those which thepublic recog-
hized as proper subjects for newspaper advocacy
In shorl, what have We done to subjec. us to the
charge of being controlled, owned and governed by
men whom "the public have ceased to regard as
emitted 10 the position and influence they ASSUMED
and labote,i to pefpetnate?" These are questions
TO the point, and we want then answered III a
pointed manner.
The imputation that the INTELLIGENCEE Is not
.yespeetabIe,, journal THAT its Proprietors are
not in the pursuit of permanent and honest buSI-
ress touches upon subjects which the editor OF the
Times would have done better to have let alone'
TITS, withal, as cool apiece Of insulting impu-
dence as was ever perpetrated: 1t is, true lhat
neither of the Propretors Of the ISEELLIcEScEE,
has the reputation Of being rich, but they have,
they trust the reputation 6f being h0nes ana nave
therefore, never lacked friends TO aid them in any
honorable business. We might here ask, who has
befriended the editor of the Times, IN days gone
by and with what fidelity has he discharged his OBJ
legations to his friends? He alludes TO his gray
hairs and his heTculean laborS for wheeling (hlS
fayorite theme, when he wishes to excite sympa-
thv) but he oyerooks the fact that one OF the Pro
Drietors of the INrELLIcENcER is nn aged gentle
man who came to Wheeling thiTty-str years ago.
who brought with him means which he invested in
the business ofthe city, and who' when the revnl-
sions ls17-1S caused by the war of 1912, involved
him largely, as well causing him to suffer hea-
y,ly for the liabilities of others, devoted years OF
the prime of his life to the discharge Of his oblga'
tons, as we have been informed by some OF the
Oldest citizens of Wheeling, and who, undaunted
bv these reverses, has by his own energy ana H.
dustry reared a large family, and fitted them for
the active duties of life, and that one OF his
main objects in embarking in this enterprise, was
to give mechanical employment to his younger
sons, who, with himself, are now actively eugag-
ed in the work Of this establishment, and that
he has at least some claims to resPectabiity.-
Where-a question which naturally occurs here
was the editor of the Times So years ago? -
One ofthe editors ofthe INrELLlGENcER, who is
supposed to come in for his share of the imputa-
tons, is abundantly able to fight his own battles
but we never heard before that he was not "Tes-
pecLable'' or that he notin the pursuit of an
honest business The last and least Of the trio,
in the estimation ofthe Times the "junor' of the
INrELLIGENcER, it is true, not SO old as some 9TH
Ct persons bullet the editor Of the Tfne*, or any
other person, dare to impugn his honesty and IN
tegrity, and he will find the city TO hot for himi
We must make one or two remarks on the favor
tie hobby of the editor OF the Times, and we have
done. We mean the persecution aud nartyrdOm
which he says he has incurred. And we do say
without the fear of successful contradiction, we
say not only as citizen of Wheeling, but as one
long familiar with his habits and transactions, that
there never was people more completely befog-
ged, humbugged and imposed upon by any one
subject than the people of Wheeling have been in
regard to this same editor of the Times. We ac-
knowledge that we were at one time among the
humbugged, but subsequent Developments indu-
ced us to modify our opinions. We shall not here
descend to particulars. and we trust that we shall
not be forced to do SO, but we shall ask few
questions, whichif they have not before suggested
themselves to many of our readers, we are much
mistaken. Why should his private grievances be
the perpetual apologies for all his errors, and the
extenuations for all his extrayagancies! And what,
in The name of all that is reasonable, lave been
his enormous wrongs? Who has prosecuted him,
who has made him the Hero-OTartyr? Who, in
his own ayorite language, has sought to break him
dolvn and l0hdt in the name of heavenr was to be
gained by breaking him DOWN. Has he ever given
the public any facts in regard to such matterS2 il
combinations and cliques have pursued him, like
demons, why has he not turned upon them like G
man capable of defending himself, and held then
up to their just deserts, that s.....t.
| "Eyery honest man
Might whip the rascals naked through the world?'
Why is he perpetually whining 10 keep alive n
sympathy for which no reasonable cause can be
assigned? This community is certainly not so in
sensible to Justice as not to render just verdict
according to the facts. CAN'T be possible that the
unwilling of the mystery might dispel the synPG-
thy?
We have prolonged this subject beyond our in
ten tons; it hos been painful one to us. We
have not been unmindful of the fact that we were
speaking OF one whose years perhaps double ours
Neither could we be unmindful of the fact that he
has sought TO crush us, and to destroy the business
in which we and our aged partner have embarked
to make honest living by our labor. He is rem
dered still more inexcusable by the fact that he has
no pecuniary interest in the establishment from
which the Times emanates, and he was therefore
doing the work of his employers in traducing us
Had he confined whatever opposition he saw prop
er to wage against to the merits of the INTELLI
oENcER, we should have thrown the broad mantle
of charity over many things to which we have al
luded. But zoe are deteTnri ned that he shall moi
ride his old hobby ouer us. We call upon the pub
lie to give their verdict in regard to the esta blish
ment of the WHEELING INTELLIeENcEN. Has moi
our business been conducted fairly and honorably7
Who have we wronged? Who has been denied &C,
cess to our columns tecause he belonged TO this Oh
that faction? We call upon the public to attest
that the editor of the Times has done us mon
StrouS wrong, and we call upon him. to make good
his charges. or TO make the annende honorable
...Mf. e.
Death of John L. Carey, Esq.
The New Orleans Crescentof the15th, givesthe
following account of the death of John L. Carey.
ESQ.,: .. .....