Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-25
Letter to Mr.. Wiley.

We concluded yesterday by showing that Mr..
WILEY was not only sound upon the subject Of
the county, but that he went for taking from It all
power other than a court of county police. (See
his proposition to amend the report of the commit
tee on county courts. (Appendix to Journal Of
the Convention.) Why did not this frank let
ter-writer show to the people that on the very
page 3l5 to which he has referred, Mr.. WILEY
voted twice against proposition to make the pie
payment of taxes condition to voting. You also
state that Mr.. WILLY voted rightly for the two
third rule on motions TO suspend the rules of the
house. How then does it happen that he was in
minority in Democratic Convention, and had
Messrs. ]. Y. Mason, Barbour, Bocock the Atty.
General, Edmunds, Goode, Jefferson T. Martin,
R. G. Scott, Wallace and Wise, all Democrats and
FIVE of them, we believe, members of the Baltimore
Convention, voting against this two-thirds rule
Strange consistency on the other side of the pic
ture! Sauce for the goose sauce for the gander Is
the rule, you know, Mr.. letter-wrier Why did you
not also refer to Mr. WILLEY's vote page 253a-
gains trking out that portion of the report OF the
committee which made it the duty of the Legislature
to provide by law for popular education! Was 1t
that you were afraid to let the people know who
was their friend or was it that "your brains were
in the wrong place and your heart wrong" Let
the people determine.
You next make it ground of complaint against
Mr.. WILEY that he voted against afternoon ses-
sions at first, but afterwards voted for them. Now
had your "brains been in the right place" you
would have known that for long time in the early
part of the session, much more labor was required
out of the convention than it as the committees had
TO be constantly at work, and in addition to this
you should have known that in the winter the days
are shorter, and that an afternoon session would
have been ridiculous under the circumstances
The "obYious reasons were that the days were
longer in June than in January, and the members
had discharged their committe business. But the
writer complains that Mr.. WILEY lodged the i'm
portant votes of July 9th. Now it is perfectly ap-
parent that Mr.. WILEY was not in the house when
the question referred TO came up, we find him
voting regularly after his first appears. II is
ridiculous to suppose that WArrMAN It. WILEY,
he prominent advocate of our rights, our powerful
debater on the basis, who had offered the resolu-
tons of his district, insructing him to come home
if he could not get the white basis, who had boldly
declared that he would do so and take no property
qualification by which to measure his constituents;
would dodge proposition undoing all his work,
position in which he has himself located them.
But we have no time to follow you in your petty
effort to prejudice Mr. Wiley, in the minds of our
people, by hunting up the proceedings in Conven-
ton, which you do not understand. Mr.. Wiley
was at home, called off by the most stringent cir
cumstances connected with his private affairs, after
the 10th of July, and could not vote on any of the
propositions voted upon after that day. Suffice it
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were deeply gratifed with his able services; and
they well know that he was open and above board
in all things, and that he was, from the heart, a
Westert, Virginian. When his constituents COM
PLAIN. then. we may take the trouble to look into
his Conventional votes; but until they do we shall
leave you to your croaking, knowing full well that
it is the "croak of expectancy" and as such un-
governable As TO the latter part of your letters on
general politics, it is hardly necessary to answer
you. The people have heard him upon the issues
ofthe day and they know his views. He is in favor
of a revenue tariff; with incidental discriminating
protection in favor of America against Great Bri-
sain he is favor of altering the disposition of the
public lands. front publicTreasury and from being
squandered away to corporations and stock jobbers;
that the entire proceeds thereof will pass to the
people and the whole people. But he is for more
He advocates the opening of our great rivers and
lakes the removing of their distractions, and thus
aifording facilities for trade and commerce. to the
great and growing West. He does not believe that
the Democratic platform contains single pIo-
gressiYe principle; but he does believe that the
Wing platform contains the great and essential
elements Of progress and advancement, that they
look to the development and protection Of the
whole country and all classes of lis citizens He is