Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-07-14
Baltimore Patriot.

now Sole proprietor OF the Baltimore Patriot and
for some time past the able co-edior of COL Mum
roe, one of the veterans of the press, and who
carries with him into retirement the best wishes of
the editorial corps, which he has we'll earned
by his able and dignifed course during his active
editorial career. We are pleased 10 perceive that
that excellent and talented gentleman, JOSHUA
JONES, Esq, for many years co-editor of the -Fa-
tEot, still retains that position. We invite atten-
ton 10 the liberal yet decided comments of Mr. Nc
Jilton upon the lateacts of theAdministration aud
have the satisfaction of knowing that many of the
appointments of the President eevating to the high
est station men who 'tspit upon the Union" men
who endorse the infamous Buffalo Platform, are
justly and severely replehended by the liberal and
Union loving potion of the Democratic press of the
country While it is always proper to refrain from
factious and uncalled for opposition to any admin
istraon; it Is equally proper for the press to OBJ
serve the actions of all. and when course of con-
duct Is observed in any, such rewarding by
: the highest Offices the avowcd enemies of the
Union, whether they be found in the North or
South, TO visit it with proper condemnation in or
der that the public may see and beware.
Gift undersigned were now, for the first time,
addressn the readers of the Patriot he might feel
himself 10 be under the necessity stating, some
what IN detail, the principles which will govern
him in the publication of The paper. But, hen
it is recollected that he has been for many years
connected with the establishment, and, for sever
al, one of its active proprietols, he is conscious
that he would be but repeating himself, il he
to attempt to enter at length upon the task of fore
Swallowing the course he intends to pursue. II
may suffice, therefore, in the main, to say, that
the Patriot will, in his hands, continue, III all eS-
sentaS, to be what it has been since its establish
meDt-n Jealous supporter of sound politics, sound
patriotism, sound morals. The party to whose
f. has fnr Srn dadio IA
is not now in the ascendant; but this circumstance
instead of diminishing, should Observation-Disclosures
OF SupresSng, should arouse, The zeal of every true
and courageous man, who feels, as the under
signed sincerely feels, that, in the hours of dark
ness and calamity-in the nights of dependency
and gloom which evil counsel may bring upon the
country, there can be no rescue and no hope safer
or Surer than that rescue and that hope which are
TO be found in the political organization recognized
the land as the WmG PARTY of the Union. 10
the principles of that party, thea, the Patriot will
continue to be attached-no matter hat its for
times orwhatits fate Whilst. however. the under
signed feels bound to make this declaration, he is
equaliyTeSolyed to refrain from all actious and un
called for opposition TO the present any other
democratic administration. II that administration
shall in good faith seek to maintain honorable and
peaceful relations with foreign natonS-if it shall
show itself resolved 10 uphold the Constitution as
1t Is, and the Union as it ls-and shall its Just
influence to protect the country against the as
SautS OF extreme factions, whether the North or
III the South, and 10 stay the plague of diSunion-
then, instead of opposition and rebuke, it shall
have support and approval from this press.
"The undersigned regrets that, in Ibis important
particular, he has not foand reason to applaud the
course Of the present President OF the United
Safes. Although it is far from his intention 10
lmpuie to that high officer any deliberate purpose
OF hostility to the Union, yet it is not to be den-
ed that he has, everSince he into office, shown
particular favor towards those who have openly
advocated Its formal dissolution. He has shower
ed honors and rewards upon the advocates aid
IA .cRIl aRna OH nF H.
Nor,h-an organization confeSSedly hostile to
tie Union as The worSi form of Southern secession.
II this has bsen done in the hope of sitting both
factions by Tewarding BOTH it maniiests an almost
incredible weakness and imbecility in the admin
lStra:ion; and if it has proceeded from SYMPATHY
with the doctrines OR the AIMS of either factions
them indeed is the hour of peril TO the Union ar
rived-for they who were chosen to uphold and
defend ii, are, III that case, leagued with the foes
for ITS overthrow Whatever may be the motive
for this alliance with the enemies of the Union,
the Baltimore Patriot, whilst the undersigned con-
trolls its voice, will never to denounce it. as
concession unworthy Of the President and dan
gerouS to the country.
ain the better days of the Republic, the man
who denounced and threatened the Union, as
some OF the appointeeS of President Pierce have
done, would have sought in vain for employment
under government especially charged with the
preservation of that Union; and Washington
would as soon thought of surrounding himself by
advisers. whose lands had been confiscate by
their tory principles, as by persons whose extreme
opinions on the one side the other, has led them
to pIefer the ascendency oftheir own sectional dog
mas TO the perpetuation of the government itself.
1he pollcy that conclllateS such men invites them
and their associates to new aggressons and wheth-
ef weak or wicked, must be opposed from the start
by every true lover Of the Union.
tThe Baltimore .triot, after experiencing the
ricsitudes ami changes of nearly forty years, pas
SeS into t. e hands of the undersigned, ENJOYING
more profitable patronage and established upon
hrmer basis thou at any former period in its his
torn i , sR,ka. r Al.
devote himself, with the utmost a. sdulty, to its
Improvement, and with this view, he will apply
: all the means which he can command to invest it
with those advantages and attractions which dis
hnguish the modern pleSS. He trusts that his
readers will not be long in realizing the results of
the measures he has in contemplation foe the i'm
proVement OF the paper. Fully sensible of the
responsibility he has incurred, he wlIleave no eff
Tort untred to discharge himself of it, that those
who hold intercourse with him as his readers shall
from day TO day, will have occasion to complain
That the Patriot is the teacher of any doctrine in
religion, in politics or in morals which they may
not safely adopt for their own guidance and COM
mend as worthy of all acceptance, 10 their chill
ldren.
GAS great man and pure patriot once said he
would sooner be right than be President SO
the undersigned intends to be governed in the dis
charge of his moral and political Obligations as
the conductor of public press, mose by the con-
sclouneSs OF doug right than by efforts TO crafty
tie pride of aSpirants further the ambition of dem
agogues, or promote the chances to success of
feartleSS politicians.
.fThe undersigned takes pleasure in saying that
he will still have the valuable editorial services
of 3Ir. JONES' who, for fifteen years past, has de-
v.ted his labors to that department, and who will
continue 10 furnish the readers of the Patriot with
tie able productions of his pen.
t.The undersigned would do great violence to
his own feelings, if he were to close this address
without expressing the painwhic he experiences
IN ssvering his relations with Col. Mnnroe.-
Throughout daily personal intercourse of now
twenty years, no Circumstance has ever occurred
to affect the kind and friendly spirit in which our
acquaintance commenced, and tue undersigned
feels that he cannot more adequately express the
warmth of his regard for him, than by he hope