Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-09-27
For the Daily wheeling IntellIgencer.
T,.,. TTan AIo,ut Town.

me MAIL GA1S0b A0ht4AS
IA single grasshopper in a green pasture field,
will make more noise and disturban says Burk,
ethan ali the stately oxen that Craze upon its
banks" The gentleman to whom we refer, may
be compared to grasshopper, and nothing else;
one who attempts to make an ugly nolseS the OBJ
iect of which nobody but himself can conceive;
because, forsooth, some of the clerks have obeyed
the common dictates of our nature, and attempted
to better their condition But what Object can the
gentleman have in this Has it not been.a set
tied and decisive principle in all agesot the Rorldf
Do not find its impress on every page Of hlsto-
~; and every achievement OF man From the
time the children of Israel obeyed the promptngS
Of Moses, and cast of the Egyptian yoke, down TO
the Chinese rebels of 50, we see this principle
work as the grand lever to action. Upon the
plains OF Chaldea, upon the classic fields OF Italy,
and upon the streets OF Lexington, we may see its
impress. 1t has been this same, grand unborn,
principle fThe desire to better our conditions"
that has been the cause of all revolutions, OF all
failures, and of all triumphs. It's it that prompts
the minister of God TO spend seepless nights, anu
wear out feeble constitution in pleading for The
better condition Of the human race. ltisthe same
whiSperingS in the politicians ear, as he mounts
the roSrum TO recount to us the history OF the great
What was it, would ask, that induced that little
fleet to undergo the perils of the briny deep, and
plant thetr standard upon Plymouth rockf was
it not to extricate themselves from the thradom OF
English oppression, and better their condltlon,
Though it be in the perilS of savage wIlderneSsf
But vet, the gentleman, with his extreme sagac-
ity and deep penetration, will attempt TO reverse
the order OF things, and censure us Tor exercising
that common principle which God has implanted
in the bosoms of all, and which has been coeVal
with time. But let us see what the gentleman has
TO say. Thus he commences:
t"rhe usual fall excitement has commenced
with the dry-good clerks, arising in an effort to IN
duce their employers 10 shut their stores at an ear
lier hour, in order to give these young "bgeNs
better opportunity TO improve their morals
How grand how sublime! how ridiculous =
The author is certainly very refined writer, and
| have no doubt well acquainted with Wheateys
Logic and Parker's Aids TO English Composition,
Judging from his beauty of expression. The au-
thurs Vocabulary it seems to me, must be OF rath-
er diminutve size, if he is driven TO such groVel-
ing extremities to find epithet to apply to those
who ask not his sympathy and deserve not ms cen
sure. But, then, we forgive him, considering the
tallibility of human nature, and that there is
class OF persons who, no difference whether they
he night or wrong, whether they stand with the pop
ulaI party or the ''0ld Fogies' and "Blgots,
from irresistible principle oil contrarlneSs' VIII
take the opposite side, and though they know they
are wrong, wiIIin the very fuCe of decency, OF mo-
raty and of right, endeavor TO suLstantiate their
''EnulUkiSh sentimen tdiSm.''
| Again, would remind the gentleman that he
| falls into u very palpable error, when he says:
'FThat the Shop-keeperS, of all the employees OF
our city, haye more TINE for the Improvement ofthe
mind, wandering friend ce;talnly has had no
experience in the matter; or does he not know that
a
not allowed to spend their time in reading, any
other pursuits apart from their business, during
business hours. And further, does he think that
any young man can conScientlouSly Violate those
regulations, knowing that his employer disapproves
of it. and that his time is not his own. NOW, all
we ask is to regulate those business hours; to place
them within such bounds as might be called 1ea-
sonable.
He, too, must use mighty wide stretch Of the
Imagination, or is not yet perfectly eXtTcaled from
the influence of Morpheus as he walks up Mon
roe and Water streets at the hours of l, 2, 3, and
in the morning, and seeing the printers at their
morning task, impglneS, that since they work
while other men sleep, consequently they work
I while other men work, The conclusion, think,
is by no means logical, and | would inform our
worthy Logician, that have taken the trouble TO
enquire of some OF our printers, who feline that
on ordinary occasions they work from 6 to hours
per day; quite material differences
In the very outset, our worthy champion at
temptS TO ridicule and Scorn the idea Of young
men i'll our capacity accomplishing any thing in
the literary world-an attempt SO ridiculous needs
no contradiction, the history of the world presents
examples enough of those who had no other impetus
to action but their own exertionS, and no arm on
which 10 lean but their own, Chose mean who
had to attend TO some regular business for their
Support.) Need point you to Sherman. TO a
Franklin, to a Robert RakeS, or TO our beloved
Clay, for examples of the truth of my position?
Those are names whose actions fill the brightest pa
geS of history with aradiance that needs not the i'm
aginings ofthe poet tn "fill the mind with wonder
/ and admiration" They too, were poor, yes poor
as we all nre-olten might they have been seen,
to place the last drop upon the midnight taper,
; and with the aid of its dim light catch another
idea from the musty volumes before them. Again
and :gain might they have been seen, to draw
closer aud still closer to the last expiring coal,
least the fire ofthe mind might be Quenched by the
icy chill which pervaded the hotiy. Their names
will live, when those Of Hannibal, of Alexander
and Napoleon will long have passed into obilIV-
ion. Our sophist may laugh 10 scorn those noble
intentions and ridicule the idea of such compare
sons, (although we would not have the gentleman
understand that we make Them for ourselves, by
!, any means,) yet there are those germs OF Genius
in Wheeling, Which had they but the opportunity,
would do honor 10 themselves and honor to the
city which gave them birth.
Butthe purpose of The communication, he would
have believe is prompted by his anxiety for the
welfare OF the young; he is greved to the heart,
that his delicate SenSblities so often shocked
in his nocturnal wanderings by acts of obscenity
and dissipation. Bun what means does he take in
avert the evil? Does he ChrStianlke tn ke them by
the hand, tell them Of the imminent danger 10
hich they have placed themselves, and tile inev-
liable end such course, does he speak TO them
i'll tones OF moderation ana reason, that might
reach their hearts and awaken them 10 true sense
of their position? Does he gentleman like np-
proach them like father should his hayward boy,
i encouraging him to morality, and rescue him from
the brink of destruction? Does he Phianthropist
like breathe into their corrupt hearts the balm of
consolation, and awaken new desire within their
breasts. No! velily no! He approaches them in
his own pompous style. He applies to them cpl
thets that beft oulytle organs of the depraoed lie
rakes over the English vocabulary and the viIest
most debasing names which there present Them
selves are those by which they are called Strange
/ inconsistency. MARKET STREET, e.
'he Information of our correspondent is incorrect
morning papers in tho United States, where two
hand
on an average, about double this time. ED