Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-04-30
ToNE DEPARTMENT.
MORNING, APRIL so. 1858.

There are two very respectable
STILL III husiness-likc papers published in
looking ]" tbe Times, and the InteLhgencer, both
Wheeh"E' " and treir editors, for some time past
ing par o snecial delight to SPEAK oil each other
have llN Co Int gentlemen. As we are IN the
as an n.y. ~ both papers, we should ike to Know
IecclN u, n ibis we are to believe. II anybody
how mucn y. disrcs ectfulyof these Wheel
else W. te thew do OF each other, they would,
Ing editors 40 The assailant with ''Shhr2 stick. I"
jointly pn'S ~ Is not this free country, and is
Bn! WE, ,,,rsnit of Happiness guaranteed to every
not the a situation 10 enjoy the benefits OF
SSH pa aheol, gentlemen! we presume the hall
MT beeu toll.-G ,T "eS
Our ne's" .,,ber used offensive language toward
We nave "s'., mr. anv other paper, or person, nor
the lniehlse".. ,noye especially as we know our
do We dss s., vi oher nlatter.-Times s. Gazette.
Ieaas's tell us that there is certain huge
Ma I'm .;,n very small head which, when pur-
shlna. .,;css into the sand, surprising that its
sueu' =, is mt of sight and out of danger. The
"f0s S0 w.. owe" often reminds us of that sa-
,nipal. He assaiIs us with abusive epithets,
s1s,, to rs want of responsibility says we
'HltD "a, the pursuit of au honest business"
"'s an, creatures Of a clique, the ttjackallS of
.,;o,., &C., and then pirates OF his dignity
NA,' h.. ..,os not used any cfensiue language
i..h.1r,eIlisencer." We don't know what
,'.oo;ss standard of respectabiity may be,
,rb,t sort of language is offensive to him' but we
~ n he distinctly understood when any one
,..s sncb language TO US, be he klnsmen or sttan-
-. ,ra will burl it back as false, and make him
o., ,s we have the editor of the Gazette, that he
h,s ,raked up the wrong passenger.
Now N the point of all this apparent controver-
,a,rpen the Intelligencer and Gazette. Ad-
,n;,,ng that there are "two very respectable look
~, ,ol business like (Whig> papers in Wheel
80 az our Guernsey friend says, what has given
.,,oh character to the Wheeling papers? There
,r,s mt one snch when the Intelligencer was
,,r,ed this might as well be admitted first as last,
.,3 the Gazette will remove a serious impeachment
in ,sway to sreakinghe truth of US, Fit will can
;alv make this admission at once. We pursued
or, enterprise laboriouSly and ndustriously, fairly
and hororably, and yet we were assaulted by the
Gazette in the manner we have referred TO above,
and r no other reason than that we had the au-
Iacity to publish such paper as the improvements
Of The city justified. Thanks to an approaching
public the wise predictions that could not sue
coed have proved worth about as much as other
pEedictions from the same source, and the result
has been that while our success has greatly ex-
ceeded our expectations, people abroad are now
willing to admit that Wheeling actually has "two
yeTy1especabIe.I looking and business like papers,"
Improvements in newspapers, the steam
Power Presses, the advance in Printers wages
and the increased facilities for good printing which
we have introduced into the city, we have receiv-
ed from the Gazette little else than abuse. We
have defended ourselves, and whenever we are
unable to dose shall think it time to "shut up
shop" This is the amount of our "disrespecr'
70 the editor Of The Gazette. His future treatment
a! hands rests with himself. His friendrhip OF
lis enmity are equally matters of indifference to
Us, We can get along very well withoat either
3nt whenever he attnes for his past abuse OF us,
e will find that we are not insensible TO a repen-
ant sinner