Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-04-04
1--WE can only. find occasion for remark in an.

me can only ma occasion ior q remark n
swet the editor of the Intelligencer's column.
We know difference between vested and a
moral right, and he who does would keep a pocket
book that lie might find Ill the street. We do not
design to sez- every occasion to palign the editor
OF acknowledgement, as he does towards US. If we
did, we should have scored him, as he richly de.
served; for daring to suggest that Wheeling
would violate her pledged faith, to subscribe
$4,000 to the Wellsville extension. That pub
lie print should hold such language, is astonishing
and that, too in the face of respectable comniu-
nity.'' 49,
We copy the above from the Times and Gazette
OF Saturday. The editor of that paper continues
to harp upon his cry of spersonalty'' and efforts
to ihjnre him &c. If we dare to dissent from any
position whatever set up by the editor of that pa
per, no matter how mild and courteous may be our
notice. the moment that the editor finds himself
unable to maintain his position, he falls back upon
his standing appeal of personality and "perse-
cution.' Ii was so when noticed his article
against the Fugitive Slave Law, audit is SO now
that we have dared TO dsapproye of his reasons
for the opposition of Wheeling to the Pittsburgh
and Steubenville Road. He reminds us of the
doctor who could cure nothing but burns. No
matter W hat Of suffering was Brought before
him, he reduced it to burn and then he could
manage 1T. No matter what discussion the Times
mayinyolve itself in, no matter how erroneous may
be its views and how preiudicial to the city, the
moment he finds himself picked up, he aba ndonS
ths argument, cries sspersonal attack" and goes
to doctorng his disease with his panacea of sympa-
thetic appeal. Well, if he can live on such food
do not object. Still he shall not misrepresent
us, and though we are perfectly willing that he
should ''Score us'' when he can, yet we must say
thatin the conclusion of the above, he has wlful-
ly miSrepresented us.
Our remarks were as follows:-''If the effort, in
dicated by the Ohio advocates, at Wellsvile on
Wednesday be made, to form Western Shore
Railroad from Marietta to Wellsville &C., and thus
to prevent travel from crossing at Wheeling and
induce it to go TO New York, we can only say that
Wheeling will be apt to protect herself from such
effort, if possible and will hardly invest her
means without the certainty of areturn.' II the
Times can make this Suggestion that Vince
ling should violate her pledged faith to subscribe
$4,000 to the Wellsville extension,'' he is well
come to make the most of it. 1t was openly or
gued at Wellsville that this road could not a I'd
trOld not go to Wheeling, but would make its con-
nection and its only connection with the Ohio roads
on the west baLk of the Ohiu, land lead off all the
travel to New York and Pittsburgh. Now we re-
peat what we have written before, and we go fur
ther and that the city will be blind 10 its own
interests if it does not secure the practical advan-
tages of this Road. The extension was designed to
come from WellspiHe to Wheeling. If it does that
tits alive ask, unless it does that it fails to do
what was contemplated throughout by the officers
of the road and by our citizens. None of the re-
marks referred to were made by the officers but by
the Ohio delegates along the line of the proposed
extension. Whether who could pervert, for
hssselfish purposes, language as unnlistakable as
that above given, would Ssep spocket book, which
hemight find. we cannot say but leave that to the
editor himself TO determine.