Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-11-11

Do not you claim TO have originated everything
ever done for the good of the city, and good deal
that has not been donel-LnteLigeneer.
Language like the Above has frequently been
used by the editor of the Intelligencer, If he will
pu: the idea to be conveyed in a tangible form of
aSSerton-and morally, it stands now in precisely
the light as if an aSseItion-he shall prove it,
or swallow his own words. Further than this we
nave no remark 10 make.-Times & Gazette.
We don't wonder that one so profoundly iRtan
gibl= should askifor something tangible. The ed
i:oT Of the Gazette has made no less than two NOR
tai columns of charges against US this week. Most
OF them were too absurd to need even denial
The only one we took any notice of was the charge
of opposition to the Central Ohio Railroad. We
called upon him for the proof from the files of our
paner. He replied by twisting his charge into an
other form, but gave US not line ortate of proof
saying that all our readers knew his charge to
true Well, now if they know it, and you knoU
it, let US have the proof. d.
The above threatis rather alarming, but we guess
we'll survive. When we ask our adversary TO
face the music, AMI he lodges everything except
one little question, and then growls out for us to
say that again in ''tangible FORM" we don't
think he is going to do anything very Desperate
Why, bless you, infatuated neighbor, we might
repeat that question all day, and get an affirmative
answer from you every time you "opened your
mouth aud spake.'' It's the nature Of the beast
10 talk of yourself and your achieyements-it
comes by nature, and like the boys whistle, it
Whistles itself. The examples, like an assortment
of county nerchandize, are too numerous to men,
ton Besides it might be offensive to good taste''
TO repeat loo many of such things as this, for in
stance: "MaLy Of the strictly public works Of the
city had their conception and Haturation with the
edtorof the Gazette [see your editorial of March
2sl Or this: eve hold the record of every i'm
porlunt event in public improvement bearing on
Wheeling for the last twenty yearS, and when tOs
sneak Of them zoe do it by the book" &C., &C.,
[see your paper of March 29.l OF this: 'fWe met
twenty years ago with some of the old citizens and
designated tie presentsi Of the MLute House."
You are right, however, neighbrI in thinking
that you can safely defy us in presenting some of
these things in n 'tangible FORM" For instance,
you know zoe can't exactly tell what you said to
Elih,i Butriit, when he made a brief visit to our
city, and you took him under your ponderous arm,
aud whispered something pregnant with the "re-
curds of public Improvement" into his ear. You
know can't tell exactly-in tangible form
what you said-perhaps he can; but we do know
that ii did the job, and that that clever, conidng
aud learned gentleman, and stranger in our midst,
wrote you down--The Architset of the Suspension
Bulge. 86
Lest we should be "Ofensire to good taste" and
become little too "tangible," we will leave of
here, neighbcr, with one of Greeleys stories,
which explains our meaning exactly;
''Wsll. fslIoW!" said gruff proyision-deal 10
a chap who was cycling his provender rather suspi-
CT ,uSy 'twhat have you got TO say of those sausa
.fGTlo E10 n had nf
!.N=oTo-qs's. replied the scrutinizer, obviously;
al d6Ilit kAOLD nothing agin them sassngers;I 3
ba' nj said nothing agin 'em. l only know this
that where thsH sasSingeTs are plenty goa don't
see no d0gS."5ai 5,ii sea g s2 nh4
We havn't sid much against our neighbor; we
havn't, we hope, been tou "tangible''; we only
kuo. that where public Improvements are up, and
strangers and green 'nhs ure plenty, he don't see
no otherPrgtstOr. i'os