Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-04
Second volume of tue Inte1ligonoer.

The Intelligencer will enter upon its second
volume on the 2sth day of August, ensuing, and
in presenting to our friends and the public, the
prospectus for the second volume, it is not impro
per that we should make some aIlusion to the past
and indicate, briefly, our course of action for the
future. About one year ago the publishers of this
paper presented to the public prospectus for a
new paper, to be published in the city of Wheel
ing, to be devoted to the general promotion of the
interests of Virginia, and the advancement of the
welfare of society, Our enterprise was then an
experiment, and even those of our citizens. who
regarded the effort with most favor, were far from
being sahguipe of our success. We are free to
confess that we entered upon our duties with ma
ny misgiyngs and doubts as 10 our ability TO meet
the expectations of the public, but at the same
time, we must say that we did so with the deter
mnation on our part to meet our obligations bold
ly, and then to abide by the result. The success
of the enterprise has more than equalled our most
sangnine expectations, and we can congratulate
the public, and certainly ourselves, thatthe Intel
ligencer now rests upon permanent foundation,
and that its success is no longer problematical.-
We are well aware that this result is due more to
the kind favor of our patrons than to our own eff
forts, but while we cheerfully make this acknowl-
edgement, we may, at the same time, say that we
have at all times endsavored to deserve the conf
dence and favor which has been so generously be-
slowed uponus. We have, at all times, endeavor-
ed to advocate boldly, yet cautiously, the meas
ures which we deemed conducive 10 the interests
with which we are identified, and in so doing we
have never hesitated 10 express fully our senti-
ments upon any measure presented to us, whether
local or general; and upon any question of policy,
whether State or Federal. -
We avowed, at the outset, that the principles
advocated by the Wing party were the political
principles which met with our approved, and which
should command our support, and in the plat
form Of principles promulgated by the Wing Con-
Vention We expressed our hearty concurrence, and
to those principles, in the late Presidential can
yass, we gave our undivided support.
Nothing has occurred since that period to shake
or impair our confidence in the nationality of those
principles, and their paramount necessity in order
10 educe to their greatest capacity the resources
of our Union, and to advance to their utmost de-
velopment the great principles upon which our
fabric of government is based. 1t is true that in
that contest we were defeated, it is true our ban
ner was borne down by the most peculiar, and at
tue same time the most incongruous combination
OF opposing elements ever witnessed in the annals
of any political organization; but as the darkest
hour of the night Just precedes the dawn of day
as the most portentous lowering of the clouds is
often but moment before the flashing sunlight
dspels the gloom; so has it been with the prnci-
pies of the Wing party. which though apparently
then PROSTATE, were at that Tery moment even
more surely working their way, and into the very
roIicy of the opposing party itself The election
OF General Pie.ce was triumph of opposition
rather than of Affirmative principles, it was produ
csd by the Union of all men of all parties of all
sections, and Of all creeds, from the Van Burens
and Browns of the North, to the Rhetts and Dayi-
ses of the South, of Cuban bond holdeB and the
believers in every political ism ever entertained by
aIyparty in any portion of the Union. These,
united with the Democracy proper, who really ia
vored the opposition to hig principles Gonstitu-
ted the vote which so oyerwh elmingly defeated the
Wing party in the late Presidential canvass. No
principle was indicated by that election, safe the
of opposition and the love Of piece
The foreign policy Of the country was left wholly
unsettled It's internal policy could be derived but
imperfectly from the ad cgpfgndHBt generaIihes |
employed with reference thereto, and the new adj
which assumed the reins of govern
ment under so peculiar state Of foreign Telations
so anxiously IegaFded BY the public, has not as
yet made single development Of its policy (if
policy it hayel and Is YET unIepresented at every
foreign court by IL appcintess. while some Of the
most lant ministerial appointments aIe yet to
be made. aud eur government Is entirely unreprei
slte1 at this monent.
re most remarkable, yet to- us, most chser-