Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-11-05

TIE BLAST OF ELooUENCE.-We called, the Other
day. for "blast of eloquenee' sufficient TO take
down Wheeling Hill, and, unlike Oliver Twist
when he asked for ''more," we got it-got it loud
and long from tie Cyclops ofihe Times q Gazette,
yesterday. He is determined, he says, 10 take
down the hill, though all creation cry aloud
,salnst him. Well cone, MunchauSen, go ii while
tie steam is up; but when you do take down the
hil when you take all the stock yourself, when
you DO it all by the mighty impulse oil your own
srdent spirits and the lavish investment oil youi
own meanS-when you march off with all The
glory 10 yourself, think you that you will have nc
rsmorseful upbraidings for having cheated US ou'
Ofpart of the gloryl
The ingratitude of our ambitious neighbor !:
shocking. He says we oppose the removal OF the
bill. 40, Lord, how this world is glveu I" lytng!'
He knows, just as well as we know that the bump
right on the top Of his head is bigger than the same
bump on all other heads that were ever created-not
excepting MI. Barnard's Shanghai ROSTERS tnai
look the premium at the Fair, and the universal
title of swell heads-he knows just as we'll as lie
knows that he is the architect of the Suspension
Bridge and the author of those immortal letters 70
Captain TyIer-that zoe have not opposed the Ia
hing down of Wheeling Hill. The seere
Of the matter is, that we proposed tue chea-
past, the most expeditions and the quickest plan'
And now he already intimeats that ii can be done
in less time than he at first suggested. See thefe'
how the migrate wants to wax of with our thunder
: At his heels! If he had any gratitude about him.
be would listen to some sort of compromise, anu
"set down and argue the natter before he killed
Us right of. We would be content with Just
title of the glory, or we WOULD il nothing
better offered, dispose of our claim for reasona-
be consideration. Hut to kick up a dust ane
raiss fuss generally just toblind the eyes OF oui
honest, sntellgent, liberal, high minded, enterpH'
sing and ialrepid citizens, and carry OIL IN tue
smoked of the fracas, all the honors and emolo
ments, not leaving US even so INCH as "one egg ane
butter TO return thanks oysr, is too bad, it's doWE
hight mean; its damnable robJery-an atrociou'
stab at our fair fame. and we were not membel
Ofhe Fenclbles, and he were not Justice oil the
Peace, aud if We were not sworn to keep Inc
peace except in times Of wat, ID IL we dld no.
think our bleeding country would some day neeu
our services, we might do something desperate
But though we may be deeply wronged' we ore
magnanimous. We cannot LET our private silei
''nlerfere with The prosperity of the city" a.
the editor of the Gazette is determined to TAX
down Wheeling Hill, we will, with The forsglylng
disposition which has been piously insiiiied inc
US. bid him Gods speed in the noble work, and "
earnestly protest against any one preventing bio
from accomplishing the work which he has enga
Bed 10 perform, for, we gather from his proclama'
ton of yesterday, that, alone in his glory, he Il
bound 10 go ahead. No one doubts his capacity
for The head work; we suppose he will commence
BY boring into the hill-and we assure him tina
We know of no one whose abilities as a bore az