Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-04-01
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shal, the blessed of heaven turn mlshsr. and

l. backberIteSY SHAKsFEARE.
WouldEit not require, Messrs. Editors, quite as
great distortion of the order of probabilities ashat
implied in the quotationwe have selected for our
heading, toSimagine a city some twentysthou
sand inhabitants. withsall the elements and prog
nostics of future greatness; in which the vagares
OF an editor OF one Of its daily prints would be re-
garded as 80 likely to exercise deetero1s iffiu.
ence over The interests of community, as 10 be
mace slhe subject OF town-meelings, and formula
Die resolutions and supposed capable OF effecting
us position IN the estimation gifts parent Stu;e7
or can Ye;conceiye OF one in W hich the outpour-
lngs oil journal, uniting temperance, abolition,
religions rolticsSgossip and personal animatver,
sion, in ihdsctiminate and chaotic mass, ID be
deemed worthy Of such serious notice and consid-
CITATION! If ne.there he. should we not Feline
sistibly tempted to.applytoyi it familiar dis,ch,
! repreLensiye Of such scnsibility 10 disturbance,
I and say of it,-in its commotion, thatit -
lsqi-l ..Resemblea oscar, into tempest wrought.
o To wan feather, orr drown fiyl"i 5ss,i ''i
But, to be serious. We do not desire 20 impugn
the motives which may prompt the editor of. such
q print, to demonstrations, as in military phrase
they mil bit be termed; which, if they do not effect
the prosperity, certainly annoy the peace OF good
citizens; for. although we cannot approve the
course he has taken of late, we have frequently,
and on many important occasions, been of his
party and admired his zeal for the general welfare
and are unwilling to suppose this has abated. But
weventure 10 question the propriety, TO say moth.
ing oil the policy Of the course he is now pursuing,
and TO ask whether, at this particular jnncture,
when harmony and cooperation are especially es-
sential tn the contamination of measures, the UNI
certninties of which have so long retarded our adj
vaneement; it is becoming in an editor TO throw q
fre-br NJ among the materials of social rnd civic
WELT ing he hasassisltd in gathering around us,
which may inilame, If il does not consume them.
1--WE leaVeio Catholicism 10 defend hel own inva-
ded rights and immunties under constitution
whose most beautiful aud peculiar feature is reIi
gious toleration; the privilege, where else en-
loyed, of Offering to our Maker the tribute of our
| love and alteration in the manner the promptings
oil our own hearts, and the teachings If our own
consclences; the prayer first lisped onthe mothers
Knee and the doctrine first impressed on the bud
cling mind have sanctfed, and made tenacious;
anu the wisdom of our forefathers respected. We
pEesumetto bolster up no creed which has christi
anlly Tor lis foundation, much less attempt TO pull
1t down. We may differ from it in folm, though
we agree with II IN spirit, and we resign lis sem
tence TO thai Alblor who. jealous OF His own high
perogative, loo vast, in what relates 10 His own
tributes, for human exercise, has pronounced this
solemn injunction upon such rs would tamper
with 1t. agss - a...z .al- 49,. .,'
| t ''JudEe not, that ye be not iuds ed,, us.s
Nor do we deem it necessary to defend our city
from The imputation of abolitionism. Our sons oil
the soil are true steel 10 their Alma Mater, the
dear old Commonwealth, ond to the institutions
OF their fore(atllers and most of adopted Leth
zen have The good sense TO respect them. Among
the latter, however, there may be here, as unfor-
tumate.y there are in every community, lew the
oilSts who without comlrrehending the nature Of
what they consider an evil, and wholly incapable
oil suggesting q remedy, that would not be worse
than the evil itself, ride their hobbies 10 extremes
until, Us is the late of other extremes, they becon.
| ridiculous: "From the sublime 10 this poiut'' MS
Napoleon said IN his retreat from Moscow, ..there
Is Sut one step" aud we ask all those who have
employed thsit energies of mind aud body III this
cause, not excepting the great lumlnary Mrs. HAIR
tet Beecher Stowe, who is now in occutation
obscured by some other "ism," whether they have
yet accomplished anything. beyond perturbation,
among those fixed principles 10 which, that same
wise constitution. SO liberal in matters of con q
science, has extended its protection. We ask whe-
her alter all that has been said, for we aver tina
nothing has been d. ne in promotion of abolition,
The slave Is happier, or tue STAKEHOLDER more
lndulsent than formerly; when there was no OBJ
strnction Of freedom to render Inc iUrntr dissatis
fled with his lot; o: to require the halter 10 sra-
len the bonds which confined HIM to it, When
old Massa.' and old Missus' implied dependence
ce rather than servitude, and the negro recognized
in children he had handled on his knee, objects Of
| ffrc,iOn. tetlO
own-successOrs 10 that patrarchal authority 10
which he cheerfuliy resigned his offspring, in the
confidence that in none ether would that fat
which
| .'Condemns tho many 10 labor for one," &c. i
be less liabeto tyranny and abuse. Il is not for
northern men, or such OF them as have become
southern or western, 10 comprehend these rela-
| lions, accUs' omed- they have been 10 see the
yoke OF which they complain worn by the 'lowiy'
Ut their own complexion, who bear it from neces-
sity; not as the negro once dill, from conscious
ness ofdepemdence, mingled with gratitude for the
benefits which accompanied it. Inc either case it
/ IS bondage. In The one TO " eallh anu CO price-n
4 the other TO protection and habit-to second ma
lure, UNNECESSARILY improved beyond that TO " hich
Providence had consigned it. In THE first there is
pride, envy AMI sense Of nferiority 10 rmbiitcr it,
In tie asttlere was feeling of hope or equality
to excite rivalryor God had interposeda barrier 10
I this, which could not be removed So -
litics, gossip. and personalities are either too
complicated in their characteristics. or too uniuyi.
ting in their intention, 10 occupy our humble. and
not intermeddling pen, and we abandon these 10
such as delight in them. 10 make few hasty OBJ
servations on the absorbing subject of temperance,
which We think should prevail Sin all things;"
not more in the ardent spirit of alcohol, than in
the equally ardent, and not less mischievious spr,
OF excited humanity. We are by no means BAG
honalian in our propensites-never under auy
circumstances, tempted to excess. and seldom to