Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-02-09
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY .. 1854.
"our neighbor Of the Wheeling 1ntellirsncer

ss is his wont, indulges in aiding at the Panhan.
die neiroad, and volunteers his advice TO the cti-
zensO aBrooke and Hancock counties in regard to
their iniatuation on Railroad matters. It is USE
less to go into dissertation on the tspecuarlties,
OF cur neighbor, they are as he says patent and
wherever he is known, nobody attaches any i'm
psr,anee to what ne says on such subjects. 1t
Strikes n that he being sharp ~ lawyer mus. be
scarce of tho raw material when he attempts 10
palm off such miserable stuff for sound sense and
we would advise him to be cautious, OF clients in
the anhandle will lose confidence in his sanity os
they have already in his honssty.''
Our attention has been called 10 the foregoing
personal assault upon US in the last WellsbuTg
He!ald, as unptoyoked as it is uniustifable. Did
we believe for moment that the editor of that pa-
paper vas possessed of any gentlemanly trait, we
should not notice here the article to which we re-
fer. Its always unpleasant 10 us to have to notice
publicly anything personal TO ourselves especially
when the author shows himself ignorant of every
principle of common decency. aud dead 10 every
impulse which characterizes the conduct of per-
soas protesting even the commonest feelings Of
gentlemen, and we refer to his article merely for
the puIposeof calling the attention of those who
may read both papers 10 the extent to which this
Pitsbure hiteling carries his acrimony against our
city, for, devoid even as he is Of every honorable
principle, he will not pretend that we have ever
injured or molested him or given him any occasion
for'the gross and slanderous charge to which he
has given ptterance, a charge which he knew to
be false when he made it. This is the second
direct effort which he has made to injure our pro-
fessional standing in Brooke and Hancock, and
though his puny efforts perfectly harmless, yet
we1notce this one in order more particularly that
the citizens of those counties may know what
confidence is to be placed in the veracity and
character Of one who has thus proved himself al
dead to proprety as he 10 every Other noble aud
elevatetaefeellng HIS continued abuse of our
editorial course have passed in silence Except
when we caught him stealingl. and we had hoped
that'fsllsnce would have slenced him." that one
continued omission 10 notice his unprovoked
blackguardism, repeated from time 20 time, would
have ultimately suggested TO him at least the sha-
ows oil propriety, and have forced even through his
rtdnoeerous hide some faint idenS OF what is due
from man t9 nan. 1t seems that we were mistaken.
Unnoticed he continues 10 SANDER, unframed he
Continues to molign and traduce.s The epitome
Tlnon Is 'Timon STILL, without even his redeemilg
vice, alive 10 good feeling, sold body and paper
10 Ioreign corporation, dead 10 every impulse of
right, every feeling of propriety, stepped appa-
renty IN, hate and baptis-d in gall Why we are
singled outas the object Of his vituperation and
calunny know moi, unless he zupposes that
such course will be acceptable 10 his Pittsburgh
matters, and hopes ati"thiift may follow fawn-
ing" and he may thus salve his conscience with
his. gqln-sa,=.a-- -.-.l>i % as.ri} -.
We arehoweyer well enough acquainted with
the citizens of Brooke and Hancock, to know that
his malignant and deprayed feelings are nowheie
better understood than at his domicil, and were we
as dishonest as he charges IS with being, though
we could lose nothing by a comparison with hun,
whatever may be the estimation in which we a,e
held thetej we hope never 10 have 10 undertake so
hopeless task as that of proving to Brooke
county jury that he Is man either of veracity or
honor We hope never to be called upon TO de-
tend the character OF man, who in the full court
room. on a direct issue (and that too about thi:
very road) Yves branded liar by gentleman fully
cogniZant Of the transactions to which they refer
red. eleaye him with these remarks to his own
reflections. His efforts to injure us are harmless,
and can rise no higher than their source, and we
nre hordiy e1cusabie for STOPPING to raise them
from the stagnant slime in which they were con-
ceiveds and matured. The systematic slandelcr
the deliberate lar, the baretaced atraducer who
falsifes for the love of falsehood, trauces from
native love of detraction and hates hecause he
fails TO attract the attention of gentlemen, might
well be suffered 10 smother himself in the foetid
exhalations with which he surrounds himself, but
we have chosen to unyeil him merely for the pur-
pose of pronouncing to his own readers his state
ment wilful, deliberate and premeditated falls
hood and caIumny, and 10 show 10 them WHITTIER
he would lead them under the false guise of
"Brooke. interests" Having done this we take a.
final leave Of him: Possessed Of no one feeling
or ffdc'icn OF a feeling which dignifes and en-
mobiles human nature, an IshmaIite because belev-
ing that others bear some resemblance to himself.
his enmity is our gain, "the one poor service he
can do US, is TO hats us aud such as he s may all
who hate US be-"
Moxs. BkD1sr.-As there has been so much un-
certainty about the movements of this individual,
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