Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-05-17
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Most or out unwtSe conuuCt w puUlV aNeN'
ntoeeeds from tbe contacted views and Tile heis'
shInt Cfmete party All men s.e more OF les
dblst NJ ikausneessb pl every candid aid eonsld
entJ p.tson will admit he is rarely more lpbleltt
sfsotthsn when under It's government, and that !
| Is seldom he has more oecusiuRio pause and re
fleet than when he /, conscious Of Tie Pteseaee
such considerations, This may he humiliatlIlg t
our ptile, Tut we will Gad II Is lEae, II we ~
ourselves justice; and tho Hotc lnonenIous OIL
Interests ate, Ito more we will find occasion 70
the exercise Of liberal anil Expanded views 81
tue Is reason to Truth, and 80 cetinnlSdo hetdlc
tales lornlonlse with lie prosperity Of the people
whether in their public otpliyaie business a0'
concerns. 4G
A new party hos sprung up among tls--nyowea
~ end admittedly secret In lis Organization, In u
membership, in lis plans and modes Of action, an'
also In lis M psates, purposes and elds. lIislta'
tint, here and there, pul ltleby little, Itdealso t
10 us some pretended purpose, As'o .vety thin
else concerning Il. We ate as much in lie da'S, q!
II was in the tombs, And.s II harsh Of ''nklnt
OF unreasonable, 10 Soy thai party whose Otgani
Saion, membership, meetings, plans, AMI mOde'
Ot action, ATE held ptofoNai scCtet, has no tsh
10 expect that the public shall believe that IsPuT
poses and ends ote Just what II may declare then
10 bt-beiog, as it does everything else pertaining
10 II, secret, Let us advert In this connection tc
another fact, tLat while Ia Ohio county Tho sup
pcsed members declare Iet great purpose 10 be th'
destruction Of the Catholics, yetin The address Il
tie people Of lie State oil large, published BY lGei
Centrnl Committee, composed OI Andtew Rene
dy and others, this new Know Nothing patty de-
nounce all religious Tests and intolerance. Thu
leading us 10 iner thai Office aud popularity stht
desire Of lis leadets, aud not principle.
This patty las also declared, so fat as we car
know anything oil lis declarations, That Il Isas hos
Tile to Tie Wing as to tie Dsmoctntic party. Fo
these and olhet resGons many Wigs in ohio coun
", and us good ind as tue Unts US Ihete nle leE
or elsewhere, declined n(iiaiOn with this ncN
party; and that, loo, notwithstanding Il OppEopt
ated exclusively 10 itself American principles
All that shines Is not gold aud all claims aud pre-
tensions are not well founded. This exclusive
claim 10 AmetICaN principles aud FeelOgS is deem
ed by many Wigs as altogether arrogant and pre-
postcrous, II this pfeieasiOR is tue, lien il i
cettOin, that the Wig party was moi and IS no
American. a conclusion utterly unfounded nn'
w lcl none y III dare contend fOt.
II so happens lliat this new party, Is now In inl
mediate aud present hostility to The democratic
patty. This Circumstance and This alone, hos lei
many good men aud true Wings TO supposr tia
tho present canvass is igbt between Wings AM
Democrats, when nothing is further from The truth
THIS, II is said will make the democrats vote The
Know Nothing ticket, lie so. This affords NJ
good reason why Wigs should iulute the county
The Wig party Is not IefuEo LIE people In TIL
canvass ltdesited last fall 10 nominate State
Ticket, and was prevented by tie Know NOtbings,
promptly through their organ at Washington City,
declaring they would support no such ticket Ou'
would have one Of lheiro@ui and in connection
with all these things let Wings remember the!
have nominated on THEFT State ticket tto Demo
crals and only Que Wing. THUS it isupparent tl'a
Wigs eau consistently Yolc eitlIl State OF Dis
ricl MS lrymay Individually ptelet tire eau
iiJates, AMI TO favor either is not NY putposc-Il
Is different.
In TIL, stote Of things, rnd in The nbsence o
any contest between The Wings and Democrats
many pOol citizens knowing tbs immensely
VI our county interests and tLeiE dc!lcaIe mn
embarrassing situation al this time, ptorose'
lie independent ticket, COtnposel Of the names o
Campbell, MIlclellnnd Knoic. THEY hoped tia
the New Party having tic Stale 10 contend GOr
aud knowing tllegreut ami prepOndelalmS chat
nCttr OF Or local INTERESTS would have Hcccde'l t.
il-.would at lonst have yielded il silent bupppt
and saved us ftom the injury Of county strife. II
this wise aid cOnciatOty cOursC il viii not con-
sent,-bu! presents q ticket VI It's own. | ain sutC
there eau ~ no two opinions as u which Of IIIe
tic people ought TO support, who ATE willing to ns'
above party nRl give TO our county concerns, thai
consideration they demand liz who, IN our pies
enl circumstances, would be drletcd from voting
for llo best lnen TO represent the County, because
Of the Catholic cry, is, Il fear, neatly ready 10 pa
old women on trial for wiIclcIall.
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