Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-16
THE EVENING" ARGUS

TIE EVENING" ARGUS
Nightbefore last, too late for notice, came
down upon US. and delivered itself in quite
creditable way Gifts dicta ofand concerning the
intelligence. The Argus on flush mail days is
quite readable paper, generally containing the
latestIeader Of the Richmond Enquirer, together
with thssiappiest hits of the Washington Union
and thePennsylya Tuesday, however, as
all of US know, brings light mail on account of
the Sun lay suspension. Our Main street contem-
porary lyas therefore without his usual advices,
and of course, the paper having to appear, must
he file IsOme way brother. So our contempora-
~, with that .llundred eyed instinct" for which
his fabulous "anteccdent, "wesnoted, casts about
for something ofinterest, and sure enough finds in
the Intelligencer and Times some themes for
lucubrstioD So at us he comes, giving ourselves
the Lion share of his notice. Thus far only,
however, the Lonism of hisnotice extends, and
as Cardinal Richelicu, in the person of Mr.. Rob-
crts night before last, said, he "eked out the
balance with the skin of the fox," and common
ces snufilpg gale nar off We can see him
with his hundred eyes" (what sight y intently
fixed upon the future, and without turning his
head he In ountaiiiy, with lis right h, No &C NJ
nences turning theleaves of his Bible and rests
his finger on .:menc, meme, tekel, upharsin."
But before we proceed further we shall give
our readers the sum total of the Argus diyina-
tons, dividing it of forconyenience into firstly,
secondly, thirdly and fourthly. LIST, as to how
its "hundred eyes" were deceived for once:
"When we read the salutatory of our neigh
borS of the Intelligencer we thought, and so said
TO our readers, jthatit would be conducted on
the plan usual to neutral papers. We have,
however, had evidences, produced by that pa
per itself, TO convince uS that were mistaken
in our opinion, and that it now becomes disa-
greeable task with us to retract it. Each sue
cessive issue since it has changed editors evin-
ces the design to convert it into a black repub-
ftruT 'ttIy dangerous c!HsaetSr.-
Dangerous, because under the assumed name of
Independent it propagates free soil doctrines"
10 this firstly, we make answer as follows:
as far our acquaintance with the Argus has
extended, we never yet remember to have no.
ticcd in it one single liberal item It has always
appeared to US welded to and warped out of the
province of a ne'es paper, by partisan spirit
1t pursues its political enemies rclentlessly and
untiringiy and praises it's adhercnts most full
someiy. Now we submit 10 an intelligent pub
lie if we exaggerate the case. The Argus pur-
ports to be a news paper, yet one who could so
perfectly forget the province of nE,cs paper,
would almost forget the English alphabet in
ycHr's tine, if placed beyond tie pale of ciyili-
ZatiOn. The word news, we were always taught
TO believe. was composed Of four letters repre-.
senting the four points of the compass-N-North,
however, the news of the Argus has been com
piled only from such sources as party spirit die
tated. Oar paper, since we took possession of it
has extracted from exchanges all over the land;
from those agreeing and those disagreeing with
our belief in political matters. We trust we
have, and if we have not VIC are sorry for it. a
soul above partisan bigotry, or of being tho or
gan of any moderation whatever. Now we will
compare notes, or, if our neighbor please, n di.
gest of all that has appeared in the two papers,
and if we have not extracted from an equal num-
Der of diversified papers we will yield the qucs-
ton. So - -g
Here then We come to the second count in
which our contemporary avows his honesty and
quotes Daniel against US: -l ~
I'VE arc. not actuated by improper motives
when we mako this assertion and as proof of
what we say the reader is referred to the three
columns OF reading matter that was circulated in
this community this morning by the Intelligent
Ger. The handwriting is there placed upon the
wall ana e does not require Daniel to inter-
pref it Thereisn MEME, MEME, TEKES, uPuAR-
SIN in it : The Washington County, Cores
'oai5aee, the NJ r Post upon Judge THomp-
sons Charge, and tie NJ Y O6seruer upon the
Petsef@t treatment Of sLaDery need not proph-
cts wisdom in a reader to understand them.
Now we have always heard the old adage, that
honest men never need to preface any statement
withan assertion of their honesty. We don'tpar-
ticnlarly doubt our contemporaries honesty, but
attribute it all to zeal which he has, and wheth-
er according to knowledge or not, we leave for
our readers to judge. In reference to the pieces
which he quotes we simply say, that the first
was written by a gentleman whose party pre-
objections we know nothing of-who is an entire
stranger to US; but whose letter, and that was
sufficient for us to know, contained matters of
interest to ourreaders. The second piece, Judge
@mpson's charge, was of our own selection,
~hich we supposed, and itso turned out,
,r~zs : great interest to our readers, for
>er was bought that day,
g.-,s3 ia file paper for ten
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