Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-09-04
For he IntsIligenesF.
FAIgMoNT, Sep. 2, 1856.


EDs IsTELIIGrscEE Yesterday being court
dag, theTe vas, as usual, large collection Of
thepeopls in town Messrs Clemens and Gal
lsieF.,t Democratic and Fillmore Electors for
this electoral district, were also here. They adj
ifSss9 their fellow citizens in the Court House.
.Gs1aher opened the proceeding BY an hours
speech He appeared to me to be clever,
spFishfiy little fellow, and considering that ne
Is the son Of an IriStman, he made very pleas.
ant though very incdnsistept, speech What
he vas driving at, 1 must in all candor declare
eoaid not ASCERTAIN. He started to make a Fill
more oration, bat nearly lost sight Of the model
President 10 an attsc1 on Franklin Pierce, JEFF
fersoh Davis, and the Yankee Gushing, as he
called him. Gallaher don't like Frank Pierce;
be don't like Caleb; neither does he like by
any, mans james Campbell, the Postmaster
General, nor jennings master, the Pope-the
poor old Pope Of Romel At themention Of the
old gentleman Of Rome, the orator became eS-
eOcdingly furious, and was not at all pleased at
the visit paid him by Mr.. Fillmore last year, or
thisyear, forget which, in the eternal city.
GaIIaher had not studied theology deeply. he
said, but he had in the coursc of his readings
discovered that there were two parties in the
Catholic Church, towit: the "Gallicans" and the
.sUltramontinoa" The meaning or the origin Of
.the.worls he was wholly ignorant Of, but the
"Gallicansn were not half so bad as the ultra
tnontanks" They were not political Catholics,
and for his part he did not care what the Gatho-
lies worshipped, no, not he, even Il tey tOOrship-
md The Glevi1. provided they did not vote the
Democratic ticket. All! there's the rub. They
may worship the devil if they think proper, in.
..this land Of Bibles,Y but they must not be
Democrats, that is all "only that, bnt nothing
more While the orator was belaboring the
Pope and bedeYiIling the Catholics, Iwas amused
VITA the horrible contortions of good old puri-
tan sitting in the corner. He had sad and
dismal physiOguomy, and leaning his chin on
thetop Of his staff, whenever the Pope was men
toned he groaned audibly, and muttered the
whore of Babylon"
Mr. Gallaher did not like any of Frank Pierccs
foreign appointments; Belmont was a jew and
q Catholic" Jenny Buchanan WIS an old bach
elor, Soule was Frenchman, and all were grace
less scamps; Postmasters were Jesuits in dis
guise, and the Pope had complete control over
the secrets Of the nation. In the course Of his
remarks the gentleman spoke Of the 'Fich Irish
brogue" and the sweet German accent" with
contempt, although we all know the respected
progentor of the orator enjoys one in perfection,
and speaks richly at Moundsville, the brogue at
which his son 50 sneeringly turns up his nose.
But what had all this to do, you will ask, with
theisshes Of the present campaign? What has
the Pope to say To the Missouri Compromise?
What had the Catholics TO do with the passage
Of the Kansas Nebraska act9 In what way are
Lishmcn responsible for the appointment of
Belmont the jew, or Soule the Frenchman, as
ministers of this country in Europe9 The truth
is, the orator found it impossible to grapple with
the real questions at issue, and hence his wild
and foolish attacks on Mr.. Pierce and the Pope,
and Belmont the Jew, and Soule the French
man. Hence the unmanly attacks on the relig-
ion of a considerable portion of his fellow citi-
zcns, and the religion Of his ancestors Hence
the pandering to the basest Of all passions-the
thirst for religious persecution.
Mr.. Clemens followed Mr.. Gallaher; and in
the hour allowed him to speak, he compressed
80 much, and 50 happily, that the latter gentle
man afterwards acknowledged he was bcwildered.
lis impossible for me to do justice to the Hon
: oTsbls genteman's speech, he far exceeded any
previous effort Of his that have heard He ut.
terly annihilated the little gentleman from
,Moundsville Cwho says he is no lawyer, only a
JustiSsof the Peace) He was in one of his
best moods, and was warmly and cordially gree
ted by the Democracy Of Marion.
On the whole the proceedings passed of plea
sanity and agreeably, and good humor prevail
ed, s. - 0. @,
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