Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-15
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PeooREss OF THE FeuD-The Argua Do'en on
!Slerrard.-we publish to-day, IN ertsn'o' the
leader from the argus of Saturday evening
last. We ask for it the unusual attention OF the
nublic iuasnuch as it is an important political
document to the people Of this Congressional
District. Whatever of doubt there could have
been up to Saturday evening, (and there could
have been but the slightest) of the exact DRIFT
and animas Of the Organic mutteTings allalong,
has been completely disPelled by the appear
ance of this, to say the least, extraordinary ar
ticle. Hostilties are now and henceforward the
order of the day. Sherrard is to be elected at
the expiration Of his term, and his place given
10 ,'the man whom the argus delights TO hon
or" The Argus has not gone into this matter
on the spur of the moment: for weeks and
months backs, as its articles have tended to
show, it has been by times putting forth ieelerS
and nursing its wrath We have, in this ar
ticIe to-day, hardly an installment of what is to
misunderstanding it's so indisputnbly in
dicative that something is rottenin Denmark
It is but mere escapement Of its Pent up ven
geance. We feel that we can predict, without
even the liability to be in error, that the argus
under its present directory, lriu n6rcr again
lend its support to Sherrdrd. We want every
body, and especially the Mountain country pop
ulation, the tried and fast friends of Sherrnrd,
who have so overwhelmingly stood by his for
tunes, to mark our prediction.
To them, the particular: circumstances of
this attack must be indeed CALLING They,
with singular unanimity, elected Sherrard
bo to
Washington, the first thing be done was
to expose the corruption by which his hon
or and theirs was sought to be tempered with.
Certainly his constituency have no reason
to condemn him for that. But to their utter
amazement now they will learn, that for this act
he is held up to ridicule before the district
Held up too, not by those who oppose him: not
by those who regretted and still regret his cleo
ton, but by the head and front of his advocates
and partisans prior to and for some time after
his election. Yes, they have before them to to.
day, one half of the paradox, by which, it APP
pears that the gallant standard bearer" of the
4th Thursday in May last, is now in those very
columns, the butt for jibes and jeerS- And for
-trhat-ves-- IShat2- Certainly he must have
greatly obnoxious to the veal of our people
If he has, what is il? We, the people, have a
right to know what our representative has done
to cause him to be thus publicly repudiated. If
he is guilty of any moral turpitude, any deiu-
quency of public duty, ii is matter of public
concern. Certainly the Argus does not act
without a cause. ehave too high an appreci-
alton of the good sense as we'll as the dignity of
our neighbor to believe that there is no 'rnethod
in his madness" Certainly, the mere fact that
Mr.. Clemens refused bribe, would not cause
our neighbor to cast him of. But why then such
words, such cutting and haunting words as these:
1--WE are glad to learn that the en- otions which
he (Clemens,) experienced after the corrupt ap-
proaches were made, produced a lit of tretting."
Wesubmit that such words are not mere idle,
unmeaning words. To every body they con-
vey Almost Portentous meaning, meaning cal
culated to Gil the mind with apprehension con-
corning one of the guardians of our interests
Words, which should, in justice to the subject
of them, in justice to the user of them, and
more and above all, in justice to the public of
this district, be fully explained.
But we do not for moment wish to be I'M
derstOOd as intimating that they will not be ex-
planned. On the contrary, we express the hope
and almost the conviction, that this Gerry cren-
ing we will find them fully and amply explained
in the argus Our neighbOr, certainly, will not
withhold for any long period matter SO mo-
mentous as this must be. when it has wrought
so complete reversal in his own judgment as
his article to-day indicates. We will look then,
and our whole public will look with great inter
est for this evenings AFg&
\ CnAxrlcLRER ISTuE Hon LArtrrDEs.-The
author of an English work, descriptive of a visit
to theArctie regions. relates the following expe.