Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-15

TnE Argus AGArx.-It is said to be the priv
ilege of the common scold to have the last word,
but we trust we will not expose ourselves to the
application of the rule, by bringing the argus
again to the notice of our readers. We cannot
consent that our hundred eyed" neighbor
should dispose of us in the summary manner
which he did yesterday, after having thrown
down the glove in that vigorous, full columned
article Of last Saturday. We certainly looked
for something more than n mere PartlIian squib
But 10! here is the article, the sum total of the
attentions paid us by the "chivalric organ"
In yesterday morning issue the Iitelligeacer
confessed its convictions on the free soil ques-
ton, AMI admitted that il was favorable to it.
The editors reiterated their assertion that they
knew slavery was an 'U5nifigatel curse"
If they know this, they viii of course exert
themselves to have it abolished in the State
Without desiring to cast any reflections on them
or their capacity to conduct spicy sheet, We
are of the opinion that theirs will be loves la
Dor lost, and that they will share the same fate
that others have experienced i'll the same cause.
The people Of Virginia. and especially those Of
Wheeling, are not quite prepared for such in
novations. Our citizens are loyal to the Com
monwcalth, and will not give aid and comfort to
the enemies OF her tme-hOnorctl institutions.
Our readers will he hereafter aware of the
hcrcSes of the LfteIliyeHcer.
Now, this is certainly 'going up like rocket,
and coming down like stick" on the part Of
the f'yWs. If we had been asked, the night
before, what we expected from the .irg,,s in re-
ply to our elaborate article, VIC should have in
stantly said, nothing less, at least, than threat
enins summary of the most terrific parts of
Judge Thompson's charge to the Wellsburg
Grand Jury But bitteras is our ,lisappoint-
ment, we let it pass, and turn to the merits of
the "cerdH qaaestio. The ArguS, in the article
which we quote, admits that the 'hcad and front
of our offending is that we are the advocates of
free soil, and, by Inference we arrive at the con-
cluSion that the expression of such herctical
sentiments moved tito an indignant protest.
We accord to the opinions of the .lrgas that
Difference which is due to the representative of
great and dominant party in the State, and al
low it all that rnatronly, Mother Partington so.
licitude for the ancient order of things which
naturally attaches to well reathercd sin" Like
the men who cried, Great is Diana of the
Ephcsians," it ''has much gain" by its be-
lief and. "make good thing out of the de-
fence of it. But here isa true bit of philosophy
that we noticed in our school books, in our iu-
venile days, which we present to the dygus,
viz:-that although names, men, and parties
change, principles are eternal" We wish to
apply this after this fashion When this Gov
eminent was formed, all the States, with one
or two EXCEPTIONS held slaves Shortly after,
one of them began TO find that the institution
was not paying one. BY and by, several more
came into the same way of thinking UNTIL at
last, all the Northern States concluded to rid
themselves of it. Now, We want to Law this
fact before the Aygm,-lhat while this cmanci-
Patfro sentiment was maturing and growing
and even before it,-somc body must have talk
ell about it, hunted up statistics, compared pro-
fit and loss, in short, dyitated. Or did the peo-
pie in those days. by some miraculous sponta-
neity of sentiment, resolve and execute at the
same moment? It's evident that, in one or the
other of the above mentioned wavs, the result
was brought about II in the former. which
We presume the argus will not deny, we want
to ask it, was the discussion, or the agitation OF
the subject, fanatcism? We reckon that our
contemporary is hardly ready topronouncc Ben
Jamln Franklin, President of the Pennsylvania
Emancipation Society, a fanatic
We also have remembrance that those pa
triots, Hamilton, both the Adamses, Rush, and
many others, took more or less prominent parts
IN the movement They pass for very con-
Servatiye men according to the old regime:
out We're they among us now, the Argus would
soon show them that they were nothing more
nor less than hisher-law Black Republicans.
Again; the argus has never word to say
about some sentiments Thomas Jefferson let fall
upon the same subject If our memory serves
us Henry Clay published in the National In.
tetGgeRcey, in 1919, letter of Thomas Jefferson.
upon the subject, which, had he been a candidate
before the Cincinnati Convention last june.
would have buried him so deep that the arms of
political resurrection would never have reached
him. lie would not have even passed for res.
pcctablc New York soft she'll Now it is for the
public to say whether these carly fathers or the
Wheeling argus entitled TO the most con-
SidCratiou
We have said this much in justification of
ourselves, and to let the public know that it is
1anaticism in the eyes of the Organ to advocate
free labor and free speech, in preference to keen
on sinking our State in political rank by driving
oft Anglo Saxon enterprise or else degrading it
to the level of uneducated ''niggerisnl"
And finally, in reference to what the Argus
says about our sharing the same fate that 9th
crS have experienced in the same cause" we
have only to say, that we will take our books,
if the editor of the argus will take his, and
before any Alderman Justice of the Peace in
this city will show that not only has the Wheel.
ing Inteltige"eer done heavier business for the
past six months than it ever did before, but that
it has done more business than any establish
mcnt of the kind in the city. We ''boast not our
selves of tomorrow" but we greatly fear that
some day or other ourrespectablc orthodox neigh