Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-17

that respectable city of twenty odd thousand
inhabitants like ours, ought to put up with
Come up then, with your names, and especially
with your two dollars.
DECLINES TO AxswRn.-The hope which we
expressed that the Argus would have, on Tues
day evening, made full and free explanation of
the why's and xherefores of its opposition to
Mr. Clemens, and especially why it should sin
gle out the apparent meritorious public act, re-
Gently performed by him, an occasion for
whitening sarcasm, has been put at rest by its
declina'ion to answer. 1t gruIiy refuses us
any light upon the subject, inasmuch as we are
not one of the family. Now, we in the greatest
good humor imaginable, ask our neighbor if he
regards this as satisfactory to the public. We
are sure he cannot and does not. We, and
they who think with us, never voted for Mr.
Clemens-neyer wanted him elected to Con-
gress: but now, that he is elected, he is surely
not exclusively family representative-he and
his public acts belong to this district He isn't
there from the argus office-nOr as delegate
from the Aggus church or party: but he is there
as the representative Of the people of the 10th
Congressional District: and as such representa-
tive his moral character, (surely far rs it AZ
fects public intcrests,) is part and parcel of tho
interest and business of every man, woman and
child in this district Yet the Argus turns
us off with a short paragraph, intimating
that VIC are not in the fight. OF course we
are not, and do not wish to interfere in any
of the family feuds-but does the Arg"s
acknowledge that this is purely family mat
ter? Does it own up that it publicly repu-
dates public act of our and it's representative
simply ON account of some family feud?-
When family feud is confined to the drawing
room or the bed chamber, or to the argus Of
fec or to Stewards Office, why then it is of
course, private matter. But is it SO in this
case2 No, it is not; but on the contrary, all
along back for months, through the hot days
and dog days of summer, up through the equi-
noctal storms of this last fall to these fair days
of December, we have been distressed by the
muttering and the growing and the crashing oil
teeth next door, We have several times put on
our hat and coat and went out to see what it
could be and what it could mean, and when we
thought we had seen and understood something
about it, we came back and reported it just as
we would any other interesting item of local
news. We told the people our suspicious that all
was not right next door, that there was some
thing going on that BODIED good to n certain
patriot in these parts. The result has proved
that we are rather keen eaves-drOpper, and
that we havn't to wait for the smoke to tell
when gun has been fired Things have gone
on from bad to orse, until that heavy, ljarring
all-reverberating and re-echoing seventy -four
FOUNDER of Saturday evening last startled and
alFrighted this whole community: and no doubt
is at this moment booming and crashing amid
the discordant shrieks, grOans and cries of the
astounded and bewildered Mountainous. And
yet, after playing off such pranks as these, Twill
the world credit itg) the argus positively and
harshly cuts us off with sort of ''git out
just as though we were doing anything we ought
to git OUT Of We suppose we've got right
to come looking and scribbling around the "bOdy
polite" of our Congressman, just as well as the
ex-organ.
The truth is our ncighbor is vexed, put out
and mad because we have brought him to an &C
count before the public. Wen bet q cent he
don't touch off another seventy-four FOUNDER for
n month";: swo'll bet another that he don't modest
Sherrard with even minute gun for two weeks;
both bets to be taken together and payable, in
specie, at the counter Of the Merchants and Ne.
chants Bank.
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