Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-06

condition. On the contrary, The lciss measures
projected 6y the council Of 1855 haze been real
led only IN part. And it requires the same
sort of enli0hteneE devoti0n to tie eits tceltdre,
.ehich 90 emiRentLy characterized the course Of
the true men IN that council to bring Us nOIo
safely through the sea Of our present. di1teustiss
to dry land And fortunate indeed is It for our
people, that the eminent ability of-many in our
city council affords us abundant ground of hope
for the future.
It was this publication which induced me TO
give the Times the notice did. Nine-tenhs of
what he said before the election, l had not seen,
and what did see, felt no disposition to trOu-
BILE myself or Others about Nor do I think 1
would have noticed this lastebullitiOn, had he
not specially singled out, for his foolish praise,
four gentlemen by name. But this, taken III
connection with his conduct before the election,
and the fact that his paper is the organ of a
large party, namely, the Know Nothing Party,
together with the avowal ''that the measures of
the Council Of 1855 tsere Scise and on them we
must depend" to bring US through our present
difficulties, showed, as feared, determination,
and perhaps in influential quarters, to depart
from what believed to be wise and necessary
measures; but moro and worse, determination
to make party ,cOrk Of tie City and its gFdiTs.
This then thought, and still think, was wrong,
and demanded marked attention. The interest
of the City is a subject l was not disposed to
see made subservient or subsidiary to party
ends or to the mere pride of opinion. l was
aware that this Editor disclaimed party purposes;
but had learned. and so have most men, that
disclaimers, under such circumstances, only the
more certainly proves the other intention.
This Editor says he did not oppose equalizing
taxes, yet he over and over again prounced the
ten per cent on nOn-payment of taxes when due,
generous and oPpTesSire;" and all know that the
ten per cent was enacted to equatize tG1es and
insure prompt payment lie alleges, "he did
not oppose making the Water Works pay its
own expenses" Yet all will agree that they do
not pay their own expenses, unless they pay in
terest on cost, after deducting all expenses, in
Guiding costs. And gentlemen better acquaint-
ed with the matter than him or l, declare, that
even last years tax, does not in this sense pay
interest. 1t was the work and labor of the Ex-
planatory Committee, which liquidated and re-
duced to order the accounts of the City; and
yet he now says he was not opposed to this;
though / have shown that he ridiculed and
abused it and charged the Committee with con-
cealment, Partially and injustice.
He abuses me for what said concerning his
treatment of Mr.. List; and what does he now
do to extricate himself from his abuse of the
Explanatory Committee-of which Mr.. L. was
one half repeat, what docs he now do? Sim
ply this, that Mr.. List is not responsible for the
work of the Explanatory Committee; and thus
though Mr. List made it and approved of 1t, and
made it and approved it, as much as Mr.. Fitz-
hugh, and perhaps more so; and yet Mr. List IS
innocent, and Mr.. F. guilty. What is this, but
to make of Mr. List nobody mere man of
straw? Save me from such praises and apollo
GIGS. But you have done Mr.. List, by yoursily
conduct, gross injustice. He is erninently his
o,cn man, and a man of his own opinions, and
one who is not afraid to express them, though
on an unpopular subject when the People'strue
interest demands it, as was seen at the last meet
ing of the Council A word more.
It was such stupid bombast, on your part, as
the following: "THe hare no disposition in this
the hour of the realization Of our hopes, and
,chile our banner still .tIoats in triumph upon
tic breeze, to erult tsHduLy upon our IlItea toes
We hare met them upon a fair .lfsd, and s0lOtC
them from Dan ecen unto Beershe6a,'" with
your ridiculous conduct in running to the Edit
ors of the IntelIigencer for my name which led
to nv quotation of the doggerel, "When Soils
perpendicular rays illumined the depths of the
sea-" SC. .ta- et
In conclusion, allow me to observe that do
not object to your entertaining or expressing
your opinion in regard to the Council of last
year, or any other year, or their measures, or of
your right to draw your own differences from
their conduct, but let me say to you, you arc
bound, in turn, to allow other people the same
right, and to allow them to draw their inferen-
ces from your conduct, as well in regard to the
NOTICE as the r4priet of it. and that, too, with
out being obnoxious to the charge of falsehOOd.
Nor do object to your right, if you think it is
proper to do so, to make the city elections sub
serrient to party ends and purposes, and to sub
ject the proceedings and measures of the City
Council to such structures as you may think the
occasion demands; but allow me, in turn, to
question the justice of your structures, and the
wisdom of introducing into the Councils of the
city, party, or party views and purposes; and
especially allow me the right to question the
justice or truth of claiming party victory, in
the cases of the election of gentlemen who were
run and chosen, not on party tickets, but on
compromise tickets
And allow me to say further, that you have
transcribed the prophecies of the Editorial
Chair in demanding my name and heaping upon
me the opprobrious epithets you have INDUCED
in towards me, and that the manner in which
you obtrudcd the names of the four gentlemen
of the Council, already alluded to, was of more
than questionable propriety, and in very bad
taste, though you tried hard to praise them.
And further, you have right to seek, or
compete for the printing of the City; but rc-
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