Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-04-13
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.Tur AEcrS-The 15ga, Of Saturday morn
ing, contained quite an extensive article upon
the Intelligence, for itsarticle of the day before
" nile we are sorry at ali times 10 disturb the
balance Of the "Chiralrie osgan, we cannot
but think it rather Fortunate, than otherwise,
that onr article appeared, inasmuch as it gal.
yanized the -I,gus into more of display of ami
nation thaa We have seen in that Journal for
many day The fact is, BLACK Republican.
ism ought to be Always before the "huu,lred
eyes OF the 1rgtts-!oE it is oaly in terror CT
some sIci hidious monsterisn, that the general
insipidity of It's columns can be at nj relieved
Give The -I5yas subject Of this kind, and it
can ring out a set of changes about Yirginia-
her chirairy and her .-niggers,H not forgetting
resolutions of 9s and '9a, which are infinite-
" more thrilling than the loaded leaders of the
Richmond Enquirer, which from time to time
adorn its columns
a very natural, and, it seems to US, appropri-
ate answer, to all the Argus said, would be
simply this, Much ado about Nothing. Really
we cannot see, with all due Difference for the ex-
tenSive consideration which the l4T9l.4 bestowed
upon Us. how we are to return the compliment,
as regards quantity. But VIC will try In the
first place, we submit to the people of this COM
munity, that if there is in :hese United
States asectional pint, tits the Wheeling Argus
We take the dictionary meaning of the word
sectional. Every body knows, who ever read the
4ssg,. that its light, its existence, its studied
moleis arc the sectional papers ofthe South. 1t
has about much love for tire Northern people,
T.,,- I'D -
ton to its article of Saturday morning as proof
Of what we say. Here is specimen;
Thepeoplc 0fthe free States are educated. And
why They learn TO spell, baker, then sub
scribe for the abolition newspapers, read the va
pli illusions Of the rattle-braincd editor, fill
their barrow, contracted minds with philosophy
dispensed by the great Horace Greeiy, become
believers Ill socialism, FOurieTiSm, free-lovism
agrnrianism and abolitionism: they, with I'M
benched cheek, win tell you that the Bible Is lie
and Christ an iInposter: with pious hands held
towards heaven they will tell you, you are hea-
Jhens and not fitted to be associated with them
in common government: they tell YOU that you
do not know what is for your own interests, and
they will do for You what you have not sense
enough to do for'yourselvcs.
Now, the above extracti is fair index of the
morbid hatred, the gross exaggcrations which
have ever characterized the columns Of the ar
gus when upon this topic. Any kzdy knows,
whose opinion is worth one straw, that the
above IS not only venomous calumny, but that
there is not even the semblance of truth about
it 1t is simply an outrage upon the most COM
mon intelligence. When, last fall, in this CITY.
a meeting of citizens WAS broken in upon, and
outraged by n ruftian mob, what had this re-
dOubtable champion of constitutional rights
to say Not one word, except to hiss on the
degraded crew. Twas nothing to hin, that the
citizens of Virginia should have their lives i'm
perjllcd,-to say nothing about SOOTHING at their
political rights Nor was it of consequence,
that the business and trade Of the city should
feel the weight of the just Indignation of the
citizens Of adjacent States All must be sacri-
feed to curry favor with those "yery noble ard
approved good masters who do up" the poll.
les of the State at Richmond, aud who have de-
coed that free white labor, such as composes the
strength Of our city, here in the Nest, is
miserable failure, the laboters set of 'grea-
50 mechanics and filthy operatives, unfit to as
sociate with gentleman's body servant"
Against such hcathenish intolerance as this,
the Lateitigeneer has taken grounds,-it has ad-
vocated the cause of free white labor, while it
of any set of men in the State.
As against slave labor, we ayOw our prefer
ence for the gradual Introduction of system
which will, eventually, and without disturbing
the rights of any man, commit the industrial
interests of the State to intelligent Anglo-Saxon
labor We advocate this, because we believe,
and know that slavery is an "uamitigdted
curse, aye, Sir. 4fgus, we win repeat your
itdiieised words,-an Wnmitigatea cvyys to the
soil of Virginia Who does not know it, that
has sense to know it? We pity that man who
has arrived at the years of maturity, and CON
f.ssCS his Ignorance of the fact. Thomas Jeff.
ersou,-whose memory the Argus affects to re-
vcre,-said SO, andmaHy others of the early IA
theirs also so declared. Eveniu latter days, one
of the lights of the Argus' creed, Hon C. j.
Faulkner, for instance, member of Congress
from the Mnrtinsburg district, made speech
which throws all such delicate shades as Bhck
Republicnnisln in the back ground. Yet the
-lrgys would Ike to excite autipathy against
us for the simple advocacy of white mems
rights,-because our preference is for free labo-
rers, rather than for its intense 'niggcrism."
But, thank heaven, e,he day is past when the
-IrgHs can effect us, the news that comes roll
ing OYER the western plains from St Louis tells
us that the juggeruaut era has passed away, and
that, from this time on, free speech and free la
bOr, twin children of the gods win sway the
dcstiaics of the country.
-a.oso-
tFrOsl ths HOpSinsynie IKy9 Mercury, Aprll IL
PRESIDENTIAL GALLAxTEv-MR. BucuANAx