Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-08


money spent uselessly for the weed would evan
gelizc the world.
THE PEoeEEss THE WAu.-Forney has got
his back up. His paper, the Press, pours a
broadslde of column and a half into the Adj
ministration organ at Washington, dcnouncing
its "nsOlent and dctatoria articles, its censurcs
of the supporters of Walker, and its attempt
1.-THE italics are Forney's ownl to commit tile
democrato party to lie [SiIIinian letter. doctrine
Of introducing siarery into al the free states,
and of holding it there in defiance of state laws"
FOrney pronounces the Uhio@'s argument in
support Of the Kansas Constitutional Conven-
ton "a miserable apology for great moral
fraud" and concludes its declaration of indie
pendence with the following, which sounds
something like declaration of wa:
sour able contemporaries have not forgotten
that after Governor Walker had exposed the
criminal frauds in Oxford aud M'Ghce; when the
fire-eatcrs and eXterminists were hunting him
down like leon; when all honest men were
applauding him for his courage and his integri-
", the Washington Onion had not word to
say Ia his support It was rs silent MS death,
and dared not so much us raise whisper for
the gallant statesman, absent from his family
and friends, fighting against as graceful n set of
tricksters rs ever lived. The Union waited like
n cautious politician, till the hour came when it
could take vengeance on those who stood by
Governor Walker in that crisis. Andwc thank
Godl-we were among the first to do so, and so
receive the first stab!
''But more than this. While Governor Wal
ker was still absent, and nothing was yet known
of his action on the Calhoun cohtrivance, the
Union, in an editorial eeStacy that would not
have been an inappropriate picture of the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence, eulo-
gised the minority Convention Mt LecomptOn,
applauded their doingS wise, and sagacious,
and statesinhnlike, and then proceeded to pre-
sent the Calhoun Constitution to the democracy
of the free-states to swallow failing in which,
they were to be handed over to the abolitionistS.
\ few days after this delectabe piece of editori-
al agility, Gov. Walker made his appearance,
and took exRctly opposite ground to the UH4On
the ground, indeed, occupied by the entire
body of the Democracy Of the North. lndig-
nant Mt this, its most pitiable dilemma, and des
perate at the ScOrn(ul independence of those
democrats who will not be dragooned by any
man into submission to confess wrong, much
less by 50 awkward a drill sergeant as the Union,
it has lost its patience, aud attempts 10 intimi-
date with an infantile yigor truly dismal to be-
hold.
We have only to say, finally to the Washing
ton Union, thatwe dispse and reject its censor
ship. When it speaks of Abolition sympathieS,
it should look closely to its own household. We
defend great principle. We oppose no slave
states, fairly made We resist wrong aud fraud,
whether exercised fOFOr against the South. We
stand by the author of the Nebraska bill. Is he
AbOlitionisty We stand by the Governor of
Kansas. Is he tlisorgauiserI We follow the
public opinion that elected James Buchanan
II was not false in lS1G-it is not false
Supported 10y such authorities, we can afford to
look down with netlable contempt upon news.
paper which, like Tom Thumb before an audi
ence of tullgrown men, imagineS itself king,
when 1t Is only the puppet of set of graSpiug