Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-24

Tnp Hon. jeff. Davis, of Miss, is at home
again, on his own old fre.eating stamping
ground, and in consequence Richard becomes
himself once more He had spent the Summer
in the North, and according to current belief,
had seen fit to modify good deal of his ultra
ism. and come down at least one peg in his pro.
gramme of dissolution. But for long while
back there has been suppressed growing
among his constituency, and it has been heard
by the Hon. jeff and it sounded like heavy
thunder in his ears. So he landed in yicksburg
and mounted the stool of repentance there, and
delivered himself of speech on the topics of
the day. He took the opportunity to LET the
people know. that he and Douglas were two very
distinct persons, that some people might fancy
'the man from Illinois" but for his part as be-
tween Douglas and Lincoln, it was six of one
and half a.dozen of the other. He took the OPP
portunity to say that he had never made the
speech at Bangor, Maine, that had been imputed
to him and which Douglas had quoted in the
Illinois campaign, as corroborative of his Doug
lasO own views. The Hon. JEFF. gave theLittle
Giant the go by in this style.
kind, nor had he ever at any time uttered any
sentiment which could fairly be construed into
a recognition by him of the doctrine that Ter
ritorial Legislature could affect in any way the
status of slavery doctrine worse even than
the Wilmot Proyiso, and against which he had
warred ever since it had been broachcd. Mr..
Douglas in his recent canvass for the United
States Senate in Illinois, had seized upon this
alleged passage from speech never made, and
had claimed that his own sentiments delivered in
his speech at Freeport were identical with those
promulgated in that paragraph. Mr.. Douglas
well knew that his (Air. Davis) deliberately ex-
pressed opinion on this subject in the Senate of
the United States, expressed in debates with
Mr.. Douglas himself, in which he had forced Mr..
Douglas to abandon the doctrine as nntenable,
were the very reverse of those now attributed
to him; and that in his Portland speech he
had so expressed himself He thought the very
reverse of Mr.. Douglas. He considered Mr.
Douglas opinions as Objectionable as those of
his adversary, Mr.. Lincoln. They were both
equally destructive of the rights of the South,
both at war with the Constitution; and with his
friend, the editor of the AississipiG1 he would.
have been glad if they had made Kilkenny
fight of it, and neither had been left to proclaim
a victory.
For some time back there has been about as
much theology as politics in the Cincinnati pa
pers. An interesting treatise how to keep
Sundays, and especially on the snfulness of
running four wheeled vehicles on that day, might
be compiled from the sermons and editorials
which have turned up. Just now the law of
Moses is being broughtto bear on the subject
and being called up, is disposed of thus at the
hands of the Commercial.
But, it may be said, there was a subsequent
law given by Moses to the people, which did de-
nounce penalty upon breaches ofthe Sabbath.
This is true. That law, in its general terms,
forbade allwork; but not content with that it de-
sends to minute details, specifically prohibiting
by statute, the gathering OF. preparation of food
on the Sabbath, the lighting of n fire, the col
lecting of sticks, or the removal from ones place.
But are we to take these laws as the authoritive
Interpretation of the rule of the decalogue-as
inspired, and therefore binding upon all man
kind2 If so, we must take them according to
their terms, and to their fullest extent; for a
partial performance is no performance We
must also abide the penalty affixed to the trans
gression; and that penalty was, in all cases, capt.
tai. "Whoso doeth work therein shall beput to
death" This being the rule-and if. with
| the 1decalogue, we accept the Mosaic supple
ment, we cannot avoid 1.-THE servant who
rises on Sunday morning and kindes fire, or
prepares meal. for the family, has forfeited her
life thereby; and the gentleman who, setting out.
upon stroll about the city, or over the fields,
shall oVerpaSS distance of more than two
thousand cubits-a Sabbath days journeys
acapital offender. The advocates of Sunday laws
taking tho Bible as the rule-are placed in
this dilemma: either the law is not penal, and
only binding upon the consciences of men as
individuals; or it is penal denouncing the pun
ishment of death upon every act, however tri-
fling OF necessary, that comes under the denom--
ination; of labor, upon the Sabbath. q Now we
take the first ground: Will our contemporary of
the Gazette take the other, and give the readers
of that journal an essay in defense of its rea-
sonableness2 - 54
If we might be allowed a "put in" on the
subject we should say that the Commercia1 has
made point there.
TnE Richmond ebivalry has been placed in
limbo. The two surviving heroes Of the Bloody
four rounds are held of, by their coat tails, at
arms length by their mutual friend, the Mayor.
We derive this soothing information from a.
4I1o loek q.