Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-05
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Ls 1he IntelIIgencer an Abolition Papere

Es Ghe Entellfgencer an Abolition PaPer2
MesSrs EditOrs:-Some ''small fry" in West
ern Virginia, whom, for convenience, we will
call editors" are attempting to iniure the
Wheeling Inteltigencer. Like jackalls and
wolves, they appear to be aware of their hnpo-
teney individually, so they resort to hunting
their prey in packs. Among other attacks
made by this cry, . the {ntelligeneeris charged
with having prevented the Allegheny
Lunatic Asylum from being located in this city.
On being asked to prove it, the Wheeling
Times, the 'leader" of the pack, sauciy yelps
out" Why the Weston Herald says 80,
there is the proof" But, unfortunately for
the Times and its ''prooE" the Herald, ac-
cidentally, no doubt blurted out what it
really did think about the matter,-hear it,
NO one would suppose that an institution
of this kind for our State should be located out
of it, and for all practicable purposes, it might
as well be out of the State as at Wheeling."-
And why9-hcar it again: ~ heeling is a town
situated in small adjunct piece of territory, 6y
latO part of the State, it is true, but from its
geographical position, really no part of the
State" Here is an excellent reason assigned.
at least we think so, why the Asylum was not
located at Wheeling: its geographical position
says the Herald, was so unfavorable that the
commissioners did not think it necessary to visit
wheeling Yet with strange Inconsistency,
the Wheeling Times persists in charging the
.1ntettlgencer with having prevented the Asy
ium from being located here, notwithstanding it
had "the HerGtd's" article before it,-and in
ITS own language, in proof of the lie; and then
again raises the stale, wretched tocsin of alarm
ABOUT Black Repablicanism, Abolitionism, &c
Such twattle is as absurd as that of the fire
eating editor Of South Carolina, who lately
declared it to be his conviction that free-loVe-
ism, spiritualism, Mormonism, woman's rights.
ism, and variety of other Etisms" NAV all be
traced to Abolitionlsml
The Times says-"We appeal to every rea-
der of the Iate72igencer if it does not often
abound with articles, original and selected, of
the strongest abolition and Black Republican
cast?" "Every reader of the Intelliqence,'' who
responds to this "appeal" and denies the charge
must expect to be added to the list of Black
Republicans and Abolitionists, for who are Black
Republicans and Abolitionists in the estimation
OF the editor of the 1EmessIs not every one who
ventures to hint that any reform or modification
IS needed IN Redistribution, branded by this pa
per as Sympathyser with niger stealersP Is
1T not on all occasions, when the ubject is men
TONED, ready to raise the ultra southern cry
all who are not for slavery are against ir.''
The Times, in its Tuesday issue, SAYS to the
Intellagence', unless we have been most un.
fortunate IN our reading of your columns you
nave not untrequcntly uttered sentiments
which showed you to be warm sympathiser
with the niger stealing abolitiouist." This is
a serious charge, and if the editor of the Times
can prove it we promise that We will no longer
support or encourage such paper. As he ap-
Pe2ls to the readers of this paper we call upon
him to re-publish the "strongest'' article he can
select from its columns to confederate the charge
but he can hardly expect US to acknowledge
the charge '''proved" by telling us what the
Weston Herald says. The Weston Herald sQys
that he, the editor of the Wheeling Times, is
ut subject for Lunatic Asylum, but he would
tnlnk 1t unjust to be consigned to such an insti-
tuition on such evidence. A.