Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-02


az HIS General GhaFncter.
We presume that most of our readers looked
over the structures on the Wheeling Times, con-
tanned in this column on Friday last. We think
that every one who took the trouble to read
what we.then said concerning that paper and its
editor, were convinced that our structures wero
imperatively demanded During that day. and
since, SO far as we arc informed, aud so far as
friends, who spoke with us on the subject, are
informed, not person in this city has disagreed
from either the tone or subject matter of our
remarks. We do not say there were no per.
sons who did mott would be strange, indeed,
IT Jas. B. Bingham had not fonnd one single
synpathizer among our people; but we will say
We do not believe there wns anything like even
meagre minority of the people in this COM
munity who were not heartily glad to see him
treated in the manner which we adopted on the
occasion.
Jas. B. Bingham well said in his reply,
that 'Hideous is the picture he draws of u.s.,
while protesting not to recognize the portrait
1t was intended to be hideous-that is it was
intended to be true to the life We sat down
with no intention to flatter the heart or the fea-
lures of JAS. B. Bingham, but with the deter
minntion TO sketch him as we had found him
to be after year and halTs trial, and If he,
like vice, was
"a mOns.ero of such hieous mien,
That to be hated, need but be SEEM
the fault was not in us who painted him, for
"true to nature" is by all competent authori-
ties reckoned to be the perfection of art.
There is an old saying intended, we suppose,
to palliate the short comings of a certain unfor-
tunate class which says "God made some men
mean" If it were assigned to MS to classify
the character of JAS. B. Bingham, we should say
that he belonged to this unfortunate class Tho
whole department of the man bcspeaE that I'M
social designating and tnccndiary qualities are
deeply ingTained in his very nature. Hiswhole
personnel is rePnIsive- compounded as it is of
different proportions, ofshallow hauteur, inordi-
nate selfsuficiency, and most indecent assur-
ance in all that he puts his hRnd to. We never
cav him anywhere in the common walks of social
life, but what we felt that he was a something
to be avoided. We felt as if the spirit Of Uriah
Heep incarnated in another form, was near us.
But we have no time to consume SPACE in re-
failing merely our opinion, in relating our DIS
like of such character as that which it is the
misfortune of JAS. =. Bingham to possess. We
donot put ourselves forward prominently as the
judge of the deformities in the mans nature
We rely aud have relied more upon what we
know to be the general opinion Of him. We
stated tho other day that wo did not believe
there were a half dozen people in the city who
were the friends of this man. The responses
to our structures convince us that we were sub
stantially correct. He is not man to inspire
friendship in the bosom Of any one Fretful,
querulous, cynical, fulsomely Yainglorious and
selfish in every instinct of his nature, he seems
to be doomed to perpetual enstrangemcnt and
isolation in the midst of society. While we msy
pity, we cannot help but despise such person.
We have had, and have at this time, several per-
sons in this Office who were once in the employ
Of JAS. B, Bingham. When we hear them
speak of him, they speak with bitterness They
one and all, so far as we know, unite in pro-
'nouucing him repulsive character The
gentleman who was formerly foreman in his
office has just told US to say for him, that he
considers him the most selfish and tyraunical
man he ever came in contact with. We have now
in our DRIVER a letter from his ''next man" ask
ing a situation in this Office. 1t was not long ago
that another one, whom we believe is now or
was recently in his employ, used an expression
intended to be descriptive of the man, which
we do not choose to putin print. Since the mp.
penrance of our article, persons have been call.
ing in to tell US of their experience with and
their opinion of the man. Now we ask the peo-
pie of this city to judge this man. We ask,
then, with what show it is that day after Gay,
and while we were absent FROM our post too
that this man filled his paper with vencmous
paragraphs which he had collated, and accom-.
panied them with all the malignant force of
comment of which he was capable He isa
man whom we have shown beyond dispute to
stand condemned in the estimation of thosevb
know him best we have shown that bisown
brother, united to him by the ties. of blood. by
the association of infancy and childhood came
into this office, and in cool, deliberate. sober
earnest entreated and insisted upon space in our
column to show to the people of this CITY tbatbis
brOther-that JAS B. Bingham, was in bisorn
language, "a rascal" This charge, james R,
Bingham, in his reply, attempts to varnisb over
as fassas possible He attempts to create the
impression that his brother Was bereft Of bis