Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-25


will be found in our telegraphic column this
morning. 1t seems that the great fight over
the Jewish disabilities" which has been waged
through the last two or three generations IS
nearing to a close, and that at last the descend
ants Of the house of Israel are to be treated, in
England, as they have ever been in this coun-
try, viz: as part and parcel Of us-entitled to
equal rights in every respect with Ill other
American citizens
Our readers will probably remember that it
was but the other day that We bad the news
that the House of Lords had refused, by vote
Of Il9 to 80, to relieve the jews who might be
elected to parliament, from the necessity Of
swearing ION the true faith Of christian. y
They may also rem einber that time and again
one of the Bothsehilds has been elected from
London. and jnst as often been repulsed-not
by the Commons, to whose house he had been
elected, but from want of the necessary concur
renee on the part of the Lords to motion to
strike ont that disabling clause which reads. "on
the true faith of u christian" The people and
the House of Commons have at last aud we are
heartily glad to record the fact become wearied
with this old worn out antipathy of the House
Of Lords, especially when the innovation, if it
is one, is not intended (neither could W to effect
the composition of that body.
This whole subject was well set out in
speech Of Lord Lyndhurst, which came to
hand about week ago, and from which we now
quote. Speaking ofthis opposition to the bill
of the Commons, he said to their LOrdships:
"Let them recoilect that their legislature was
composed Of three independent powers, and that
il was only by mutual concession and forbear-
a.. -, H., rSa.I,
was a most important part Of their duty TO check
the inconsiderate, rash, party and illjudged leg
islation of the other House of Parliament but it
WINS never understood, and could never prncti;
cally be acted upon, that they we're to make
firm determined, and perSeYering stand against
the opinion of the other House of Parliament,
when it was backed by the opinion of the pco
pie Least of all should they attempt to do that
when II was question concerning the cOmpO-
stion of the other House of Parliament, or on
questions which affected religious liberty, or
other questions Of that kind, which were likely
10 excite deep feeling But when they made
such stand ms that, they should be sure they
stood upon Il rock; that they did MT place them
selves in position where they had nothing to
rely upon but the fragment of an act of Parlia'
nent which had been passed for different puF-
pose"
1t seems, then, by the news which we publish
this morning, that the House Of Commons has
acted on thishintgiven them by Lord Lyndhurst,
and have assumed to themselves that privilege
which every parliamentary body undoubtedly
possesses, viz to be the judges of the qualiiica-
tOns Of their own members.
So much for this reform movement in En-
gland. 1t is another proof that the world is
moving. ltt
No usE TO FIGnr AGAINST DEsrtNr.-The
Hon. JAS b. Gardenhirc, the newly elected
Free Soil Mayor of jefferson City, Missouri,
wns ut the McLure House on Sunday last.
He received very handsome majority, to
that office, Notwithstanding the very bitter
and border.rutfian crusade that was project
ed to defeat him. We notice that since his
election, jefferson City has been subjected to
reading out process-that she has been pro.
nounced n hereto, and cast off among the un-
{; clean things A late number of the Lexington,
Mo-, EEPositor, advocates the removal of the
Capital and Pcnitentiary from Jefferson City,
and, so put the natives through on starving
out process, and SEQ what that will do for the
free soil heresy that has seized upon them.
In reply to this proscriptive attack, the Mis-.
souri Democrat, always prompt and eager for
the fray on behalf of free labor and white mems
interests comes to the rescue, and discourseth
thus in answer to the EEposit0r. Speaking of
the proposition to remove the aforesaid Capital
and Penitentury, the Democrat says:
All the power of all the nationals in this
state could not do it, were they united in the
effort, and if attempted they would find before
the removal were consummated, that there was
not city left In the state carry it to TINT teIS
siot free soil. We can tell the editor of the Err
Positor, what he perhaps knows very well, but
is Interested in concealing, that ere two years
have gone by, his own city Of Lexington will
be'strUggIing to range itself on the side of free
labor, and TO reap something of growth and
energy from the arm of free white industry.
No man in Jefferson City, who has blood in
his veins, or courage in his soul, can read this
article from the ExpOsitOr without feeling deep
ly the insult that is thereby cast Mt him; and
they who read it aud do not resent it by MAIN
tanning their political Independents, will have
little claim to sympathy in any contingencies.
Jefferson City regard as now in the line of
the most rapid progression that has ever charac-
teJiLed \ Missouri interior town, and It remains
with its inhabitants and those Of the viciasge to
say whether they will be true and irn to the
policy that has already done so much for their
advance, or whether they will fall back into dc.
erepitude and stagnation to conciliate the hosti-
r