Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-29
lFor the Intelligeneer.l
ALBERT GALLATIN JENKINS.

MEssRs. EDITORS The query has been sug i
geSted, is it natural for men to be afraid of
greatness? Isit common in this age of brass, |
for men to hide themselves lest fame should pass
their way-to put back the crown like Cesar, OF
like Cincinnatus TO cling to the pillow? We
know that to acquire an evanescent name, men
have dared and done and endured everything;
and yet, singularly enough, when genuine
greatness and an enduring fame may be achiev-
ed-when the happy opportunity presents it.
self, and propitious circumstances whit gTa-
ciously to crown the eveDt-when posterity is
standing on the tip toe Of expectancy, men waV-
err and hesitate about handing their names down
TO iiturity, and shrink from greatness and fame
rs from a lcproSy.
Not hundred years ago, in the Eleventh
District of the State of Virginia, of the United
States of America, few cheruhim of the angel
ic Democracy, held n caucus to nominate an
arch.angcl to represent them in Congress. They
wanted a person of distinguished antecedentS;
andas the name always precedes its possessor
this seraphic host chose ALBERT GALLATIN JEN-
EINS to bear the Democratic colorS i'll the
national conflict
They commissioned Albert Galltin not to the
Treaty of Client, but TO the treating Of gents;
they expected him to silence the factiOus grum-
blingS of the contemplate opposition to the
powers that be; they instructed him to command
the meridian sun of Free soil niggeriSm to stand
still and be clothed in darkness, while n great
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benighted land: and above MI, thew charged
him to take that sublime American Eagle by
his patriotic tail, and give him fling into
the Hottest regions of UNEMPLOYED creation.
These Democratic lords raye ont that the
srrfs would he ner,nitted to lend their voices to
tho chivalrous Albert; and in due course CT
time came that gallant knight Don Ouixote
like, aStride of his Gavorite Rosinante, Free
trade and Popular Sovereignty, going about re-
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hau come ana spoken ana conquered! Put a'aS,
iof Aioert Na,Ia!lh! A!aS' lof h'than glory ana
human calculations! cesar hau ms bruIuS'
charles the First hls cromwell, ana Albert Hal-
latin Jenkins had hiS-wcakness!
Al length came the critical time when Albert
should liz up his youthful voice in argument
with the wise doctors; but with it came his fear
and trembling. His courage oozert out Mt the
ends of his toes, and rorgeti;.lness dimmed his
usually BRIGHT recollections He forgot tbnt fine
introductory Grafton. he forgot that such nm in
diyi,lunl ms John G. Calhoun ever lived in the
world. nncl, less in south Caroliua: he was TO-
tally oblIyious to the fact that he had ever inten
ded to make n speech; he remembered nothing
save an old saying he had learned from his prim.
or, "Littte bouts &h0n'H keep near shore, "lsftc
ldrger re$SeLs renture more"
And there Albert has been sitting for months,
as mute as the statuary in the rotunda; there he
has been trying to make believe that large
district of Western Virginia is sitting still, hav
ing ears, and hearing not, having tongue, and
uttering not speech, having understanding and
showing forth no knowledge; there he has been
sitting on his coal-taiS, drcading constantly that
in some moment of indiscrction and excitement,
lac Shonld betray himself o comfortable posi-
ton! TO be poked away in an obscure corner,
and labeled-like Peruvian mummy, or a
stuffed monkey, in the Patent OfIice-for the
satisfaction OF inquring visitors! This is not re-
presentation, but Misrepresentation, and as such
we protest against it. We are reminded of
certain (now vencrable) eXpOunder of Jefferson,
who was once sent to Richmond from old Hnr