Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-22
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TaE CEz1tESs AxD WISE Dr-E4--One of the
features Of the late Clemens-9Vise duel, str iIgs
usas worthy Of comment, and as being singular
" indicative of the bloody exaetions Of the code
It is apparent Of once, that the statement which
Mr. Clemens drew up and handed to his friend
for insertion In the Richmond 9outh, must have
come under the notice Of several persons, or at
least two. the beaTe, Of it and the editor of tbe
paper, hours before the hostile meeting. De-
livered as It vas under siich solemn surround
iuga. it must have carried conviction with it 10
both parties, that Mr.. Clemens had not purpose
y sought to inyeige the interests Of Judge
BrOckenbrough Yet stilIfor all this the parties
are escorted to the grnnnd-and under their
mistaken convictions (at least SO in the case of
Nr. WISE they are permitted to take deadly
aim at each other four consecutive times-both
parties refusing to yield their convictions. It's
presumable that this disclaimer Of Mr. Clemens
was not brought TO the notice Of Mr. Wise until
the firing WAS finished by the fall Of BIZ. Clemens
And Why Hotz Common sense naturally asks
the question, why did not mutual friends
faterpose2 We, Of course, can see the proba-
bic reason Why it was withheld before the
first fire. To have produced the letter be-
fore the first FIRE would haze been, in the
etiquette Of the code, to have Prejudiced the
nerve Of Mr.. Clemens: that is, it would have
giVea color to the belief that his statement was
intended as quasi explanation and as depreca-
torysof any further action on the part Of Mr..
Wise. This ''it must be yielded would have
been reasonably infereBdal But why was it
that four shots were allowed to be exchanged
under the circumstances By what show of
concilatory desire can such murderous work be
defended2 We confess that to us it looks bru-
tai, blood thirsty and most inbuman, on the
part Of the parties Priyy to the explanation Of
Mr. Clemens. If they discharged their duty by
communicating the fact to Mr. Wfse's friends,
why we're they not moved tocompnomise in the
matter and If themutual friends all discharged
their duties, why was lIr. Wise's heart so ada
maftine as to be unmoyed? We cannot think
that he really desired Nr Clemens Iife-yet,
how are We to explain this bloody feature in
that duel, without deeply eliminating some one
OF moro of the parties concerned. No provis-
ion of the code that we everread Of. or heard Of.
forbids or even makes indicate the production
Of such document after the first fire. We
think that the parties to this duel owe 1t to
themselves to explain how and why such
strange course Of conduct was adopted Such
an exhibition asi tmakes, unexplained, is jeer
upon christian civilization.
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MoRE ABOUT THAT BoSUs.-Th Argua yields
sort Of a half and half and rather GRIM as.
sent to our answers to its interrogntories, put.
ting US in mind ofsthe man who being econvinc.
ed against his will was Of the same opinion still y
If the Argus will trouble itself to recolIect it
will recall the fact, that it was on the 18th of
Oct, 1856, when the present proprietors bought
out this paper. From that time to the 4th OF
Nov. was of course but half month or So So
far from having gone on a Fremont mission
during that period, we were kept very closely
confined at home aud for many n long day after
wards, IL our paper was known to any Ere
mont club during that period, as the advocate Of
Freeniont's election. Il Was fact Of which we
are not cognisant, iHasmnch as we cannot
cal, up any, announcement of the sort
And if any such clnb was generously moved
70 = donation Of $500 90, or even of any
Breates or less amount on our behalf, it
was our singular misfortune to have never re.
ceiyet the benefit Of its praise worthy impulse.
It's all news tou Now that's just the chow,
olstbematteT, the Argus and its informant, or
anybody else, 70 the contrary Notwithstanding.
NOwas TO the Parltersbnrg Nesos man and
as TO where he got his information. We were
probably not as clear as mud on his case. aud
should have been more explicit. We said that
probably he got his notes mixed-that is to say,
the Information which he got from the Argus
Office about orr foreign support, and the iufor-
nation from some Of the patrons of the Argus
about its campaign benefit, and so made his
mistake. That's The idea when spread out
eIaborhtely.
CABLE sTock RusxlSo DowS.-By the arrival
of the North Britain, at Quebec, yesterday, We
have further foreign news-and among it we
note the intelligence Of great decline in the