Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-24
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WALTER SAVAGE LAvDoa-Itis sad enough


disgust and pain. When, IN the British House
of Commons, WaIpole made his brutal attack
upon the fiery Pitt, charging him with the
giddy acts of inexperienced youth, it was Wal
poles very age, ungoyerned aud reckless as it
was, that gave the caustie to the young PaTIia-
1nentarian's bitter invective. Old age may lose
all its reverence, and, when it does, it is the
most humiating and wretched sight that can
be imagined. A sadinstance of venerable years
deliberately laying aside every claim of venera-
ton, and STOPPING not merely to folly but to
absolute vice, is to be seen in the aged Walter
Savage Lander. Almost, we believe, four score
years have clustered upon his head-his polished
wit and keen satire, as much as any other poets,
have served to maintain the renown of England's
former times; yet now, when he might justly
have claimed a nations reverence and whole
worlds respect, he wastes the remnant of a long
life in degradation. Condemned by those who
do not pity. he is pitied only by those who look
upon him as guilty and disgraced.
Mrs Lescombe, the wife Of Clergyman of
Bath, England, had somehow drawn upon her
the malice Of Mr.. Lsndor vino thereupon, to
avenge himself, goes to writing vile pamphlets
and scurrilous poetry against the defenseless
SANDER, against the poet and the jury find him
guilty with verdict of a thousand pounds for
the plaintiff. That the yerdictis just one-at
least, that it is not too heavy a ones nero
perusal of some of Landor's filthy, malicious
attacks upon the cIergyman's wife, will easily
show. Some of the ISLANDERS were SO gross as
to be unfit for the public eye; yet with the sane
ton of his name. as author (and the name of
Walter Savage Lander has carried mark with
IL he publishes them to the world and all to
crafty mean spitefulness and ruin a resrect-
able lady.
Nothing else could be said, by the counsel for
the defendant, than that the accomplished SLAM
derer an aged man. 1t could not even be
said that his intellect was falling and that the
calumuy was the result of weakness, for some
of his attacks witness as much vigor and point
As ever characterized the illusions of his best
days Swift, after an age of strong intellectual
activity, expired, ga drivcller and show" but
Lander, vigorous in intellect as ever, though of
greater years, is doomed to die more pitiable
death than Swift. When wit, talent and genius
of the supreme order Of Landor's degrade them
selves to the base offices to which his has gone
down, then it may. more truly than at any other
time be said, chow are the mighty fallen!"
DRIED Scorr-Aeeidsntat Creatnessz-The
death of that famous old negro, like that Of
sold Ned in the song. is the snhject for. good
deal of talk in and out of print. The n. Y.
Time, has biographical sketch of him, and
says:
1t is not well to let the great pass away with
out note and worthy honor. bred Scottis dead
at
Sonage carried his case to the Supreme Court
above, not doubling, we may believe, that tho
adverse decision he encountered here will there
meet with reversal. and that he will be at once
admitted to better freedom and more equal
citizenship. 1t is only now and then VIC are
called to regret the loss of the truly eminent
Once or twice, perhaps, in generation. bred
is of these. His name will live when those of.
Clay, and Calhoun, and Benton will be feebly
remembered or wholly forgotten. Posterity will
make inquirys about the subject of that great
leading case, decisive of human right, upon
which the fate of the Union was in his day pre-
stunned to depend, and will gather up what par
ticulars lie scattered up and down Contemporary
chronicles regarding him.
As the old adage goes, "some men were born
great, some become great, and some have great
ness thrust upon them" bred belonged to the
last class certain. Up to the time and long after
perhaps, when he "had no teeth to eat corn
CAKE" he hadn't toe most distant idea of being
a lion. 1t just took him nllof a sudden But,
for all, bred is regularly looked for posterity.-
And, as the Times further says,
Few men who have achieved greatness have
it SO effectually as this black Champion
There is little it may be of merit in his personal
service. Others doubtless, for uses of their
own, have prompted and paid for the fight But
he belongs to a class whose names are acciden-
tally but inetfacably associated with critical or
memorable facts in history; and who are there
fore surer of Immortality than the authors
themselves Of the events The "Clay Compro-
mise" the ''NHilnot Proyiso," the 'iDred Scott
Decision" the English Bill" of eotemporary
annals are to be claSSed with the 'sLer julia
the '.Methuen Treaty" the "Code Napoleon
of the past; facts and results, to which chance
rather than merit has attached names which
they shall perpetuate indefinitely. 1t shall al.
ways be remembered that in the person of the
old negro who died yesterday the highest tribu.
nal of America decided that an African was not
q man, and could not therefore be citizen of
the United States.
The Hon. A. G. Brown, Senator from Missis
sippi, accepted complimentary dinner the other
day, and of course made speech. Being
Southern man, heiS liberty to express his opin.