Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-02
DEFEATED, OR up SALT RIVER.

of the one man u no voted for Fillmore in some
backwoods county of this State.
DEFEATED, OR up SALT RIVER.
"Not In vain should such examples be."-Byron.
We-that is to say, James A. Jones, editor
of the Ouachita Herald, and late candidate for
Congress ingIoriously defeated. To use a
classical, and entirely original expression, Eve
have met the enemy and we are theirs' We
evidently cast our pearls before SWINE. We
magnanimously, and at considerable sacrifice
of our habitual self-respect offered to serve a
people who had no appreciation of the Offering
We can't help it. We didn't make the people,
and are not under contract to supply them with
brains. If they were wilEfully blind to our
merit, the fault is theirs. If they are opposed to
receiving individually hundred and sixty acres
of land a piece, they have perfect right to re-
ject it-they ought to know whether or not they
deserve it. If they don't want the rights of
the South '.preserred inviolate," why, they may
have them picked for all we care. We did our
duty, and our conscience is easy. @
At the enormous expense of sixteen dollars
and thirty-twO cents, we printed a multitude of
circulars, sufficient, we thought, to elect any
man. with which we flooded this Congressional
district, and large portion of the Cherokee
Nation. We wrote to our friends, and to some
who were not our friends, to rally to our support.
But they didn't rally We then concealed our
lively to extend our acquaintance, or to see more
lOfthepublic than the public did fus. With these
precautions we deemed success certain. A great
many persons wrote us that we should get an
overwhelming vote; they were not deceived-it
was overwhelming. Many credulous persons
told us that We should be elected; we listened to
them and were deceived. But wcforgive them for
they made us feel very comfortable-for while;
and all earthly happiness is transitory. We
shall never become a candidate again without
consulting somebody on the subject first, and
ascertaining whether they do or do not desire
us to run; for we satisfied that it is folly to
be cuI;didntc unloss s0mebOClY does want YOU
to run, and will vote for You on the strength of
that desire
We are not without consolation. We are not
the only candidate that was defeated. There
are numbers i'll as bad a fix as ourselves And
besides greater men than we claim to- have been
as badly beaten.
Among our numerous friends, ex-Gov. Drew
is entitled to our warmest acknowledgements
His intention, doubtless, was to assist us in
beating Rust, by procuring large and inhuen-
tial majority of the Democratic party to vote for
him. With this object in view, he made brill
liant canvass, ending in no less brilliant fail
ure. But, notwithstanding he carried off
considerable portion of our vote, we honor him
for his laudable intentions. Hereafter he has
but to command us, and we will obey-ifit suits
us to do so.
10 the fifteen patriotic and chivalrous voters,
who cast their suffrage for US in Pike county,
we beg leave to tender our sincere and unfeign-
ed gratitude. We owe them n debt that will
be difficult to repay. Asa slight evIdeuceor
our high appreciation and lasting regard, we pro-
pose that if they will forward us a list of their
names, we will send them the Herald for life
at the usual price, So per annum, Invariably in
advance.
In conclusion, VIC desire permission to remark
that the small experiment we have just made is
eminently satisfactory. Whatever aspirations
we may have had for glory are entirely subdued.
The pursuit of seat in Congress "under diff
cultics" is one in which we have no design to
re-engage. We are satisfied that we carry with
us into our retirement the best wishes of a gem
erous, though ungrateful people, and arc con
tent.