Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-06-04

he was not convicted, but even there, IN Ne"
Orleans, two of the jury stood out for convIG-
ton The enterprising telegrnpher down there,
follows up the fact, however, with his ditum,
that the charge of Judge Campbell, in the case,
was extremely partial and stringent.
The sblne-grcy eyed man Of destiny puts
ON an air of injured innocence, and wants
another trial We hope he will get it, and dear
help him if he gets his dues when tried.
DgsPorrsM UNDER 4 FALSE n AME.-The Wheel
ing argus of Wednesday evening, contained
noticeable article Gen'l Feeny, the day be-
fore, had published in our columns, denial of
an insinuation or assertion of the ArgWS, that
he had busted himself against Mr.. Bedillion, the
Democratic nominee for Sheriff. The Argns
fires up with great indignation TO think that the
General should have the face to publish such
denial, md Claims that the very fact that nc
made such haste TO repel its insinuation, is ev-
idcncc that he was guilty. 1t next goes on with
what it, no doubt, considers direct testimony
that the General did oppose Ne Bedillion or,
at least, if he didn't oppose him overtly and
actively, he "did not go to the polls and vote at
all All the day long, it seems, by the ar
gus he Cthe GeneraD "sat in his easy chair, rub
bed his hands and asked the news while the
poor Democratic laborer not only ceased his
work and lost his time to "voTE FOR BEDILbroN,"
but "Iabored faithfully and zcalously Ito that
cnd,) all the day."
Now, whether Gen Feeuy did or did not vote
.for-or tRhether he did or did not oppose Mr.
Bcdilion, Of anybody clse-eitier paSsivcly OF
actively. is n matter of no moment to MS or to
this community. That is question of but the
slightest interest to the people. But there is "a
principle lurking beneath this matter which is
worthvof the anxious attention Of every thought
full citizen And it is this: That such despot-
ism MS is here attempted to be enacted by the
Wheeling Argvs, should cloak itself under the
sacred name of democracy. We assert that the
dcspo.ism which the Organ would fan impose
on our people is not whit behind, in principle,
that which the French Nonitcur would impose
upon the subjects of Louis Napoleon. Both are
alike subyersivc of the very essence of popular
liberty, viz: the integrity and Independence ofth
elective franchise. Because, forsooth, intimates
this despotic Organ, Gen. Feeny "hods one of
the most lucrative Federal offices in the city" he
is bound to prostitute its power to subserve the
election of a partisan. Here is the Organs own
language:
at is n custom in the democratic party for
those who are favored with responsible and lu-
cratiye Offices to ercrt all the influence THEY
POSSESS to promote the interests Of the party"
Fellow Citizens: here is the language of the
rankest despotism, unblushingly put forth to
you under the mockery of democracy. Here is
the lash which you and all may expect to
feel if ever, at any time, you dare to act out the
dictates of your manhood rather than silence
the dictates of a faction or clique. You are
here told that come what maybe he angel or
devil-you must support the person, whom the
wire pullcrs or tricksters in politics may set up
for your obcsance. Is there any man in this
community who will openly avow himself
disciple-yea, say rather, a tOol-a slave to such
dictation? If there be, we maintain, he is no
fit man to wear the name exercise the privil
EGGS of an American citizen. This despotism
which the Wheeling Argus seeks to foist on this
community is all of piece with that which all
last winter, and even now, is struggling for
mastery in Washington city. We happy
yet to know that in both attempts to lord it over
the minds of the people or the peoples repre-
scntatiyes the tricksters have been defeated.
The argus proceeds upon the supposition
that the people of this community, other than
party-a fragment of our people, have claims
upon the independent action or judgment of
Gen1 Feeny. Because, perchance, he is the APP
pointee of James Buchanan's administration, he
is no longer man, but ahject party hack,
. whose only business, duty and task it is to say,
great is Allah and his prophet" 0he admin
istration and the Argus) Surely, if such is the
conception of moral or political obligation, to
which we, rs people, are prepared to subscribe,
then have we reached that rotten degeneracy
from which the Roman historian dates the de-
cline and fall of the empire Caesar had his
party, and Pompey had his party, but the Re-
public had none" wrote Gibbon, and so may
we write of any people or community where
such principles as have been promulgated BY
the Wheeling Argus, are endorsed.
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