Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-08


alton which certain Southern papers draw be-
tween themselves and other people on deIicate
occasions. They arrogate TO themselves lad'
tudc--a fervency and rnononaniacy of opinion,
which they ruthcssIy Outrage in the breast Of
an opponent
We could not but have suggestion Of this
kind in reading long, well written article in
the Charleston Is g. Courier, from the pen
Of Mr.. Ycadon, the gentleman who welcomed
Edward Everett in such forid strain, styling
him High Priest Of the Unio:."-"Apos;lc Of
CHARITY 'Laudator of washington" -"Cicern
of America" and nj such stuff This wei.
come however extrnvagant and puerie, was the
essence Of appropos and good breeding. when
compared with Mr.. YeadOn's explanation to the
people Of South Carolina. of some of Mr. Ever
etts political nntecedents. Mr. fighting Master
Pryor, who is always turning up his nose at
anything beyond Richmond precinct, began
one Of his ferocious and narrow minded attacks
on Mr.. Everett for his sympathy with Mr. Sum
ner, at the time Mr.. S. was beaten hy Brooks,
in the Senate Chamber. 1t never occurred to
Pryor, that while he be-praising the mem
nry of the dead Brooks-eXtravaganty canon
izing a man whom ne knew to be dehauchce
to say nothing of his brutal cowardice-that
Mr. Everett had any right TO have feeling, or
drop tear Of sympathy with his own towns
man and 0iterary) kinSman. Mr.. f. uttered no
fulsomc praises over Sumncr-he never said
that he approved his speech or his courSe-but
all that he done was simply to manifest that
fellow feeling that goodness of heart-that
any one might, without disparagement, feel for
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est of Gods creatures.
Mr. Yeadon said, catches tine narrow
minded rervor Of Pryor'5 eternal whine about the
South, and he goes to work to explain how it
came about that he was instrumental in getting
Nh, Everett to come to Charleston To deliver his
speech He CYeadon,l went to Boston after the
dead body of Legarrc, (who, by the way, was
one Of the ficrcest of iirc-eaters) and while lie
was there receiving the sympathy of even the
Boston aJuitionists over his fallen friend, lie
sets about to nose ont and shuttle around the re-
port Of Mr. Everetts alleged connection with
Sumner He gets n crutnb of demonstration, how
ever, in the shape of an assurance from friend
of Mr. Eserett's, that Mr. Everett was sick IN
bed when he signed the letter Of sympathy
and that further, he was under 1.-The confusing
that Mr.. Everett was sound on the Juggcrnaut
rcquistion, he CYcadon,) condcscends to be
party to an invitation to get Sir. Everett to
TO Charleston.
Let any Que imagine the feelings Of Mr.. Ever
eta man hailed all over TIE country as n
model Of conservatism visiting 1t were,
through forbeurunce md courtesy, one Of the
cities of our common country. How narrowing
it must be to any man of native instincts and
proposcsSion for his own native soil, to know
that he stands among strangers-on mission
of charity to rescue the ''holy sepulchre' of the
father of his country, asa 'per 9rutjam" Parioh,
rs suspicioned and only halftrustcd Samaritan
in Jerusalem.
We say, 10 man who ever "to himself has
said, this is my own, my native land" such
style of invitation, coupled with such an humil-
iating explanation, must be most annoying. The
truth is. these Southern firc.eaters have less feel
ing--less magnnimity-lcSS genial, enlarged and
cultivated forbcurnncc, than any other people in
the country. Their aims selfish, provincial,
always confined to "so,nc pent up Utica" They
blus;er like vulgarians always do about their
manners-their gencrosity-aNd thank God,
like the Pharisee, that they are not other
men.
Such men as Senator Mason, D. Il. Ateheson,
Aad Senator Toombs are invited to Bunker Ain
cclebrations-receivcd cordially and heard re.
specially with all their political opinions undis-
guised, and without apology being either exact
OK, expected or wanted. Yet when a national
man--dstiuguiShed for his life labors for the
whole country--for his present efforts in the
cause Of philauthropy.-crosses n certain line
OF latitude, his GRAND of mercy is expected to
be either hcralisd or followed by mn abnegation
of his humanity.
Hcis insalte5, first, in the Capital of the State
whose soil cnShrines the ashes Of his dolby
Apublic print-neSt by theman who delivers him
the cane of washinstOn-and then by a drunken
member of Congress at the fcstal board.
We rejoice to know that the people are wiping
out the influence which these Inbred ingrates
and ire-caters once exercised over the public
opinions Of the country. Their days are num-
bered The time is At hand when can
avow abroad, all over this land, the same thoughts
upon questions Of national or State policy, as
he enter,aius and expresses under his own vine