Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-14

O. JENNINGS WISE. one OF the editors of the
Richmond Enquirer, comes out in personal
card, very bitterly denouncing John Minor
Bolts. Mr.. Bolts last letter making good his
charges against John Letchcr, in the matter of
Letcher's Capitol Extension votes, involved
some severe illusions to the 'junior editor OF
the Eagvircr,' which editor O. Jennings is
So Wise gives Bolts "a Roland for an Oliver
afte. this style:
will never wantoniy assai even so vicious
and unworthy person as John Minor Botts.--
But when forced, in duty to myself or to the
public of which | am the servant, to refer 10
this person. il IS Impossible that should 90 so
in terms of respect. or even OF toirratlon. " ere
Mr.. Bolts rs we'll known abroad as he Is at
meme. l would not even now subject him to the
modification OF an exposure. lie has ian
po-cd upon the crcdulty of strangers, and 1t Is
due 10 them, as TO myself, to announce the Teh'
sons why cannot c0nscic1ious!y treat hin
with ordinary respect
\ man who sustaiuS among those who know
him hes: the character Of fraudulent hank
rnpt; a man wi!o does not pretend to decent
worldly morality in any respect or relation OF
life; man who habitnalGy refuses 10 pay his
honest debts; man nov iaboring under me
inca paci,v OF an !usnivcat oGth ana VINO, never
tneteSS, aut!!grlZeS ana pciIilitS ii!A'>S'' ~ W
described in political newspapers aS 4 slave
hcllcr: a mai who on the hastings can a!iect
disgust even ut the mentioned nam" OF a hybrid
race. and vet who is notoriouSIY pointed out on
the streets Of Richmond obnoxious TO even
gravcr charge than that OF avowed Wiling
ness 10 combine politically with free negroes;
the active coadiutor Of an aboIitionist party,
without even the possible plea of moral tanai
cisin to furnish his cXcuse denounced as Il trai-
tor TO his country, and the denunCiation proved
before the people of Nirgimia; a pretended
teacher of the people. whose utter Ignorance OF
what hc prctcudS to teach Is only partially con-
ceaIcl by insutitrabe insoIencc: man at this
moment detected in an nnmunly act vi caiumuy;
surely, cannot, in self respect or in decency,
pretend to recognize this man on any footing OF
equality.
The way Bolts came to be called the "GREAT
Gnoou OF GouAxxA," as he was styled by one Of
the other editors of the Enquirer the other day,
is thus explained by Wise:
When the Hon. Sa,geant S. Prentiss, great
man and polished gentleman, first behed Mr..
Bolts, lie is said to have vented his admiration
in the following successive in;crrogations
IS this the Hon. John Minor Bttr? Is this
the Metropolitan Representative from Virginia:
Is this the GREAT GRooN or GouASSt? l. this
Il sorbear 10 print the rest Lost Iir. Bolts may
be shocked even worse thar bcfIe.J
Such was the nanncr in which an admirable
Crchtou of honor and cliva'ry saw proper to
express at once his contempt for Mr. John Mi
nor Bolts.
Wise says he, himself, had more discretion at
IL years Of age ,han Bolts ever had at matarer
age.
Wise thinks he has rendered the public
vice by writing such matter as we have quoted
above.
It may be that have EaiIeI in my du,y, as &
public journalist by emitting hitherto to check
at once the arrogant prctcm-jons 81 political
sgyindier, by = complete exposure of his real
character At all events, | an. convinced tiInt
such an exposure must resalt in public benefit.