Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-03

took the same original fancy toiexcogitate such
a pair of twins. How much the carpenters
being at worlnin the sanctum, may have had
to do with their conception, we shall probably
soonlearn.
Having gone through the scholastic mer-
its Of this remarkable leader from the self
avowed Organ of the "pure un-amalgamated
Opposition here (whateyer that may beg ne
will, perhaps, next pay. our respects to its pc.
litical animus.
As.wE were going through, yesterday, one of
those periodical overhaulings and emptyings
which we give our drawer, in order to close
out our stock of copy, that, owing to having
been knocked out Of time, p after it had been
preparation thetypes, by the unexpected ar.
rival of something more pressing, We came
Phillips, delivered in New York, in May last
The preface to this little clip referred in terms
of rtprobation and regret, to the course of the
author in lending such splendid parts as he
possessed to the cause of impracticable ultra.
ism, for which he had forsaken bright prospects
and better influences to espouse, yet pointed to
the extract as indicative of the peculiar lustre
of Phillips captivating oratory Every one
must acknowledge it to be an intellectual gem
am sometimes accustomed to compare nv
country to that vast natural phenomenon upon
its Atlantic coast-the Cuffs This body
of water flows with strong, steady and con-
slant current from the south to the north, gra-
dualy lessening in intensity, but yet carrying
its influences from the Capes of Florida to Hat
teras, from Hatteras to Nantucket, from Nam
tucket to the Banks of Newfoundland and
Labrador, and thence spreading them over the
whole western shore of northern and southern
Europe. Like the Gulf Stream, all our Influences
come from the South. The South gives.us our
Presidents and the politics that guide them: it
gives us the cotton, coffee, tobacco and sugar,
that create our commerce, quicken our indus.
try, clothe our frames, stimulate US in languor,
soothe us in excitement and sweeten our every
Tepast But the inquirers and philosophers tell
us that far down beneath the surface of this
steady impulse that bears so many and so great
influences northward, there runs constant aud
mighty steam of cold, calm and refreshing
waters from the north, which return to the
south the energies it has lost. Sometimes a
mighty iceburg, rearing high above the surface
its brilliant yet icy head-some Daniel Webster,
gllttering, yet grand and gloomy, fast anchored
IN the calm, cool influences that flow beneath
the surface OF our affairs breasts the upper
current, and hold its way steadily southwark
The southwark waves dash against it and their
influences continually work upon it. Little by
little 1t melts away before them as it advances:
now n jutting point gives way, now soaring
pinnacle falls, till at last the mighty mass itself
bows its lead and is overwhelmed by the all
surrounding waters, to be seen and heard no
moro. So it is with Beecher and Cheever.-
Grown up under the pure influence of the
North, and grounded and anchored in its deep
est current, they believe they can hold on their
course and cool the fever heat Of the Gulf
Stream TINT flows around and against them.
Their influence will melt away like the iceberg,
and, like it, they will gradually disappear, till
they sink and are heard OF no more.