Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-11

II would seen thu; the American people have
+ most undyinz affection for hun6us. 1t is IS
essential TO An American existence IS 'hale" 10
the ..Heneiishmann or tAlloE candles to Rus
sian digestion. We iubibe the love Of humbug
in our infzncy. We nurturs It in ripper years and
consequently are taken in al the way through
life Huubug IS peculiarly an american insti-
tgtion- They get up very clever humbugs in
England occasionally, but the plant IS indigo
Gus to American soil and douriShes best in our
American climate Perhaps, humbug, as an H.
siitution vas in its pslmy days, when BarnuE
stood On the topmost round Of his ladder. Since
then people have been humbuggei on smaller
scale, but humbugged nevertheless It occurs
to our apprehension, that about the latest hum
bag IS the Mount Vernon Papers To be sure
we would not wish to insinuate this Of Mr..
Everett; no doubt he is u genuine, an exceeding
genuine, Edvard, ! generous, benevolent,
selEsacTi6eing Edsard. Neither would We be
understood as saying that the ine1piieable Bon
ner' is humbus Mr.. Bonner IS an enterpris-
ing mar, and we admire enterprise no matter
st whose expense But really, if it must be
said, ne don't know who Is to blame, Robert or
Edward-and we may be sorry for saying it,
bat we can't help thinking that the Mount Yer
non Papers are h X. We were afraid they
would turn out 50 all the time, when Bonner
vas filling the sails OF al the papers in the Uni
on with his wind. What Z Juror Robert did
create By his flaming announcements that the
precious brains of Edward Everett we're to be
expended on the Ledger, exclusively for the term
of one year, for the consideration Of SO much
,,-o,,Id 10
nate to the Mount Vernon Fund This was all
very we'll 1t was real enterprise on the part of
Bonner, and looked very much ike charity mot
that charity that giveth in secreL) In couse-
queuce Of this vast expenditure Of (printed)
gas, the public expectations were wrought up to
high pitch The worId-the American hum
bugged world-stood on tiptoe, newspaperdOm
held its breath, and lol when the time came,
this mighty literary mountain in labor brought
forth an exceedingly diminutiYe literary mouse!
Now all this is simply our high-fown way of
saying that tine Mount Vernon Papers are not so
god as they ought to be, considering the source.
Edward evidently labors hard to get up some
thing rich and striking. We've tried to do the
Ike ourself, and can sympathise with him in his
efforts We know what fishing in the inkstand
for ideas, and what scratching of the pate to
awaken thought it takes to write for the pub
lie Edxard didn't know, and so he undertook
it, and we would be safe in saying that before
his year expires. ne viii not have whole hair
on his head nor an unmutiIated idea in his
brains.
Viewed thus, we do appreciate Mr.. Everet;'s
philanthropy in undertaking to write for Mount
Vernon 1t is his crowning labor Of love. If,
when he gets through this course of sprouts, ne
would be willing to go through similar one,
we shall be ready to believe him the most self
sacrificing man in America.
If Edward were to ask US for advice, (Which
We hardly expect, As he lives 50 far from US, and
in such an out-of the-way place. we should ad-
wise him to let scribbliag for newspapers alone,
if he has any regard for his reputation or an
ayers:on:to wigs. 1t is not his eorte; but if he
must labor for Mount Vernon, let him fall back
on Washington, or get up some thing new in the
same line of oratOry. We believe in charity,
Qke the man who being asked his political
faith, said he believed in the United States,) and
it is in spirit of exalted philanthropy toward
Nj. Everett personally, and Mount Vernon in
general, that we tender gratutiously our vAluA
Die advice. a word from the wise Is sufficient
Thar public Hbeller, William Goblet, alias