Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-16

The movement in New York ortthe abolition
of Sunday laws, proved an overwhelming and
most inglorious failure last Tuesday night
For nearly or quite two weeks they had been
drumming up their forces for demonstration
at one.of the gardens where they were to
set on foot, the beginning of the end of the
SUNDAY superstition" as they called it It
gives US pleasure to state that the movement
was opposed by all the great Journals of that
city, with the single exception of the N. 7.
Herald, which seems within the last week, to
have reached that lower deep; past which there
is no beyond. Almost every day has had an
article-on the,Sunday superstition" as it was
pleased to callit-apd has said that Mormon
ism and ATahomedism were just as much the
religion of the United States, as the religion Of
Jesus Christ" SO far as recognition by organic
or statute law was. concerned. 1t has advocated
. complete wipine out of all Sunday observan.
ces, leaving people to do on that day just as
they do on all others, whether that was to open
their stores, workshops, theatres, grog shops,
or anything else. The other great Journals,
such as the Times, Tribune, Ezpress, Courier,
Journal of Commerce, &C., have all turned their
boon of this working, weary world, justly re-
garding the overthrow of the now observed
Sunday as the destruction of the very sheet
anchorage. of our civilization. 1t is worthy oil
note, in this movement, that the N. 2. Herald
lis Mr. Buchanan's most favored organ, that
Judge Black, his Attorney General, writes ar.
ticles for it, We note this fact only because
here in Wheeling the other day, the argus at
tempted to stigmatise the Republican demon
stration out at Senator Caldwell's as an infdel
affair, and not because we believe that mems
orthodoxy in politics should be tested by their
religious belief.
From the N. Y. Expressl
THR "No SUNDAY" MEErING.-The so.called
free Sunday demonstration, at the German
Garden in tho Bowery, last evening, was, as
we were sure it would be, failure. Not more
than two thousand persons were present all
told-a number which, our reporters assure US,
| is only about double the average that are to be
found there beer-drinking, on ordinary occasions,
every evening during the week. The speakers
Ewere partly German and Partly English and we
do:n0t intend any affront to the orators when
| we add that they were men whose names have
ElIttle or no wOisht In this cOmmanity
| So, then, this is the SUN total Of (ortnight's
drumming up of all the elements, of oppostinn
to the Supday laws. The result ought to con-
vince every intelligent German among US, who
has hitherto been begued into support oil
this nti-Fourth Commandment movement, un>
der mistaken apprehension that quiet Sunday
was great hardship, or great tyranny" THAT
he is on the wrong track, and that the sooner
he switches off on the same road with law and
order, the better. This is the whole philosophy
of the matter. Numerically, the relative posi-
ton of our No Sunday friends to the rest of the
community may be fairly exhibited thus:
Population Of the city, 100000
MVIOrity for Sunday ..............7ssO OO