Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-09-21

~ LARGEST DAILY. FR1-wHEKLY. AND WEEKLY
CIRCULATION, OF ANY PAPER IN WHEELING.
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THE N. 7. Courier, in its last issue, comes
outin aapowerful article on the philosophy and
morality ofthe observance Of. one day in seven
as Sabbath-to say nothing at all of Spiritual
considerations or benefits. It, for instance,
takes up the era Of the French Revolution
when all restraints were set aside, and shows
that even the philosophers and men Of science
ofthat day, scorning, as they did, the very
name Of Religion, and ridiculing the idea offs
God who was to be feared, obeyed and worship
ed were compelled to abandon their hostility
to one of the ordinances of the very Being they
repudiated, and acknowledge the necessity of
resting from labor one day in seven. 1t next
takes up the rise and fall Of the late movement
that was made in New York against the obser-
vance ofSunday as day for the general sus-
pension of trade and worldly pursuits, and that
brings it to a review Of the course which the N
Y. Herald alone, Of all its contemporaries, un-
dertook. 1t quotes the desperate and de-
bnuched assaults which that paper, day by day,
when preparations for the "Anti-Sabbath"
Sunday observances. We do not wonder that
the Courier, enumerating as it so justly and
philosophcally does, the ten thousand good in
tiuences which flow from the outward moral OBJ.
seryance of Sunday, should become warm against
the reckless depravity which the Herald has ex.
hlbited, aud should close its review with the
following warning:
With the politics of the Herald and its abuse
of individuals and its political opponents, or
with its habitual misrepresentation of the
events of the day, we have nothing to do II
any set of men like these things it is their right
to indulge their taste and buy the Herald, and
nobody has any right to interfere with their so
doing. But when Press boasts such a potccr
us the Herald exhibits, and confident in its
strength, boldly arrays itself against all that is
sacred in Religion and pure in morals, and
strikes at the very existence of social order and
tho security of life and property-then, society
in its turn, must throw itself upon the defen8iue
and as boldly meet and destroy the power that
asSails 1t. To do SO, require courage and con.
cert in action but the battle will certainly fol.
low the exhibition Of the former. We have said
and we repeat, that the very individuals who
daily buy, and yet condemn the Herald, and at
the same time exclaim-How can this nuisance
be abated5 have only to be told and made to be.
lieye and feel, that they, the complainants, have
the power to put it at rest forever, by simply
abstaining from its purchase in future, and the
work is at once accomplished. But who is to
do thisa We answer, 1.-The Press, the Pulpit,
and good met everywhere. This is not nm so-
lated question of religion, or sectarianism, OF
fanaticism; but it is d question of public morals
and the safety Of society itself, against the
identical causes, and precisely the same class of
men, that caused the disruption Of society in
France during the days of terror, and ali the
horrors ofthat most bloody era in the History
of world. Let the Press then, appeal manfulIy
to its readers, not to purchase the Neto York
Herald. Let the clergy from every Pulpit in
the land; and more especially from every coun-
try pulpit Of every denomination-for from the
country comes the support of this fearful power
for evil-openly and manfuy array themselves
against this mighty engine of RIGHTEOUSNESS,
and demand of their hearers not to sustain the
monstrous iniqnity. Let them appeal not only
to the members of their Church against the
great wrong demonstrating one of the thousands
who create and Luild up this power for evil, but
let them be urged to represent to every Parent
and Guardan-to every moral and we'll behaved
citizen-to every christian man and woman
md TO every person of whatever situation in
life, who possesses property, or feels an interest
in the wel-being of society, that it is duty
which society demands of them, to forego the
purchase of the Herald. In short, make men
feel that each, Individuality, has the power to
correct this great and growing evil, and it will
be accomplished.