Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-21
TTTE mUsTCAI CONVENTION.

that She succeeded admiralty Their grand
concert, procession, picnic, banquet and opera,
all passed off admirably, and nothing 0cc"rTed
TO mar the general enjoyment The Buffalo
Singing Club won the prize of superior attain
mcnt-in the musical art, and we are assured by
those who c0ntcnded nobly with them for it.
that the Buflaonians deserved it richly. The
celebration next year will be at Buffalo, AT
that time the whole vast convocatiOn will spend
one night at Niagara Falls, which they intend
to illuminate with Bengal lights. Great people
fol-, rational enjoyment are the Germans
The above we clip from the Pittsburgh G"
eette of yesterday. We call the attention of
contrasts so Numerically with account of
the same affair which appeared in that paper on
Saturday evening. According to the argus,
the stay and intercourse of the delegation from
this gcity was made very unpleasant, indeed,
Extensively and purposcly disagreeable. We
were told by that paper, that because "WhGel'
ing is in Virginia" and because that our delega-
ton happened To come from Wheeling, that,
therefore, the Convcntion-the Societies at
Cleveland, the delegation from Albany and Pitts
burgh, &c" could not condeScend to recognize
them as civilized human beings!!" Recolect,
now, "that it was "GecaMse Of this"-that is,
because our delegation was from slave State.
ReCOllect that the sister societies of the cities
above Misunderstanding come together as
common MISUNDERSTANDING come together for
musical purposes, as dcvotecs of the genial,
humanizing ''heavcnIy art" suddenly resolved
themselves into sort of German lnquiSitorial
Diet, and in blind disregard and in most nngen
erous abrogation Of all those liberal principles
for which the Germans, people, are noted,
and ofthe courtcSieSand disregard oflocal PrGju-
diceS for which the members Of these musical so
cieties are especially noted; recollcct we say,
that in spite OF all these things, that at Cleveland
last week, the societies of the Musical Conven-
ton there assembled, fell to and put under ban,
exercised as unclean spirits, insnlted as Pariahs,
our delegation, their sister society, Of the same
tribe, kindred and tongmc-and for what: why,
simply and alone, because "thcy acre from
Wheeling, and ITdcc2imq is /" li,Yiui".n
Now isn't that pretty story-a likely story
"a lignilied story for evening paper TO sit
down and spin out by the thousand ems. at
twenty-five cents per thousand, too, TO its intel.
ligent readers.
"CTn7at .JNdaGus," De- ~
We opinc that such an article in the columns
of the argus, will hardly excite surprise on the
with the implacablc bitterness of feeling which
that paper cnte-tains for the people and the in
situations OF the frcc-StateS, for the manners,
customs and notions of orr neighbors on each
side Of us. 1t is "a feeling that neither nor new
err sleeps or slumbcrs in the bosom Of the argus,
but on the contrary, it scizes hold every
poor little bone of excuse TO indulge its
"ruling passion" There may have been some
thing disagrccabe happened between our dele
cation and one all the other delegations. We
do not know that there was We have seen no
mention ofanysucil thing anywhere, yctit would
notbe out of the course ofhumnn nature for some.
thing Of the kind to have happened But thatit
happened solely, and with malice aforelhomght,
as the Argus would represent because orr "dcle.
cation were from Wheeling, and because Wheel.
ing is ina slave State" is too Iaughably and
ridiculously absurd for sober consideration
In confirmation Of our view of the matter,
and as showing Enthusiastically the nnimus and
purpose of its whole article we suhioin the
concluding paragraph:
1t should be remembered that this treatment
was received, for the reasons assigned, from
black republicans who it is said will hold n
Presidential convention in Wheeling some time
next year. The poor fools who do not know
how 10 behave Themselves at home would make
a fine display among gentlemen abroad, would
they not? II can be well imagined what dis.
play the nigger-dycd Hottentots would make ON
the streets OF our city. There would be as much
curiosity TO them rs there would be to see
amenagere of wild beasts Imported from foreign
lands. Who would not give dollar to see the
Grcrsers so through performance? We
would, and give them pull besides If they
should come to Wheeling and get penned up in
one crowd-bah! II they should remain con-
fined for any considerable length of time
qQhctoi If the weather should happen to he
warm-Oh L-dyi If commotion should be
stirred among them-indescribable will he the
effect. Save us from the Greascrs, whatever
other calamties may be visited upon u.s.
Now particularly invite the attention of
the Germans to this language to this coarse
abuse. Let them ask of the Argus to whom it
refers when it says "Nigger-dycd IIottcntots;''
also, when it says "Greascrs;" also, when it
turns up its nose mt the bad smell arising from
a number of these Hottentots and Greasers
assembled together in hot weather 1t can be
nobody else but you, Germans of Wheeling, for
it is of your brethren of Cleveland and other