Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-16
IaE Salt and Pepper Individual Of the N. Y.


THE Salt and Pepper individual Of the N. Y. |
Tribune is out in very highly seasoned and
highly laborious article on the.recent bloodless
emeute between that chivalric son of his father,
| o. Jennings Wise, and Patrick Henry Aylett,
Esq. We have INDUCED this individual good
deal by running his cayenne preparations
Through our columns, entire. This time we
| pick out the more mordant tidbits--and even
they are not up to what the Sat- and Pepper
man might have dished up on SO choice a sub
Eject
He proceeds TO say That's
Mr.. o. Jennings Wise is the son of the Hon.
| Henry A. Wise--the writer of letters, the "my
dear Governor" Of Mr.. B. Donnelly of No. 8
| William street, the friend of Mr. Engene Cassi-
dy, and the woud-6e beggar of Boston. Mr.
10. j. w. is also the editor Of the Richmond
Enquirer, which, with one hand, deals hard
blows TO Squatter Sovereignty and, in the hol-
| low ofthe other, holds Wise the elder, in full
4 view of tho Omitted South" and the White
House. Mr. Patrick Henry Ayiett, who desert
bed himself in 1854 as IA young and unknown
person" has long been an anonymous contribu-
tor to the Richmond Examiner, and has at times
been left in charge Of its serricd columns
Young and unknown in 3D. he is young and
known in 49, Mr.. o. Jennings Wise directly,
Mr.. Henry A. Wise indirectly, have given him
to the world. On the 9th of July, everybody
knew that Virginian, bearing his classical,
| Virginian name, existed in the flesh, and in the
flesh had set himself up as target before
Mr.. o. Jennings Wise, in North Carolina.-
Two days We wlited on the third the news
came that Jennings had made no Aylett holes
with his pistol, and that Patrick Henry's shot
had left the great 0. as round as ever. Patrick
Henry had missed the Governors son, and the
Governors son had fired into the air and not at
the vacant head of Patrick Henry. Then prin-
cipal Ayletts second withdrew him from the
field, and Patrick Henry, forgetting his name
sake's II repeat it, Sir, must fight" express
ed the belief that 'tthc ofense offered to him by
Mr.. Wise was the result of misunderstood
ing" and the wish that by-gones might be by
cones" Here, according to the modern code
not the code of tho bonks, we believe, but
that to which the duello of our days practical.
~ conforms-was the place for o. Jennings to
extend his hand, embrace his long-lost broth
er" and leave the field Of honor arm in arm with
him. The son of his father did otherwise. 81
hope that we may be better strangers" was
substantially his answer 81 do not thirst for
the blood of Aylett; far be it from me even to
wound his feellngS-but VIC cannot be friends
very sensible reply. How the smell and
smoke OF certain quantum of powder, burned
in the presence of two seconds two friends
and two surgeons, should make foes friends, VIC
never could understand. mystery hung about
the ceremony, u cloud about the sacred fire
which we could never penetrate. And, now, o.
Jennings Wise, chivalry of the chivalry, f.
Fest of the F. F. VS., who acted throughout
by the admission of his adversary's second, as
man ''of honorand courage" has failed to per
ceiye the logic of this part of the Code, declares
that it is guilless Of logic, and returning tc
to Richmond, locks mp his pistols, loads TIL.
Enquirer to the muzzle and delivers broadsidc
after broadside into The Richmond Examiner
at whose guns, match in hand, still stands the
rcdoub'ablc Patrick Henry, who did not fir,
into the air and did not hit Mr. Wise
But is this all? What mean these recent
broadsides, which shake the arsenal of Virginia
and fulmine over Richmond? Can Ayett
should Ayett endure in silence the re-diSchargf
Of all the old charges against him? Can he
bear TO be told, as o. Jennings Wise told him
several times in last Tuesdays Enquirer, that
his ''life has been spared the field Of combat
that his generous offer ofreconciliaton,' made
sin a moment Of impulse" as he says, on the
attempt to obtain" from his antagonist IAN nd
mission or plea of mistakc?" Fe, fie, Patrick
Henryl If it were right to fight in July, it is
right to fight in August. The present provo
cation is quite poignant as was the Augustus
Fomlinson" Of earlier days To the field OF
combat, O! Patrick Henry! But how to the
held of combat if your adversary persists in
firing into the air. Alas! what can the uckless
Aylett do? We advise him to write to B. Don.
nelly, Esq, No. 8 William street. New York, or
to Eugene Cassidy, Esq, Albany, for advice.