Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-30

Monday Horning, Jan. 50, 1851 .
We Tsabjoip the following paragraph
IRON tho afaichmond l1fvated, as fair
specimen Of kindlofi writing that dis
tingutsbes that print nowadays: -
zThet New York Tribune, gwhich!c Alnotby
possibility issue single number without q
ribald article ON Southern men OF libel
on, Southern institutions, employs only
white slaves, having never evinced, from
the foul moment of its birthto the pres.
emit putrid hour of its summer-tide corrup-
,tion, single atom of practical sympathy
with the negro race OF, IN point OF Iact'
with men of any color. The senior pro-
prietor, Horace Greeley, came to New
York from Vermont, about thirty years
AGO: d tow-headed, slab-sided Jonathan, as
yerdantsas the Green Mountains of his ma
tire State. He possessedje however, the
universal, and, in him; predominating
bump oflacquisi tiyeness, whichfhe never
turned to finch account till his cannection
with Mt. worth, and the est blishment
ofsthe 2Fibitae Office.
Some peculiar lnaligais we knowSnos
from what cause It basprocseded, seems
toshave completely Possessed our Rich
mond. cotemporary these latter days. The
common adjedtiyes and expletives have
grown tame, andslost, their force, somehow,
inthe estimation Of the Dispaleh, and it
1haiha1g dpiformly she high ssRressusse
Sgtyts sampled above We are not to be
understood as taking our contemporary to
task for having no peculiar love for Gree
ley, or. his paper, for we confess to no
loyerweening weakness in that way our
selves. But still decency is decency the
world over, and as Mr. Nillson said to Mr.
Pryor ,ins debate the Other dag, four col
league can be severe without being un-
parliamentary. Impersonality is the great
charm of all the "thundersp of the Lon
don Tines, and when 1t set out TO dive
Lord Aberdeen from power, at the cont
mencement.of the Crimesn war, it scarce
lyfeyer alluded to him by name ReE4oafs:
atty always creates sympathy for the per-
son subjected to it, unless the case is fla
grant indeed, and can be treated in no
other way. The real writers of the. seq
we're always aim, and strike home at
the hobby, knowing. full well that down
comes the rider to his proper level when
the hobby falls. But not so is it when
you bring down the rider, which by
the way is never done one time in a thou
sand, for still the hobby remains, to be
either remounted by the fallen one, oryhis
place supplied with some one else who
willibel only moro. difficult to unhorse. The
fact that. Horace Greeley was originally
ia tow-heuded, slab-sided Jonathan"
from Vermont, (and dear knows he is
enough on that style at this time) makes
or takes no weight from his political or
moral status, nor in any legitimate view
detracts from the merits of his paper
Other men. beside Greeley, have been tow
headed and sleb-sided, for we have seen
several sorry specimens of that sort with
in hundred miles of Richmond. And
other men have likewise been born in YER
mont--for instance Stephen A. Douglas,
whose authority we have for saying that
SIT is right good State to be born in,
provided you ernigrate early" which thing
both he and Greeley did. =. t.
Any way you take it, the Dispateh has
shown a large soft spot in barking away.
like the dog. at the moon, at Greeley and
Greeley's Tribune. Allowing that he had
poor place to be. born in, and thatin
addition Nature refused -him-raven- curls
and the. fa1ltlessp symmetry OF, sMedici,
and that still worse, art furnished him lit
tie else than the commoncst sort of an
education and awhile overcoat. Whatdoes
it all ,proye2 Why Improves that after all
Providence does about as much good as
harm, and regulates this world on COM
pensatory basis, and that having put it out
Of the powerof poor mortal to be born in
the environs of "big Richmond and having
celored his. hair like Greeley's, instead of
like. John Letcher's (blood red and
scrimp at that) he mercifulIy vouch-
safed a good handful of brains us a
set of, and In addition, prompted the I'M
foFtunateEto emigrate from Ur of the ohal-
dees, at the earliest opportunity. Why
naercy1oh as what would become of the
rest of mankind, y if ! there wasn't some lit
tie charity for q man being born off James
RiYer: "a inst think of the dire conse-
quences of getting up an unbearable preju7
dice.in the minds of the mothers of the
country against being accouched except
upon those banks. and thus having that
mud colored stream damned up with ao-
tfilas of wicker baskets, each containing
young Moses, who is to be fed and pro-,
vided for in. after life at the Federal or
State crib. -.-..-.----.-----
We do Trust that our Richmond cotem-
porary will incline to our view of this
matter, and spare poor Greeley the MORT