Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-12

choose to TGtse lie standaTd Of disnnion, and
enaearor toprosfrqts the Government. and
SIR, tphesl that rs done, so long as il please
God to gtpe me a votes to ezprsss my senti-
,aert,, or an arm, isedk and enteebled as IL
may be BIZ age, that pOies and that arm will
90 on the side cfasy country, for the slpport5
efth general authority, and for The mamie
nance efthe Pogers Of the gaioa.-[speech
of Henry. Clay, August LIST, 1850. rr.ts
ttsA.a - 80 y u z e e Z
aVyhat Is consesxatIsln4D By 4
PhiloloRy is one ofthe uncertain sciences.
Words have an ETY. theological import and
they hayeaa conventional import The
word "lsr' has two radically eantagonistic
meauings. HundredsIof other words are
like il. Tbe, word conservative, Is one
of the very best abused words in the
English language. Like the,word aliber-
ty," opinions are advanced under it, aud
deeds are done under it that revolt even
very dull moral appropriations: ase ~
when our neighboF Of the Press,. theFezs
fore, .nudertakes to turn philologist and
teach The people the meaning of,words, he
should be very sure OF the ground on which
he Is standing. 1t will not do for him to
dsalIiplgeReralitiss or httelutin. ssHeimust
come down to, his work aud be sure that
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Paul Louis Courier, very learned
Frenchmann, and one the most liberal
publtcists, Of Europe, some ime7agosWrote
review Of the class of so-called conserve
lists In the Old World especially in the
continent4l States giving their tensts,e
their practices, and summing up the
results TO mankind he made them ont,
by most indutitabls proofs, 70 bea very
shabby set. ASS general thing they had
been at the bottom of almost all the dis
fractions IN Church and State. And near
ly every revolution In both, was directly
traceable to their selfish plots and schemes.
They had been 'bad instruments Of good"
We reeollect that inf very terse bit of
satire he represents one of the status quo
kind, depreSating all changes on the morn
ing Of creation, and crying out in in
diguatlon and alarm "Aon Dieu! con-
ssrpons Ie chaos" This was the case of.
an ultra extremist Of course, and we by no
means hint, in quoting the satirical epi--
gram, that our uelghhor of the Press, could
he have stood "in the middle Of things on
the morningiof creation, would by any
means have cried ont to divine Provi-
dence to stay his hand and .conserve the
chaos" Not:at ALI Our charity leads US
to suppose that with all the conservatism
of.which he boasts, and Of which he Is
now writing so diligently, he would have
agreed that the work of creation should
proceed-that there should be light-that
the sea shoald be gathered into its place
and the cath and the armament set apart.
This much we concedeto showthat We aref
not uncharftnble towards our; neighbor. &
But coming down from the dawn OF
creation to. more modern times, what does
consertatism meanH At the time Of the
orimeaniw Lord Aberdeen was Prime
Minister of Great BritAin.i He was lhs.
great head .,eoPseryatiyen of the realm
He hads pro- nssian spmpathies. That
wasthe style. of opinion that was IN vogue
among The conservatives par excellence, as
they deltghtgd to call themseIyesa {oppos-.
HN " ulul was Suu -E-AlHuGtskVuE
CONSERVATIVES epp6sed to him agaiuwasthe,
Derby party of conservatives. Aud there
were others, whom We cannot now name,
ali sailing under the name of conservatives.
1t was and ais fayorite name in the old
world band is term ,thstiwill cover more
radically different kinds of people than
the tents'ot The Arabs. Therefore Il is that
We object to our Conservative neigbbor
appropriatipg TO hia exclusive use a PROP
erty that has so many claimants, without
frat coming into court and showing cause.
why. .ss ST., 5E,,fa5l.. s I, Z
We told him the other morning, that in
our honest belief, We had more genuine"
eonsst1atisn I'm either Of 61r. lfttlesauge
or toes, than he had In hisSwhole body
Our style offverbiage entirely disgpsted
him. He; says we're ayulgar," which Of
eodrea g infinitely more abhoFrsnt % q
,'eod6GrTatlTe" than ever Wass pork 10 .
Pharilee. A petson would suPpeie our;
nelghbof had been brought up Ia South
Carolina or Ethiopia, or some other nIgstr
country. And noI0ne, BY any possibility,
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