Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-15
Tna NrornantO,yn star again.


The HIOrRnntOXVm star Again.
We call attention TO the letter from Nor
gnntowu which we publish to-day. In or
der that full justice may be done, we pub
rsb the article in the Star, of that place,
N which it refers. We are constrained to
say that we cannot help agreeing with the
views which the writer expresses as to the
recent course of the Star. The whole
scope and aim of its editorials, and COM
munications in editorial type, appear to be
to disafFect and divide the Union move
ment, and this, too, Notwithstanding the
fnct that three Douglas Democrats have
been chosen to the chiefest and most lucra-
tive positions in the gift of the present
State government. Mr.. Crane, the Au-
ditor, is of the same politics as the
Star, SO is Mr.. Tarr, the TREASURER, and SO
is Mr.. Carlile, one of the U. S. Senator's
We do not know what more could have
been done to manifest entire impHrtiality
than what has been done, and we do not
believe that If every Office, high and low
in the gift of the Convention or the Legis-
lature, OF the Governor, ha been
lavished on Douglas Democrats, that the
Morgantown Star would have been whit
better satisfied than it is. We do not be-
Ieye that is what ails it at all. 1t seems
determined to lend its influence, whatever
it has, to the enemies of the prescntmove-
ment, come what may. And this it seems
determined to do despite the following oath,
voluntarily taken by its editor:
COPY OF HIS OATH.
State of Virginia, Ohio County, Sc:
Before the subscriber, Justice of the
Peace for the county aforesaid, this day in
my said county, came Marshall NJ. Dent,
and took and subscribed the following oath:
/, Marshall NJ. Dent, solemuly swear that
will support the Constitution of the Unit
ed States, and the laws made in pursuance
thereof, rs the supreme law Of the land,
anything in the constitution and laws of
the State of Virginia, or in the Ordinances
of the Convention which assembled ut
Richmond on the 18th of February, 1861,
TO the contrary notwithstanding: And that
l will uphold and defend the government Of
TTrQiRid as rindicdfed and restored by the
ConrenHon 1chieh assembled at Wheeling on
CSigned.1 MARSHALL NJ. DENT.
Given under my hand, this 5th day Of
July, 1861. a. WILSON, j. p.
How any one can voluntarily take the
above oath, obligating himself to "uphOM
and dcftnd' the Government, and at the
same time let his paper be used as the me-
dunn for all sorts of unjust asPersions up
on it, intended only to disaffect the public
towards it, is more than we can under
stand. We say this in all kindness to Mr.
Dent, but we say it plainly, for we DO not
see how he can reconcile the course of his
newspaper, his own article leading the
way, with what he has sworn to do, in the
above oath. Why does he not tell the peo-
pie what it is that ails him in reference to
the new government? Why does he not
point out the specific ground OF complaint,
and not he dealing, as his paper is dealing,
in vague, grumbliug and mumbling and
captious and insidious fault finding, when
neither he nor his friends have any cause
to complain? What he expects to accom-
plish, other than to turn us all over, in CO.
operation with Judge Thompson, to the
secessionists, is more than we can tell
And We feel bound to say that the course
of the Star looks very much as If its do
ings were to be an important part OF the
Thompson programme. We can see moth
ing else in it.
The correspondent of the n. Y. Times
writes that the agent of the Southern Con-