Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-17
The Views of Mr.. Arnold, OF Lewis,
naR Guage of Intelligent Opinion.

Mr.. Arnold, OF LEWIS COuutJi =" O"'
House of Delegates, has seemed very anx-
ious to distinguish himself as the cham
MON of some sentiment or other, and the
result, up 10 this time, has been that he has
been universally tabled and voted down.
We are glad he has. His purpose squints
at mischief in most every thing he propo-
SEES or says, and if we had motion to make
it would be one similar 20 that one made in
the House of Representatives the other day.
viz: to have his credentials referred, to see
whether in mistake he had not been ac-
credited to the wrong place. He was very
dead set against the resolutions instruct
ing our Senators to vote unstinted aPPro-
priations to carry on the war against the
rebels, and to oppose all compromise
with them until they threw down their
arms. He seemed anxious to spring the
Burnett and yallandigham game on the
House. But he did not succeed. On the
contrary he ingloriOusly failed, and his
own vote, if we recollect, was the solitary
compliment his speech received.
He next undertook to get up senso-
ton about Owen Lovejoy's resolutions.
He was excessively fearful lest somebody
should suppose that Republicanism had a
Judgement in the honorable body of which
he is a member. 'Why, sir" said be, sit
has gone forth that this is a body of Re
publicans here" And one would suppose
from his expression and manner that
he looked upon that suspicion as about
equal to a charge of thievry upon the
House. He seemed to be horror stricken
lest somebody out in the county where he
came from should suppose he was here
keeping such dis-eputable company as
Republicans.
All the sentiment that we could feel for
a public man, representing county in the
Legislature, in uttering such an exclana-
ton was one of pity. Pity for his ignor-
ance or prejudice, which ever it might be,
that led him to talk as be did. We sup
posed that the men who came up here to
the Legislature would be of oil men the
kind who never could be made to en-
such reflection upon large and
able body of their loyal fellow cit.S =
We supposed, and tbe'T'te shows that we
were not mistaken the majority, that
on the minds of the true-blue men who
have stood all the taunts of the secession
oligarchs for years, about abolition"
"submission," and all the bug-bear epithets
of niggerdom, such holy-horrorism of
unmeaning, mis-applied and misunder-
stood names had lost its effect. But it
seems that Mr.. Arnold is an exception,
and our only wonder is how he came to
stand the ordeal and remain Union man,
if indeed, he is one.
We should like to ask him if he knows
what he is talking about when he under
takes to rise in his place and disparage the
party affiliations of a large number Of his
felIow-citizens of Northwestern Virginia,
as if they proEessed or cherished some
views that made it matter of just re-
proach to them ? We should like to hear
his definition of Republican, or see a
picture of one on canvass constructed after
his idea. We suppose it would be some
contorted and unshapen monster, head
and tail misplaced, with horns aud tusks
like the beast of the Apocalypse. He
seems to have about tho same horror fol
the one that intelligent people would ex-
pect him to feel for the other. One would
suppose he had never seen or talked with
one, and that, like doubling Thomas, he
would shy them as an apparition were he
to set eyes on one of the so-called. His
talk calls to our minds the ludicrous oddi-
ties of the Japanese, when they came to
this country. Everything was unclean in
their eyes, and when they passed along the
corridors Of the finest Prominades they
would mufle their dangling garments
about them, for fear they would come III
contact with something that wasn't Japan
csc. When they ate, it must be on the
floor, with their legs crossed, with theii
fingers in the dishes, and far removed
from the vulgarities of Christian civiliza-
tion and cookery. To be seen eating like
an American would be enough to cause
them to commit hari-karri" on them
selves.
Just about as reasonable and sensible tc
any well informed, liberal mind, would
seem the words which Mr.. Arnold gave
vent to concerning Republicans. Taking
into account the advantages which he has
enjoyed, his prejudices are about as ra.
tionaI and creditable as those of the Jap.
anese, and the proper sort of a man would
feel for him just about as he would fee
for the illustriOus Tycoon embassady. We
presume that the representative from Lew
Is would hardly believe US, when we tell