Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-12


sues before the country.
Third Edition OF the PronuneiNmen-
We noticed yesterday in oar local COLI
umns that Judge Thompson had out anoth-
er edition of his manifesto to the people Of
Northwestern Virginia. This issue is
headed 1.-THE Third Edition. We have
not seen the second, but we presume num-
her two was duly issued and distributed
How many copies of the Judges pamphlet
ittakes to constitute an edition-whethcr
ten, or a hundred, or thousand, We don't
know. Neither do We know what was in
tue second more than the FIRST, nor ye. do
we know whether the editions will stop
with this third one, and 60 to stereotype.
# is generally customary with most Nu-
thors TO revise and correct their various
editions, and make each ono an improve
ment on the last. Ifthe spelling is bad,
or the grammar wrong, or the logic iIloZ-
ieal, they generally, by themselves or
friends, have some corrections applied. tu
this respect the Judge differs from COM
mon authors. His spelling remains as at
drst, and the grammar and the logic are
still his own. No friendly hand has yet
made sense out Of any part of the docu-
ment. The frightful syntHctical licenses of
the frst still meet our eyes at every turn
In the third edition. He still asserts that
our State government "cAnnot place their
touch on n single expression Of sentiment,
nor a single act of unkindness or hostility
TO the Union, or the movement of tho
Union, SO for as the Uq aks vh Raa i sakss9
ment in Virginia or elsewhere" "or any
other man" we reckon.
He still persists that no has not lent
himself ITO faction, to arrogance, to inn
beeility. to corruption for sake Of Office
and psndliJy.r
"For the sake of Office and rendhty,' is
luminous e1pression-and ought to
DO followed by "auy other man." as in the
ease above. We hope to SEQ it In the
fourth edition.
He still says that ION the 3lst of oetober,
1860" (heforo Lincoln was eleeted) no
''besought him to save the country. &"
And he also says that at that time, as
well as in January last, as well as in March
last, aud as well us now, he believed "that
coercion was only another name for sub
Jugatiou," although in the inception Of
tbe matter he was in favor of stringent
and somewhat decisive measures" aud
so wrote to Mr.. Stanton, Attorney General,
last winter. That is TO say, that before
Lincoln was elected, before the rebellion
commenced; in January after It had COM
menced, In March after it was under full
head, and now when it is still in progress, he
IS opposed to coercion, "Although in the in.
cCption of the matter he was in favor of
striugentGnd somewhat decisive measures"
We move to append "nuy other man" to
this also.
He says also, in this edition as in the
frst, that he expressed the above mention.
ed opinion about coercion in tones OF sor.
row in the middle Of last January, on decli.
ming to take one of the highest posts known
to the Government Of the United States
notwithstanding this is the place where
thc laugh comes in) have 10 my private
lite and public conduct, the grace Of God
assisting me thereto, endeavored to walk
with humility and sincerity aud to avoid all
double lnindednessn
Why it is that the Judge makes deela-
tiOn Of his piety follow a dscliuatiou Of an
oEice beats all known rules OF syntax. BE
might in this instance. Us In the others, 90
far as the sense Is concerned, have wound
up with "aRy other mar"
There is one thing, however, that the
Judge In bis anxiety about the announce.
ulept Of his piOes walk aud conversation,
forgot to stAte-aud that was, shat it be
had accepted the offer, which he says was
made him, is would have lasted exactly
month aud halt, and TO have accepted il.
he would have had 70 resign his Jad seship
which had some six or seven years 10 run.
BY striking out, therefore, the declaration
Of the Judge concerning the exemplary life
which he lsAds, and substituting the ex.
planation we have given above, the SEN
tSzee, If not made logical and grammati-
cal. will contain the true reason why he
did act accept the GHtf This6 n SryS- vas