Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-25
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These illusions have not Always been as
complimentary as they might have BEEN
somstimes they baSe been quite the rsterse,
for often the provocatives TO bile have been
very great. AT tines, indesd, the demands
upon our indigestion have betn so euor-
nous that we have given LIP in despair,
like The feamsfer who drove load ofapPles
up a'lo6g ubd'steep hill and paused on top
only to discover to hisiufnite modification,
that the tailgate mad worked up aud the
apples all rolled out along the road, and
who, after little reflection concluded no,
to swear about It because he couldn't
dojustiee to the subject. Our readers I'M
dersrand, of courSe. that in all passages
that have in any sense risen to the dignity
of controversy, there has been nothing per-
sonal, at least on our part. We deal with
our adversary as the representative and emf
bodimeut of principles and aims. aud in
lighting il, fight the errors, of intent or
Judgment as they may prove, which it rep
rsssats and upholds. Newspaper cOntro-
versy is fur from pleasant, ard, may seem
to sopei unProftSblc, but,tt is tiie most
direct way to deal with questions that de-
mand consideration. There is no proprie-
ty in going ave hundred. or thousand
miles away to find texts for discourse
when they are thrust right in our faces day
byday.. Here is where they assail us and
here is the place to meet Them. We say
this in general terms, for the benefit more
particularly. however, of q few who think
1t a smart and witty thing to sneer at news
papers that see it to defend what they con-
csiEe TO be right principles in such way
aSSeehis most likely to be effective.
At present wefhaSe few things to say
about the Press, as the representative and
champion of what it claims to be political
principles and aims, though we have more
than once repudiated the term "political" as
applied to questions relating to the war.
We spent short time yesterday il look
Ing over the 6les of the Wheeling Union,
running through that stormy period from
the opening of the presidential campaign
of 1860 down to the Accomplishment of the
secession of yttgiIis aud The subsequent
breaking ont OF the rebellion. Few of our
reaaets' need be reminded of what the
Union was. II was the defamer of the
GOVernment and ayowed advocate of the
rebellion, Having been erected upon the
ruins of the 5Aryus aud 7Smes-the one
the simon-pure embodiment of all the
loe6foco heresies that have well nigh ruined
the country-the other the Jesuitical hater
of every liberal idea or just principle in
relation 10 American politcs-the Union
BY q happy fusion combined the bad traits
Of both without any Of their redeemiug
qualities. 1t was controlled in part by a
sharp inscriptions politician, now in the
rebel Congress. and at that time fully in
the secrets of,the conspiracy then ripeuiug
for the overthrow of the United States
Government. The conduct of the paper
was regulated accordingly. When the
campaigp of go opened it declared for the
candidate of the southern faction. who is
now heading one of the rebel armies. The
time bad not come TO talk OF secession, but
it was preparing the way for it. Here are
some samples of the way it talked; chosen
almost at random ~
(PrOm the Union of Nay IL, 1891
NATIONAL PARTY.
For some years there has been but one
national party in this country GiiA poper
enough 10 Be useful. In the crisis now upon
rs, the question TO be determined is Wheth-
er- our national party is to be rent Rsunder
aud reduced to sectional and hostile frag-
ments. Iuthe presence of such question
the minds OF men will cease to dwell upon
any abstract doctrine. The present and
lnstant future, tull of threatening fate, sh ut
out from our contemplation those distant
events which may or may not happen un-
der this or that principle of abstract right.
The principle of nationality IN ths Demo,
erdtie party has become the paramount and
ovrpheIRiag iaterest Without it the Union
itself IS too likely TO be rent ss'from ta1et
to foundation stone, p -,
This was written in contemplation of
the disruption of the democracy. and the
rial mesniug of IL was simply that the
democracy, Was the only party that could
be made useful % the South, and that its
supremacy was, paramount to all other
questions. national unity aud peace inclu-
dsd. How subsequent aevelopments zhSyys
ilnRiaslsd The tsxtt stss.rouar,t
6SoNilh insipient treason in its heart, the
URion used 10 pirate about seetionGlislh aud
i" Notther1 fahatieisn'' just as its sueeessor
does 10 preserve the nationality of The
deueeraeylissWas % play the Conservative
Ee@s,Ana talk about the s,Bisek. Republic
sAaAssend she ereasoaable seetioualf,,s a.
we Aesse.s. L even had, the anaaeity3 70
se.k saees {As fDemoeraey having sei setsd
ne ee-ePetAtioa otthe dIsunioaIs,s Of u,
ssse sed eseaally IN one 36StESss claim
=, hgeesgariags as the hssi tinia,
esheleess "A ne aStd o, Time vhSs