Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-11
Had Better Pront from the Advice.

last Saturday had the following article:
Our city contemporary is repenting Gin
sack-eioth and ashes" tor his premature
Iabors in landing some men above their
merits. vet keeps on in the same strain with
Others. The WeIlsburg Herald tenders our
incautious and changeuble contemporary
some very wholesome advice 2about pnfing
nm our great men in his estimation. We
annrehend the IHtelfigsnccT man would do
we'll to be little cautious. He has been
so often deceived, we should suppose he
would "smell mice sometimes.
The above article refers TO an editorial
in the I,etslhgcncer of late date, in which
we stated that we had been disappointed
in both our Senators-in the one ''griev-
ously" and the other "agreeably." The
Yellsburg Herald copies that article and
made this comment:
Stick pin there, and don't bet too high
on Wiley. His autecedents for the past
wear have been none of the best when tried
bv a national standard, and though we
agree in rejoicing that he did not turn out
worse, we cannot help but think be might
have done better. He used to have chronic
habit of congratulating himself that he did
not vote for Lincoln, and though he mas
not latterly been SO osientatious about II,
the chances are that the rottenness is still
in his bones When he manitests as pub
liciv and heartily his penitence for voting
to keep Bright in the L. s. Senate, as ut
did his personal gratulations for not sup
porting Lincoln, we will begin to think OF
irving him credit for sound Conversiou-
For the present, we consider it safer not TO
complicate the matter, but holding him
loyal more from the force of circumstances
than from the force of conviction, be pre-
pared to drop him should circumstances be
changed.
Tue comments of the Herald are proper
enough 1t will be seen by the reader that
they have no special application to US. The
editor of the Herald as we understand him
intended as much as anything else to put
the people of Western Virginia on theil
guard, in this time OF general indignation
at the course of one of their Senators
against an undiscriminatiug endorsement o
the other. And this is our sentiment ex-
actly. The very same idea has occurred
to US many times. And SO far as our com
meuts are concerned VIC have been careful
to let our readers see what it WAS we con
QemQeO tue one duO "udL IL WAS VIC u pPAO
bated in the other. The trouble is tha
too often we are all prone in a time of in
digtnaiou like the present to find our &C
count in making exaggerated comparisons
This liability is to be avoided in the cas-
of our two Senators.
The people of Western Virginia do no
endorse Mr.. Willey's vote in favor of re
tanning Bright in the Senate. On the con
trary they condemn it. Neither will the
be apt to endorse his vote against the con
fscation BILL But Sor this and other vote
they do not feel indignant at him. The
recognize that he may have honestly give
those votes They give him that margin c
charity which au intelligent constituent
always accords to its representative. Thi
much for the general merits of the case
We now come to another view of it.
The Press, to bolster up its publicly re
bukcd course, and not for aoy good at al
brought forward the comments of the HeT
aid concerning Mr.. Wiley. Between on
friend of the Herald and ourselves there i!
as near as may be, a general accord c
opinion, concerning not only our Senator
but public men and measures generally
And this the Press knows. The HeTdt
means to do perfect justice to Mr.. Wiley
and so do we. We ed his vote o.
the Bright case promptly-just as we op
posed his election openly and With no re
servations. For the good that he has dou
we have just as promptly praised him. Ii
every case we have measured both to hin
and to Mr.. Carlile thattwhich was due from
us at the time. Now how has it been Will
the Wheeling PresS2
That paper has never dared to censur,
either of the Senators. Just as it is on ey
cry question concerning which it suppose
that its remotest patronage may be divided
in opiuion, so it has been and is in refer
ence to the course of our two Senator's
The public look in vain to it for manly
rebuke or criticism. They never see one
As it is now in reference to Mr.. Garlic, Sc
it is in reference to everything connected
with its supposed interests. 1t is afrait
either to praise or blame him. 1t dare moi
to-day come out openly for him and it dare
not say word against him. And this is
the way the poor affair, controlled exclu-
sively by its fears or hopes of self.interest.
stands at this moment when public opinion
among us so much needs a manly pen to
help on the great cause.
= If the InteHigencer has any merit, it is
that it never waits to see who is for or
against this or that man or measure, but
speaks out promptly. The people are al
ways ready to forgive a man or paper for
mistakes made in this way. And we are
very sure that the people of West Virginia
like our paper all the more for the fact