Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-24

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TAG Prs,, critezcs our article urging
upon tho Legislature and the Convention
the proptiety Of dispatching their business
rapidly and relieving the public from the
expense which their joint sessions entail.
We expected as much as this from the
Prnr. II would be dimcult for US to open
our mouths without finding our words
caught up by that paper and used, The
difference between US aud the PrtI' is this
Wsa printer, to the Convention they
20 tho Legislature. II is to some degree
profitable to Us to have both bodies remain
In session indefinitely. It is equally SO to
tho Pm weare willing to forego all the
profit there Is in the sessions Of these two
bodies for the sake Of seeing them get
through and adjourn and save taxes to the
people The Press protests against our
Impotence. We suspect that it is not our
Impotence that ais the Pres particularly,
That paper has probably read 10 the Bible
about tLemcuo Ephesusw had great gain
in making shriues for the goddess Diana,
and will no doubt recOllCCt what storm
those men raised around to head Of a cer-
tain man named Paul, who exposed the
nonsense Of the thing. They werO inau.
entail enough to set oil Ephesus in con-
fusion, under a plea that Paul was treating
with lisrespCct theirgoddcSs, whereas their
real ailment was that he was doing uway
with tho shrine business. If this is not
what ails the PrtI', the thing has a squirt.
ing that way.
Our remarks ought, however, to have all
their Just effect on the Convention and
Legislature, criticisms to tho contrary not
wIlhstaadlug. Sometime ago we would have
demonstrated against what We consider
cd great enOrmity ut the time, had it not
boon that our motives might have afforded
grounds for a TRADE from the Prew. Ten
thousand copies Of the Governors messagc
were ordered to DO printed by the Legisla-
turs. We we're satisfied the order was
wrOng--that il was IN expenditure these
times that was inexcusGble, and yet We did
not say so, for the reason that We knew
the Press would plead Its swell known
poverty on US, and say that We re.
moustratCd simply because We weFc
not the recipients OF the job. It happens
as in this case, that newspaper
once and awhile finds itself constrained to
keep silent when its duty and its inclinR-
ton Is to speak, Those ten thousand cop
les of the message made up large item Of
expense to the people. They ought never to
have been printed, Not one of them. The
document was printed without cost in
every paper throughout Western Virginia,
and everybody who reads At all, read it in
those papers. There was no reason or ex-
cuso that we could sec for the pamphlet
expense. Tho only persons we know who
were proated by the operation were the
editors Of the PreSs.
We desire to commend anew our re-
marks Of Wednesday morning to tho at
tontiou oftho Legislature and Convention.
Certainly they are deserving of their con-
sldcration. Its no interest for US to have
either body cut short its session.
On the contrary 1t is against our interest
for them to do so. And therefore We speak
boldly for we know that We are speaking
dlsintsrestedly on the subject, No mem
her can fail to sec that our new State, II
ever 1t is to DO one, is lily prepared for
taxes. Aud il we wanted to kill the whole
new State idea we would accumulate taxes
on tho people. And taxes are accumulate
disseminating rapidly, too, and after
awhile they will be heard from. The new
State movement will have all the Odium Of
them to bear. We shall probably hear the
editor Of the Press adding that RESPONSE
bilty In addition to his old charge of abO-
litiCuism on the movement, notWithstand-
ing all he says now. Al all events the
enemies Of division will do their best to
make people believe that it is responsible
for their burtheus. We want to guard
AGAINST that trick, as we'll as against the
taxes themselves Therefore We arc So
licitous about an early adjournment.