Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-08
From the FairmOnt National.
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We nave always Deeu feAuy " lEhASAHILS
any one, of whatever party-name, who
shows siugleuess of purpose in regard to
the national struggle, IL which every en-
ergy of all the people ought now TO be en-
gagged. Whenever we meet any agency that
| is undoubtedly devoted to this struggle,
we ask no party questions concerning it,
we do not inquire after its autecedents, in
view of finding fault with them; we forget
all the past, in the solemn earnestness
which we feel in regard to the present But
so much the more, therefore, do we feel
| like condefnning the half.hearted IN the
current contest; so much the more do we
feel like turning onr face and hand against
those who would trammel or cripple the
nations power, in this mighty conflict, by
attempting to create party animosities aud
party divisions.
1t is for this reaseu, and no other, that
we are opposed to the Wheeling Press. We
sincerely protest that we have no party
feelings on the question upon which 1t con-
stantly prevaricates; that we take no in
terest, whatever in the minor points which
1t rRises, except only as they chance to re-
late to the rapid and successful prosecution
of the war. We care nothing for Democ-
racy, or Whiggery, or Republicanism, ex-
cePt only as these may bear important re;
Iation to our safety, amid this gigantic and
terrible rebellion. But we do care, when
we see public Journal springing into ex-
isteuce in a prominent place, extending
circulation and influence by false profess
sions aud other Fictitious means, taking
hold of the confidence of the people by
| temporary course of straightfor%ardues
in doctrine, and then slowly and insidi-
ously turning about to make use of the in
tiuence thus acquired, in dtverting the pub
lie mind from the one great question OF
- IT,. fnta
| questions, addressed to old and fostering
jealousies, and calculated to arouse slum-
bering demons of passion, and thus distract
and divide the sentiments and actions of
| those who would otherwise have thought
! and acted in strietest concert and har-
mony.
Such has been the course of the "WheeI-
ing Press." Commencing with the most
blunt and broad utterances of loyal senti-
ment creating agencies for itself along
the lines OF railroads and In every promi
nent place where daily journal would be
likely TO find considerable patronage in this
time of greed for news employing more
uewsboys for its sale than any other paper
that was ever published in Western Viz
ginia and whining piteously about the
pecuniary disasters which its proprietots
were suffering on account of their Union
sentiments at home; it procured by these
means a more extended circulation and
more moral influence than its literary abil
/ ity (God save the mark y or its intrinsic
merit as public journal ever could have
given it. Then sneakiugly, like miscre-
ant slowly, like u wild demon, it turned
toward the dirty cess pool of party
ism, endeavoriug to lead its patrons
after it, to dabble in the slime, and
feculence, and corruption there. II
raised the old party-cry of "AbolitiOnism"
its high key-toue-the slang word which
has filled the South with fanatics;-and
keeping up on it, what Thomas Carlyle
would call a running shriek," it eu-
deavored to excite the old jealousies and
heart burnings which formerly attended
that party-cry and for this purpose it has
continued TO parade, in the old familiar
way-a la Richmond Enquirer of two years
ago-all the little, dirty iusinuations about
opposition to slavery, the danger OF abOli-
tionism, the aims of Northern fanatics, etc.,
etc., which we know by heart in that
earlier, more ignoble day, when the Great
Rebellion was in course of preparation,
aud the Wises and Mssous aud Rhetts and
Yanceys were industriously engaged in
"firing the southern heart" in view of pre-
cipitating the Southern States into revOlu-
ton.
Nor is this all; From the beginning
. /
, Niger breeding Eastern Yirginia-the
tPress" has been sneaking but steady
opponent of the New State movement in
West Virginia. Every member of the sew
eral Conventions will remember the private
nasal whine of its Editor and the equivo-
cal cultural grunt of his more stupid paper
during the whole time when that vital
question was under discussion 10 Wheeling;
and NO one who watched the course of the
Press attentively fail to remember
that its tone, its Delphic comments, its
owI-like suggestions, were all intended to
bear against that project which is so dear
to the heart of every Western Virginian
and SO essential to the securement Of his
true and most vital interests.
If we had ever a lingering doubt as TO
the faitbfulness and uureliability of-the
"Wheeling Press," its course concerning
John S. Carlile-that rare traitor
--swhose tongue
Outvenomed all the worms of Nile,
would have fully convinced US. 1t ayows
that it sees nothing in his aims, his pro-
ljects, his speeches, his actions, "either to
lapprove or condemn |"
This is enough. The ssWheeling Press"
lsees nothing in the course of John S. Car
/ lila In condemn a1thon0h that conrsa In