Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-04

Decentralization from AmIeuG,
Editors Of ale LntelligeEesy:
Permit me once more to ta1 the IiberaI-
ity which yOu know so well how 70 show
to ali manner of complaints and complain
ants. AWriter in the IS PresS" to-day replies
to my communication concerning the pro-
posed supper 70 the members of the Legis-
lature at Washington Hall next Wednesday
night. He suggests that can get my
money back If want it, Aessrs Editors. 1
scorn and resent his low insult He can
not, however, bully me from what con-
ceiVe to be a duty by replyiog to me in
suchia manner. l gave my Eve dollars in
good faith, never expecting to think of II
again Had itSnot been for the expressions
and suggestions of several of my fellow
citizens and my own reflections, certainly
should never have called the matter 70
mind again. Has the writer in the eFresS"
no appreciation of the feeling that can be
both generous and just Does he think
that because l wished 70 see the supper
fund, l5hen paid IA, turned over to worth
Ter object, through the magnauimity of the
Legislature, that therefore l am a ct sub
| iect for his abnse? Sirs, made my argu-
ment and appeal l trust, to worthier aud
higher minded men than the writer in the
s.Press."
Messrs. Editors, need not again go over
| the ground of my former Communication.
] trust obtained the favorable ear of the
men to whom it was addressed know
that my sentiments meet with hearty
response from my fellow citizens, and
more especially from those who, like my
self, have been more or less active in the
charities of the winter, and who have thus
had good opportunity to know what has
been and is Suffered among rs. / will on
" venture to add to what | said on Satur-
day, that the Legislature have now q noble
| opportunity to do the suffering poor Of our
city great good, and that, too, without
any self-denial upon their part worthy of
the name. Let them recollect that these
poor for whom / plead, were not, months
ago, SO poor as they are now that their
fathers, brothers and sons, who are now
out defending the homes Of many of the
members from destruction, were then here
at work. and were paying into the hands
of the tax gatheTers, portion of those
very four dollars per day which the mem
bers are now receiving. Surely it is but
a small return TO ask that these poor crea-
lures, their wives, and mothers, and daugh-
tiers, and their little children, get benefit
from that which will cost the donors moth
ing beyond foregoing one nights dissipa-
| lion. Ihe amount that has been raised for
this supper, is sufficient to alleviate good
deal of suffering. 1t will, if properly dis
pensed, send joy aud gladness through
many household for days and weeks
to come. It is nothing TO the mem,
bers that they lose supper of oysters and
wine on Wednesday night. It is every.
thing to those poor that they get g
coarse morsel once or twice a day
through the winter. The same amount o
money will not be raised again soon. And
when it is gone and spent in one evening
for supper that no one needs, that viii
be the last of it, except probably the doc
tors bills that will follow. Yet afterward
the poor wretches whose hearts and stom.
achs it might have gladdened will COM
round begging for crumbs as usual.
! MesS;s. Editors, cannot believe that i
will be greater pleasure to any one, ex
cept perhaps the writer in the Press, t
. eat the proposed supper, than it will be t
know that the soldiers who are lying i
trenches at Patterson's Greek or amids
the SHOWS of Cheat Mountain, will bIes.
them for their generosity to their poo
wives and children. ANGUS.