Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-31
TaEN AND NOW.

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more bitterly assailed that were Messrs.
Clemens and Hubbard, the Union candi-
dates for the State Convention that met in
Richmond on the 18th of February, 1861.
1t is instructive at this day TO look over
the files of the old Wheeling Union and see
what that paper had to say about those
men and the cause they represented at
that time The principal man, and in fact
the only man, financially considered, in the
Union, was MIR. Henry Moore, the same man
who has lately become so euamored with |
the Wheeling Press, and who holds, prac-
tioally, the same position in that paper |
that he did in the old Union, its predecessor
mAbolitiouism" was word that he rolled |
like a sweet morsel forever under his
tongue. In the early days of secession
here the word seemed TO compete, in
point of frequent use, with the very
commouest little "ands" and I" ifs
and "buts' that occur in every SEN
tence of our language. Everybody who
favored 'tcoercion" was an Abolitionist in
the estimation of Henry Moore, and he de-
nounced them as such. While Messrs.
Clemens and Hubbard were candidates on
the coercion ticket, be filled his paper full
of little venemous squibs, defaming their
principles in every possible conceivable
shape. he represented them as the pup
pets and the tools of the AbolitiOnists-
called the great meeting at the Atbenaum
which ratified their nominations "puppet
show"-spoke of another meeting at the
Courthouse as a Black Republican caucus,
and then came out and warned the people
that "the support given to Messrs. Clemens
and Hubbard but too plainly admouished
him that the days of the republic were
numbered" A day or two after the cleo
ton he spoke of the result thus: awe ac-
knowledge that the result of the election on
last Monday, in this county, was Black
Republican victory and a defeat 10 the
States Right cause"
We could fill our paper with items of
this character alone, about Messrs. Glenn
ems aud Hubberd, our Union candidates in
that memorable February, who so provi-
dentiAlIy for US all were elected. All the
abuse and obloQuy of Henry Moore,
heaped on them day after day, could not
defeat them. Nor could he delude the
loyal people of this county into his Estates
Right" party. Men saw what that internal
snare meant. They suspicioned that it
meant all the dreadful ill that We here seen
it to mean.
We recur to those stormy days of Feb
uary, 1861, to refresh the minds and the
loyalty of our people. We told them then
that Henry Moore was secessiouist, that
he and his son, aud Russell and Pendleton,
apd others, were plotting this terrible re-
bellion, and we asked them to beware of
those catch words of abolition and
"Black Republican" He was using those
words then just exactly as be is inspiring
and patronizing them at this hour in the
columns of the Wheeling Press. He knows
their power on the prcjudices of the peo-
pie, and he knew that if he could only by
means of them get possession of their preju-
dices he could instiI the fatal poison of dis
loyalty into their mirds. Henry Moore to-
day is responsible before God for much of
the terrible calamity that has befalleu our
land. He seduced the mind of many a
poor honest man who had ignorant faith
in him. He made many such men bring
disgrace on their names by voting for the
ordinance of secession. He is responsible
for their successive disloyaI steps, and the
blood of many of them, slain in our border
counties as guerrillas, will follow his gray
hairs to the grave.
Loyal men would think that one such
experience of baneful influence ought to be
sufficient for Henry Moore, and that the
rest of his years would be spent in trying
to atone in the sight of his Maker aud good
men for the evil of his past days. But ap-
pareutly his anxiety to be an agent still fur
Their in seducing the minds of men from
their loyal impulses, is undated. Hence
he pours out his money freely to build up
and sustain another emissary of evil
"With the return of the man, comes the re-
turn of the spots" Those spots can not be
J mistaken. The influence of Henry MOore's
money is this day upon the face of the
Wheeling Pres like leprosy, and mark
our words now, that the spread of the poi
son is only question of time and success
to our arms. 1t took Henry Moore long
time to get bold enough to openly revile the
flag Of his country, but he came to it at
last, and exactly through the same process
% that are now visible every morning to
oar people. Those processes will ineVita-
bly, produce the same results, and it would
not be anything more than natural yet to
see this editorial from the Wheeling Union