Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-01-09
Ho says 10 has lost ''IfU pnbl

u. He says no has lost ''ttU public
confidence" and that loss mas destroyed all
power to benefit tho people longer" On
this account he resigned his county clerk
ship and for tho Same reason now gives up
his paper.
This is hard end to come to. Wesym
pathize with the editor in his misfortune.
For long time he was our co.workcr in
the cause OF the Union, at time, too1
when his paper, tho wellsburg Herald and
our own were the only Union papers pub
lished in Western Virgiuin. He did good
service and earned for himself good
name and a valuable popularity among his
people. And they, in their turn, appre-
ciated his services. They sent him to
Richmond to the Convention there, and
they afterwards sent him to the first Com
ventiOu here. Had he been at home, where
hO should have been, at the time of the
second canvass, he would in all prob
ability have been elected again. But
he was not, and people wOre elected who
were at homo. We trace all Mr.. Dents
bad conduct to his chagrin at coming here
during the sitting of that Convention and
finding, AS he thought, n race of mcr, risen
up in his absence, who either did not know
or did not appreciate Joseph. From here
he wrote that bad spirited and semi-seces-
sion article, which one of his friends Mt
MorgautOwn followed up in the same bad
spirit
The people in that county and here lost
large share of their confidence in him Mt
once. The revelation of his letter to Wy
lie Oldham, written in September, just nr-
ter tho Convention, destroyed whatever
was left of their confidence. Every one
thought the worst of him taen-worse
probably than they should have thought.
But people always think very bitterly and
very upallOwiugly for one whom they get to
believe is an enemy under the musk of pre-.
tended friendship. Aud thus they cameto
think about Mr.. Dent. Thcletter was duly
explained, of course, hut the people cOuldu',
''sec it, and for tho reason that 1t Wna a
very bad and ominous letter, and never
could be made TO look right. Hence thoy
lost all confidence in Mr.. Dent. They be-
lieved that no was in league to sell them
out, and of course they dropped him-iust
rs they dropped Judge ThOmpson-only
moro so, for the Judge had NO great wayt
TO fall.
Mr.. Dent is simply suicide. He is re.
spOnsible solely for his own death. Hi
iuOtiinats desire for preference lies at III,
bottom of It all, In our belief. He wa.
stung last spring over his defeat in Con
ventiou for Congress, and next over his DO
ing left out in the management or counsel
ship $50 to spcak) of the new stuto gov.
ernment here. What hD proposed to do il
view Of his disappointment, We have never
been able to conclude satisfactorily. We
have been loth to believe that prior to hi.
discovered letter, ho had formed seCes.
sion programme. The thing looked that
way, and most every body seemed to DO.
lieve SO. Butwe always felt in doubt. On,
idea was that NJ. Dent simply proposed to
"rOsOnstraetP party lines again, and punish
HE enemies by coming up as rocOg-
We belieEe that was bis intention. But
whatever it was, it Is done for now. 1t il
allin wreck, and as We said, NO sympathi5e
with the mans misfOrtunos. It CCnvinces
MS afresh that the only way for public or
private man TO do, is to do right.
Paul Norphy has made a bad move
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