Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-27
a Severe Rebuke.

per year,

The Wheeling Press mas tried in vain to
seduce some OF the country papers in West
ern Virginia into companiOnship with it in
its uelarious attempts to ALLEVIATE aud dis
organize the loyalty of che people. With
one single exception every paper repudiateS
it and seems TO 5cOrn all lis offerings anu
ovcrtures towards them. The only paper
that fraternizes with it is Jno. 5. Cnriie's
Clarksburg paper-a paper edited now by
himself and devoted to his self gior!fcltiou,
and which was some time ago Indignantly
deserted by Mr.. Northcott, OF East Team, as
soon rs he SAW through Cnriiie's treAcher-
Gus schemes Such genuine Union papers
AS the Wrllsburg Hsruld, the Fairmont
National, the Parkersburg Gazette, the
Point Pleasant Register. the Midd!eUourne
PIaindeqler, and..the Ritchie Pres, have each
and all disowned and refused any sympathy
or cumpnuionship with the Wheeling Press.
The following article from the WellSburg
Herald Of last Saturday is the standard OF
estimation in which they all hold The
Press:
A short time ago we were mortified by
an intimation that appeared III the Wheel
ing Press that on the question OF the war
it and the Wellshurg Herald were Il unit,
for of all the compliments that could be
paid US, that is the very poorest possible
1t set us to seriously thinking what We
could have said or done that could have
given our neighhnr sucn am imPrcSsion.-
We had not Intentionally or knowingly
done or said anything that could have CIV
en- color to the idea. On the contrary, we
had continually and nsSiduousiy urged, so
far as our feeble abilities allowed, IL
vigorous prosecution of the war; we
zealously supported all the measures
of the Administration looking in
that direction We endorsed AL the
acts of our generals that looked like honest
efforts at subjugating the rebels, without
stopping to enquire whether they were Re-
puullraus, Douglas or Breckenridge Dem.
ocrats: all this we did with a singlencss
of heart and determination of purpose,
that no one should have it to say that the
Wellsburg Herald sympGthized with rebel
lion or had any fellow feeling with those
who did. Judge of our modification aud
surprise when We read in the " heeiing
Press that it and we "were an unit II,
which had boxed all the points of the poll
teal compass and settled until latterly
upon none; it, which we admouished the
Authorities to watch; it, which has finally
justified our admontiou, and mt last wab-
bied itself down into an open and confessed
Butternut journal, an avowed enemy OF the
Government, an apologist of treason and
an abettor of rebellion.
But it appears that the Press has discov-
cred that the Herald portion of the unit is
not one in which 1t can take any PRIDE
Having latterly thrown off all disguise, it
does not deem it expedient to remain long
er an unit Last week the Herald copied
an article from the Cincinnati Gazette and
introduced it with some views of its own
on bogus Democracy. The dose seems to
have been too strong for the tender stom.
ach of the Press 1t denounces the Herald
half of the unit, and hereafter, we presume,
intends to 90 it alone as very vulgar frac
ton of low denomination. Whatever
touches Bogus Democracy touches the Press.
Bogus Democracy is the tenderest chord of
this harp ola thousand strings, next to the
chord of the public printing, which appears
to be at once the strongest and the tender
est Auditor Crane plays on it beautifully.
We doubt whether tue sensitive organiza-
ton of the poor thing can endure two such
thorough performers. In touching
upon the bogus. we wrought it al
most into Mysteries. Its bogus democ-
racy is so manifest that it makes no at
tempt to deny the soft impeachment, but
only pleads, like the unfortunate maiden, it
is such "litde one" We profess to be a
Judge of the article and an admirer of the
genuine. Whenever such democracy is
quoted as Jefferson, Jackson, and Douglas
were wont to profess, such as Dickinson,
Corcoran and Cass, Butler and Mcclellan
are every day putting into practice against
rebellion and rebels, it meets our hearty
approval; whenever we are called upon to
read the infamous doctrines of Calhoun and
to watch the treacherous movements of
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