The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-19
From RIchuond.

From Richmond.
Tho Richmond papers now get to
Wheeling in n little over twenty-four
hours after their publication. Tho re-
cent exhibit of the various publishers
in that city show that their ancient cir
culatiOns have been very much circum-
sCribed. 4 little over two thousand is
the best any of them are able to show.
One reason is that the people are too
poor to indulge in the luxury of news
paper reading, and another is that
many of them are too ignorant. The
Dispatch seems to be fairly on its feet
again, and is managed with good deal
of energy. 1t plays rebel very strong
for popular favor, and zealously courts
its old patronage by keeping alive us
much as possible all things Virginian
and Southern. For instance, speaking
of the resignation of Attorney General
Speed, it says:
'This gentleman ought to have been
Liberalist. He lisa Kentuckian. His
blood is Nirginian, and good"
That plain spoken Englishman,
Thos. Carlyle, calls such writing "foOl
stuff" Most every person outside of
Richmond and Old Virginia would call
it the very escence of fool stuff
There is beggarly COnceit in it that
eXCites the ridicule of the country.
! 1t would seem, however, from anoth-
err article i'll the Dispatch. that there are
some people whose blood ."is Virgin
ian," that are not esteemed even by n
Virginia editor as "gOOd" for much; as,
! for example, those farmers who live
along the Charles City, Williamsburg
and Derbytown roads, and who plough
up their fields regardless of the dead
rebels who lie buried therein. The ed
itor Ofthe Times is very much disgust
ed with the lazy as well as avaricious
disposition shown by Virginia farm
ers, and calls the attention of the rebel
| (female) Memorial Association to their
conduct. The Dispatch says that
| 1.-The farmer who would allow the
graves of the men who fell while fight
ing for him and for his children to be
Obliterated and dishonOred, is false to
his name as man, and false to his fame
as Nirginian."
Every Nirginian is supposed to have
IL fame" of course. We call such
writing more "fool stuff" And then
the idea of those "who fell fighting for
him and for his children" From this
expression a good idea of Virginia Gre
construction" can be gathered. The
men who write, speak and feel this way,
want into Congress, not having been
gibbeted Eat the end of the war, and
want to come in, too, on the strength of
their Virginia "fame," and "blood,"
and on their own terms.
We notice that at a meeting in Rich
mond to send delegates to the Phila-
delphia Convention Jim Neeson, form
erly of FairmOnt, figured as IL speaker.
He was anxious to see delegates sent to
Philadelphia, and would even go him.
self, as we infer, rather than Virginia
I=h hr tod i
he, ais the grand contest between Con-
servatiSm and RadicaliSm, Constitu-
| tiOnality and Imperialism and every
man in Virginia must be profoundly
interested i'll the struggle"
1t seems to us that we have read
/ much the same sort of language from
Mr.. Neeson, in II manuscript letter of
his dated March 10th, 1868, and di rected
| to U. n. Arnett, Esq. of Eairmont, now
in our possession. The contest then lin
/ armS) was going on, according to the
same author, "between Conservatism
and Radicalism, ConstitutionaIity and
| Imperialism" and it seems that it is
not yet ended, but only transferred to a
new theatre of action. In the letter
alluded to Mr.. Neeson spoke of the
tyrants (his friend Peirpoint, under
| whom he now lives, being their chief.
whom he and others would hold in re-
membrane for the day of retribution,
/ when they should return as VictorS to
! West Virginia. But they never re-
turned. Conservatism" Unfortunate
! ly came out second best i'll the contest
of that day, very much we fear as it is
bound to, clear through to the end of
the contest. The people of this coun-
try understand about what such men
as Neeson mean by Conservatism"
and they are prepared and determined
| to continue the contest with it until the
second AppomatoX Court House is
| reached.
! Speaking of the Philadelphia Conven-
ton and the Richmond meeting to send
delegates to it, the Enquirer newspaper,
unlike the Dispatch and Wing, does not
join it as at present advised. The edi-
tor says that Latter corresponding with
many OF the best men of the State" he
cannot consent to endorse the conven-
ton unless it repudiates the congress
sional test oath. He calls upon the
South to wait with patience and not be
willing to submit to any and every
thing ''in order to get restored" The
Conservatives of the North since their
rupture with the Republican party
need us as much as we need them.
1--WE have the game in our own hands,"
We conclude our summary of Rich
mond news with the following clip
from the Richmond Wing Of Tuesday:
"Andrew Hunter, ESQ, of Jefferson
| county, was before the Supreme Court
of Appeals of West Virginia (so-called),
at Wheeling, last week, making an ar
gument in favor of his right to practice
law without taking the tyrannical test
oath prescribed for Attorneys. He
made a powerful and conclusive argu-
ment-but nothing is to be expected
from the fairness or intelligence of a
Court whose very existence is a breach
Of some of the plainest provisions of
the Constitutions of the United States
and of the State of Virginia. He was
to be replied to by the Attorney-Gener-
al, Mr.. Maxwell, last Saturday."
Cosby Paragraphs.