The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-03


stances! He, of the White House, too,
cannot fail to single out this as "the
Unkindest cut of alp the unllind cuts
which "my policy" has lately received
at the hands of a betrayed, disguised
and indignant people.
Trying 10 Get Clear of its own Issue.
We are sorry to notice that the editor
of the rebel sheet is losing his temper
and his manners over the issue which
he has raised about Know Nothfngism,
and is becoming little better than
common blackgunrd. This shows him
to be n very shallow pated fellow. He
seeks to escape from his dilemma after
the fashion of the cutie fish, by throw
ing dirty water, and thus diverting
pursuit. We do not intend that the
rebel editor shall succeed. lie shall
stand up to his issue or back
clear out OF it. He wants TO know our
experiences in Know Nothing lodge,
just as if we ever had any. The rebel
editor understands well enough that
we never belonged to the organization
Let him consult Mayor Sweency's roll
book il he wants to learn who composed
the order in this State, or else go and
converse with any OF the prominent
leaders of the present Democratic party.
They will tell him that we never carried
dark lantern, as they did, or, to use
the editors own words, that we never
leagued with midnight plotters and
oath-bOund conspirntors against law
and liberty" What language is
this, by tho way, to apply to
the leaders of the Democracy, to
call them "midnight plotters and oath
bound conspirators against law and
liberty!" That means Col. Ben. Smith,
Col. johnson, Mayor Sweeney, Mr..
Richardson, and, we presume, two of
the members elect to the House of Dele
gates from this county, to say nothing
about the greater and the lesser lights
of tho party throughout the State. It
is very complimentary language indeed
to apply to the candidates that the rebel
editor supported Mt the late election.
We shall see if he will speak of Mayor
Sweeney, i'll case the Mayor does not
shun the issue and decline to run Mt
the january election, as ga midnight
Plotter and an oath-bound conspirator
against law and liberty"
Another point of diversion, raised by
the rebel editor, is that he is not the
getter up of this issue, but that General
Harris and ourselves got it up. Now
what silly falsehood this is by way of
escape. General Harris article did not
appear until after the 9th of November
and on that morning the rebel editor
came out in an abusive reply to ques-
ton of ours asking why "nny candid
Irishman should vote with the Demo-
cratic partyH" We had not made
the slightest mention or intima-
ton of Know Nothingism-not
even the most distant allusion
to it, as the rebel editor well knows.
But he at once improved the oppor-
tunity TO raise the issue that he now
breads so much, and that bears so hard
ly upon the present leadership of the
Democratic party hereabouts and
throughout the State. He came out, in
the reply alluded to, and, protesting to
be answering our question, delivered
himself of screed of denunciations
against the Know Nothings, forgetting
all the while that he was treading on
the largest and sorest corns on the feet
of the Mayor, and OF the late candi-
dates of the Democracy. He went on
as he does now, to speak of the Know
Nothing party as the progenitor Cten
years ago. of the present Radical party.
and that, too, in face of the fact, as we
have shown, that the Radicals were
voting for Fremont and Dayton in 1850,
and the Know Nothings for Fillmore
and Donelson. The prominent Radi-
calls of that day were such men as
Horace Greeley, VIM. II. Seward,
Gerrit Smith, Henry Ward Beecher, all
known throughout the country for their
opposition to Know Nothingism: and
all denounced, at that time, by the
leaders of the Democracy hereabouts,
because of that opposition.
These are facts from the record, and
stubborn ones they are too. We do not
wonder that the rebel editor feels en-
barrassed by them. Like Jerry Bios
som, in the play, he wants "to 20
hOme;" it doesn't suit him, "this here
place, it doesn't" Heidi not expect to
be met as we have met him. He fears
that in the coming city election the Ger
mans will be inclined to think for
themselves before voting the Democrat
ic ticket with Mayor Sweeney, an old
Know Nothing, at the head of it. And
we shall be considerably mistaken if
the rebel editor and his friends do not
drop the Mayor this time, and take
some other man. Weconsider it almost
certain that Mayor Sweeney will be LEFT
Off the ticket. This will show, if our