The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-20
system.

The Wheeling ISTELLIGESCER of
yesterday displays good deal OF bad
feeling over an article in Thursdays
Register, in which Boreman was re-
terred to in a style more plain than
polished. As 1t is our cotemporary's
habit to denounce as gross" foul"
or indecent" everything that reflects
upon his party, its rogues. its pimps,
or himself, we are not seriously dis
turbed by his Incorporate CeuAures.-
Wheeling Register of Saturday lost.
Such is the reply, in part, made by
the Register to our comments on its
shameful article of Thursday. Our
readers do not need to be told that it is
very seldom our "habit" to notice any
thing whatsoever that appears in the
Register, and still less is it our "habit''
to ''stigmatize" its publications. AS
showing the entire justice of our stric-
lures on the occasion referred to we
gave the Register's article, word for
word, as it appeared in that paper.
The community were thus fairly con-
stituted a jury, with the case fully be-
fore them, to Judge whether our CEN
sures were "intemperate' or not. We
feel warranted in expressing the opin-
ion that an overwhelming majority OF
the respectable people ofthis city, with
out respect to politics, considered the ar
ticle just as we did, ga most wanton,
gross, foul and beastly employment
OF language to express personal hate
and partisan malevoleuce." We have
III hFpf
streets, and we doubt if there are dis
Heuting voices enough to make up even
very megre offsetting opinion. We
reatirm what we said on Friday,
to the effect that tive never remember
an editorial of the kind in the history
Of Wheeling journalism" and tive do
not recall anything lower in any paper
OF our acquaintance" and We especial
ly emphasizes our former remark. that
''for the honor and influence of the pro-
fession we are glad to believe that 1t
stands almost alone in its reyolting in
deceucy."
We are not surprised to find that the
man who could write such an article in
the first instance, should subsequently,
seek to justify himself We confess
to some surprise, however, at seeing
from his pen a further and, if possible,
a still more utterly dspraved and insen-
sible defiance Of the respectable judge
ment Of the public. The Governor of
the Commonwealth is alluded to as ga
miserable creature whose memory will
be detested as long as man shall despise
villain or hate tyrant." Heis more
over alluded to as ga ruler for whose
small meanness history has no par
allel," and rs "a solemn-faced, petty.
party pimp, for whose prostitution de-
cency has no charity and honest men
no tolerat.on."
One can hardly conceive lower
depth Of utterly foul and revolving ma
lignancy than is expressed in the lam
guage we have quoted. To reason with
the author of it would be an absolute
indecency OF ITSELF The mere exhibit
of his words to the community ought
to be sufficient to assure the blasting
scorn of every decent citizen. We VEN
ture to say that more unprovoked, a
more atrocious, a more entirely SENSE
less, inapplicable, weak, miserable, and
diSguAtingly malicious attack upon the
character of a public man, Ia not with
in the knowledge of the oldest dweller
in our midst.