The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-01
At'lleeliag Register.
Friday MorniBg,.--....--.N November 4
.-'s.FgE. In,eIiigeneer and tho whig.


.-'s:fGE IntcIiigencer and the Whig.
The taunts of yesterdays Intelligencer,
aimed at tho people of Virginia, for
whom the Richmond IVhig is made to
stand. are about on q par with the au-
+hor's usual greatness of soul. He can
s.e no actual wrong in any fthe receut
optraces perpetrated by the Virginia
ncrroes. He can twaddle by the col
nmn in a retributive justice sort Ofstyle,
brt for a single word of censure for the
o,r,cities of HUNNIcUTT and his black
demons, we look in vain. Indeed, he
appears to gloat with peculiar satisfac-
t;on over the inhuman deviltries of the
infuriated negroes. One would think
that he regarded them as in some way
his personal champions and avengers;
that. for the long oblivion to which the
contempt of the Virginia people con-
sicned his private merits, he is now,
through the medium of negro barbara
ties. deriving sweet consolation. This
race of people seem to be his favorite
AGENTS for favorite purposes. But few
months ago, he sought uotoriety by in
troducing TO respectable audience, IN
this city. a hired negro rabble-rouser.
To use a figure, he was willing to eat
IN. crumbs that fell from the table of a
mountcaank mulatto. Now he enjoys,
from similar source, redress in the mat
ter of his personal grievances. He seems
TO consider the passionate and brutal
blacks of Virginia, the proper agents to
work out his own revenge upon a peo-
ple whose respect he never was able to
command.
In his exultation over their dOwnfall'
this petty malignant addresses the
Southern people in such language as the
following:
1t was YOU, the pretentious, arrogant,
proscriptive and selfish whites, that ig-
nCred the rights and trampled under
foot the citizenship of your own kith and
kin in days gone by.
Ii i'll becomes q person ofhis style and
practices to talk of "rights ignored" and
citizenship trampled under foot" If
there is any one in this land who in a
small way, in way adapted to his ca
pacity, has hunted and prescribed men
with more bitterness and less risk than
this same individual, we have yet. to
hear of him. Among all "the pretentiOus,
arrogant, proscriptive and selfish" peo-
pie of this region, if there is a single
one more "pretertious," more "arro-
CANT" more "proscriptiye" or more
"selfsh" than this same atom in the
sum total of denominations, we have
yet to be apprized of the fact. What
business has he to talk of rights
ignored" ard citizenship trampledf" 7"
Heaven knows that if the defence Of
"rights" and the vindication of "citi-
zenship" depended upon his efforts, the
ignoring and trampling might continue
indefinitely. His exertions in that line
would be proportioned exactly to the
safety with which they might be put
forth, Just as the declarations of yester-
day would never have been made had
the IHtelligsHcer been published in Rich
mond instead of Wheeling.
We take it, that generous man
would hardly seize upon the present
crisis in Southern affairs to talk of
mobs AMI O5tracisms, as among the
offences of the Southern whites. a man
with no malice in his soul would not
thus inflame an already excited black
populacc. 1t is for the HUNNICUTTs
aud CAMPBELLS, the demagogues and
mOb-makers, to minister to the negros
appetite for blood, and to supply him
with new reasons for the torch, the
bullet and the knife.
We confess to but little patience with
wanton taunts over the misfortHnes OF
broken and ruined people, especially
when indulged in at the safe distance
which separates this defamer from the
men he revlcs. They forcibly suggest
the idea of antecedcnt snubs. They
seem to derive venom from the memory
Of ancient kicks. Could justice be
done, they ought to guarantee an abund-
snce of similar salutations in tho fu-
tlre. Generally, such expressions are
the resort of the smallest hnd meanest
souls. We see nothing in the present
situation that shows any departure
from the rnIe