The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-24
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST "a:


Then ana now.
To-day the ISTELLIoENcER enters
uDon It's sixteenth volume. 1t Is pre-
cisely fifteen years since the following
announcement was made to the public
py It's then editors and proPrietors,
siessrs. Peudleton, Taylor q Swear
ingen:
III ia hardly necessary for US to say
that the political principles Of this
paper are Wing, and that we cordially
approve of the late declaration OF those
principles made by the Baltimore wing
Convention, as containing the great
and essential elements OF hurmunyt de-
yeIopment and prosperity. While these
are our present views, we hesitate not
10 say that we are open TO conviction,
and II our Democratic friends can con
vince us that our principles are wrong,
Se are willing to renounce them ~
once, and embrace those when We u4HS
then think right Nor are We 80
mind and bfgoted rs 20 suppOzs that
the WING platform will prove point
cal panacsa foE all time We advocate
AZ ,itnply because We believe that tie
pyincIples therein contained are c0D-
sonaui with the original priDcip!ss 81
our Onion and at the same time app4!-
cable. 10 tbs present wants and s1iSen-
Giles OF the couhtTy- me me1suTeS "
any teoDLe EniLst change teth The I0dHLs
and necessities Of tEe community. what
Il, at one yertgd cLpedienf aud proper tn
the goueTHHlcnt N q country may at
duO her period, from an entire change
Of circumstances, become tHeIpedie1lt 01id
improper. What Is one day good and
propeT food for the physical cOnstitu-
lion, may on the next induce disease
aud dissolution. So II Is with nations.
The nlimcnt OF one period may become
the poison ofHnother.
Tn. above extract, after the lapse of
titeeu years, contains food for refiec-
ton. And the first reflection that Oc'
ours to Us is as to how dim must have
been the conception of the writers in
regard to the nature of the changes Of
which they spoke. Little did they fore
see OF tina political future at that time.
The ISTELLI0EECER was to be, accord
Ing to their programme, an organ OF
the Wing party 80 long as that party
was capable of satisfying the condition
OF the country, and when it ceased to
render such satisfaction, then it WAS
10 experiment with the Democracy.
Accordingly In 1856, after the nomina-
ton of Buchanan, 1t gave in its ndhe-
sion TO that party, ana became one of
it's two organs in this city. Under that
regime 1t had short career. On the
18Th of October of that year, just prior
To the Presidential election of that fall,
and after the mob demonstrations
against the Republicans in this city, it
changed hands and principles, stock,
lock and barrel, and from that time on
has been, contrary to every e&pecta-
tIou OF It's projectors, an ally and adj
vocate OF the principles Of that party.
The original idea in starting
the ISTELLIGESCER was TO RutagoniZe
the course of the Wheeling Daily
Times, then Wing paper of
liberal principles under the manage
men; OF James f. Wharton. 1t was TO
be the exponent OF more orthodox
whig sentiment, or, in other words, of
a more NiTginian and Southern Wing
school. 1t was to be in sympathy with
the Richmond idea that was then con-
siderable, though n waning power, in
this community. Through its columns
that power was to be resuscltated and
more firmly enthroned in our midst,
and a purer milk OF the word" was to
be preached to this far distant colony
of the Old Dominion. The demoraliza-
ton that had set in hereabouts under
the heretical tone of the Times was to
DO counteracted, and IL possible erHdi-
Gated from the "sacred soil"
Aiasi for the vanity of all human
calculations. And especially alas for
the vanity OF the calculations embraced
in the establishment of the INTELLI-
aEScuR. Poor old Canute's command
TO the sea was not more impotent than
that original programme. Just as the
waves OF the ocean continued in the one
case to lash the shore and oversPread
the beach, so did the "invasive force of
the new era" continue to assert itself
in this city, and in all the region round
about, aud TO go on ''conquering andto
conquer"
We do not propose to detail the histo-
~ of the INrELLIeENcER since it be-
came what it is now "a Republican paper.
The mouth that was opened TO pro-
nounce maledictions upon Israel was
constrained at last to say show goodly
are thy tents, o Jacob" So it has
been with the history of this journal.
Started to break the force OF the Anti
Slavery sentiment in West Virginia, it
became in a few brief years the friend
and advocate OF that sentiment. And
SO it has continued on to the present.
And so, we trust, 1t will continue, until
every logical necessity resulting from
the destruction of slavery is fully
and firmly established throughout the
land.
The weIIsbUrS Herald and the Oats
Question.
Not being particularly in the oats