The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-17


for years discredited and demoralized
a great deal Of public sentiment in
Washington county has been at last
shattered If not entirely broken by the
Developments of the Dinsmore tragedy.
a DisxracernI Article.
The following editorial is from the
Wheeling Register of yesterday. We re-
produce it to show what that paper is
capable of. It is difficult to charac-
terize such an article in proper terms.
We think that the large msjority of
respectable people in this community,
without distinction of party, will re-
gard it not only as disgraceful TO the
author and to the paper, but, more than
that, as most wanton, gross, foul, and
beastly employment of language to ex-
press personal hate and partisan ma
levoleuce. We never remember an ed
itoriaI of the kind in the history of
Wheeling journalism. We do not recall
anything lower in any paper of our ac-
Quaintance. For the honor and in
tuence OF the profession we are glad
to believe that it stands almost alone
in its revolving indecency:
PICKLED PICKANINNY,
We learn that a dead child, with the
word white partially stricken out of its
constitution, was found yesterday by
some wOrkmen engaged in cleaning out
a sink on the Executive Mansion"
premises. 1t is supposed to have been
thrown there by its mother, negro
woman employed about the establish
ment. Her taste in wishing to have
her child die in the vault rather than
live in the "Mansion," is not very COM
plimeutary to the functionary, whose
example and society the young Ethio-
plan has escaped. 1t is suggested that
the mother, after contemplating the
lustre and dignity of the Gubernatorial
institution, was led to entertain ambig-
nous hopes for her promising progeny.
Despairing of ever seeing it mingIe
with the Governors of West Virginia,
she has chosen for it another, if not
very different fate. AS between the
dead darkey and the live Governor
there may be little resemblance, but if
moral filthiness can have type in the
material world it would not be very
difficult to trace a striking analogy
between their respective situations.
THE Parkersburg and Clarksbu-g
papers are largely occupied just ut
present in discussing financial ques-
tons, especially the propriety of getting
rid somehow or other of so much tax
The Parkersburg people in mass meet
ing assembled lately lifted up their
voices in favor of calling in all the in
oh ~,
Government, and paying them off in
greeubacks. Brother Wharton is now
the especial champion of that project.
and every week he gives US column
or two in favor of it in his "West Vir-
ginia Journal" "Major" Cooper, of
the Clarksburg Conservative, and
late of the rebel army, also, and
very naturally, champions the same
project, and is belaboring his neigh
boz of the Telegraph, Gen. Northcott,
late of the Union army, as the repre-
sentative of the bondocracy, because
the latter goes in for keeping faith
with the public creditors and paying
OUR national promises according to
their letter and spirit. Mr.. Wharton is
not only elaborate, but demonstrative
in his defence Of the "caIling inn
scheme. Here IS an extract from his
last leading article on the subject.
1.-THE present policy of the Govern
ment is to make the rich richer, for the
bOndholders and individuals connected
with banking have the means to swell
their Golfers and Cypress the poor, thus
making them poorer. 1t is the labor of
this country that pays the tax now.
The wealth pays nothing. Labor is OPP
pressed, and unnecessarily so thus
whirlin9 US rapidly into the vortex of
the people of the old world, where there
is a family aristocracy of landed pro-
prietOrs on one side, and the toIling and
taxed peasant on the other. Will the peo-
pie consent to this much longer2 No!
Every man knows that it is in the power
Ofthe Government to change this state
of things, and if they do not do it the
people will in short time declare for
population and absolve themselves
from the mOnied obligation to a Gov
eminent that constantly and unneces-
sarily Expresses them for the benefit of
u few"
The New York Tribune has cores
pondent that takes view not altogeth-
err unlike that represented in the ex-
tract above. Perhaps the answer of
that paper to its correspondent may not
be wholly out of place in this connec-
ton. The two cases are not however
SO similar that it will apply other than
approximatively
We print on another page an essay
on "Our National DEBIT" proposing
two modes of extinguishing It, neither
OF which, the writer says, amount to
reputation. We beg leave to differ
from him, most decidedly, on that
point.
ty and inefable meanness of his posi-
ton:
We of the Tribune felt it our duty,
during the war, to urge every patriot to
invest all he could spare in the then
rapidly augmenting National debt:
and what we urged upon others as n
duty, we felt it duty TO do ourselves.
30 that we had some $50, 900 invested in
those securities when the war closed
Since then we have sold out every dol
lar Of them, paid off Herewith n $50 ono
mortgage on our premises, and spent
the residue in enlarging our paper and
increasing our printing materials and
machinery. How could we ever dare
to look an honest man in the face IL we
should now turn short corner and
demand that these evidences Of Nation
al Indebtedness, after they have been
used to pay Off our debts, should be
struck dead in the hands of our late
creditors, or others to whom they have
been fairly transferred We can't
Imagine how any one can propose this
and not kHOU that he Is a villain.
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The Augusta tGa.) constitutio,.alist
calls Judge Underwood a "shining
1tobt ~ Do1;oo1y,., IL, =,