The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-31
A Relapse.

had a relapse. Another attack of Graf.
ton Convention. Although he attend
ed that gathering himself, he had to be
informed by others of its 'ruffianisn
and rascality." Our cotsmporary's Rad
ical associations have doubtless enabled
him to be first rate judge of "ruflian
ism and rascality." and it is somewhat
remarkable that he did not discover
these alleged features of the Convention
without outside aid.
The Tntelligencer's last article upon
the Grafton Convention does great cred
it to its editors powers as mimic, q
vocation for which he has proved him
self highly qualified since he adopted
BRICK PoMERoY as his model. Witness
these extracts:
"The history of the Grafton Conven-
ton, like many ether histories, cannot
be fully written until some time after
the event. If the personal experiences
of those in attendance could be col
lected and presented in q body, it would
be seen that such collection of ruflian-
ism aud rascality has never before con
gregated in this State.
"The amount Of drunkenness was fear
full"
The crowd that went East on the
train the night after the Convention
was drunk and disorderly, presenting
many broken noses and black eyes.
"All accounts concur in showing that
the rebelism and ruffianism congregated
at Grafton were WITHOUT parallel in this
quarter of the State. The lawless ele-
ments from the rebel counties Overran
everything and permeated and gave
tone to the entire Convention.
III every respectable and loyal man in
the State could have been at Grafton
aud have seen, heard, felt, smelt and
otherwise realized the actual temper
and status of the drunken, rOwdyish,
reckless, rascally and dislOyal crowd
there congregated, there would be no
need to spend time or breath in the can
vass before u.s."
1t has not been deemed worth while,
heretofore, to pay particular attention
to the unmitigated falsehoods which
have been put forth by the Radical
press concerning the Convention at
Grafton. But in order that shameful
vilitication may not gain credence for
lack of its proper stamp and contladic-
tion, we express the sentiment of every
unprejudiced man who witnessed the
deliberations at Grafton on the 10th,
in saying that the Wheeling Ln'eltigen-
Ger has knowingly, wilfully, scurillously
and disgracefully libelled the Demo
cratic State Convention, its in
dividual members and the thousands
of honest, respectable and pa
triOtic citizens who witnessed its pro
ceedings. We admit the urgent party
necessity that exists with the Radicals
for breaking in some way the force and
influence of that great uprising of the
masses of West Virginia. Nevertheless,
intentional misrepresentation is not the
agency through Ahich this necessity
can be met, and when Radical organs
stoop to uttcrances that they know to
be false in character and malicious in
design, merely to meet party exigcn-
cy, they deserve to he denounced for
the calumny they publish and despised
for the motives they obey.
1t has not passed from popular recol-
lection that the very sheet which
takes the lead in this course of tradsc-
ing and vilification, was not long since
the self.constituted judge and censor
of all journals that came short of its
ideas of newspaper propriety. With
out a particle of fact on which to rely,
the Intelligencer to-day surpasses all its
cotem poraries whom it condemned, in
the fierceness of it's assaults, and stands
alone in the use of reckless venom and
unmeasured abuse. To those of its pat
rons with whom an epithet is an out
rage aud plain statement "brutality,"
we commend its merits as superior
slang monger and an accomplished
vender of blackguardism, filth and
falsehood.