The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-11
A Duel in Prospect
"LeIuS have Pence"

"Lelus have Pence" q
While the CARLIE appointment was
being discussed by the press OF this
State, we reprinted from the Intelligent
Ger the following paragraph;
Under all the circumstances, there is
only one thing that could reconcile the
Rennblicaus of this State to Mr.. Car
! IIile's confirmation, and that is the Pcs
sibility that in the event OF his failure
a certain somewhat notorious person
from this State, who has haunted
Washington and pestered Grant for two
or three months past, for foreign ap-
pointment, might be put in his place.
That would be out of the fryiDg-pau
into the fire.
We accompanied this extract with
some comments, in the course of which
we stated that the certain
somewhat notorious person" re-
ferred to was NAT HARRISON,
of Monroe county. Some days agolwe
received from him a short note request
ing us to publish card which he an
nexed. The matter was overlooked
through inadvertenee, and did not recur
to us until yesterday. We hasten to
make amends fer our delay, by present
ing his card rerbGtim. Our invariable
rule has been to allow every person dis
cussed in our columns the fullest lati
tude in replying, and although this
communication is not q model of court
esy and elegance, we do not like for that
reason to ignore the principle that "fair
play is q jewel" We shall not even
complain that Judge HARRISON has
deemed our own discourse unworthy of
notice and has given our contemporary
monopoly of his distinguished attention.
The following is the card in question;
SALT SULPHUR SPRINGS,
MONROE Co., WEST Va,
23d April, 1869.
To the Editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer:
SIR: In the Wheeling TRI WEEKLY
REGISTER of the 18th instant there ap- |
peared an editorial, in which an extract |
is copied from your paper charging me
by indirectiOn (as is supposedly with |
having "haunted Washington and pes
tered Grant for two or three months for
a foreign appointment" Whether this
extract is correct or not ] cannot say,
as have not seen your paper. If cor
rect, however, and the charge contaiaed
in it refers to ME, desire to state here
that the author of it, whoever he may
be, is either liar himself or the tool Of
one. Respectfully,
n. HARRISON.
In giving publicity to this paper, we
have merely discharged the duty of al
lowing the asssiled to reply to his as
sailant in his own way. What the con-
sequences may be, we dread to inquire.
But few months ago we read in the
papers of mysterious and bloody meet
ing between the author of this card and
an uulucky individual who had incur |
red his wrath. The details were for
hidden US. We were only allowed to
know that the combat was terrific, the
weapons pistols and the result bloody. |
The antagonist of West Yirginia's chiv-
alrous son was borne in CHASTITY agony
from the frightful field. A knowledge
Of his fate was denied the public.
Possibly the thread of life was cut {;
possibly he was allowed to survive the
fray to go through life living witness
to the chivalry OF Salt Sulphur and the
accuracy of aim acquired thereabouts.
However that may be, it is impossible
to look upon the situation of affairs be-
tween our city cotempOrary and hisjudi-
cial assailant, without shudder. Know
ing the high-spirited and sensitive ma.
ture of both parties their immeasurable
mettle, aud their impetuous dispositions,
we fear that this is irdccd au issue cot
blood. For ourselves, We feel person
al interest in this matter. The loss of
the savage son of Salt Sulphur, whose
miSsive breathes the fumes that pervade
the spot of its origin, we might endure.
True, we should miss him. In his Judi
Cial, his political, and especially in his
social career, he has afforded much
matter for pleasant criticism and
discussion, and the elegant illustrations
derived from his life and deeds would be
hard to resign. Radicalism in West
Virginia, with the NAT HARRISON ele-
ment absent, would be as stale and sap
less rs a withered gourd. All this, how
ever, might be borne. But We cannot
spare the victim whom he proposes to !
devote. We want somebody to bold the
mirror up to nature and reveal to "loy-
atty the loveliness of FOREMAN in the |
light of impartial criticism. We want
somebody to make political sQuabbles
IN this State interesting. And as a sort
of necessary evil we want somebody to
edit the Intelligeucr.
For these reasons we protest against
NAT HARRISoN'S bloody purposes; with
out the trumpet tongues ofangels, we Yet
insist upon pleading against the deep
damnation of his takiRg off, our fellow
journalist. We invoke the genius of
peace. Let somebody get out war
rant. Let somebody else be put under
| bonds. "Perlice ~ "Perlice !"
Severe on Dana.
The New York IndpeHdentcome down
unon Mr. DIEI far his Ouhlication of