The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-12-30

Certain Articles Of SDe Fe4eHAl
and state Constitution Declared
PrnnduIent aad VOid-.''The WeS.
tOn DemOcTat."
10 Ne Etli0yIer ne InLAHIgtRaT.
| We haye Just read in the Weston Ltm.
ocrGt u long OJas4Ui0uS article, or rather
attempted criticism, on Constitutional
law. The negro Il the alpha and omega
o:all the writer's troubles! From the
beginning 10 the ending-yea, from the
rising To the going down of the sun. and
the whole liVe.lODg night, the ghosts oI
ApHt DiRGA appear before him 10 dArken
his vision and bewIlder his imagination
knights Of the Press with their HvcDg-
ing pens, mOuRsed on their black charg'
er, with whips, spur, and scorpions, to
scouFgc anil lOrcc timid men up 10 ht
Icrdieh and make them toe he mark, arc
the chief weapons of his tsrONGdb.
The OdOr from EthioplB's sable danes
Ia unbOlllCd and handed round by the
.'ilk and kin" 10 be snuiEed into the OIL
factories, TO stir up the passions and
rouse uD the ReVoluliOnists.
The Fifteenth Amendment-the Flick
AuleuuIlGuk- OM EFbNN WI W Wv
away with amendment (which, by the
way, IL nigger all over. but which he don't
see and recognizes the validity Of the
I4th and 18th amendmcnB) are handled
lAvc "Old Friends" HuRyfcGtiOn bill
which he approvcs) without giOvGs"--
mon Gu6csH" lcXCuse the agurC). The
profound erudiIion-labOred research
caustic criticism and array Of old RuthOEi.
ties tAOi applicable 10 U,6 TdLIdity Of tho
lawS IN qucs'iOn) are laid before the reader
with degree Of pompOusness and self
cOmplacency rarely witnessed and Ger.
tAinly not before given to the public eye,
since tho famous controversy between
"DaVy Crockett, Major Jack Downing and
General Jackson |"
The "unc0nAtiiutiOndlity and rlicIlity,"
sO.called, OI all the Aforesaid fundamental
laws and measures, together with their
authors and advocates, are dcscantcd upon,
ventilated and denounced with a sarcasm
and InVCctiVc hitherto, we suppose un-
heard in the quiet borough Of Weston
the insane capital Of the State on the
banks Of the upper MonOngahela, ,-And
must have come very near Tightening the
poor lunatiCs out Of their senses
The last glimmCring ray Of immortality
which clung with such pertinacity to the
crminC Of Marshall ErSkiuc and Hale, arC
now forever hddcd by tile new lights OF
this wonderful legal prOdigy, and old
CHAPS like Chase, Nelson, Grlcr, Davis
and Field, together with our own Court
Of Appeals who dared to pronounced Judge
mcnl of validity upon the laws which he
hOs condemned aud nnnullCd, arc made
the mercst footballs, for his intellectual
amusement.
The howl Of the wolf, the new Of the
ca tnmOunt, the yell Of the savage and the
hoarse scream Of the eagle, which fore
told the carly pioneer Of our "mOuntain
businesses" Of their thirst for the blood
and slaughter OF their prey, are as the
sweetest music Of the rolling spheres '
compared to the .IWme and rant, and StTHt
Of this mighty tribune Of the people
butting out his brains on SlmboS he1d'
but araunt!
Heres for him and all his friends,
a lcssOn
Mr. Vnllandingliam and Governor
Hoffman, two Of the Ablcst and most
sagncious men Ol the Democratic party
in the United States, have both recently
spoken on the present and future policy
OF the Democratic party. Mr.. Nallnn-
bingham, ON the l2th day Of November
last, in the city Of Dayton, Ohio,
in public address to the people
said, II recognize the fact MGthGc negro is a
citizen and Il poter. opposed the inca
surcs which clothed him with this au.
thority, butiG he shall prove himself wor'
Thy to exercise the privileges thus con.
frrrcd, will make y public retrIXit OF
all have said
Gov. Hoffman, the probable nominee OF
the Democratic party for the Presidency
for 1872, in carefully prepared speech
delivered at Albany, the other day, said:
AS we bury our dead out Of sight whcth'
or they ho friends. Or IOes, so it behOOves
great party to bury dead Issues and di,
rect the whole force Of It's energy to deal.
Ing with the GCiHg tdrts and questions Of
the ddy-QucstiOns which relate to finance
and taxation, TO reduction Of expenditures
md taxes, to treetrade, tree elections and
tn the assertion and maintenance In every
way Of the right gf american citizens
ercry,rhcrs, and n free people in the tree
States To the blessings Of free cOnstitI.
tiOnal government in the United States.
This looks rs though it was intended to
constitute the basis Of principles for the
Democratic platform OF lS19-and II such
should turn out to hc the case, is 1t not
broad enough tor II whole nation to stand
upony And would not the whole Demo,
cratic press Of the Union approve il and
herald It to the people, as the touchstonc
Of success and political creed Of the Ma.
tionAl Democratic party?
JouS SMITH, JR.
Cheat Mountain, Dec, 90, 1870.