The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-30
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Great Moral Ideas.


We publish this morning from the
htelEgencsr a most remarkable and
exceedingly interesting article upon the
Congressional Canvass in this district.
That journal champions Gen. GoFF
as the Republican candidate in vein
that is decidedly rich, though not
gaudv," as merchants sometimes say
when they commend their silks and
sattins to lady customers We have
not the pleasure of a personal acquaint-
ance with either General GoFF or Gen
eral DUvAL. The former, we believe,
was escorted through our city in
Virginia during the war, and would
have received the generous Inequalities
of our people, had not engagements
over which he had no control, hurried
him on to Richmond, where he took
tea with President DAVIS and lodg-
ings for some time at the best hotel
which that city could furnish at that
time to strangers. Gen. DUvAL was not
so lucky, and fulfilled his engagements
in other quarters; but we have no doubt
that his gallantry caused him to I'M
horse as many Confederates as the
splendidly caparisoned gentleman who
now contests his seat in Congress. Both
of them, we have no doubt, are gentle
men of elOquence, imposing persOnale,
and of infinite Jest In fact we think
SHAKESPEARE wrote grandiloquently OF
them both two hundred years ago, copy
of whose satire we have i'll an old scrap
book, and will use it at the proper time.
But we are frank to confess that here
tofore we have rather favored
the claims and pretensions Of DUvAL.
This is his first term in Congress, and
we have thought common courtesy re-
CURED that he should have chance for
another tcrm-a poor chance, it is true,
for We intend to elect a Democrat in
his place-but nevertheless a chance.
Besides, he has been very quiet in Con-
gress, and has behaved himself very
much like a man who is not capable of
doing the people much harm, if not
much good, and that is great
thing to be gained in our present
character of representative men.
But the Iattllgcaccr has now shown
weakness and a crime in him that
causes us to abandon DUvAL and ex-
pend all of our affections and caresses
on Corr. 1t turns out that DUvAL had
the misfortune to be born poor and
never the smartness TO have married
rich; and, though he has been in Con-
gress with WHITTENoIE and other as
tute gentlemen for eighteen months,
he has never sold enough cadetships or
stolen enough from the treasury to retain
the respect and confidence of his party,
or to buy second nomination OF
course we can have no use or sympathy
for such stupidlfe!low as DuvAL. GoFF
is the coming man. He is our pet.
He was smart enough to be born rich
and to marry rich, and as the httclli-
gencer says, though he is not responsible
for having such luck, it is nevertheless
a vital element in political campaigns
in these Republican days, when honors
have ceased to pass upon merit or talent
as in old fogy times, but run exclusively
on the golden wheels Of money! GoFF
is a million-heir, and of course
just the man to buy first, a
nomination, and then seat
in Congress. This philosophical and
o,,;nantlv nractical Wow or the nues-