The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-01
An Atroclous Article.

,,nvIu a more unproVoEeu Anu ~"N
,i,D, assault on any public man than the
,,,sk Of the Register yesterday Q" the
u, w,ituan T. Wiley Iinos only
I.,oo,ce8 him as "liar," but al'o
characterized him ..a "dlthy brute" 1t
,,ia ,b,, in pretending to quote from the
,scl,l report Of the West Virginia Con-
.,i,p,io0,! Convention tue resolution
,,ip,. the right Of a State to 'ecede
offered BY himself, that Mr.. Wiley was
guilty Of "the ba'eHe'' OF mi''epFe'e"''
IN, Official records for the purpose ot
hu,euiny ,lanier upon bis colleagues
in . dsIiberative body"
wec.Il upon the people Of this com
uapity to mark we'll this language, and
.l,o to note how plain and strsighttor-
.ul story shall nail the vile slander to
N. sail. We have before US the official
,,crnll oithe convention, a copy precise
l,,inilar TO that used by Mr.. Wiley in
biz speech. Any one can see it by call.
ioRs this Office. 1t WAS published by
Henry S. Walker, Convention printer"
Ga page lG7 ia recorded the resolution
offered by Mr. Faulkner, a. we
haze already quoted it, and on
p.ge ia is the amendment offered by
Nj. Wiley, precisely as he read in his
speech Saturday night and as we PUBLISH
editon Monday. Mr., FAulkners resolu-
ton was offered and passed on March
IS, 1872, receiving 81 votes to : against
1t. Mr.. Willey's amendment was offered
on the next day, March l4th. The pref
see to it reads follows:
Mr.. Wiley moved to amend the re.
port by adding to the end Of the amend
usut 10 the 10Th section offered by Mr..
Faulkner and adopted yesterday the fol-
lowing:
"The Government oI the UaIte4 States, the OF.
'TisS Of the peoples OSn cnOIcs unIntuenerd and
asiErl. adopted upJn 1 full Investigation and ma
iErt dslibrr1tljn cJl p.et.y free In It's phncples
Ia ths distribution Ol iu powers uniting
H:srEJ With r1eFSy, and containing within
iasa 4 PtoTlElon tor It's own amend ment,
La "a iII elGin to the confidence and Aup-
pl'; Q! ibs people Of this state. Respect for It's
isl9Hiiy, compliance with It's laws aciulescenee In
10 nssl'e1 are datles eoiotned BY the fundamental
EIEai Oi true liberty. The basis Of our political
IJEtai ithe right Of the people 70 make aud alter
hEi Constitutions Of gUyecnInsnL But theC1nstI-
ti4u5a Ehirl At any time exists TIL changed by
explicit lnd authentic act Of the whole people
IAse1ly obligatory up0u all. The very Idea Of
tspFH aud ths right Of the people 10 establish II
pTefaae1i pFViupposes the duty ot every indi.
Ii4s 0Obey the estAbliIhsd government There.
~, tau &siS AdI no right or GuIhOrity to ulhdS1r
NAtL, GsrEraHsE Of he UHiiSd StdiGI; AND all
ISA FItap1fkgIu OF dtLbOFIy q AtcC4tDH u HTeOy
EyRiJ aA4 !0rae duoIatmed 6yiAs people u Wat
Ergat4.'
Alter Mr.. Wiley had offered this reso-
IatioR in the convention the official jour
nal goes on with the record as follows:
"UpOa which he demanded the ayes
lud noes. Mr.. Jackson (of Wood called
t0' the previous question, which being
I9I!lined the main question was ordered,
Ehich waS upon the adoption Of Mr., Will
ltyt amendment. The ayes and noes
Vtte then ordered and taken and the
amendment lost. The ayes were: MeSsEs.
Atkinson, Brown, Farnsworth, Kantner,
Pipes, Pugh, Smith, Snlder and Wiley
y,
The noes we're MessrS. Armstrong,
4'nst;, Basel, Bee, Byrnside, Byrne,
Clltse, Core, Grim, Cushing, Davenport,
Dickinson, Faulkner, Ferguson, Ferrell,
HiymOn1, Hall, Haynes, Hoge, Holt,
Jackson (ol Wood, Jackson (of Lewis
Johnson loi Wood, Johnson (of Tyler,
Anlght, Lurty, MARTIN, Maslin,
MATHEWS, Mofiett, Monroe, Morgan,
NcCleary, MCCreerry, Osburn, PAnnell,
Park, Pate, Peerce, PendIeton, Prince,
Randolph, Robinson, Roberts, Station,
sstickler, ThOrnburg, Thompson, Trav.
ers, WagEener, Ward, Warth, WILSON,
Woods, and Mr.. President-55.
This is the record as printed in the
oHciaI Journal Of the Convention. We
invite every Democrat in Wheeling who
b" Any doubts upon the subject to come
TO this Office and examine the copy in
O'FPo"eA'iOn. We are willing to leave
the decision as to its being a genuine
COPY and as to the entire tru.htulness Of
Nj. Wiley. quotation with any Demo-
'n' Of recognized stAnding in this COM
uuuisy-Wi,h such a man as Daniel
Lamb, for instance.
Assuming what We have quoted to be
true aud ifretutAble, what do the people
'' Wheeling, the decent people OF both
parties think Of paper that will brand
Anln OI we'll established reputation in
OUT midst Tor honor and integrity like
NJ Wiley, as "LIAR" Still more,
'AAsdo they think Of the application OF
The term "ilthy brute" to 4 man like Mr..
Wiley He humOrously used a word
@''no'! people very we'll understand,
A'aoaEh tits not in the dictionary, (the
'o'd "6oogers,) in the course OF his
'P'e'h-A word that ha, its equivalent
IA 'l'eAl,' and il applied to children
W over the ..lAud when caught in any
a''edist. And yet the shameless Rsister
H 20 much shocked at its use as to
sS''AG'ssise Mr.wtlley a. A"6l,hy brute.r
Any decent paper would have .hrunk
''H applying such eplthets to any man
NeIlknOvn for good personal charact-
"" N'. Wiley. 1t would have pre-.
''ned that when he read from book
pretending to be an official copy Of con.
''a0a that hshAd too much sense, say
@s AO1Aing OtchAraeter, to inser, for