The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-25
Tho f1ntelllgsncer's Annlver.ury-Almost y

p. 49,. iT1tf ~ III sas &
The IntcliIgsncer's Anniversnry-Almost n
Generation Gone.
Each recurring cath of August sees an
Z other year added to, the annals Of the IN
Il rELLloEScER. Yesterday tcntcrcduponthe
thirty.third year OF its existence. II
through the favor OF judicial federation it
is permitted to reach another anniversary
Y it will have rounded out the complement
I Of a full generation. k.
Thirty-thrcc years is 4 generation, and
n 4 generation is the average period OF hui
;Eman existence. Thirteen hundred mil.
lions Of people arc supposed TO pass from
the earth in that time. According there.
n fore, to tho accepted tables OF mortality
1.-The generation that was upon the stage OF
faction ut the BIRTH OF the ISrE,.LlGEScEl;
d on the 24th Of August, 1852, is to-day well
4 nigh extinct.
Measured simply through the vista Of so
many years it is nota long way to look
y back to that time, but measured by the
number and importance OF tho events
which have happened since then it may
i has said that no century Of thc met o. tbo
future has cqualled or will equal the ono
now drawing to its close. 1t has been the
& century Of apul;ed steam md clectr;c;.v
4 two orcneies TINT have done moro 4, rovo.
lution;1c thoci world ,h,nr Scyo, tIo5 III IN
I nort n nv,;cnt;onss e ,,,rnon.,,or nd IN
mar; co ,rrlr. 20 & :,
TIT , ON Ia sail Nil, ..r,,,l ,,,ot ia
century ,,,rnoss,s Al, othors i; ;,nnor,rco
n q thc world IN con,,c,rro, 4 c,n ,lan IN s,;,
with canal tr,,l, that th;s .rncr,t;on 90
a. !. III, 81, ntrv n lo,st .o,.orno1
has l;yc,1 dnri,rr, thc most m.c,r,,,oro,,o ,nJ
s ;m,nnorton,t ',r,ortion Il i i I've No. on,v
< Witnessed :; tho5 y;rt,,o, h;rth nnI
Growth Il railroads and to,onr,,,h w..
\ it$has,, witnessed tLo n;r,clo Il n,odorn
Y Tines thc clcav;n. asnnler ~ IL Nv fra
Y arm Il Om,,inotonco NJ ana MAJ. u ,i,o
h aor,,;on i.lno, 81 s,o,or,, az, ia ro.or, -
X ar jo,rm n ;ovorr - an fr,,,,
lTbnoso, Who saw ais Goyor,mcn, for,naI
/ 4 Ia oich iccntl contnrv 'd;I M soa :
sicbt bolf q cr4nrnl ~ -; rnc,,lo,s 10 t,,oso
y Who , y D - cd i th;s1 ,onnr,,;,m Tl,a
sudden cxtirna,ion e thc aro,t -cnncor -
.la,vtory from az ,,o;l,, no,;t;, .nS tl,n III,
tin,rs down q thc most monstro,,s rsbclIion
THAT tbc world rvcr ln,cw ,l;I mono "a IN
Y press ,,nor men No hcl;cf II mn ovcrrn;nc
Power than Mi tho events &; of modcrn times
\ nut $1Sn,t topcthcfrt = 5isl Hi 6.i5
In thu, i course Of nature thcrc cannot 10
y many in the present wide circle ofISTr1,,1.
GEScra readers Who arc ianiliar viii, tho
times. in Which It VAS born ar III, r,nn,.
!. stances which paye ( it birth. It WAS Tho
child ofthc slavery agitation that v,,s r, y.
idly approaching its crisis, Coming into
4 being during the expiring dayys Of Tho
sNyhig party in tho presidential canvass Of
1852, curiously enough, as it now seems,
THE paper was tho result Of tho last effort
$of the pro-slavcry Wings Of this region to
roll back The lido Of unti.slayeryism that
was rising high at tho Nortl, and beating
like q snrrf against this border. Like tho
sscourtiers OF Old King Canute these Borur.
bon Wings thought that they could sweep ,,
!, back this tide With a broom. Tho Is,rELLI.
GgScyn vas vas to DO an organ Of Tho Rich.
J mond school, and to DO used in exercising
tho spirit 81 abolition sympathy ssurrs ,
10 have taken possession OF tho old Wing
orsa,, here, the Wheeling Tines and Gsa:ess
How little its projectors knew Of tho near near
future. Like tho Bourbons 81 France thcc;v.
could not 500 even ,then, thc full lcncth
shadows VS. Of impending nu events. 81