Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-20
A Card from DIR. CrNcrnft-The Union
and Its Democracy.

A Card from DIR. CrHcrnft-The Union
and Its Democracy.
TRIADELpulA, Ohio Co., Va, Aug Is.
TO the Editors Of The InteIIigsncsr
GENTLEMEN:-I have just read an article
published to-day in II pseudo Democratic
paper in your city, called the Union, and
headed "DouglNs or depart" written. l
presume, by one lille p. II. Moore. Whist
shall give him the credit of writing it. T
know | will be considered more liberal
than three-fourths of his readers who
doubt his capacity to put together three
sentences of common sense. Where was
this pukeiing, this bastard Democrat and
his associates, but short time ago, that
now undertake TO read old Democrats out
OF the party? Hurrahing for Gen. Scott.
MilInrd Fillmore, Thos. l.. Flournoy and
William L. Goggin; eight months ago ed
ltlng a Wing and Know Nothing paper,
swallowing all the latter ns sweet NOR
8sad 8hsad feeiEefeRGs 1p59& p5 hut aae rirhG YhiGIh
Eight months ago the editors of that pa
per were up to their necks slashing and
demolishing the good old Democratic par
ty, failing in that, as did one of their
| friends, they concluded to join the Demo-
cratic party, hold to it little while like
one of their friends, and then, when conf
dence was given, stab it. Phil Moore talk
about "rule or ruin" Who wants to rule?
! An eight months renegade, n deserter, talks
about "rule or ruin" to regular soldiers,
men who have been Democrats all their
| lives and never outside of the organization.
How ridiculous and contemplate. What
! impudence. Phil Moore reading old DEM
ocrats out of the party, because fOrsooth
they support old and established usages, be-
cause forsooth they support the regularly
nominated candidates of the National Con-
vention, Stephen A. Douglas and Herschell
johnson, for Presidentand Vice President
of the United States. say this because
no sane man can controvcrt the assertion.
With Philip it is men not principle. Mr..
Russell, his brothcr-in-l0w and adviser,
helped to make the very platform that Mr..
Douglas now stands on and then tried just
fifty-seven times to place Mr. Hunter-by
the way, q splendid man-on it. When a
large majority spoke in favor of the Little
Giant, Mr.. Russell at the head of the Vir-
ginia delegation, made his fatal leap and
seeded, protesting anything like fellow
ship with Mr.. Douglas or his friends
Now when the friends of Mr.. Breckenridge
see the awful dilemma they are placed in,
they cry mt the tops Of their voices and
say to the Douglas men, Gin Gods name
come and lift US out of this abyss" Now
uGCauSS tue DOuElhS men WOuiu not ASSIST
them in any other way than merely to
place them back into the Democratic ranks,
they promising never to do so any more
Philip kicks up laundering row and
swears nothing shall be done to the De-
mOcracy but accommodation. How nat
ural the term to one who subscribed to q
Know Nothing ritual.
How can Mr.. Moore and his friends ex-
pect Douglas Democratic 10 harmonic and
act with the Breckinridge men of the
District, when not an issue of his sheet
but contains low, dirty slang against
Douglas and his friends He knows, il
he has any sense Mt all, that Mr.. Breckin-
ridge is the candidate of the disunionists
with Yancey as their leader-a man, who
had he lived and acted in the days of An
drew Jackson, would have been hung long
since. 1t is easy to solve the cause of al
our difficulties at Charleston and at Balti'
more. We all see it now when too late
1t was by our permitting renegade Whig:
to net for us in Council. 1t was that ele,
ment that dissolved the Democratic party
having no affinity with it, and, no doubt
exult that at last they have accomplished
inside of the party more inquiry than {
lifetime out side.
So far as the appointment of delegates
to Charlottesville was concerned, l admi
that Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. Forbes had n per
feet right TO appoint. Yet will it bC
doubted we had right to respectfully dc
cline, rs we did, without one word o
comment calculated to give offence, mucl
less dirty, low blackguard article, sucl
MS appeared in the Union of the 18th, re
1ectiug on men who were Democrats, ant
fighting the battles of Democracy, Whel
he and his father and his adviser wer
our bitterest foes.
Mr.. Moore, in his article, says: "The.
seem to prefer the guidance of Miles Tay
lor and others, who go for Douglas or de
feat" Now, in the name of common
sense, would it not be more natural 70
Demncrnts tn fnlloM the advise of q life