Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-14
WHEELING, VA, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE H. 1860.

his lucid mind and honest heart, let his
dctractors ask their own secret misgivings,
and in their own fears they will read the
cause OF the joy and assurance of his
friends. [ApPlause.l They whistle in
order 10 Keep up their courage. but me-
thinks it is doleinI sonnh. LLaughtsr
IN cheers.
On our flank we are threatened hr the
Constitutional Uuicn-noudeSt rip,; i! that
party of dry hearts and dead weights. " ho
recently assembled ut Baltimore, and con-
s,ious of their inability TO make n plat
form, adopted sentence from Fourth of
July Grafton as their common creed, and
will in all PROBABILITY circulate Mr.. Everett's
Mount Vernon papers as their principal
campaign documents. Great laughter
cheers They know no North, no South,
no East, 10 West, no anything, and least
of all. they know themselves. Laugh
teri See them march on, ready to charge,
gently and with forbearance, lest they step
on somebody's toes, laughter, and slow
ly and n0iselessly, lest their own soldiers,
frightened by their own impetuOsity, sus-
pect themselves of sinister dcsigus-for
theirs is an army which, by the acciden-
tai explosion of percussion cap. might
he thrown into the most frightful disor-
der. TGreat Laughter aud applause 1t
Is Siliu luiJ Que VI llClI SiuuIlhlSS COu-
templates declining the nomination. Let
him well ponder what lie is doing. Let
him not with his accustomed rashness in
political matters, skip over so awful re-
sponsibillty; upon his resolutions so or so,
may depend a difference of from five to
ten votes 1T the next national election
TShouts Of laughter and applause.
In front we face the Democracy. Thanks
to the restless impatcnce of Mr.. Douglas
ambition and to his unscrupuIous dupIici-
tv. the Democratic party is fact falling to
pieces. Indeed, we are greatly indebted
to that man. When by the Nebraska bill,
and the invention of the popular sovcr-
eighty dodge, he tried to gain the favor of
the South, he helped build up tue Repub-
licam party in the North, and when by re-
fusing to acknowledge the logical conse-
quences of his own position, he tried TO
retrieve his fortunes at the North, he dis
OF ganized the Democratic party at the
South. And even lately he demonstrated
the existence of the irresistible conflict
more clearly and torciblv, with due defer
ence to Gov. Seward be it said, than ten
Rochester speeches could have done. He
is like the fellow who in order to get AZ
tic apple that hung rather high, cut down
tLc tree. Great applause.
Yes, that man has done much of our
work, and he did it voluntarily, gratis. for
nothing Let US be honest enough to con-
fess it; for, sir, really do not see why tho
church should refuse to acknowledge its
obligations to the devil. Laughter and
cheers.
Is it not owing to his laudablc excrtions
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"h" "PP'""S''I
The first attempt OF the DemocracI 10
unite upon PLATFORM ana 10 n"hlln tc
candidate, failed. 1t could not hut tai!, as
long as some OF them insisted Gil LAYING
down party creed that meant something
a Democratic platform, in order TO lac sat
istactory. must mean nothing ana every
thing, as the Cincinnati platform a!G'-
LChcerS. But they VIII try again I" re-
press the lrreprcsslOle cohhlct Whlcn RACES
in their own ranks, ana as the day i"r 40
ing so, they have with great proprieiy'
chosen the lSth day OF June, the annNer7
sary of the battle OF Waterloo. Applause.
What the result OF That convention VIII
be, whether one OF the contesting t"ctiomS
will carry the day, or whether they Will
succeed in uniting them, by cnncedlng to
one the platform and to the other the can
dilatcS, thus cheating each other III at
tempting to cheat the people Is to me
matter of supreme indifference. The Dem
ocrots undoubtedly thought they had done
a very smart thing in adJonrn'ng their
Convention without nominating canal
date, so as to deprive us OF the supposed
advantage of knowing what antagonist we
shall have to deal with. Nthont oeing
aware of it, they have indeed done F" great
thing for usi for they have Obliged us to
rr;v for success upon the positive strength