Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-05


thirty laiIes from here, there seems TO live
an uneasy set Of creatures who never yet
have had their rights. They hold meet
fngu aad pass resolutions which are for
varded to the New York Day BooE. At
hone they call their meetings Union meet
inea-in the Day Book they are called
apeaee meetings" and the aim and pnr-
pose Of these meetings are much extOlIed
by every PersOn who is suspected by his
neighbor Of being a Secessionist. 1t is
diHiealt % say what really are the aims or
what sre the controlling motives Of these
few persons. They carry the stars and
stripes, and deny the impeachment OF dis
loyalty, and in their meetings talk about
Hour beloved Union,r and yet none Of
them ever put forth hand either in the
way Of giving or enlisting to preserve the
Union. These men probably belong to
that elAss-Deither fish nor fowl-of ann
bilious creatures that cannot live on land
and die in water. So far as they are
anything they are most certainly SYM
pathisers with the rebel causei not
symPathisers in the abstract doctrine
of secession. or in the overt act of re-
bellion, but sympathiEes in that bitter and
malignant hatred to the Republican party,
which would be willing to see the country
brought to any extent of disaster, and to
any depth Of humiliation, SO that the dis
aster and the disgrace might fall primarily
and most heavily on the Administration,
which the Republican party has brought
into power. These men cannot afford di-
rect aid and comfort to the enemies of tho
republic, aud, perhaps, would not if they
could, but they can do it, and they con-
stantly do do it in many indirect ways.
At time when it is the patriotic duty Of
every man to strengthen the Administra-
tion and to rally the spirit of the nation
around the constituted authorities, they
omit NO occasion to weaken tha public
confidence in the men to whom the people
have entrusted the government. They
deal in direct charges and in mean insin-
nations, whichever may be best calculated
TO accomplish their purpose. They can
never forgive the people for driving fiom
power the corrupt aud imbecile men who
brought the country into the present Diff
culties, and they charge all manner Of
evil upon the successors of their own
Buchanan and Thompson, aud Floyd and
Toucey, whose rule they endeavOred to
perpetuate in the Presidential election
one would think that the mouths of those
who supported the last Administrations and
who struggled to continue in power the
party and principles on which that Admin
istratiou was based, would be forever clos
ed to complaints against any of its success
sors; but having defended to the last all
the iniquities ofthat, they now turn upon
the patriotism, the vigor and fidelity Of
this the opposition which was due to its
predecessors. Unquestionably they do
great mischief; they assure the open trait
ors in the South that they have allies and
eonfederates in the North; that although
the rule Of the Buchanan dynasty is bro
ken its spirit survives its supporters; and
that there are people in the loyal States
bad enough to wish disaster to Adj
Ininistratlon, and willing to see the
buchanan party reconstructed on the ruins
Of everything that is honorable to the pa
triotism OF the whole country.
No previous administration has been
called to meet 1.-THE of the difficulties
that have endangered this from the begin
ming and at every step of its progress
none has ever been in circumstances that
appealed so strongly to every generous sem
timeut of patriotism and to every eOusid-
Grafton OF fairness and Of public duty
none has been, in certain quarters, more
.unjustly assailed, more persistently mis-
rsprSs taS Every mistake of the Adj
rlnis' ti6n-and-i. is impossible that in
b. 4stEjsd eiFeimstanees there should
sI5t Is uissa eeiisezaggera,ed and dwell,
upon, aud eSeEF instance of vigor aud
saceess Is slurted over. Tho Administra.
tion, in many respects, is necessarily pre-
eluded from defending itself or from Civ
ing to its friends the means of defending
II; for to disclose its plans would be tc
give the enemy the power of defeating
them.
Nothing can be palmer than that in ID,
present dtlae1lt aud dangerous condition
Of public AFFAIRS, 1t is the duty of all mel
Of all parties TO stand by the adminis.ra.
ton, to encourage it and to sustain it, and
while holding it to strict future account
ability for all that 1t may do, TO render II
every present assistance in breaking down
the enemies Of the country, aud ia viudi.
eating the outraged honor Ofour Gag.
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forms its readers that the 'uVs crop o