Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-07
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The Schemes of TVIcklIne. CurIiIe &
Co., at Indianapolis.



The Cooper Institute meeting held Ii
this city month ago to denounce Con.
gress, and Indirectly bring odium upon the
President, was designed to inaugurate a
regular crusade against the war. The pop
ular uprising Immediately after, consequent
upon the check before Richmond, and the
mighty demonstration at Union Park, took
the movement all Oback. The New York
leaders saw at once that they had no chance
to make way against such determined pat
riotism. They dropped all further direct
effort. The chief of them, Fernando Wood,
became SO alarmed at the new phase of af-
fairs, that he stretched his impudence to a
length never venIured before. Having in
his speech at tue Cooper Institute meeting
declared that tif the will of the people is
not accomplished, they will enforce it as
Oliver Cromwell did, by breaking into the
Congress and scattering it to the Winds
he issued a public card three weeks after
ward, averring that he never used any such
language, though the steuographers SO re-
ported ut the time, and hundreds eau bear
witness to the fact of suchan utteranee.-
The conduct of these New York politicians,
in SO speedily seeking cover from the pub
lio indignation, betokened Quickness OF
PERCEPTION and much prudence. They con-
timely aud Indirectly.
AT the West, however, the original pro-
gramme is openly and boldly adhered to-
The speakers of the Democratic State Con-
vention, held last week in indianapolis,
took high ground against both the admin
istration and the war. The principal OF
them was the same .sold man from Keu-
lucky, named Wickliffe," who figured SO
largely on the Cooper Institute platform
He was even more audacious in Indianapo-
lis than in New York. This time he made
a dead set, without any care for appear
ances. He reviled Gongressf for having "de-
voted nine-tenths of the late session to the
interests of the negro race;" reproached
the President for having ''gone into the
business of working negroes and raising
cotton at Port Royal" and, after stating
that "the President has now proclaimed the
confHcationn of the property in eleven
states, asks: s,fs eel
Are you for war that Is going TO take the prop
ertyin slaves and oonhseate It Are you willing
that four million slaves shall be sell free Are you,
ask, for such warf Do you want these :groes
to come ON and compete with your white laborI
Heanswers his own question by exclaim-
ing, t'No ! mol L am for a tOhite RaH's tOar
against the d6otihoniSts." If this is not
equivalent to declaring that rather than
prosecute the war IN It's present dlrectlon
he would excite civil war here at the North,
there is no meaning in language. Il may
not be meant for disloyalty, but it is not
one whit better than the blackest treason.
Human Nit could devise nothing better CAL
culated to give. said and comfort to the
rebels under arms. The "white mans war''
which Wickliffe proclaims against the ab,
lolitionists" is the very war these rebels
claim to be waging. His proper place is
under the rebel flag. tits a base perversion
to represent that confiscation sprang from
abolition, Itsprang gfomrebel obduracy,an