Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-11
To those Calling themselves Demo


To thOae Calling Themselves Demo-
Gratis
Resolved, That every honorable man
views with loalhing and detcstnton tue in
sincerity OF those who pirate of strict OBJ
servauce of the Constitution, while they
sympnthize with rebels striving to destroy
the whole Constitution who clamor for
the s'Union as it was, while their friends
would leave US no Union at ali and who
mourn and lament over the suspension OF
the writ of hRbeNs corpus, rs an infringe
ment of individual liberty, while those
with whom they are in league arc striving
to demolish all liberty and TO establish AN
aristocracy after the European pattern.
This resolution was passed at the great
Union meeting in Philadelphia last Wed
nesdav night. 1t is one to which we wish
to call the attention of our readers. The
meeting which passed it, aud others like it,
is described by the Philadelphia papers as
being one of the most imposing dtmonstra
tons of tie war. 1t was truly Union
meeting-a meeting of meu.of all former
party convictions. who had come together
for the one great cause OF uniting them
selves iudissolubIy on the platform OF un-
conditional Uniouism. The Hon. Joseph
R. Chandler, Il democrat, who WAS Mr.. Blu
cbauans Minister at foreign court, presi-
ded over the great assemblage. Such men
as John Covode, Henry D. More, Wm. D.
Kelley, VIM. B, Mann, Ex-Governor Pol
lock, Frederick C. Brightly, Morton Nc
Michael, Col. A. X. Mcclure aud Col. For
ney, addressed the meeting. These men
were among the great party leaders in
Pennsylvania in the old time. Now. they
drop all party ties-they come together not
knowing each other as Wings or Democrats
any more, out recognizing only one issue,
and that issue the support Of the govern
ment in this great crisis without single
qualification or condition. Hence they
passed such resolution as that at the head
of these remarks. 1t is one that puts to
shame the Butternut disloyalty that is
STRIVING to rear its hend here in this city
through the agency of the Wheeling Press,
aud which over on the other side of the
river is trying to elect member of Con-
gress, and which in one coun.y in Ohio
and Que in Indiana has openly arrayed it
self against the draft.
We cannot but remark the difference be-
tween the speeches at this Philadelphia
nesting, as printed, and those we heard
over at st. Clairsville on Wednesday last.
In all the speeches at the Philadelphia meet
ing we see no slang about "nigger equali-
ty,"-no denunciations of the war as an
s'abolition war"-no vulgar abuse of the
President and his Cabinet. On the
trary the venerable Chandler in taking his
seat spoke thus patrio,ically:
see around me on all hands, those
whom in former years met in council up
on the affairs OF the party TO which be-
longed, and also as many of those against
whom we then pitied ourselves in earnest
combat, and whose zeal in their cause evil
denced the sincerity of their beliefin their
principles. | come among you this even
ing, after SO long an absence from the pub
lie deliberations of my friends, not rs
Wing, as you have known me; not as
Democrat, as have opposed some of you,
not AS Republican: not as II 'people's"
man; not as an anti-slavery man, or pro-
slavery man-these are all legitimate
branches for differences of opinion in times
when parties may be followed, but, in this
emergency, Hook beyond them to the great
trunk out of which they all spring, and
proclaim myself simply Union man!
The speech of F. c. Brightly is one wor.
thy of being read by every one who is in
danger of being misled by the hollow
and treacherous efforts now being made
here by the Press and its disloyal allies
After stating that he had always been ga
Democrat OF the strictest SCHOOL, that be
had ''voted for Breckenridge" he speaks
in answer to those who may ask why he
was ut that meeting, as follows:
My first reason is, fellow citizens, that
love my country and her institutions bet
ter than ever loved the Democratic party.
Another, and one which cannot fail to in-
huence any rejecting mind is the gnring
fact, to which no sane man can shut his
eyes, that the Democratic leaders in this
State are in opposition to the Government,
false to their allegiance to the Union, and
striving daily and hourly for the success of
the wicked and causeless rebellion which
now dreuches our once happy land in blood.
Blood, fellow-c citizens, the blood of free
men, waters the fields of Yirginia, and shed
for what For what is the South in arms?
and for what is the sound of the Northern
soldiers drum? The South, in which for
the last twenty years no Northern man
could enjoy The rights guaranteed to him
by the Constitution, has flown to arms be-
cause the North has succeeded in electing
a Chief Magistrate whom they could not
hope to enslaYe, and from whom they pre-
teuded TO tear aggression. Aud the PEG
pie of the North have risen in their might |
to uphold the Constitution and the laws.
and to sweep from their grasp everything
in opposition to their free Institutions
CApplause.
This war, fellow citizens, is not prosecu-
ted for the extinction of slavery, but if it
result in wiping out that foul blot from our
countrys otherwise. clean escutoheon, I,
for one, will heartily thank Almighty God
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