Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-29

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NslI"ndiEham and the Demooratie
| Party.
Editors lnteifyrucsr;
II is certainly very unfortunate for tue
Democratic party that its name should be
claimed and used by such traitors as Val.
landigham. liis attempt to raise up an
| oppos!tioui and to create prejudice
against the present administration aud the
/ war, protect traitors who have no rights
which white man Is bound 10 respect. or
u negro either, is in perfect keeping with
his course during the present difficulties;
but his doing this in the name of the DEM
! ocratic party is piece of presumption in
comparable, and meets we are happy 20
say, tho unqualified condemnation of the
Democratic press of the land. with the eX-
| cep ion OF the Washington Examiner, and
such like papers, that have given the reb-
els all the aid aud ColDfo Lhey
could and keep within the bounds
OF the law. The burden of his address
IS directed to the supposed prejudices of
Northern Democrats sgainst anything in
tertering with Slavery, aud in this he makes
! Republicans and Abolitinnists synonymous
/ SuCh classification may suit the iIeas of
man like Hallandigham, bnt the great
mass of the Democratic party will not fail
| TO make distinction. 'Tis true that DEM
Ocrats and genuine Republicans, too, have
strong Preiudices agaiust the abolitinnists;
bnt 1t is not from ANY particular love for
the institution Of slavery, but rather q rev
! erence for the law, which should aCtnate
ss.tNt
may be to his sense of right, f
! ifit were not for the autercdeuts Of Val.
! landiGham, We might bo n, n loss to know
what he means by ''Did fashioned Democ.
racy." Not, certainly, the Democracy ut
JefIersOn-thonSh be has been callcd the
/ founder of tue party-the great man who
trcmhied for bis country when he Thought
tthe sins of Slavery aud that Tod was Just.
( Not tue "Old fashioned Democracy of
{ of Washington. Iu letter 10 Robt Nor
+ Ii5, speaking OF the abolition of slavery he
said; There is only one proper and etFec-
{, tual mode by which it can be accomplish
ed, and that ia by legislative authority; aud
+! this, as far as my suffrage can 90. shall
/ never DO wanted" .ssft.f
I Mr.. MRdison's sold fashioned Democra-
! cy" thoughtit very wrong to admit into
; the Constitution the idea that there could
| be property in nIau; and that other distiu-
! guisbed VirgiDiAn, Col Mason, was of
opinion that 'eYery master of slaves is
born a petty tyraut," and that "they bring
the judgment OF Heaven on the country"
| Neither can it be the kind published by
/ the Democrats Of Georgia, when they de-
clared by resolution their "disapprobation
and abhorrence of the unnatural practice
\ OF slavery in America, Il practice founded
! in injustice and cruelty, and dangerous to
our liberties, dehasing part of onr fellow
creatures below men, aud corrupIiug the
! virtue aud morals of the rest and which is
! laying the basis Of that liberty We coutend
| for uPOn wrong foundation. Nor yet thn
| kind held by the Democracy of Ohio in the
year 1913, for that is comparatively mod
ern, though it has the ring of the genuine
old fashioned Democracy about it. In that
year they passed the following resolution: I:
| RcSolued, That the people of Ohio nov,
as they have always done, looking upon
! the Institution Of Slavery as an evil unfa.
/ vorable to the full development of our in
situations; and that entertaining these sens
| timents, they will feel it to be their duty to
use all the powers consistent with the Ma
tioual compact, to prevent IT'S increase, and
| finally eradicate it."
| If not any of these, then it must he the
kind of Democracy that JEFF Davis has foun-
ded his bogus Coufederacy npon-tbe Sen-
uine Southern DemocrAcy-Whichb believes
In the divinity Of ths institution; that it is
4 right both in principle and practice, that
all else in the government is of minor i'm,
portapce. that the government ITSELF the
Union with nllgits endearing associations
and blood-bought privileges, ars d, as
nothing when compared with It.
| That's tho kind of party Vallandig-
ham wants to save the country With.
This man, AFTER having done all 10 his
mower 10 incite this rebellion, now that be
sees its end about come, would shield his
! friends and ''their peculiar Institution
from its legitimate ooUsetlusuees. A yeir
or so ago, be- declared from his place in
the House: II have little sympathy with
1.-The North; 10 very good feeling for, and
am bound TO her bynO tiewherever. -
Ard 10 the SOutherners, speaking Of their
"rights,n = he Said; "Defend them here aud
everyWhere, aud with all the means in
your power, As know sou will and Ns
know you eSn.- Yorktown and New, Or.
leans, the end of the Revolution and stht
end Of the war sf 1879, are both yours
aud there isino power on earth that car
subdus or couqher you.
He now ssesa his mistake. , The tienG o.
the Revnluti0p aud the end of the war o.
1872, ,n!haTe hOth passed from the huhdS o.
the people that could not he-conquered
and he ills up his voice and cries peace
and calls upon the Democracy tosaSe the
4 eountry-NRhich the great mass of them arr
doing by giving their blood and money tc
nut down this rebellion. We expect Val
iandiRhanl's next move will he a till t.
indemnify the frsbelsT fDr lOsses,sustainet
in the war. tti .s1ieslf is1tiri2 slaa II ~.
In conclueI9n, MessrE. Editors, allow nj
Ito say, as one who has heretofore Away
aefed with the Democratic party, thai
feel Indignant at this preadmptnnus use ol
ithe part Of those traitors of this distiu
Ruis6etl nGmea Isbfs leave also 10 sugaes
. 70 those who aspire 10 be leaders In iha
marty, that, Pince this slavery rebellion, th