Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-25

have done so are fighting for something tar
more important than the Uaion, And which
entirely ogerrides all their obligations to it.
1t says as plainly as words can speak it
that slavery is paramount to the Union,
and that the rebellion must not be put down
if doing SO would eudauger that Institution.
Yet the Union was an agowed rebel and
the dPrssI holding to the same aogmas,
claims to be loyal to the Government
The following fully shows the spirit that
animated the Union: g
From the Union ofMay %, 1879
I1e BLEED PRRELY. MOO fs-.ss %
We are glad to see how profusely the
Northern bankers and capitalists are bleed
ing themselves for the benefit of the rotten,
worthless Government they live under.
They are piling gold mountain high and
tumbliug il into the rump treasury, which
we doubt not sadly needs il. We are in
6nitely delighted at this rousing spectacle
of self.phlebotomy, aud ardently hope
that every vein and artery may be,
struck as deep as the lancet can 90. We
want above all things to see that foul den
of heartless gamblers, Wall street, t1el bted.
Wewant to see it drained of the last drop.
IL will be all the better for the South. In
the end she will have the gratifactiou
of seeing a grand financial and COM
mercial explosion on the other side of
the line that will SILVER into fragments
the power that fed aud fattened on her trade
and then used the money which she had put
into its pockets 10 attempts to enslaye der.
We wish we could see daily annunCiations
of tenders from Northern bankers aud cap
italists to the amount of twenty millions
because the more they bleed the iceGker they
will! get. If there be such thing as right
eous retribution it is IN reserve for these
money changers who are just now in league
with the rump Government that is impri
soned in Washington"
Such infamous language needs no COM
ment. All the demoniac spirit of treason
turks In it. The Wheeling Press has never
dared to go quite that far; but scores of
paragraphs could be drawn from its col
umus, had we room for them, sneeriug at
the Government AID its measures, both
financial and military, such as calling its
authorized currency eshinplestersn-which
exhibit spirit not a whit better than that
of its predecessor.uThe circumstances have
changed, Papers cannot talk now as then
with immunity. But all the disposition is
manifest. And what is wanting in bold
ness and open defiance is made up in the
Jesuitical and almost deyilish ingenuity
with which treason is disseminated under
the fairest pretenCes of loyalty.
In turning over this old record and run
ming over these reflections IN our mind, and
then recurring to the daily teachings of the
Wheeling Pre,s, we cannot see for the soul
of US, how, if it had been possible for the
Wheelign Union to live through to this day,
and experiencing only such changes as
were inevitable from the progress oil
events and the change Of circumstan-
ces, it could have been more like IL
self than the Wheeling Pres is like it,
Democracy then was the cloak used to hide
all the treason of the Union, Democracy
now is made to cover up all the treachery
of the PrsIs. The cry of Black Republic
cauism has been changed to Abolitionisrn.
That is the only difference, and in the in
intent that is no difference at all. Indeed,
we are free to say that we believe the
Press is a worse paper-a more dangerous
paper-than the Union ever was, just as a
secret foe isaIways more dangerous than an
open one Not that it has any more ability,
but it has more craft, more low cunning
and is possibly more SUBSCRIPTIONS. 1t has
done more harm than the Union ever could
have done had it lived on. 1t began as the
professed friend of the Government and
advocate of the Union; it build itself up on
the sympathy aud aid obtained through
false pretence, and established itself with
the ten thousand dollars of the money of
loyal people drawn from the treasury
the Government it was secretly hostile to,
and now sets itself to undermine. 1t OBJ
tanned the confidence of hundreds Of honest
and loyal people by its declarations Of 10y
atty, Jet day by day and mopth by month
gradually and surely poisoned their minds
and perverted their Judgments and exaspe-
rated them against their own Government
and truest friends, before they we're con-
scious of the change. Thus it has been
more potent engine of mischief than the
Unicn could have been had it lived on to
this day. ais ~
Let us add one more clip from the Union,
which we think ought to come in about
here:
From the Union of Nay I'd, 1881
THE iisrARs AND STRIPES"
The Black Republicans are making an
immense fuss about the old hag.-They
speak of defending it as il it were about to
be assaulted by anybody. 1t is now Meir
flag they are welcome to it. We have in
the South not particle of love for it. But
We have a love for the memories associated
With it when it waved over a united, a hap.
Ply, and a eepeOpls. Now that it has be.