Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-11

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dress until further orders. have been
reading your paper for some time, buying
It from newsboys, but as that source is not
always reliable, l concluded TO subscribe
for the aboyeireasou. Not being able sew
eral ttmes 70 procure an InteIHgeAesr i
bought the g wheeling Press, 2 but asI am
Union man without aifs and burs,n that
paper Is, of course, not to my taste. The
perpsAlsof Ouescopy destroyssmy good hus
morand3d 3digestioh rdays tocomek u be-
lleve South Carolina contains more loyal
men thSnsthe editor or gpropristors of that
sheet are, i, is my Impression that as far
as the INFLUENCE of the IreSs goes il
will work mischief; its course, as nearly
all its tory contemporaries, is getting daily
more hatsfuly maliehant,5 aud hostile to
the qoyerqment. The LEADERS Of the so
called Democratic party, particularly since
the recent elections, have thrown off their
masks, and show themselves ing all their
iieihons deformity as the enemies of'free
Government progress, Justice and hu-
read 1aGlG article ashOFt time ago iu the
LnteliigeUeer, in which you commented on
the election news. Let me say here, that
fully concur in yonr views; thas-tote is no
endorsement of the democratic leaders SEN
timents; It is true ignorance and prejudice
still prevail to alarming extent all over
the country and no setSo men Shelter
versed in using those elements OF a nations
rain than those selfish leaders of the so
called dem9efatic party, u say agaiu that
the reCshtwote was no eddorsemshti of the
doctrine that the rich shall own the poor,
or that might makes right, because when
ever that question was presented fairly
and squarely before the people, as for in-
stance at the last presidential election, the
9nsyertFas ipTHriablya an. emphatic de.
NAL.
There is largenumber of men, however,
at the same time, whose Judgment Is not
At all at faultin discriminating right from
wrong, and .if you question them IN regard
to slavery yon will find a very small num-
Der, particularly in. the sfreel States, who de-
fend the peculiariinstitution. on it's inertia,
but with a great many their Prejudices
take the! better OF, their Judgment This the
demagogues know and hence their inees-
SAINT appeais to those prejudices; and thus
It is that men can be found among the so
called democrats who win vote agafnst
their better Judgment, And at, no time
were the fieuds in human shape buster in
paying homage TO that prejudice, their on !
ly sheet anchor, than this fall; and to feed
that create estimpediment TO free govern
ment there is nothing so we'll calculated as
the niger. Pray tell ine what would be-
come of the so called democratic party
without the nigger2 All the political
LaEorontsee the foundation of their -sa-
tanic temple shaken, and hence their
frantic efforts to save it from uttersdes-
tructionS Those men will not shrink in
oEder to. saYesa their free Institutions
from involving the whole country,
| q bloody. fratricidal war. To read their or
| gans man can come TO no other oonclu-
sion, but that revelation Is their game. aaIf
not, why this incessant appeal TO the worst
passions Of their ignorant followers, even
after the election ia1s ,sis3 ~ rie7l 7F .f57iH
They are playing desperate game. and
only lWatChfnluess on the part Of the
EGpvernmentandlo loyal citizens can possibly
prevent dire consequences. 'i'-
| The adnliniaiIatiOn, in my opinion, com
mitted one egregious blunder, namely their
lenisdey towards Rebels IL, all parts or the
country, and taking advice from so doubt
ful sources until lately. II seems "a, me the
administration took particular pains to con-
ciliate the Democrats until II is almost too
/ iateito retFieVelthe disaster, when the fact
lis, that the masses are in the main
loyal and will support any measure that
Iis calculated ,toi bring the war to a sue
Ecessful Ctermiuation :. and the leaders moth
ing would satisfy, except an instalmeHs ol
Jed. Davis or any other Democrat in good
standing as President in the White House,
lat, ,washing gtonJ and the extension Of the
divine Institution over every foot ofisoil.--
k1f one considers this matter is II anyrwou.
der 10 see in d cir organs facts denied, his
tory belied, ;trnth perverted. According, "a
the. doctrine Ofs,the latter day Democrats
and pattiediafIy the Wheeling E1FesS, IN.
Justice becomes Justice, libeFty means sla-
very, lies become truths add, dd iibftum
Is7aFor the HboYe reasons the editor Of that
.deleetahle sheet Is against the admission
of fYirginia as n State this winter
because in that event she would eventually
rid herself OF the ineu bus, but since liberty
means slavery, the editor of lthe PFess d
man Of the times is of course opposed tc
Iany such scheme. He would prefer put.
ltingy gyitiof tili-the next Congress- meets
with EerBanio Wood (see PSeSS,1 y as
SPeak ket 4 a6f the House, who would moi
admit -hsr-at all or fasten the ineu.
bus if possibi9 d liltled tiEhter; which
would no doubt please The editors Of ihe
RHessY not q little, since slavery means