Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-02
TFrom the Springfield Republican,
The Resurrection OF the Democratic


There is conviction in the public mind
that the war is drawing toward close
that the events of few weeks, lying inn
mediately before us, will deprive the re-
belliOn of its life, and bring US to poin:
where no question can be made of the final
restoration Of national unity. Under this
conviction, certain ambitious men, former
ly connected with the democratic party,
are sweeping aud garnishing the old con-
cern for the reception of the renegades
who polluted it, and went off to try house
keeping on their own account There is
really an attemptin progress to resuscitate
the democratic pArty-a sort of indecent
haste, while battles are pending and only
one question is really before the people, to
pull off gloves and be ready to take the
hand of treason the moment the sword
and musket are knocked from its grasp.
The basis for a reunion of the old frag.
ments of the eparty, still lying around loose
at the North, appears to be opposition to
the emancipation message of the President
and tie endorsal of it by Congress. In
this, they have tho sympathy and the char
acteristic cooperation of the border state
men, who seem to have abated none of
the arrogance of those times when slavery
was net convicted of high trea son, and its
friends were not hunted from fort to fort
and field to field like felons.
Gentlemen, do not be in hurry. Their
will be time enough for these little opera
tions after the last Union soldier is decente
" buried. There are battles to be fought
yet. There are thousands of lives to be
expended. There are great conflicts yet
to take place by land and sea, in which the
blood of noble men is to be poured out
like water. There is to be wailing in
myriad homes, over fathers and brothers
and lovers slain. The dirges are to be
played yet, and the bells to be toiled. Do
not be in a hurry. It is possible that, if
you wait until you see how much this
beautiful institution of slavery, which you
propose to patronize, costs the nation
how much treasure it swallows, and how
many lives it sacrifices of men whose worst
crime is love of country you will change
your mind. 1t is possible that emancipa-
ton will.not seem so black a scheme a
year hence as it does now, even to your
selves, and it is very probable that the
people will regard it very differently from
those who have axes to grind.
There is a certain class of men, all over
the North-we have them even in Massa-
chusetts-who have been educated in the
belief that there is degree of sacredness
about the institution of slavery which
really pertains to no other institution
Even to-day, while the whole military and
naval ..power of the country is reused to
the effort of loosing the grasp of the slave
power upon its throat, there are men not
wholly idiots, or consciously traitors, who
think and speak tenderly of "the rights of
slavery" They would not object to taking
the horse of slaVehOlding rebel, or barn
fulLof hay, OF Thousand barrels of hourT
nay, they would not much object to tax :
| ing the rebel himself and shutting him up
in Fort Warren; bit when we come to lay
hands.upOn his nigger--when We talk of
emancipating the poor fellow who has been
held all his life in uprequited bondage
their hands are thrown up in holy horror.
/ 1t seems to them that slavery has great
many more rights Under the Constitution
than any other institution. There would
seem to be absolute insanity on this point.
Good God The institution of slavery to
be treated tenderly by Northern men, on
account of the sacredaess of it's rights un-
der a Constitution whose obligations it
has shaken offI Slavery to'be patronized,
and emancipation in any form to be OPP
posed bya Northern party that proposes
to draw It's support from a people decima-
ted aud taxed to keep slavery from de-
stroyipg the Republic 4at ~
I Well gentlemen, try It. The admins
tration has taken its ground on this point,
and the republican party stands with it,
If slavery wants anything, even as favor