Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-29

partisan treacnefy OF SUCH reckless
N en-? They are the sappers and miners
vi DO are slowly but surely p6derminipg the
efforts of the nation to put down this re-
bsllion. And just as sure as God lives they
will succeed unless loyal men iae1orably
SCI their faces against them.
| Ifat any time we have ever despairsd for
tue future Of our greatland, il is when we see
M en-, and honest men, too, stop aud hesitate
and give ear TO the trsaeherous elamor that
| sIraised around stheirears about the Gov
eruments going to do something that is M
constitutional They will not keep before
their minds the great fact that our Gov
eminent eoHtdRot PossibLy. even mad il Ae
desIe do anything unconstitutional against
he sebeks. A true. man who carries this
plain proposition about with him, can defy
AL the sophistries of the most satanic sym
Pdthizer withiths rebels, How. could the
Government do an unconstitutional thing,
were It to show its ingenuity to the ut
most, against those who are in arms for
tie entire wipiug ont of the whole consti-
tqtion: Isistimes high time, every honest
losal man set bis whole influence In the
right direction, Inch by inch, little yes
tsrday aud a littleto=day, the capabilities
with therebellion have beenHAble to dis!
affect the minds of the people with their
wicked deceit, And as they gain a little
4 they get holder. Sec the fact all around
4 you. Look how they ply the loyal mind all
1.-THE time with every species OF prejudice.
Thew know their game. See how, regard
less Of all the dread stake that is ,trembling
\ in the balance, mems attention is gained
land their loyalty abstsd. y
/ any, people think not, neither will they
consider, said theiprophet of Israel in the
bitterness Of bis=sonl. Therefore their de-
struction was to come aud did come. And
so will ours unless we are warned now.
The eursesof our great struggle this day
and the reason why it does not seem more
hopeful and why good men at times de-
spohd is because so many think NOT,
neither viii they consider" They will be-
lieve ne appatentiy that they aud all
their hopes may be irretrieyabIy Lost. They
J will believe some heartless partizan dem
agogues sophistry about the governments
: breaking the Constitution, aud they will
follow the illusion like child follows a
bauble, all the while keeping concealed
from themselves this great question, viz: If
the government is really breaking the con-
stitutiou, against whom is it breaking it 2
Against men who are striving to save it :
Against men who care for the Constitution
] in the slightest degree. or who acknowledge
it even to the breadth of ahafr! MOL mol
!, poor, simple creatures, cannot those deceiv.
ed see this, before il is too late for them to
save themselves aud their country2 Once
upon time there was Rsppblic, whose
people in their last agonies, when they saw
: that their liberties were hopelessly going
Z cried ont, oh, fOEoue hour of blind old
Dandolo," BE, though blind, had once
saved the Republic IN a great extremity
Would that We had blind Dandolo whose
: voice could reach every loyal man in tn,
9 land, and entreat him to turn a deaf ear tc
= all the busy cant about the Constitution
with which insidious and unscrupnloui
p sympathizers with the rebellion are now
: at this turning point. plying the prejudice
Of the people. That God Almighty viii
thWart the banefnl influence of such men
y and, as 10 the Olden time, 'sturn the coun.
IS sel:of Ahitop6el. to fOoiis6aess, p and say,
z the nation, is our hope.
Is The Fhile sR.,ys,; oS shs 5ste "Dsmo-
BULLTowN, Oct. %, 1852.
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Editors Intelligeaeer. ta
: 1twould seem that there has been another
a revolution in politics ;the Democratic ticke
having succeeded in several States that
have been wont to. give Republican major
L tiles. 1t isimpossible for us here; in the
: interior of West Virginia, to determine, as
: yet, how thisehange has been brought about,
y or its exact Significance. 1t is highly pro-
BILE the great preponderace of truly loyal
u mep having gone into the service of their
Q country, and thus been deprived Of the OPP.
2 pertpnity of casting their sntfrages, leaving
at home 70 do the voting those who ara too
It disloyal to do the fighting. may be one cause
/ OF the apparent change in public sentiment.
Il is also certain that the success of the
Democratic candidates who have been cleo
It ted, has not been brought about By their
a raising issues with the Administration,
f. save In q few except iopal cases nor, in any
case, by taking open and manly ground
against the prosecution of the war and the
II putting down Of the rebellion. Some, it Is
4 TO be feared many, of the successful candi-
\ dates entertain such adisloyal sentiments,
! but their eleetion is to be attributed ra-
> Their 70 their suppressing than 10 their
AToWipg, these sentiments. The success of
. the Democratic party then. whatever It
may mean, does not indicate that the peo-
pie arc disloyal, or opposed to the war! Il
J. would rather argue that abe people have
+ been again gulIed by, treacherous and de-
4 signing politieians. If the honest yeoman.