Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-10-25
mereiless commentator thou art. Here is
the way the Onion talked about
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E1Ntn Wule tue, OemoCfBtlC party uhs
been engaged in "a struggle of life and
death with the reasonable sectionalists of
the North, it has by a sublime exertion of
patriotism ~ rejected The aid and coop
Grafton of the disunionists of the South.
Those facts are signal proofs that there is
one powerful party still extant worthy to
administer the affairs of q great Republic,
because IL defends the rights OF every Sec
ton and panders TO the passions of none.
It does not fear to risk its asceudeucy by
an open and defiant contest with the gil
gantic force of Northern fanaticism, or by.
withdrawing the excuses of Southern re-
sentiment. 1t is the party Of the South
when the South needs defense, ofithe North
when the North needs defense, and of the
entire Republic always.
how infamously brazeu does this declar-
alton appear in the light which the history
Oftwo years and half has thrown upon
it, This party robbipg the Government it
administered, to make war on and break up
the Republic it betrayed and whose defend
sr 1t protested to be Yet these are just
the Pretences of the Busernut Democracy,
and the Wheeling Pres speaks for it.
1t might be worth while to mention that
the Union was the malignant enemy of a
new State here in Western Virgins, just as
the Press is now. 1t fought it and those
who advocated it always, called it treason
to the State, and declared that "tbe worst
possible fate that could befalI Wheeling
would be to become the only city OF the
new State in Western Virginia" If it
could by any possibility have survived the
events of the spring of 1861 it would have
been as bitter an enemy of the restored
Government too, as the Prels is, though
probably more honest and open one, for
it would hardly we think have been State
printer, Like it 100 the Union was the in
vsterate enemy of every interest of the PEG.
pie in whose midst it had an existence.
While the campaigu lasted it was all
Democracy on the one hand and Black Re
Publicanism and Northern fauaticism on
the other. But when the Dempcraey was
defeated, when "the only party that was
powerful enough to be useful' ito the
South) was no more and its disappointed
Ieeches were to be torn away from the body
whose life blood they bad sucked-uheu in
short it became a realized fact that the
South through the Democracy could no
longer rule the country and therefore de.
termiued TO rain il, the Union began to
play stranger game.
The rights of the States, had become en-.
daugered, and it began to talk about the
superiority Of State allegiance to allegiance
to the General Government. Then, when
South Carolina threatened to secede, i,
prated about the wrongs of tue Southern
people, and the remedy of secession. As
State after State seeded it became holder
aud holder in lis treason, until when the
qaestiOn came before Virginia 10 the Rich.
moud Convention, it threw off all reserve,
disguise, it bad uoue) and boldly advoca.
ted the right and expediency of secession.
After the ordinance passed it became as ut.
terly reckless and defiant in its treason ASH
it had been In Charleston, s. c., instead Of
Wheeling, and talked about The sending OF
rebel troops oufhere todefend as as though
we were already IN the g. s. a.
Here is the way it talked after the six
Gulf States had seeded, before Texas
went: s ,a aia.s.
| f,i TIE UNION.
| From the Union of January %, lss10
Six week ago the Union contained 80
States. It now embraces only 81. In n
few days the number will be but 2s. Ir the
Black Republicans persevere in their pres !.
ent policy there will soon be only Is States
LEFT. II We wish to complete the destruc.
tiun of the Union we have nothing TO do
but to encourage the Black Republicans
and that ia done ehectually by every SOUTH
ern man who makes speech or gives a
vote for "the Union as il is without an If
or but" We think about enough of that
| sort of Union saving was done IN Virginia
last fall considering the results now before
US. Let Justice be restored aud the Union
may be restored. That is the whole mat
ter aud therefore the necessity of justice
without an IL or but"
Eote.Whata tumble OF apparent ineou-
sistencies. Affecting to deplore the dissolu-
ton Of The Union, yet gloating over it all
the while, and sneeTipg at those who
thought then to make athe Union as it isp
arallying point. Yetit was all the work
of the Black Republicans. just as II is now
of the Aboiitionists, and the Union could
only be ''ressored3 by restoring ..justicen
which meant then as it means now, accord
ing to the vocabulary of the Press, for the
COUNTRY to gire mp and let the rebel
South oyerrun aud rule Il. <
On February LIST, 81, the Uatoa said:
1.-THE whole trouble now agitating the
country grows out ofthe radical principle
OF Black Republication, that Southern
men are not 10 be treated in the UniOn as
EQUALS otsNorthern States aud Northern
men"
Now, if we had printed that without
stating where it came from, aud had sub.
stituted iiAhnlirionisub for mRInrIc R.nnh-