Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-24
which shall OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Nation
or the Democratic Party
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The Democrats everywhere as q party
oppose and denounce the CONSUMPTION act,
and laise the cry Of t'no more men for this
unholy war" Now let us suppose that the
Democrats could triumph everywhere IN
the north, and elect State governments u
suit them. and that they were to carry out
their policy of refusing the men necessary
to carry on the war. OF course the reoels
would recover all they have lost and the
United States government, without men 70
oppose them, would be forced to succumo.
This is one way of restoring the Democratic
party to power, but not the one which mas
favor with the shrewd thinker who guides
the course of that organizationi in the north
They have another plan, which is not
vet we'll defined in some of its parts, but
which looks to an armistIce, reconstruc-
ton by means of a national convention M
der a new constitution, the repeal OF the
lConfiscation act, the recall of the Emancl-.
patton proclamation, and the restoration
of slavery to prosperity and power, ANY
such reconstruction, it must be eyldeat'
would prove . failure, and in the end per-
haps, the war would be resumed with more
bitterness than over Were 1t possible tnat
such a monstrous scheme could succeed,
the nation would cease to be a free repun-
lie and sink into an oligarchy. 3
These devices have for their sole object,
not the rescue of slavery from is impend'
ing fate, but the restoration of the Demo
cratic party to power at any cost whatev-
err The same men who are willing to sink
the country in this degradation, would as
soon abandon slavery if they could see
their way to power by that means. But
they do not see such a way, because their
ancient prejudices have crazed their wits
altogether upon the subject of abolition,
r Al, a.. II Tn hnV
er again is by the reiteration OF the old
hue and cry against that raw head and
bloody bones of the ignorant and the un-
principled. -ag-s. gt
Moreover, their party cannot make dis
tinct rally against the government on any
other platform, because the Administration
has been SO brilliantly successful, and has
so completely demonstrated its uncondl-
tional unionism, that the Democratic lead
ers have nothing there they can safely
antagonize. There is an alternative, as
we have above stated, and it is now
offered to the public-shall we redeem
the nation, or shall we redeem the Demo-
cratic party? Perhaps we may do both;
but it is extremely doubtful. Certainly 1T.
is only practicable to do so in one way
By administering an Overwhelming defeat
to the Democrats this fall in the north,
we may redeem both their party and the
nation; but the better plan would be for
all independent citizens to agree upon the
necessity of breaking up an organization
which has been SO fruitful of evil all over
the country. The success of the Republic
can measures and policy opens a future to
the country full of domestic tranquility
and prosperity; that of the Democratic
party affords but vista of renewed sec
tional strife, of social degradstions, of
civil wars, of State animosities
and prolonged turbulence. The Republic
can party has shown BY the past two years
nation in way likely to ensure it against
future trouble. Shall it be permitted to
do SO; or shall we sacrifice this prospect
that the Democratic party may be pre-
served