Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-23
A scoundreI's Appeal.

proper appellaliOn Houlu De al OIu SCouu-
drel, writes a Communication IN Saturdays
Preu headed ''lst the people act" which
is full of dastardly sedition.
He says, speaking about the war
ave have had two years of war such as
the world never before witnessed. Are we
any nearer the end than when it first
began2 We find the country saddled With
debt which the most skiifuI finauciering
of century cannot liquidate and yet this
debt will Increase yearly in almost arith-
meGical progression If the war continues"
After quoting some poetry to set off the
above interrogAtories to advantage, the
writer asks whether the country can ''furu-
ish no more wasb!ugtons TO check the
tyrant's career meaning the governments
prosecution ofthis war. 1--WE have, " he says,
ia remedy" "If we have no Washington
to guide US through this maze of Difficulties,
let each true freeman initiate the father
of his country and learn that
.'Death to tyrAnts is obedience to God"
"The people must act"
Now there is no mistaking the aim and
drift Of such an article, The school boy
can see its point aud tell without besita-
tiou what action it suggests II means by.
calling on the people to "act," to array
themselves in open armed resistance to the
government. The government is stigma
tized as "tyrAut," and a line is quoted to
prove that "dsath to tyrants is obedience
to God" 1t is open fragrant outbreak
and blood-sbeddiug that the scoundrel sug-
gesls. This is bold step. No loyal man
can fail to see what it Presages. Itis bot
the first step. Who can doubt the end that
ia aimed at. First, the article seeks to
show that we are no "nearer the end (ot
TIE war; than when it was first began ;
next that the government, which is striving
to save its life by prosecuting the war is a
"tyrantr" and third, that "death to tyrauts
is obedience to God"
A mau who, in the Southern Confeder.
acy, should write such sentiments about
JEFF. Davis government, would not be at
liberty an hour. A paper that would pub
lish them would, before it's next issue, re-
ceive very significant warning from some
of JeFs agents. Aud yet here on this side
of the lines, because the government is
endeAVOring to put down a conspiracy
against its lite, and because in doing so it
endeayors TO tolerate the largest liberty of
speech and pen, wicked undetermined and
treaCherous sympathizers and emmissaries
of conspiracy take advantage of its lenien-
cy aud patience, and inculcate sedition,
outbreak and death" Under the name
and over the signature of "Democrat'' this
seditious appeal is made Is that democrat
cyl People of West Virginia--you that
have suffered so much for your liberties
in this rebellion-you that have rallied
with such earnestness and unanimity to the
support of the Governmeut-,hat have
given so freely of your kindred and your
PrOpsrty-is this what you understand to
be democracy Does democracy mean re-
belliOn-cOnspiracy of the
GOvernment-submlssio to JEFF Davis p
Do you adopt such democracy as thatl Is
it new or old democracy !? Is it the
democracy of Jackson who sent troops
to South Carolina to crush this same
conspiracy in 1892, and who solCmuly
warned you that it would in all probability
lift its head in your day, and that its pree,t
would be the slavery question? 1t is the de.
moeracy of such men as Gov. JOansou of
Teunessee-that man Of the land of Old
Hickory-Who was brought up Mt tse feet
of the old warrior, and learned from his
lips to love this Union aud to swear that
Is it must aud shall be preserved forever?
ls it the Democracy Of such men as Dick
inson and Holt aud Butler and Tod and
Wright and Of hundreds of such true and
Jealous men who never in their lives cast
anything but Democratic vote, and who
while this infamous appeal is being made
to you through the columns Of the Pres,
are appealing to You through all the loyal
papers and from every prominent city aud
from all the places where great mass meet.
ings are held, to beware of traitors under
the name of DemOcrats-to beware of inst
such treaehery and treason as is contained
10 the sentences we have quoted from the
Press. You have read the words of tho
gallant ROseerans and MilrOy-life long
DsmOOFats-slso appealing to you to mark
and scoru such sentiments. You have
read the resolutions Ofthe soldiers of srery
State denoueing and branding them. You
have more than all the rest, read the res.
buttons of your own brave West Virginia
soldiers Their words burn with fare.
anger and vengeance against the mean
spirits that are seeking to betsay the caDss
at home for which they are risking their
lives in the Geld, and for which they are
daily foregoing all the comforts of home
People of West Virginia, you can never
afford to be deceived q, ,;,,.,, - 4s'St