Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-11

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upon land a more tremendous contest than
the world has ever seennpQn the high seas
| The instinct Of enemies is iuiallible.
| You have friends in arms at home de-
tending the Government aud the country
Every man who meets the enemy in battle
knows what he is fighting for. he Is Sight
ling Tor the country, Pass the ballot-b01
Through the Union camps, or give the sol
dieF pass TO reach the ballot box at bis
home, and he votes as he 6ghts, for his
icouatry aud the Administration, which he
sees e tdentiHed with his country. You
have frieuds II Europe. The great mass
Of society on the Continent, from the WhiIe
Sea to the MediteFTanean from the Atlantic
TO the Black Sea, are che friends Of the
United StRtes. The great mass OF society
In America, from the Bio Grande 10 Cape
Horn, are the friends Of the United States.
Send the ballet box through all those re-
giouB, and the votes would be cOuntediteu
Thousand to oGe for Abraham Lineoln
agAint Seymour and iYailandighsm. The
instinct of dispassiouate, disinterested
friends, is infallible. lea rggf
But must net forget that our Oppo-
usnts object to allowing soldiers to go
home TO vote, 'u
The objection is dislOysl 40 we'll as mn
grateful, and is therefore crime. If the
soldier ought not TO be allowed faFlOugh
to reach the ballot box, why did Governor
Seymour refuse to allow the ballot box to
60 into the csmp2 He answers that 1t is
unconstitutional. Why then object to the
soldiers going home to vote. That is not
Unconstitutional. They do not mean to
quarrel with the manner of the soldiers
voting: they seek to deprive him Of his
vote altogether. They allow the soldier 10
eight for his country, because they cannot
help It, bat they seek to deprive him OF
the privilege Of voting for it because by
clamOr they think they can prevent it,
Who are these soldiers that have come
home to voter Every man Of them Is q
citizen aud an eIector, There Is not an un-
willing or Involuntary soldier or cOnscFipt
among them. They are your sons aud
brothers and mine, as intelligent, Rs we'll
trained as We or their opponents; better
entitled to vote than You or ], for they
have gone forward to the battle while We
have been content with staying at home
and making contributions, meriG0rious in
themselves, but nevertheless contributions
in money instead of blood. Not allow the
soldier to vote for the Government You
saw what became of Il by refusing 70 al
low him his vote last year. You voted the
down in his absence, and
then were obliged to call the soldier from
the front, in face Of the enemy, back 70 the
State, TO restore peace, order and safety at
home. Not allow the soldier 70 vote Has
the soldier only the Fights to languish 10
the hospital, 70 die on the battlefield, and
to be carried into captivity Is this the sum
of the soldiers rights / tell you NO. l
tell you that the soldiers Of this war will
vote, some thousands of them TO morrow
many more thousands syaEY,YoAr hefest+
they will sit in Judgment upon |
parties in this country, thr0ugdont Two
and determine the yeSdiot
Of posterity in regard to them.s tl
1 have another ground for knowing that
you will succeed Tomorrow. You have !
The right side upon plain, practical, sim
ole issue. 0Gr opponents do not see this /;
hey have suffered factions 70 blind them.
they say that they are voting down this
because it is incompetent /
md ought never 70 have been elected
They say again, that they arc voting to
decide the Presidential question of 1854
They are doing no such thing. Abraham
Lincoln was elected in 1860, 70 be Presi-
lent of the United States for four years,
7iz from the 4th of March, 1861, 70 the
lthl of March, 1865; fairly, justly, honOra-
Div. cOnstituti0nAlly elected. The question
ID in 1865; that was settled in the election
IF 1860, and isirreversible. The question
Is not whether he or any person connected
With his Administration shall be elected
IN 1864. Abraham Lincoln WAS elected in
1850 to be President, not of a part, but of
, whole Of the United States; but he has
been forcibly kept out ora part of the
United StAtes-Louisiana Virginia, North.
Carolina, South CarolinA, Georgia and 9th
,r Gulf States. In those States he is
President de jure, but not de fdetO. The
object of this election is the object of the
war. It is to make Abraham Lincoln
President de faet0 from 1860 TO 1864 In
Georgia, South Carolina, and other Gulf |
States, as he is President de JaetO in MAs-
,achusetts, New York aud Ohio. ~
i know the war waged tor that object
will succeed, and know elections hold
FOR the same object will suseeed! They |
will sneceed because the object Is jnst, |
and Justice in politics is necessary. Il is |
Injustice aud downright robbery of AbTa-
ham Lincoln, and the majority of citizens |
who elected him, TO refuse him the full |
enjoyment of the. authority conferred up
on him in that election. There can be no |
Deace aud quiet until Abraham Lincoln Is !
President, under that eleCtiOn, of the
whole United States. arla- 1eh 4
Now, justice is an instinct of the whole
human family. If aamsn has n house, q
horse, or boat, and it is taken from him,
all society combines to restOre Il 70 his
and it awards severe punish
ment 10 those who attempt to rob him of
his rights, You saw this lesson written in
the earliest schO0l.bOOk thst was put into
your haGds :,Gl1gl -efi
81 astsal not this boob. my honest friend