Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-19
nrlsmanagement Of tho War.
From tho Philadelphia American.

The Democratic howl over the misfor-
tunes, the miseries, the sufferings, the ca
lamities, the ruin caused by the war, pre-
supposes that the people of Pennsylvania
are ignorant of their own actual condition
at the present time, and that they can be
deceived into the belief that they are en-
during imaginary evils, the portrayal of
which in Democratic addresses will have
the same effect upon their nerves as though
they actually suffered the evils themselves.
Preposterous as this may seem, it is yet
based upon shrewd knowledge of human
nature, and the reader who chooses to in
vestigate the matter may soon convince
himself of the wonderful power of the
Imagination in del9aing poor, weak hu.
msnity. .-5-ta
Look over any batch of Democratic news
panRra np dnoauasntOJ and JOu will Gud
them depicting a state of things as exist
ing in this country which no loyal man
ever dreamed of. They will show him a
country bankrupted, desolated, ruined by
executive mismanagement, defeated armies
an exhausted treasury, mountainous burth-
ems of taxation, prostrated commerce, &c.
He will be told that the prisons are filed
with men arbitrarily arrested; that in fact
every outrage has been committed which it
is possible for a civilized government to
venture upon. he will be asked to believe
that the whole people are in arms against
an unjust conscription; that our currency
has been debauched to an irreparable ex-
tent, our army made the plaything of Re.
publican partisans, and in fact that the
great republic has sunk into military
despotism.
The fact that all these things are writ
ten and spoken openly everywhere, with
perfect freedom, might seem to imply that
the liberty of speech and of the press ex-
listed; but the reader will be asked to be-
lieve that both have been abolished by the
national government. The British gov
ernment, which has been pointed to by the
London papers as tolerating everything
within its domains, arrested, imprisoned
and tried Daniel O'Connell aud his asso-
ciates for offences of far less magnitude.
They merely held public meetings to adj
Vocate and agitate for repeal, still acknowl-
edging the supremacy of the British crown.
The Hartford Conventionists in oar own
country were prosecuted relentlessly, for
an agitation very similar to that of the.
copperheads of the present day. Yet NO
one believed because John Mitchell was
arrested and transported for Publishing
what he did in Ireland that, therefore, the
liberty of the press was at an end there, or
that the liberty of speech departed with
Hartford Gonventionists synonymous with
despotism,
i The freedom of elections, too, is said to
have been destroyed, in the face of the fact
that all over the loyal States the elections
have taken place regularly, the cauvasses
have been managed with as much asperity
as ever, and great array of votes has
been. polled on both sides-in the face of
the fact that the Democrats at the last cleo
ton carried the States of New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, In-
diana and Illinois, and rau a close race in
New Hampshire and Connecticut. 1t the
freedom of elections had been tampered
with, how could it happen that the mejor-
ity in the o. s. House of Representatives
is very doubtful
The debauching of our currency, of
which so much has been said, is cufi0usly
illustrated By the avidity with which our
national greenbacks are taken in the rebel
capital at Richmond, at so great premi-
nm that while $I3 or $I4 of confederate
notes are required TO purchase one gold
dollar, S. in {. IS. greenbaeks will lpurchase
iS4tfnspoId. All over rebeldom the case Is
prettv much the same. No one there
dreams OF our national paper being worth-
/ less. as the cOpperheads at home say
Their own paper they know to be OF little
value, and rate It accordingly, but ours
rises in value constantly, because our gov
ernment maintains q sound state OF the
national finances. si
! EInstead of making the army the play
thing of Republican partisans, the gov
egf+tniifaent has thus far given g preferences 70
l-Democratic generals, as In the case OF
Mcclellan, Halleck, Grant, franklin
Heintzelman, McGlernand, Logan Slcklesl
Il nnaL..rn Andra n Porter Rosecfans,
Il Rnrnside! and q. host of others. While
il RennbIican generals like Curtis, Banks,
4 GiiImoTe Foster, Meade, Sigel, Butler
: Fremont. etc, have rendered great seFvi'
ces. they have received lessfavor thantheiI
: DernoeFa tic comrades in arms. If Mcolel-
lian. Franklin, and others were set aside
fts1s ! -. q. ..,nra "a mnInin Of In thu