The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-12

. disco lrses with which social life and socia
\ intercourse are regaled. "Join as, this II
the cry) "be ,oith US, think as ses think, al
as zoe do, forget that ps forstotd these horn
bic e0its as the result otoar policy and VI
secuted theWarning; forget that we had plat
forms which we have falsifed, and made
promises which we have broken; forget that
you were freemen before we mounted your
backs, AID ruled you by DEGREES, and put
you In prison by telegraph, and sent you
taxgatherers to take your earnings, and
provost marshals to seize your sons Tor the
warl Forget all this, and do our bidding
and hold up your hands, and bid US God
speed-or you are secessionistS, traitors,
copperheads, worse than the enemy in arms,
and saved of grace not by merit from most
condign and pitiless punishment" All this
false and frantic defamation clearly indi-
Gates consciousness of wrong in the de-
Chalmers, sense of responsibility, of error
or guilt, in bringing upon the country the
enormous evils which scourge it. The man
who feels himself wrong in discussion
which reviews his conduct is apt to lose his
temper, and buster aud PROFOUND extrava-
CANT propositions. and pour out abuse upon
his antagonist, happy if he can thus hide
his own weakness and escape censure. But
whatever the indicating cause, these are the
utterances of the party in power, and they
fix upon it a character for yindictiveness
which will cling TO it forever. No other
party OF this country has ever shown such
ntolerance--such passion, malice, hatred
and fury-as the Republican; and its char
acter in this respect is as fixed and notori-
Gus as its practice of corruption and its vi
olations of law. 1t twill not escape hSto-
tory TIE lash Of justice in the histori-
ans hand will pursue its memory as long
as the dark records of national calamity
are kept for the instruction of mankind.
Gentlemen n, we have been instructed by
adversely and are now in n situation to
Judge the claims of parties upon public
favor and decide between them. And we
may now conclude that if the Democratic |
party be placed in power it can restore the
Union and diepense with armies III main
tanning IT, For it has no policy, no mca-
sures, hostile to any section OF the country
rr to any claas Of its people, and it is thor
Oughly devoted TO the cause Of Union, and
capable Of welding great moral as well as
materia forces in its favor. II IS qualifi ed
and disposed to the work Of reconstruction,
and is embarrassed by no fanatical creed
and by no memories of past misconduct
That its defeat in 1850 led to all our ca
amities no man can deny, All this blood
poured forth upon hundred fields of battle;
all these tears shed BY thousands Of fire.
sides; all this heaping up of mighty masses
of debt TO press apon the back of labor for
all these bitter passions, let
Dose in hitherto peaceful communities; all
these outrages Of power upon the citizens;
Ill this prostitution OF the pulpit to the
purposes of faction; all this corruption
which shamss the nation-are the foretold
results of the elections Of 1860. And does
aot good sense and right reason dictate a
reversal Of the decision then made against
he Democratic party at the Grst fitting
?