Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-20

/ Senator Sherwan ON COppeaheadi
and Mr.. LinsOln. t=e.
A great Union meeting was held last
week at Hillsboro', Ohio, at which John
Sherman made telling speech. He said
that when he went mp 70 Congress the full
support of the country was the universal
feeling. He did not expect to fnd a par
tisan in Washington. Indeed, party SEEM
ed determined to cordially cO.Operatei in up
holding the GoVernment-but i've members
who voted against, or at least did not vote
for, single measure of Congress fer put.
tug down the rebellion. These i've mem-
Orable persons, he added. were Reed aud
Norton of Missouri, Burnett of Kentucky,
Ben. Wood of New York, and Vallaudig-
ham of Ohio.
Mr.. Sherman continued:
aThree of them were from slave States.
and as for the two from the free States, Mr..
Wood topped out lately in the New York
riots; aud yon, the Democrats of Ohio pro-
pose to make the other your Governor H.
Ihg mus 1mpUSeu upon Dy your leaders
All Republicans voted for it-all the other
Democrats, alsO-and finally three Of the
Eve had the courage TO come 70 their coun-
try's support; but Wood, you understand
him, andas for Vallaadigham, you propose
70 make him COMMANDMENTS Chief of the
State of OhiOl What q poor opinion your
Ieaders assembled at Columbus must have
Of your patriotism and good sense 70 ask
YOU to vote for such mani They mis-
take tne patriotism Of our people. 1 sim
cerely hope they will not persuade the
Democrats of Ohio to vote for this convict
ed traitor.
"They tell you that he voted to pay the
soldiers. Whether this be so or not. when
it was attempted to increase the soldiers
pay to thirteen dollars per month, he voted
against it, and when the Appropriation
bill came up he did not vote for IL. Had
the Government been in his control when
the rebellion broke out, where would be
the country TO day2 Stripped Of all his-
toricaI renoWn, robbed of our national
glory, disunited and desolated from one
end 10 the other, the friends Of popular
Government everywhere wOnld be over
WheImed with despair, and Republics
would be at an end. But the supremacy
Of patriotism saved our country, aud let
as all unite as one party for the single puF-
pose7of banding the whole Republic once
more under the same glorious dag, that
our children may have a country worth iV-
ing for. GGreat applause.
aBut you don't like the Administration.
Who does not know that every Adminis-
tration is liable to, and actually does make
mistakes Z They are, however, bat our
agents, exercising temporary authority.
The people are the sovereigns. The Pres
Iidenf hold his ofice but four years, and the
highest term of ONCE Is that Of the Sena-
tor. who is elected for six years. You
can, therefore, correct all abuses At short
Intervals, aud all you can ask OF them Is
70 do the best they can, and mortal man
can do no more. Mr.. Sherman sain they
did not know Mr.. Lincoln. ewas one Oi
the kihdest and hOnestest men that the
world afEordsi He cannot behold atfec-
tionate kindred weeping for one who has
fallen in his country's defence without
mingling his tears with theirs The talA
about his establishing desPOtism is The
most ridiculous nopsenee that ever atiict-
ed delnded man. he had often thought
that Mr.. Lincoln was altogher too kind fol
kind for the emergency. He hoped BIZ
Democratic friends would live 70 be asham
ed Of all this violent criticism and gros
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