Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-15

the oOpperheads. He WAKES bitterer and
bitterer:
RoCKAwAI -oH-THE-sEA, Sept. II, '64.
To Kej. Gen. G. B. Ne oEeRan, Orange, Ns,'
Jersey:
Dear Sir: It is mean thing to listen at
the key-hole. 1t is meaner to open pri-
vate letter. 1t is the mesuest of all to sc-
cept hospitality and abuse the host. But
these mean things are Christian virtues
compared to accepting the nomination of
party in order to destroy it. Aplatform
is the psrty's soul. A candidate is the
party's body. Separate the body from the
soul, and death ensues. 1t is as difficult
to sit between two stools as to sleep with
one eye open. You cannot worship God
and Msmmon. Honesty is not only the
best policy, bat the only one for an honest
man. You know the Peace men controlled
the convention. They gave you plat
form that was neither fish, flesh, fowl or
mackerel. Yet you insist upon the mack
erel. Hence the Daily NetrT, the Metro
polita1 Record, Frsendn's Journal and Ohio
Crisis fy OF from you like hoops from an
efferVescing barrel. Singleton will follow
Wood; VallRndigham will fall in, and in a
few weeks Pendleton will decline to be
shipwrecked with the rest. "Come out
from under the bed," said the indignant
wife to her undecided husband. "Not,"
said he, $50 long as / hare the spirit Of a
man IDithiH me-"
Mark my words, Genersl-you will not
carry a single State except New Jersey,
and you will sacrifice seven Democratic
members out Of ten. Look at Vermont.
Maine will be the same. Indiana will only
lead the other States by month.
You will find it as hard as the rebels
have to fight such Democratic names as
Foot, Farragut, Porter and Dupont, on the
sea, or Grant, Meade, Burnside, Sickles,
Hancock, Thomas aud Sherman, on the
land-all of whom are against you. The
late letters of Sherman and Grant rat
tie through the democratic ranks like light
ming through a gsoseberry bush. II only
costs tVo thousand dollars to get up a NeCIsE-
Ian meeting. Young Hetehum said so. If
the explosion of limited quantity of gas
in Uunion square killed two women and
wounded several the other night, what
will be the disaster when your whole party
bursts up in November
James Buchanan said that he was no
longer J. B., but the Cincinnati platform.
You reverse it, and say that you are not
the Chicago platform, but G. B. Mack
Said Lord Byron in Don Juan.
The well known Hebrew word, I am,
We Englsh used to govern d-m.
But to your letter. Bulwer said the
"Pen lDGS mightier than the s10oTd." Then
he had not made your acquaintance, Cen
eral. NoMIEATED ON YOUR RECORD. Yes.
The Draft. The Proclamation The Sus-
pension of Habess Corpus. The Arrest of
Legislatures. Military at the Polls, aud
diso6sdieHes of orders. Is not that your
public record Do yon mean, by alluding
rot nj 4 In no
again.?
GENTLEMEN l have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter, inform
ing me of my nomination of course, who
else did you suppose it was by the Dem
ocratic National Convention, Certainly, it
was not the Republican National Commit
tee, } recently assembled at Chicago, (That's
SO; it did not assemble at Cleveland or New
York, J as their candidate at the next cleo
tion for President of the United States
Exactly it was not for the last election.)
1t is unnecessary for me to say to you
that this nomination domestic me unsought.
(Why say it, then y
Take the whole letter paragraph by par
sgraph, transpose it as I have this SEN
tence, and you will find it is IS weak as
dish Water-undecided, inconsistent, IN
grammatical and egotistical. The six al
lusious to the Union reminds one of the
stereotyped cry in the Fortunes of Nj
gel-Watches, Clocks, Bsrnacles. The
bright boy who cried barnacles, watches,
clocks, introduced new idea into Scot
land
If q frank, earnest and persistent effort
to obtain those objects should fail, the
responsibility for ulterior consequences
will fall upon those who remain in arms
against the Union.
Why not say war right out, not dodge
round a corner this way. Don't forget
that oldHCass killed himself with the Mich
olson letter.
are those of the convention and the people
you represent, l accept the nomination.
You don't believe anything of the kind.
You know better. The Northwest were
all peace. So reads the platform. Five
hundred delegates unanimously agree upon
platform. Here it is:
ReSolVsdy To please you, they have war.
ReSolUsd, To please Pendletou, they have
peace.
Resolved, To please all the outs, the war
go on till the peace is signed.
Remember that the Royal George in
Bristol Channel went down with all on
board, the re'ULt of trimming.
Walter Savage Lander wrote on the
georges
George the First was reckoned vile,
Viler George the Second,
And What mortal ever heard
Any good OF George the Thirdf
When from earth the Fourth RscendOd,
God be praised, the Georges ended"
condeuse your letter in two lines:
"GeHtie1Esn: I accept the nomination, 6ut
acknowledge myself totally uHtft for the Po-
5itioR."
mean nothing unkind in this, General,
but you know that now you are fair mark,
not large one, tor all to shoot at.
GEo. FRANCIS TRAIN.
Union Meeting In Tyler County.
At meeting of the Uniou party Of Tyler
| county, in West Virginia, at SistersVille