Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-24
County Ticket.
Democracy and the Rebellion.

ExhiDitiOne Of utter indifference TO The
public honor and welfare are becoming 60
frequent that there is danger Of their ceas.
ing 10 be shameful. The democratic lead
srs 10 convention at Chicago calculated
upon this wretched immunity. They
staked everything on the hope that iuds.
ceucy might become common enough to be
respectable. They intended to send abroad
their most false and unmaoly sentiments
with an effrontery that should shield them
from rebuke and almost from detection.
But see what they did: aud look at 1t 'as
II il were now seen for the 6rst time
Their assembling was in the midst Of civil
war. BXlIhsirtslkthe federal gOlernmsOt
must have begun il. HthsrS is any Ovil
in it there iS no hint of its hsinE AayIhsre
else. THE experiment Of war; was made
under the pretense oI restoring the Uniou,
aud has been carried on with disre.
gard tin every part" for the con.
stitution, aud for "public liberty and
private rights" There is no reference TO
any crime or wrong doing anyw where
except in the administration Of the general
government. Not once 10 the slightest
manner is It intimated that there is any
other origin Of our sRlAmilies, direct Of
indirect, near or remote. In fulIness and
10 detail, they charge the most enormous
guilt upon the officers Of our government
Other sound or breath OF reprobation they
have none. They themselves we are as.
sured are the friends and uphoders OF the
constitution and the Uuion. They point
10 no enemies that these have except tht
national president aud his advisers ant
supporters. Wemustrepeat itagain-tha
this stupendous talsity may ii possible bt
aPprehended-no person, now or in tht
future, with this carefully prepared dsliV
ernnce Of the Chicago democracy in BIZ
hands, could be led TO imagine that thet,
was any other source for one or all thr
evils OF our times except in the misdeedt
otthe men now in authority at Washington
How now does this correspond with th
reaIltyY How does itagree with what ha
actually happenedt The bare fact tha
stands up at once in front and above al
others is that some one has made Wdr upO
Me gOUTnmeaL The government did no
begin the war the war was begun on it.
Not the government, but some one else
made this so.cAlIed "e1periment." The
made 1t too as 10 all its most important an
critical preparatory steps before the presen
administration had assumed the power
and while the whole machinery of the gov
ernmeHt, for that matter, was in democrAti
hands. Who did IN People that the dem
ocrAtic party might have some kuowledg
OF; individuals not altogether uuheard Z
by the men 10 convention at Chicago. -
Democrats made the war,-men bora an
bred and iattened in the bosom OF thO
party and men, too, who no more tha
tour years ago were In full democratic fel
lowship.
We care nothing for calling them demo
Gratis. 1t might be all the same IL the
had been wings or republicans. Ouly "
mean to show the eifronlery OF these met
Into the face Of this unequaled iusoleuC
OF pretended purity and national Rdeli.y
we fling toe fact that they, who began an
J who carried on this experiment of wa
!. are politically bone OF that bone and aeS
of that flesh. They were trained in all h
schools oil the democracy. They we're Ii
. fOlIowers-lheJ were the very authors an
trainers Of it's aEiomS and its policy. Th
Is the party that resolves that "in tho f.
lure, as in The pdSt,n 1t will "adhere wi,
unswerViog fidelity to the Union under Il
constitution" A mGroiful Providence tuI
the prOphesy from Ito fulflment
Gov. Bigler, upon lakIng tho chair Of Il
convention OF which he was chosen temp
r@ry president, declared thatthc first gre
work to he doue waO the overthrow Of Il
present administration, and the luAugurr
ration of another in its place. which "ir
stead OF relying solely on Its peculiar dOI
, mas and doctrines, and the rAvOges Of Il
sword, will refer tho national troubles
the people, the fountain of political autho
n.y. II W democratic administration III
is to do this. Four years ago there can
IRON lhis supreme political authorIty. fro
lo the people, "undOr the iorms of the oonHl
|" tuition" decree that Abraham Linco
should nssume The presidency in place
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