The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-14

- agos made tle1I0il0WeoS osBosocSnt s"sss's
sion: ss{ d1,6W ,afI. 4~7st,ttds L.
"There has never been q time when Vals
landigbam, and FernandoiW God, and SeyI
mour did not profess an unalterable deter
d mination never to give up the. Union. On
that matter we can cheerfully bear witness
that their record is clear from the start.
They have always protested che necessity
of keeping the Union unbroken.
s Of course these men are for . contiaaeu
union with the South. They are not such
fools rs not to know that their only chance
for future political power lies in the sup
port of the South. The Democratic party,
/ for a generation, has had its chief strength
in the South. Cut the South loose from
/ the Union, and the old hulk of the party
would shoot to the bottom in An instant,
and carry down with it every copperhead OF
b every stripe. 1t is no part Of the copper
head plan to commit any such suicide"
Z We admit the truth Of the argument
The Democratic party always has been the
Union party. and always will be. Inde-
pendent of love for the whole country
such a patriotism as suboriinates personal
interest to the country's good-the Demo-
cratic party is unslterably attached to the
Union. It's own preservation demands
that the Union be maintained. Selfish
considerations alone, to say nothing OF the
duty which we all owe to our nation, i'm
pei every Democrat to labor for the pre-.
servation of the Federal Union. 1t is our
only hope for security and freedom. ia-a
And yet our opponents, embracing in
their ranks every disunionist in the United
States, men who have boastsd that they
lsbored n~ineteeayears to destroy the Union,
men who were willing years ago to " let the
Union slide" men who made themseles and
the foolish crowds who followed them
merry by calling the Democrats =" Union
savers men whose past history and pres.
emit course give the lie to their pretensions
now, these men call themselves {! the Union
party" and strive to fix upon the Demo
Gratis the stigma of disunionism. The whole
d history of the Democratic party, which Is
the history Of the nation, shows the falsity
A., of such q charge. But still, with shameless
~sfrontery, our opponents call themselves
"Union men," their party triumphs are
called Union victories" and the telegraph
lends its aid to give currency to the false
name which the party has assumed. 1t is
asking rather too much, however, of Dem
ocrats, or Of Democratic newspapers, to ex-
pect that they will concede to their oppo'
nsnts Q name which embodies one of the
chief teuets Of the Democratic creed We
are willing to call our opponeats Adolf
t~ionists, which they really are, or even Re.
A.. publicans, which the csntralizing tenden
cies of the Government during the pas
four years prove they are not, but which
custom has somewhat sanctioned, but We
= cannot be guilty of so gross a falsehood as
to call them Union men. If Fever that name
becomes appropriate to their party, it viii
be when the word Union no longer refers
to the association of States in a Federal
Government, but when it means simply q
combination of men differing from each
other in all respects save one-an inordi'
nate love of public plumber. &.
g.