Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-05
For the Intelllgencer.
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Devil WOrAhIP.
'The Hindoos on the upper Ganges wor.
ship snakes and centipedes, cats and tigers.
The old Egyptians paid Divine honor to
divers scaly and divers slimy things. Soa
Township Meeting in one of the barbarous
mountain districts of Pennsylvania has pro-
nounced our little, Canada martyr, the
" God. like Yallandigham." If any thing
could make wise and good man ashamed
of his country and his kind, it is the
homage which insane partisan bigotry pays
to paltry beings such as this. The assem-
blage, of sordid qualities which this fellow
displays, is something astonishing, He
has Just abilities and attachments sufficient
to ciothe the passions of a fury in the Lam
guage of fishwife. To our Southern ene-
mics spaniel; to us hyena. His full
some adulation of the one is as nauseous
and disgusting as his scurrilous abuse Of
the other is outrageous and unjust Ev-
erything South is seen through Claude,
Lorraine glass. Slavery is the darling in
stituiion ofthe descendants of the OLD oAy-
ALIERs. 1t ishighly conservative. 1t ena'
bles us to dispense with ngorder of English
nobility and to maintain universal suffrage
in the tree States. That is, If we had not
the Southern nabobs to govern US we must,
like our English cousins, have an order of
hereditary nobility to perform that office.
Whilst we poor blinded mortals are SO self
confident as TO be willing to dis spanss with
the servi :es of both. In short the vast ma
Iiority of his Northern fellow citizens con-
stitute a mere rabble of bigots, fanatics,
malignants, puritans and roundheads.
But lest our readers should suppose that
we over estimate the low scurrility of this
base and paltry slangwhanger, we will give
an extract from one of his speeches made
to vast crowd at Columbus, on the 4th
of July, 1862, in which he affords aid and
comfort to his Southern allies, by telling
them that a large majority OF his own fell
low citizens are towards and poltroons.
He is speaking of the call for troops, and
says: "Forty thousand additional troops,
estimate, are called for in the proclama-
ton of yesterday, from the State of Ohio.
Where are the forty thousand Wide Awakes
of 1860, armed with their portable lamp
posts, and drilled to the music of the Chi
cago platformP Sir, l propose that thirty
Eve thousand ofthem be conscripted forth
with. They will never enlist; they never
do: They are home guards. They don't
co. but stay vigorously at home, to SLAM
der and abuse and threaten democrats,
whose fathers, or brothers or sons are IN
the Union armies, or have fallen in battle.
l speak generally; certainly there ere ex-
ceptions. But l will engage that IT the
1 records of the old Wide Awake clubs in
the several cities and towns of Ohio shall
be produced, and the Republicans will de-
tail or draft thirty Eve thousand from the
lists, l will find five thousand strong.
armed, stout-hearted, brave and loyal
/ democrats to go down and see. that they
don't run away at the first fire." There
noWl There's atphilosopher and a states
man for youI Itisall in a name. If aman
calls him democrat, why then heiis per-
fect hero, without the slightest respect for
bullets or bayonets; but ii he calls himself
a republican, why then he is poll
troon and a coward, aud will run
away at the first FIRE In lieu of all COM
ments, of all criticism, let It be remembers
ed that when the author of this eloquencei
! a few months afterwards, become @ candi
date before the Ohio soldiery, he received
something more than five per cent. of theiI
, votes, aud his competitor, the Hon. Johr
Brough, little more than ninety'four PEI
cent? 81 a.lF p -
J This man and his northern allies are al
ways spouting about blood, wounds, death
, graves, widows, orphans, and the calami
ties of war. But they never address
, | word to our understandings. They neve
!. show MS how the war could be avoidet
consistently with national honor or evel
a with national existence. The same topic
/; can be employed against any and ever.
: war that ever was waged for any cause
: Il in. resistance to any wrong. The sam
! topics were in fact employed against tn
: war of seventeen hundred and seventy six
and eighteen hundred and twelve, and b
= the same kind of men.
, Another favorite topic of Mr.. Yallaudig
ham, is the Lincoln despotism the destruc
tion of ourliberties and the fearful nation
al tyrapuy. Upon this subject his elo
touence so much resembles that of anothe
celebrated gentleman, who like himsel
4 spent.a considerable time in Canada, tbs
either of them might we'll be suspected {
piaeiarising from the other. But the Ion
= precedence Of Benedict Afnold, in point {
time. demonstrates that he is not guilty.
Another fayorite topic with him, is Il
hatred and horror, which heinsPtrestn d
breasts of political opponents. In som
respects this is correct. In honest an
patriotic men his base and sordid persons
;. qualities inspire horrors such as We exp'
fieuce in lookiag at nests Of caterpillars
e other, hateful and hidious insects. Hi
uublushfng treason, his open adherence
itnationRl enemies, tend to I'LL US With indie
\. nation, Then we become angry with oul
9. selves for being cApabletof feeling inteni
indignation at the conduct of so paitry
r6 thing In short this man is not the objel