Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-06

might to relieve these sufferers, we cannot
but observe with what III grace the COM
plant comes from these men to Mr.. Lin
coins Administration. he dan do nothing
but retalliate upon the rebel prisoners in
our hands, and this the knights most yehe-
,mently condemns. They even go 30 far as
70 admit these rebel prisoners into their
Orders of Knighthood, 400 from one prison,
Certainly, the Kaights would not suffer any
retaliation to be praeticed on them. The
members of that Convention would have
attested their sincerity far better IL they
had addressed their complaints to their
confederRtes at Richmond, who alone have
the power to give immediate and direct re-
lief ~ 5..,,,,.,, W., a4i.y ~
j In the 9Th and last resolution, they pro-
fess to extend their sympathy and regards
to our soldiers in the field, assuring them
that If their party can only get the control
of the government, they shall be very
kindly Treated. Their chance of getting
this control is too remote 70 influence any
one; and their past conduct toward these
soldies who have Sotunteersd to fight suffer
and die in aid of what the convention iS
pleased to call tan administrative usnrpa.
tion of extraordinary and dangerous pow
ere, not granted by the constitution" will
not be likely to be soon forgotten. Gen.
the same alleged usurpation. 500
Mr.. Long-of unenyiabIe poteriety-
thinking doubtless, the cat to be too much
concealed by meal, moved to amend the
first resolution by adding the famous "Res-
olutiOns of '9s y which lis the universally
acknowledged foundation and authority
upon and out of which Calhoun and his
followers constructed their entire secession
doctrine. Mr.. Long desired 70 give the
text as well as the commentary. Mr.. Cox
seeing that this would wipe off the meal
which they had worked ingeniously to put
upon the cat, applied the gag by moving
the previous. question -TY ig ,9-
- More daring and inpious than all was
the resolution offered by Mr.. Lawrence, Of
B. /. to the memory Of the lamented Doug.
las, stating that their devotion to his mem
ory was the cause of the Convention being
held in Chicago. And that the belief that
had he survived he would long since have
restored the power of the "Federal Com
paot," He certainly could not have for
gotten that Mr., Douglas always regarded
our present as a Federal or National Cor.
ernment and always spoke of and treated it
as such. The term "Federsl compact be-
longs exclusively TO the Calhoun and JEFF.
Davis school. If the great statesman and
patriot whose last words latter the firing
upon Sumter were, "There can be but
tWo parties, open friends to the Govern
ment and traitors" had been living, does
any one believe such q Convention would
have been held in ChicGgo2 Now artfully
disguised treason coDcocts itsschemes with
impunity in sight of bis gravel And If
further or higher evidence were wantingof
Mr., Lipcoln's too great leniency and mod
Grafton in the exercise of the powers con-
fided to him, the holding of such Con-
.vention unmolested, certainly supplies it.
Aud IL Geo. B. Mcclellan, of whom we
once had q very good opinion, coVets the
fate of Benedict Arnold, he will secure it
by accepting the nomination. Neither the
prestige Of hfs name nor that Of the DEM
ocratic party can rescue from obloquy and
execration political heresy that has had
so much to do in inaugurating and contin-
uing the present rebellion. 1t will sink
them and whatever else touches it, tot the
bottom of its own loathsome pit.
Loyal STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
Which has the singular honor and gratif''
cation of having been ignored by this
/ Conventlon.' -
p. S.-We see the N. Y. Herald and its
like are laboring to fx the impression that
Yallandighamy the Woods, and other knopn
Knights had no influence in framing the
platform, It is such an one as JEFF. Davis
will accept without the dot of an 1 or Cross
ing t-therewhy not suit his employees2
It comedies the right of secession, which
is all Davis ever asked. By cessation of
hostilities we yield ell. They mean an
unconditfohaI surrender on our part
nothing less, and a change of our. National
Government to mere confederation of
sovereign, independent States, with rights
in each to secede at pleasure. Twas upon
this theory the Convention ignored the
State of West Virginia, TO wit: Because
the ordinance of secession passed at Rich
mond. legally transferred in their view the
entire State from the National Union to the
Southern Oonfederacy; and TO have erected
new State we should have got the con-
sent of the Legislature and Congress sitting
at Richmond. They ignored OF rejected
the delegates from Louisiana and other
States when secession ordinances had been
passed solely On the ground that they re-
garded those ordinances as legal and valid.
This theory and purpose we have ascribed
TO them, reconciling all their acts and
doings and wipes,the meal from their cats.
No other will.