The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-12

Democrats and conservatives should not
sustain 81 eOlellan and Pendleton BY their
votes ~ Is there any god reason why ell
neacs men should not prefer the Policy indi.
cated BY the Democratic party to Mr. Linz
coin aud his policy Of subjugation, confis>
cation. and extermination; to an Executive
and a party that set themselves above the
constitution and the laws, and stop free
speech, and free press, and do not forbid
men to prevent free elections but requires
them to do so 2 Can there be one outside
of the abolition ranks who will not vote
for Mcclellan and Pendleton? Is there
any. good reason why the free States should
vote Tor Mr.. Lincoln and his policy Do
they want to subj ugate the Southern States2
| Do they want to confiscate the lands? Do
they want to exterminate and drive out the
people, and re, people the land with the OH.
GERS and soldiers of the armies? Do they
want to hire the freed slaves and force
them, under the whip and fear of starva'
ton, to raise cotton until they become cot.
ton lords with princely revenuesS Or do
they want them to emigrate to the free
States, with the right to vote, and all the
rights, of citizens in a free country?
The freed slaves will not stay South with
their own consent. They will go North,
where they expect equal political rights
and equal social positions. They can be
kept on Southern plantations after they are
freed, only by the strong arm of despotic
power. ,,.goT. mss IsllA y1g w
What have the free States determined
upon in this matter? Why should Penn
sylvania vote to continue President Lin.
coin and his policy for four years more g?
The wealth Of Peansy lvania is in her iron
and coal mines, her oil wells, timber lands,
fertile soil, and an honest, intelligent, in
dustrious, perseyering, and enterprising
population. Pennsylvania, the Keystone
State, wants free trade with all the States
in the Union. under tue Constitution, and
uniform currency of equal value with
that of other productive countries. She
wants no separation of the States, no SUBJ
| iugated States, no wasted and devastated
States, and no freed slaves for her rural
districts, or for the alleys and bye places
of her growing cities. She wants no de,
preciated currency. She wants no discrim
nation against her iron and coal by the
Government purchasers abroad, or by the
remission of duties to favorite contractors
who purchase abroad, whilst she is requir
ed to, pay excise duties on her productions
at home. she wants free trade with all
1.-The States, and fair field for action. Has
q, she had it under the administration of Mr.
LinconP If the war continues, she wants
the necessary and proper military precau
tions taken to prevent the plundering of
her fields, mountains, and valleys, and the
desolation Of her people, so manifestly neg
| lected in the past, and that, too, against the
advice Of Our able standard: bearer himself,
neglected by Mr.. Lincoln and his admins
trat,on. Maryland Kentucky, and Missou-
ri are wasted by the armies of the Con-
federates, and also by the armies of the
Union their fields desolated, houses burnt,
citizens conscIipted into the Confederate
armies, and plundered by Federal soldiers;
their peoele arrested without warrant, i'm
prisoned and banshed without trial or the
specification of charges, or shot by the ar
bitrary mandate of tho military, without
even the Intervention of drum head court
martial.
What will become of these States If Mr..
Lincoln be reelected, aud his policy con-
tinued for four more years? The destiny
of these States, for good or for evil, is in
the hands of the people of the free States.
This Administration aud its policy estab
lish the will of one man, or the mandate OF
party, in the place of constitutional liber-
ty, equal laws, and equal rights. The pre-.
servation of the Constitution, the Union
of the States, and the preservation Of the
liberties of free people now rest upon the
votes of the citizens of the free States. My
earnest hopes, in these the saddest DAYS OF
the republic, rest upon them. Missouri,
Kentucky, and Maryland cannot elect a
President and change the policy of the ADJ
ministration.
Respectfully, JAMES GUTHRIE.
1t is seldom indeed that we have seen
compressed within the same compass so
large an amount Of honest, righteous, and
severe truth as the first paragraph of the
letter above contains. The'whole catalogue
of charges against the abolition candidate
for the Presidency is as just qs it is foycl>
bic and appalling. or all those charges not
one is hasty, unconsidcred, or more sweeps
ing than the strict truth; not one is I'M
sustained by the Knowledge Of all well iu-
formed men Of ell parties in the country.