The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-24

ThejPreference Of the Rebels.
The shoddy journals seem to baye q
great deal Of difficulty in determining
which Of the political parties in the North
the rebels desire to be successful in the
Presidential campaign. 1t is very hard
for them to decide whether the secession
ists are re in favor of the election Of LiNcoIE
and JOHNSON, or FREMONT and OoHRANE,
or of whoever may be the nominees OF the
Chicago Convention. In this perplexing
at uncertainty, they are ct a lloss to know
whether to continue their abuse Of the
sscopperhesdsn rs friends of the rebels or to
own ups the Tribune did the other day, that
the Southern people co.opersted with them
in the election of LINCOLN inthe 1859 and
conclude that, for the same reason that led
them to favor his election then, they desire
his reelection now. -,. p az
One Of these newspapers, is on our table
now containing, prefaced by some editorial
remarks, the following extract from the
Richmond Dispatch. -. ii
aFor our own part we are glad to hear
that Lincoln has received the continuation
when some enterprising partisan officer OF
the Revolution proposed to carry Of Sir
William Howe from the midst Of his army,
Washington put his veto on it at once
He had no doubt that it was feasible but
Howe had conducted the war a. stupidity
as it it was possible for any man to conduct
it, and any change whatever could be but
for the British interest. Let him stay, tor
fear. of successor who might not be quite
such an imbecile. Sc we say of old Abe
It YOU ID be impossible to find another such
ass in the United States; and, therefore, we
saw let him stay. We, at lesst, Of the Con
federacy, ought to DO satisfied with BIN,
for he has conducted the war exactly as
We ought to wish it to be conducted. De
has confirmed those that were waEering,
heated red hot those who were luke warm,
made those Jealous who were careiess,
converted cold indifference into furious
passion, and calculating neutrality into
burning patriotism. As for the mill tary
operations ceconived and Executed under
his auspices, surely wehsve no right to com-
plain No service ever had so many blum
dering officers, and Nc campaigns were ever
conducted with greater stupidity. For
these reasons we are decidedly in favor Of
Old Abe, and if we could command mil
lion of votes in Yankeedom, he should have
them all. He has made the South the
most united people that ever went forth
to battle with an invader and for that he
deserves the lively gratitude OF every
Southern man. If anything could add to
the obl;gatiods under which We lie to the
Baltimore Convention, it would be found
in the nomination of Andrew Johnson
the man of all others most detested in the
South, aud the most likely to keep to-
eether the parties already united in one
solid mass for the prosecution of the war
Convinced, IS we are, that nobody in favor
of continuing the war could be elected, and
that no other would conduct 1t as foolishly,
We 60 for this ticket" !. ...s 81
On the next day the same paper copied
from the Richmond Eraminer an editorial
in which it was argued that lit is the in
terest of the Democrats to do their very ut
termost to weaken the Federal army, dis
credit Federal finance, in short, to sxt,n-
guish the war altogether, in order to extin-
guish the party which invented the war
and governs it and lives by it," thereby
creating the impression that the rebels
would be best pleased by the success Of the
Democratic ticket.
In order to enable our opponents to ar
rive at a conclusion as to what course they
should pursue in conducting the campaign
and, and at the same time, to aid them in
solving the vexed question concerning the
preference Of the rebels, We append two
more extracts from Southern papers. The
first is from the Richmond Examiner of
june 8, 1863, and is as follows:
To be plain, we fear aud distrust far more
these apparently friendly advances of phi.
lsnthropists of Massachusetts, The DEM
ocratic party always was our worst enemy;
and but 7or its poisonous embrace these
states would have been free and clear of
the unnatural Union twenty years ago,
The other is from the Mobile Register, of
later date. Speaking Of the various un>
successful efforts for peace which have been
put forth by the Confederates, it says:
We thank God from the depths of our
hearts that the authorities in Washington
snubbed Vice>Presidsnt Stephens in his
late attempt to confer with them on inter>
national affairs without form or ceremony.
1t has long been known here that this gen.
tleman thought, if he could set US to whis
per into the ears of some men about Wash
ington, the result might be terms Of peace IN
some sort of 9sion or reconstrn'cttoa. He
seemed to forget that Douglas, with whom
he used to served, was dead; and notwith>
standing his mantle has fallen, by dividing
1t into four pieces, upon Richardson and
VOORHEES,, .yallandigham and1Pugh, still the
Democratic party 10 not in power now, and
acs may thank God for it. f q,
These utterauces Of the rebel press, taken