The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-21
The Friends of the Rebels.

The Friends Of the Rebels.
We have frequently heretofore referred to
the active aid and comfort afforded by the
Republican party to the rebels since the
commencement of the war. By the admis-
sion of their principal organ, as may be seen
in the extract we give below, the party was
in harmony and cooperation with the Sc
cessionists long before the war began. The
New York Tribune last Friday, in critics.
ing and finding fault with Gen. McClellan's
speech at West Point, made the following
declaration
Now we oppose to this allegation, first,
the great. conspicuous, abundantly es-
tablished fact that the engineers Of the re-
bellion desired and labored for that uerv Re
Dublican triumph of 1860 which is here made
the cause of their reroh. 1t was to this end
that they forced through the Senate OF that
wear the JEFF. Davis platform whereby MI.
Douglas and bis friends were virtually read
out of the Democratic party. 1t was to this
end that they deliberately and determinate-
IL completed the overthrow of that party
by boiling from the Charleston Convention
and nominating Breckenridge and Lane
against Douglas and Johnston. All through
the canvass, we Republicans recognize and
treated the bolter as our virtualand pow
erful allies And when, through their aid,
We had elected Lincoln and Hamlin, our
triumph was nowhere more generally or
openly exulted over than in Charleston the
~ Of hn
The admission is here boastfully made
that the Republican party and the seces>
sionists of 1860 were laboring for com.
mon object-the disruption of the Union
Both sought the election of ABRAHAM LIN
colin to the Presidency and rejoiced with
equal satisfaction over the result. LINCOLN
and HAMLIN were elected through the aid
of the Southern fre-eaters.
After this significant admission, the 7'i
6une if it possesses spark of consistency
or truth will cease to call itself aaUnion"
paper or its party the "Union" party. Much
moro should it hereafter refrain from calling
Democrats disunionists since it has admit
ted in fact, that the Democratic party in
1860 was the only true Union party in ex-
istence.
The Republican party aud the rebels
we're not only in harmony before the war
but they have been since and still are di>
recting their energies to the same end
The rebels want their secession to become
fixed and permanent the Republicans im>
pose such conditions upon their return as
to exclude them from the Union forever
The rebels want their people united against
the North; the Republicans adopt and cars
ry out such policy in the prosecution Of
the war as eradicates all Union sentiments
from the Southern people and implants in
the breast of every Southerner an undying
hatred of the North. Thus the party claim
ing to be par excellence the Union party of
the Northern States has been playing into
the hands of the rebels both before and
since the beginning of the war. Whether
they have done so wifully or blindly we do
not pretend to say, hut the fact is incon>
testable that the actions Of the Republican
party have depend intensified and estabr
lshed the rebellion. ~,
If the rebellion is finally successful and
the Southern States establish their indie
pendence, more will be due to the folly and
fanaticism of the Republican party than to
the efforts of the original secessionisas them
selves. The people who still love the
Union and who remember with pride, and
leng for the return, of those days of our ma
tons glory, when from the lakes to the
gulf all was one country, when We enjoyed
harmony end peace at home and honor and
influence abroad, will see to it that ABRA.
HAM LINCOLN is no longer permitted to
WELD the presidential power for the de-
strnctton of the Union, the violation of the
Constitution and the laws. -