Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-10

identisl election. Il occurs 10 the midst
of civil war, arising out of disputed sue
cession TO the executive power. Disputed
successions are the most frequent causes
of civil wars, not only in republics, but
even in monarchies.
A dispute about the succession of the
President periodically begets an abortive
or real revolution in each one of the
Spanish and American republics. So the
disputed succession of the Spanish throne
begot that memorable thirty years. war
which conVuised all Europe. A dispute
whether Juarez was the lawful President
brought on the present civil war, with the
consequence of French Intervention In
Mexico. A dispute whether the present
King of Denmark, who succeeded to the
throne last winter, is lawful heir to the
duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, brought
about the civil war in that country, which,
through German intervention, has just now
ended with lismemberment of the Danish
kingdom, II is remarkable, also, that
civil wars produced by disputed success
sions, invariably begin with resistance by
some one or more of the States or provin'
ces which constitute the kingdom, empire
or republic which is disturbed. Il was SO
10 the United States of Colombia, and the
same was the case in the United States of
Venezuela.
Now, IL is certain that in 1860 we elected
Abraham Lincoln, lawfully aud constitu'
tiouaily, to be President of the whole of the
United States of America. Seven of the
States Immediately thereon rushed into dis
union, and, summoning eight more to their
alliance, they set up a revolutionary gov
eminent. They levied war against as to
effect separation and establish distinct
sovereignty andindependence. We accepted
the war in defense of the Union. The
only grievance of the insurgents was that
their choice of John G. Breckenridge for
President was constitutionally oVerruled
in the election of Lincoln. They rejected
Lincoln and set up usurper. The execu.
tive power of the United States is now,
therefore, by force practically suspended
between that usurper, Jefferson Davis and
that constitutional President, Abraham
Lincoln. iic
i,as. TIE PURPOSE OF THE REBELLION.
The war is Waged by the usurper to ex-
pei that constitutional President from the
capital, which in some sort Is constantly
held in siege, and TO conquer the States
which loyalty adhere to him. The war is
maintained on our side TO suppress the
usurper, and to bring the insurgents back
'uQueT LQ6 Va thV SSh1bb0ttS6HA
President. The war is at its crisis. 1t is
clear, therefore, that we are fighting to
make Abraham Lincoln President of the
whole United States, under the election of
1860, to continue until the 4th of March,
1856. In voting for q President of the
United States, can We wisely or safely vote
out the identical person whom with force
and arms we are fighting into the Presi;
dency2 You justly say no. It would be
nothing less than to give up the very object
of the war at the ballot-box. ~ i h.
The moral strength which makes our
loyal position impregnable would psss
from us; and when that moral strength has
passed away material forces are no longer
effective, or even available. By such
proceeding we shall have agreed with the
enemy and given him the victory. But in
that agreement the constitution and the
Union will have persisted, when Il shall
have once been proved that minority can
by force or circumVention defeat the full
accession of constitutionally chosen
President, no President thereafter, though
elected by ever SO large majority, can
hope TO exercise the executive powers un'
opposed throughout the whole county
One of two things must follow the fatal
error. -
Either o contest between your newly
elected compromise President and the same
usurper, in which the usurPer must pre-
vail, or else combinations between them
through which the usurper or his suecess-
or, subyertiDg your constitution and Sub
shutting his own will become president,
king or emperor of the United States with :
out foreign aid, if he can, with foreign in
Unnecessary. Whats SOY To
be sure it is so; nothing is more certain
than that either the United States and their
president, pr the so-calied
Confederate StaIes and their usurping
president, must rule within the limits OF
this republic. Therefore regard the pend
ing presidential election as involving the
question whether hereafter We shall have
a constitution and country left us. How
shall we vote, then, to save the country
from this fearful dangerH (Vote Lincoln in
again.) You have hit it exactly, my friend,
We must vote Lincoln in again. and fight
him in at the same time. If we do this.
the rebellion will perish, and leave no
root. EEg
rHR RESTRICTION Or LINCOLN OR DEssoLU-
ri .saa TON. rs
i've do otherwise, we have only the al
Tentative of acquiescense in perpetual
usurpation, or of entering an endless sue
cession of civil and social wars. Upon
these grounds, entirely irrespective of plat.
form and candidate, consider the recon.
mendations of the Convention OF Chicago
as tending to subvert the republic. 1t will.
seem hard thing when imply that
party, like the Democratic party, can eth
er mediate, or blindly adopt measures to
overthrow the republic. All experience,
however, shows that it is by the malice or
the madness of great parties that free
States have been broughtdown to destruc-
ton. You often hear alarms that party
in power is subverting the State, and il
sometimes happens SO. But nine times
out of ten it is party out of power that
in it's impotence or its ambition over
throws a republic. The Democratic party,