Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-09


WHAT q monotonus, not to say dreAry,
sort Of an affair a meeting of the Wash.
ington county. Pa, democracy" must De.
Casting our eyes over the local columns Of
the Washington Examiner, which has just
turned up. a week or two old, from the
bottom of a number of exchanges in our
basket, we pause moment or two over
the roll Of delegates as they appear before
US IN feeble state of preservation in pale
ink. 1t seems to rs that pretty much the
same men always meet in convention of the
Washington oOuntp democracy" Was
there ever q cOnVocAIion Of those patriots
In which Gen. CAlohan was not present and
did not offer resolution either predatory
or GPpeudGt6ry in ii naturs1 Was Col.
Asa Manchester, . size or two larger than
Tom Thumb who Is 70 shoE here TO. night,
ever prsVsated By any calamity OF any
sort from gathering himself together With
the brethren and taking bis place on the
Committee on resolutions The Commit.
tees remind rs Of the committees zen per.
mAueuce" of France. The same men COM
pose. them aud the same old postulatory
resolutions are reported and passed. Like
true BOurbouS, they learn nothing aud
forget nothing. Like DR.. Ssugrado, it is
with them as it is il the book, no odds il
the theories of the book should kill all the
people in YalladOli The resolutions are
right aud orthodox, for Iol were they not
written long afOrstime2 81 cannot impress
upon you too strongly to beware of chAuRet
said the profound aud fatal Sangrado 10
the srratic Gil Bias. Aud SO say the
Washington county "DemocrAcy." In
great Solemuity and heaviness of spirit they
resolve:
That the Democracy Of Washington
county adhere, with unsbaken faith, to
the principles of the Democratic party, as
enunciated from time to time, by its Ma
honal Conventions, and illustrated by its
measures and policy during the happy aud
fortunate times, when il controlled the
general government, and carried our be.
loved country to a height Of prosperity,
power. and glory unparalleled in the his.
tory Ofthe world.
Had it not been for the bethOugbtfulnesS
OF Gen'i CAlohan, At the last hour, the con.
stituents of these orthodox patriots might
have been left all 10 doubt as to whether
the fact that war of come Importance is
now raging along our immediate frontier
was matter which had risen above the
ancient status of "Whig lie" in their es-
timatiOn. Happily something of the kind
had discovered itself 10 an authentic form
to Gen. CalOhau, although the discovery is
but dimly indicated in the following lone
star resolution.
RsIOlUed, That our country has been
brought into its present dePlorabIe con-
ditton BY Southern demagogues thirsting
for power In the South and fAnatics in the
North whose only aim was to.soW the seeds
Of diScord among the people.
This resolution comprises the sum and
substance of w6a. the Washington county
democracy" had to say about the war
and the condition of the country. How
this record Of patriotism will loom IN 10
radiant eolors in after time. The fact that
our "southern brethren" were hArsbIv
spoken of as "demagogues tbirstfnR for
power" which the fanatics in the North"
were not willing to cOucede them, exceed
ingly painful as such declaration must
have been, will be held as evidence of the
strict imPartiAlity with which the calm
and unterriisd and unbiased democracy Of
Washington county viewed tho present
c onteDt between the 3outheta slsyehotders
md their own immediate friends and
nsighbOrs.