Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-10
LETTER FROM GEN. WOOL.
TIE Origin Of the Rt6sllIon-7ae Chicago
Platform.

Platform.
The following patriotic and eloquent
letter from Gen. WsoI appears in the Troy
ZSrses III. =. ~ GO ~
mZo he Hon John 4. GyisroId, Wssa6Sr Of
the United States Congress:
Dear Sir: You have my thanks for a
copy of the New York World of the 14th
uhirno, containing an unFuthful article
relating to myself. have not time to
notice it at the present moment, but may
DO so at a future moment. Meantime, yon
will please accept the following remarks:
"It is more than four years since DEM
oeraIic Ooovention pels first at Oharles-
ton and subsequently at Baltimore, %
nominate candidates for President and
Vice President Of the United StRtss- Tia
RE SouttI fsb eaiied Detnocratsj were the
political disciples Of John G. Calhoun. As
declared by Rhett, of South Carolina,
since 1880 the purpose was entertained by
them to separate the Southern States from
the Union. Their=ideA was to make cot
ton king, which, sin q few years, said
Rhett, would rule the world Foiled 10
several previous attempts to accomplish
their object, they determined as q last re-
sort TO divide the Democratic party and
run two candidates for President, that the
Republicans might elect their candidate,
Abraham Lincoln, whom they had denoun-
ced Rs an sAbolilionist' In this they sue
cetded. The fectron of the Southern States
nominated the then Vice President, Mr..
Breckenridge; the faction of the Northern
States nominated Senator Douglas. The
result was the election of abraham Lin
coin TO the Presidency. In the following
December the State of South Carolina, as.
siguing the election of Mr.. Lincoln as
iustifiable cause for the act, seeded from
the Union; aud this, too, without the
slightest effort on the part of the Presi-
dent. James Buchanan. to prevent it.
"Thus commenced this nefarious rebel
lion, encouraged and assisted by q msjori'
II of the democratic cabinet Of President
buchanan. John B. Floyd, his Secretary
of War, a deGaulter for large amount in
his own state (Virginia), robbed the north
ern states of arms and ammunition, and
transferred them TO the Southern states, at
the same time ordering the greater part of
the army to the most distant frontier posts.
Thompson, his Secretary of the Interior,
robbed the Treasury, as reported, of eight
hundred thousand dollars in Indisn bonds.
Toucey, his Secretary of the Navy, to pre-
vent Interference with the rebel ports, or
dered the United States ships Of war to
Europe and other distant regions. Cobb,
his Secretary of the Treasury, violated bis
oath of Office, and Joined the rebels after
nearly bankrupting the treasury aud ruin
ing the national credit. Black, his Attor-
uey General, was his friend aud con6den-
tiaI adviser, and no less guilty in his en-
courageneut of the South in their rebel.
Iious schemes than the President.
"OEsuch men, called democrats-with
the exception of General Cass, Secretary
Nar
GenersI-was composed the cabinet of the
democratic President, James Buchanan
Mr.. Buchanan WAS himself the devoted
friend of ez. Vice President John O. Cal
houu, who, in consequence of a quarrel
with President Jackson and his Secretary
of State, Martin Van Buren, abandoned his
party and was the bitter enemy Of Jack
son. Mr.. Calhoun became a nulliier, and
| after be defeated the nomination of Mar
tin Van Buren as Minister at the court OF
81. James, resigned his Vice. Presidency
and returned TO South Carolina, where be
| was received by the nullifers with open
arms. Then he declared, having given up
in despair his aspirations for the Presi-
dency, that the fact was no longer 70 be
concealed that heneeforth the southern
states, II TetEiHedin the Union, would only
| he hswers of wood and drawers Of water
for the North. To this he would never
consent. he proclaimed the scheme OF
forming grand slave confederacy that
was to make cotton king aud rule the
world Not long after military schools
were established in the southern states, se-
cret associations formed, and finally the
Knights OF the Golden Circle organized to
carry into execution the great plan of the
democratic. eonspirstors of the southern
states. Reference is here made to Mr..
Calhoun In order to show the origin Of set
cession, and establish the fact of the de-
terminstlon of the southern democracy to
separate the southern from the northern
states, dating back more than thirty. years
ago, and also 70 chow that the election .ol
M. LincoIu to the Presidency Was not the
cause, but the pretezt, for establishing
| ,L.t- Ion0 rneditated dasi0ua