Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-26
Pat.rnitv Of the Coppsrhsads,

There is one vein Of depunciation that
runs through all the CopPeFhead efusionl
1.-The President has established q. despot-
1ismi the country is ruined, life and prop
erty have been wFested from Us, peace car
be easily obtained somehow, aud II. worth
Everything else, 80, 50. The following
extracts win suffice for examples: a
And what else hast he (Mr. Lincoln)
done1 Let the nearly two millions ofmen
called into the field anaRer. Let the two
hundred thousand graves he has made tell
thefr own tale. Let the MANNED, ard the
halt, aud diseased respond. Let the Gov
eminent debt and the people's taxes an
swer. Let the poor speak, and the rich,
whose riches take to themselves wings,
reply. Mr.. Lincoln and his policy have
jwelI nigh ruined the most favored nation
and the most prosperous people on the face
OF the earth.44LNev Ystk Express, ~, .'
Reviewing the course. of President Lin.
coin, he denounced him as q usufper. We
have lost RiIself- control, he said, and the
fright to self.goYernment. Gen. Lee, OF
the rebel army, is q better champion Of
the rights Of self-goYerpmtnt in this scoun. &.
try than Abraham Lncoln.-ESPtseh of
s. s. DrsiO IN The AaiRs Democratic COnUeH'
lion.
Mr., Lincoln was declared to be mil.
itsry despot. II the conservative men
succeeded 1t would be their duty as Chris
tians and philanthropists to propose con-
ciliation and concession,-TS Speech of BioD
Bradbury, same CoRUtNtioH. ..,,.--.I }
The deliberate Invasion by the National
Administration of the rights of the Statesi
the freedom Of the press and the personal
security of the cltizsns.-[ Resolutions Of
the same body.
Now we will go back to the peace man in
1880, who it will be seen, adopts precisely
the same style of argument, often the same
epithets, and has the same artful sugges!
tions of peace on any terms; 5sli als
and Soldiers Of the UAited States, issued
October 20, 1850. - r,.... t..,...-
You are promised liberty by the leaders
of your affairs, butts there an individual
in the enjoyment of it, saving your oppres-
sors? Who among you dare speak or
write what he thinks against the tyranny
which has robbed you of your property,
imprisous your sons, drdgs you to the field
Of battle, and IS daily dslu9ing your country
With your 6toOdP .,st n Id
Your country once was happy, and had
the protfered peace been embraced the last
two years of misery bad been spent in
peace and plenty, and repairing the desOia-
lion of a quarrel that would have set the
interests OF Great Britain and America in
g true light, and cemented their friendship.
wish to lead q chosen band of Ameri!
cans to the attainment of peace, liberty and
safety, the first objects in taking the field.
What is America but land Of IDidorS,
oruh1nS and bs0UdrS. but what need of mr.
gnments to such as feel infinitely more mis-
cry than tongue. can expressH l give my
promise of most affeotionRte welcome to
all who are disposed to join me in meas
ures necessary to close the scene of our
afliction, which must be increased until
We are content With the li6erality OF the
parent country, who still offers us pro-
lection and perpetual exemption from all
taxes bat such as we shah think ft to i'm
pose upon ourselves.
BENEDICT ARNOLD.