Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-10
IT is a fact not perhaps generally known


IT is fact not perhaps generally known
that our soldiers in the field have the right
to vote at our Charter elections. They
have never exercised that right before
THIS year it is proposed to furnish them the
proper facilities. In order to do 80 it has
been considered necessary that some steps
should at once 90 taken. To this end we
have been requested to announce meeting
tonight at the Union club headquarters,
at which the ways and means, time when,
&C., of reaching the soldiers can be dulY.dis-
cussed and determined upon. As large on
attendance as possible of Union citizens is
desired. We presume those who have con-
troll or charge of the hall will see that
everything is in order for the meeting.
In view of this meeting and the action
likely to be taken, some suggestions of the
following character have lately been made:
Whether there is general disposition
among all who know themselves to be
Union men, and who were divided in the
recent Presidential canvass, to act hereafter
in concert for the sole good of the Union
cause and with the desire of presenting an
overwhelming front to those who are not
Union men; OF, whether tits necessary that
those who are administration men shall act
bv themselves. and those who are
democrats shall act in concert win
those who are neither administration men
nor democrats, but rebels at heart. Have
we class of men, separate and apart from
what was called the Union party in the
late campaign, who are zealously and
warmly for the Union cause, and DESTROYS
for the overthrow of the rebels2 If we
have, are they willing, now that the major
ity have decided for Mr.. Lincoln, to ignore
their issues with those who supported him
in the campaign, and recognize this fact
only, viz that by and through and with
Mr. Lincoln's administration, including the
Congress recently elected, we are either to
succeed or fail in ths effort to put down
this rebellion.
These are the suggestions which have
lately engaged the thoughts of some of our
true Union men. We throw them out this
morning for the consideration of the two
classes named. The opposition to Mr..
Lincoln in this community in the late can
yass was strangely compounded. We had
men in it of tolerable Union sntecedents;
then, we had some OF better antecedents;
then some again, of uuexceptionable ante
cedeuts. This was one side of the COM
pound. The other side of it was made up
-. NJ - - .,tocada0tz or III nm tha
Union question-that ia, those who did not
vote yea or nay on the Ordinance, but
whose sympathies, as before and after
wards indicated, were more with those
who voted for it than with those who voted
against it; and, next, men who voted for
the Ordinance.
The question is now, how many of the
foregoing aggregate are willing to bury
their animosity to the principles ndPoiicy
of Mr.. Lincolu's present administration,
and remember simply that he is the chosen
President of the people for an other four
years, and that before those four years are
euded We must determine whether this ma
ton shall live OF die? Those who opposed
Mr.. Lincoln's election must know, when
they reflect, now that he is elected for an
other term, and by SO large majority,
that all opposition in advance of his next
administration is simply faCtiOus aud un-
republican in its character. What is passed
has been voted upon by the people. The
great mass of voters directly and positive
~ approved of Mr.. Lincoln's admiuistra-
ton, while the remainder were willing to
ignore any doubts on the subject, and, in
lieu of anything that suited them as we'll,
or, more properly in apprehension of what
was actually offered as a substitute, voted
for his re. election.
How many of those who voted against
his reelection are now willing to see
him started on his second term, as the
President of SO large majority ought
to be started-With their good wishes
for his success in putting down the
rebellion speedily2 How many are will
ling to say, we fought against his re-
election, but now that he is reelected
once more. and are to be saved or sunk
under his pilotage, we are ready to take
up an oar and help to weather the storm
and avoid the rocks. This is the question
fer every man who feels that he is Union
man, to put to himself. OF course those
who are not Union men, who have all the
time, under one pretenOe and another, de-
sired the rebellion to succeed, will still
desire to keep up an opposition in every
community, and to make test of every
election, and will endeavor to fan and keep
alive as much of bitter feeling as posi-