Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-07
NJ For the IntSlIIgeneer.
The Approaching Presidential Eleo-

tiOn.
FELLOW CITIZENS And by the term I
mean to include all that still maintain to
me and to each other that dearest and
tenderest of earthly ties which an unwa-
Vering attachment to q common country
aud flag implies, No matter in what State
you may live, whether native born or nat.
urRliLed, or what guise or external appear.
ance you may be constrained by external
circumstances temporarily to wear, II IN
heart you are noIU Internationally loyal. 1t
behooves all such, in view Of the momen-
tous issues now ct hand, to confer freely
together, 10 order 10 adopt the measures
most likely to advance common interest,
and that no less important than the main
tenauce aud preservation Of the GoTernr
nent which our fathers purchased At 90
great q sacrifice OF blood and treasure, and
hsqnnaihad-- -. ins-tn= =assstJ - De trnguIit-
/ ted unimpaired 70 our childeen. wish 1t
were practicable to meet all OF yoa in per-
son aud confer together before the elec-
tion; but this being impossible propose
to confer with you through the Press as
the next best mode. l trust our common
interest in 80 important matter will fur
nish for me o Sufficient apology.
Taking it for granted that all earnest
and patriotic people regard the excellence
1uu NhluU VI OuE no 0s 80
Stephens, Vice President OF the Southern
Confederacy, did, in 1851, when he pro-
uouuced 1t "the best Government the SUD
of Heaven ever shone on" shall proceed
at once to consider the following propo-
sitions: tts"'
FTst-That the Government eau be
maintained and preserved ouly by van.
gushing the rebel armies through o Wig
ofous prosecution OF the war. t
Sseond-That the people of the loyal
States, If they act unitedly, are as compe-
tent and certain to do 1t az o three pound
weight is certain to weigh down one.
Zhird-That the only way to accomplish
il is to elect Lincoln and johnson, and
that we have no choice left as affairs now
stand.
shall proceed to discuss these propo.
sitions with that candor and scrupulons
regard for truth which just sense of the
Importance of the subject naturally in-
spires. If err it shall be an error of the
head and not the heart. Then "censure
me in your judgment that you may the
better judge" ay.7. a--.r. =,
I l assume as fact now conceded by all
tlehrnest an dpatriotic men, that the rebel
leaders, who govern and control their ar
mics aim either at breaking up the. govern
ment and establishing new one Withiu.its
domains, OF, failing IN this, 70 reconstruct
what, ia their minds is alreadyR broken
and disrupted government in such manner
as to embody therein the right In each
state to seeede at pleasure. That the hope
and determination in them TO accomplish
the former has existed for more than thirty
years. Mr.. Calhoun frst conceived the
scheme as early ss 1928; aud in 1880,
while presiding over the Senate as Vice
President of the United States, he induced
Robert L. Haynes, then regarded as his
ablest disciple, to broach the doctrine Of
secession in that body, in the celebrated
discussion on the Foote resolutions, whom
Mr.. Webster answered, ,demolishing Haynes
and his secession doctrine, as honest men
supposed ,lforeVer. Mr.. Haynes died soon
after, but not the accession doctrine! Mr.,
| Calhoun, mortified and not q little eurBged
at this defeat, resigned bis office Of Vice
President in order TO be returned mem
ber to the Senate where he could In per.
son take sharge of the new bantling. he
continued TO advocate and push its pre-
tentious till It eliminated in 1882 In Null.
6cAtion by South Oarolina aud tota
demolition of It again by General Jackson
and the near escape of Calhoun's mech
from the halter. This second signal de.
feat, while 1t suppressed in Calhoun furthel
overt aets of; treason, only served to in
CREASE his anger and strengthen his deter.
mination. Soon after this he substituted
the Slave for the Tariff question as thu
fttest subject for uniting the entire Soutt
and "firing the southern heart" At thi
time the present leaders Of the rebellion
were his young disciples, sitting like Pau
| at Gamaliel's feet, and imbibed the mad
dening draughts Of tteson. They dug al
the now famous ''resolutions Of 'es-e," eu'
grossly perverting their meaning from wha
their author declared they intended, the,
succeeded by thirty years constant labo
in educating the Southern mind, as well Q
many of the Northern democrats into tn
belief Of the secession doctrine, and all III
lwhile were dfring the southern heart" b
preaching to the Southern people the inse
, curily of their slave property under tn