Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-18


sincerely for the Union, and for the utter
suppression aud destruction of the rebel
lion and its guilty leaders. The copper.
heads desire the success of the rebels, sub
stantially if not in form. They have opposed
the war from the beginning, abused the
government and plotted against 1t. They
would prefer to see the government de-
fested, the constitution destroyed and the
control of the Davis confederacy extended
over the whole country. This is the sort
of Union they want. Judge Cation of nli-
nOis, who is Copperhead Of the milder
sort, did not fear to say in recent speech:
"The abolitionists, If they can succeed
in abolishing slavery, can control the coun-
try. Our interests consists in maintaining
our relations with our old friends and po-
litical allies, the Shareholders, and in pre-
serving slavery" ......,..
Col. Dunham, formerly q democrat in
New York, now in the rebel army, wrote
home to one of his old party associates,
just before the Chicago convention =
"There can be no peace until black re-
publicans and abolitiOnists are silenced and
reduced to an equality, or, at least, level,
with the niggers they claim as their equals.
Let your Chicago convention nominate Mr..
Davis for the Presidency-and l know a
majority Of the delegates would vote for
him If they dared-and on his election you
can and will have peace. of course you
will not do this. The next best thing you
can do Is to nominate Mcclellan. We are
satisfied that, if you elect him the right of
secession and Independence would be ac-
knsWledged, and terms of Feconstruction
would be offered which We might with
honor accept. don't say, however, they
would be accepted. II IS my opinion, as
it is the opinion of President Davis aud the
leading men Of the Soutb, that the war
must continue until one or the other Is
subjugated. The more assistance you dem
ocrats render, indirectly, the sooner we
shall be able TO Vanquish the abolition
hOrdesj and restore peace and the Union.
1t may seem paradoxical, but l assure you,
my boy, we are fighting for Union-6ght-
iugto place the old United States under
one government, and we shall do it in such
a way that no abolition baboon will ever
get at the head of it."
Col. Durham may have judged the DEM
Ocrats harshly when he said the majority
of the Chicago delegates preferred JEFF.
Davis for president. he evidently suppos-
ed them all like his old copperhead sssOci-
ates in New York. But this much did
prove true; the copperheads had such in
Auenoe in the convention as to dictate its
platform and compel the party to plant itself
on the declaration that the war is failure
and ought to be stopped for armistiee and
negotiations aud the leading copperheads,
Vallandigham, Long and the Woods, con-
tinue stoutly 70 affirm in their public
speeches, that il Gen. Mcclellan is elected
his administration win be conducted ae-
cordiug to the Chicago platform. With
these undenisble facts before them, we ask
democrats who are not copperheads if il
is either honest or safe to vote for the Chi
cago ticket. If Mcclellan should be elect
ed, and the rebel states be coaxed back by
some new concession, we shall not have
the old Union and constitution, but sur
render of the whole country to the rebel
confederacy under. the Davis constitution,
and the grand cOnspirators in power
Whoever is ready to consider this propo-
sition with favor can be neither war
democrat nor UuiOp man, but copper
head pure and simple. Let honest demo-
Gratis beware In whose hands tkey place
themselves. Il a.n a..r
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