Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-18

la hot more 4 matter Of tasGe than OF ludg.
ment. IL 10, hHEeEeh my positive predl'
lection on thef0ue hand aud aTefsion on
HE olheE. af
Notwithstanding this frank exposition OF
my inelinatinns and opiuiops OF great
and growing evil, i really do believe that
your Association is plainly AUST excep-
ton to the general class. The interests
you seek to advance are so catholic as to
be almost equivalent to those OF the whole
h6man race. Indeed, this ought to bel
true; since all Tuen ought to be working
meusrup Aud then aRaiu, when We femem.
Der that this conspiracy, treason aud ~.
bellion iS, has been, and will DO nothing
more or less than cool, persi3Lsut, aud
Organised plot Of oligareb srto e. tablish the
widest and kSIablest oligRrchy Of history,
and, by consequence, to overthrow and ex.
tinguish the rights OF labor, personal,
social, and poliIical-Wh,. of all men in
this nation or 10 this world, haze as much
right or as strong duty 10 mite aud organ.
iEs their energies Hgainst tue plot, as have
the Workiugmen, who are for free ana
equal government And what class of
UOrkingmen have more privileges or obi.
cations Sto,=IAke uhs lead 1in such action,
than those Of the City of New York-the
metropolis Of that nation, and lis it too
"ASuNAuNpEopueClt .rtu6 u66Il0bu com meF@
oial emporium of that Worldl
For these reasons l am happy to feel jus.
tilted in making your Association an ex.
csption 10 my general rule, of endeaVoriug
TO live, in this age of societies, as sim
pie man and patriot, aud gratefully to as.
sent to your proposed nomination.
Al hrst thought Ito make q clean breast
OF all my scruplesl, | felt sons little OBJ
jeelion to one Of the names Of your So.
eiety, Democratic" That word has been
SO abused BY the perversion OF men who
have so long and industrioualy worked in
the exclusive interests of aristocrAoy aud
despotism, thatit is TO be feared It's bare
uIterauce will soon excite distrust auI
contempt. Since, however, it is to be
hoped that the thing, Democracy, does yet
exist In our country, slight reflection de.
cides me in the opinion that it is better
not TO abandon the name to its enemies.
Lam, very trnly, ours,
-I 10 CHARLEs ASDERsoH.
Those Of our people along the Ohio river
border here who were fortunate enough to
hear Gov. Anderson last fall, will remember
the utteranes of sentiments strikiugly in
accord with the above. Such was and is
the whole style aud makeup Of the man.
What be says in the aboyA letter must have
frequently occurred to intelligent rejecting
minds. Partisan designations have, as he
inttmdtes, cone TO besubstitutet for hT1gs.
But it does not follow that, because a man
belongs TO the Republican party, he is,
therefore, q truly loyal man in all the nobler
eharActeriSttes aud principles OF a true Re-
publican. Nor because man affects to be
q Democrat does it follow that be 10 Dem.
eerat. On the contrary. there are pen 10
the Republican party who, in their spirit
and 10 the legislative schemes they would
smHOdy aSthe policy of the marion, would
become fair representatives of an ultra
oligarchic administration. The same is true
Of The partisan organization lately known
as the Democratic party. But in far more
positive aud actual sense. To this party
belonged all the aristocrRtie and e1acIiuK
leaders of the South, who continually
poured into the ears of the nation the
loudest professions of Democracy, the
most persistent aduIatious Of popular gov.
eminent, and the most intense protesta.
lions OF devotion to the Union. At the
same time these men were corresponding
with each other, organizing secret societies
for reasonable purposes, aud arranging
their plans for the establishment of com.
Pacted and centralized Oligarcby, depend .
ing on slavery as It's basis, and on a vast
military establishment for it's strength
They well knew that the Democratic idea
was the antagonist of their slave. en- owed
aristoeracy, aud they harmonizsd with the
Democratic party, and led it, until they
thOuRhsIhey could reject aud destroy ii,
along with the Union and its free Constt.
tuition. ....
Butwhile these exceptional cases are to
be found in the advocates aud leaders Of
the parties, the great heart Of the people
beats with love for the idea aud the
privileges OF a free popular government,
Democracy, "ths thing" as Gov. Anderson
we'll observes, is sill among Us, saud the
loyal masses of the Democratic party are
not prepared to surrender it, any more
than are the loyal masses of the Republi.
can or the Union parties o. that ground
all can stand.
THE day after the election in Maryland
of delegates to the convention for revising
the State constitution, Rsverdy johnson
wrote to friend in Baltimore, ezulting in
the suspicious result, and saying that with
slavery removed Maryland viii become
"ihe garden spot Of the United States, "as
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