The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-09-26
g Political brief.

J.
Abraham Lincoln oughsle I tJ.rr r.
elected President Of this cottiry iorieap7
reasons. We Will enunerate some IT tkeia.
i. BE has violated his official oath to
"preserve, protect and defend the Consti'
trtiof,.ns y, W. -
p. He has violated the Constitution in
nnaiero,is instances and in at its gusrsn-
tias for the liberty OF the citizen.
8, He has attempted to subyert civil by
military power ~. an .tAdsi &
4. He has caused freemen to be secretly
seized and Imprisoned; judged them in sex
cret denied them the privilege of habsas
corpus tried them for crimes unknown to
the law, before mock tribunals of his own
creation, and inflicted upon them grisvous
and unlawful punishments. %H. ,
S. He has suppressed free Suffrage by
armed force; prohibited and prevented
voting for qualified candidates and incar'
cerated men for being candidates in disre>
gard of his prohibition. ls4.
6 He seized private property without
necessity and without compensation.
7. He has restricted and tried to suppress
the freedom of speech and the freedom OF
the press. Y Is
s. He has infringed the, right of the peot
pie to keep and bear arms.
: 9. He has given us fuctuating, depreci-
ated currency, instead of gold and silver
coin, thereby deranging all commercial
affairs, adding greatly to the burthens OF
taxation without any benefit tothe national
treasury, and interfering between debtor
and creditor bys legal tender discharge
for the half or third in value of the legal
demand, at the same time destroying the
national credit both as to responsibility aud
good faith.
10. He has violated his oft-repeated per-
sonal and private pledges, their violation in
reference to Kentucky in particular being
80 fragrant as to be disgrace to him as an
officer and dishonorable to him as man.
IL. He has usurped power to proclaim
martial law over Kentucky without neces-
sity, and upon pretexts so VIGOROUSLY false
as to induce suspicion of the most sinister
motives, vexing her also with trade regula-
tons, which, beside the favoring of adjoin
ing STATES to her prejudice, have no practi.
cal effect but that of harassing her citizens
and affording abolition partsans the oppor-
tunity of being bribed.
IL. He has furnished the national honor
by violating the cherished right of asylum
in his illegal kidnapping and extradition OF
Arguelles. -
l3. lie has degraded the nation by his
apology to the French Emperor for unan
imous resolution OF the House of Repre-
sentatives expressing truly the sentiments
of the nation ia favor of the Monroe doc>
trine.
II. lie has fearfully imperilled the Union
cause by his illegal abolition proclamation
cinching the whole by his recent manifesto,
in which he has the insoleDce to proclaim
that the nation shall not have peace but
upon abolition terms of his debating
Is. He has, by abandoning thu policy OF
the war as proclaimed at its comm encement
by Congress, and ratified by the nation, and
converting it into an abolition crusade,
usurped power that does not belong either
to the Executive or to Congress or to both
together. unmasked his fanatical schemes,
divided the North, united the South, and
committed betrayal OF public trust OF un
surpassed atrocity and magnitude show.
ing that no reliance can be placed on the
most solemn oaths or pledges of himself or
party. u ~ .
l6. He has attempted the manufacture
of State and electoral votes out OF Terri
tories haying not third enough population
for admission into the Union, and out OF
rebel States in which one. tenth of the vo>
ters are empowered to rule the other nine
tenths. loo. .'''.
IL, He has by the attempted organiza.
ton of an enormous standing army OF ne
groes, with the accompanying avowal OF a
party leader in the Senate that as soon as
the services of our white soldiers can be
dispensed with they are to be dlsbanded
leaving none but negro soldiers, justified
the popular suspicion of an intention per.
manenty to destroy the constitution and
establish despotism on its ruins,
Is. He has in countless ways proved hi
incompetency for the station he has so dis
astrously attempted to fill and which he Is
now SO presumptuously attempting to retain
by popular suffrage Louisville y0Hrna'.l
TuE Springfield (Mass.) Republican, an
administration newspaper, says;
"When Mr.. Redpath callod on President
Lincoln, on behalf Of President Geffrard,
of Hayti, to offer white representative
from his court to Washington, provided
Mr.. Lincoln, in Difference to certain preiu-
dices against color, should desire 1t, Mr.
lincoln replied, Tell Mr.. Geffrard that |